The National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) provides a unique resource with which to analyze the health status, health care use, activities, and family and community environments experienced by children in rural and urban areas. The NSCH was designed to measure the health and well-being of children from birth through age 17 in the United…

"Educational personnel" serve as an important conduit for family involvement in child protective services (CPS). Educational personnel are the largest source of reports of suspected child maltreatment in the United States (United States Department of Health and Human Services, 2007). However, reports made by educational personnel are…

Social work education has long struggled to acknowledge cultural diversity and identify teaching methods to prepare students to work effectively with diverse populations. This article describes an educational technique designed to teach students how to recognize racism and social injustice--in this instance, by examining an educational case study…

HIV-prevention intervention effectiveness depends on understanding whether clients with highest need for HIV-prevention counseling accept it. With this objective, a field study with a high-risk community sample from the southeastern United States (N = 350) investigated whether initial knowledge about HIV, motivation to use condoms,…

The objectives of this study were to examine trends related to the staffing of disability welfare institutions caring for people with disabilities in Taiwan. Nationwide data from the 2002 to 2007 "Service Manpower in Disability Welfare Institutions" report, which are derived mainly from the Department of Statistics, Ministry of the…

Eleven rehabilitation/independent living counselors in 5 states and the Navajo Nation completed consumer data summary questionnaires on 121 American Indian clients receiving independent living services. The clients lived in Arizona, California, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, Colorado, and Utah; 48 were served by the Navajo Nation vocational…

Births occurring each year in North Dakota of children born out of wedlock impacts the state both financially and in terms of the utilization of social services. The Department of Human Services provides financial assistance as well as services to parents of out of wedlock children in order to help the mother and/or father develop better parenting…

Conducted survey of 107 federally-funded independent living centers to obtain information about services provided to people with mental retardation, mental illness, traumatic head injury, and cognitive disabilities associated with aging. Found that most centers provided services to at least one of four groups; a substantial number of centers did…

Examines preferences for counselor self-disclosure based on the ethnicity of both the respondent and the counselor for African American and Caucasian students. Results suggested that respondent ethnicity affected preferences for certain types of information about the counselor and that there were interaction effects on preference for disclosure in…

Examined relationships between strength of client feeling and categories of good moments of client movement, progress, or change by having judges (N=18) rate strength of feeling and good moments in 105 statements of client seen in single session of client-centered counseling. Found significant relationships between intensity of feeling and…

Criticizes previous article by Galassi, Crace, Martin, James, and Wallace on client anticipations and preferences regarding career counseling. Criticisms focus on theoretical grounding of the study, assessment format, data analysis, and data interpretation. (Author/NB)

Responds to previous article by Galassi et al. on client anticipations and preferences regarding career counseling. Shows Galassi et al.'s criticisms of Tinsley and Benton and the Expectations about Counseling instrument to be unfounded, discusses problems with terminology, and analyzes technical adequacy and findings of Galassi et al. Also…

Examined clients' evaluations of sessions using Session Evaluation Questionnaire (SEQ) and Session Impacts Scale (SIS) with large sample (n=2,414 sessions with 218 clients). One or both of SEQ's independent session evaluation indexes, Depth and Smoothness, were highly correlated with SEQ's postsession Positivity and Good Therapist indexes and with…

Conducted study of clients' moment-to-moment experience of counseling session. Studied their recollections of experience through replay of taped session and analyzed transcribed interviews in terms of grounded theory form of qualitative analysis. Accounts given by some clients indicated that they were resistant to their counselor because they were…

Addresses shift from deficit to empowerment model in work with families. Describes shift in human services "assistance" model from "doing to" to "doing with," from "power over" to "power with," and from "teaching the client" to "collaborative learning." Contends that new model will replace fragmented, deficit-oriented crisis intervention with…