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Coastal Ecosystems and Agricultural Land Use: New Challenges on California's …
This article uses the Central Coast region of California as a case study to examine the challenges of protecting coastal ecosystems near areas of intensive agricultural production. Coastal water quality and biodiversity are greatly impacted by regional land use. Agricultural land use can have significant impacts on water quality through erosion and the runoff of agricultural chemicals. While th…
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- Volume 38, Issue 1 January 2010 , pages 42 - 64
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Estimating a Payment Vehicle for Financing Nourishment of Residential Beaches…
Beach nourishment projects are common methods for coastal states to protect beaches and property from the natural erosive process. However, while the beneficiaries of beach nourishment tend to be local property owners and recreators, projects are typically funded at the state level. Based on the benefit principle, as local residents receive more of the erosion protection benefits of the nourish…
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- Volume 38, Issue 1 January 2010 , pages 65 - 75
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Steps in Intervention Research: Designing and Developing Social Programs
This article describes a 5-step model of intervention research. From lessons learned in our work, we develop an outline of core activities in designing and developing social programs. These include (a) develop problem and program theories; (b) design program materials and measures; (c) confirm and refine program components in efficacy tests; (d) test effectiveness in a variety of practice setti…
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- Vol. 20 no. 5, September 2010.pp. 459-466
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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Depression Care for Low-Income, Minority, Safety Net Clinic Populations With …
Objective: Increasingly, mental health care is provided within the general health care sector. Accompanying this significant change is the demand for evidence-based as well as cost-effective or cost-neutral care models. Method: The authors present a pooled analysis of three large randomized clinical trials in which social workers provide depression care in collaboration with patient navigators,…
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- Vol. 20 no. 5, September 2010.pp. 467-475
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Culturally Based Intervention Development: The Case of Latino Families Dealin…
Objectives: This article describes the process of developing a culturally based family intervention for Spanish-speaking Latino families with a relative diagnosed with schizophrenia. Method: Our iterative intervention development process was guided by a cultural exchange framework and based on findings from an ethnographic study. We piloted this multifamily group 16-session intervention with 59…
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- Vol. 20 no. 5,September 2010.pp. 483-492
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Beyond Evidence-Based Practice: Nine Ideal Features of a Mental Health Interv…
Objectives: Recognizing the limitations of conventional frameworks for identifying evidence-based interventions, we sought to develop a comprehensive set of criteria that would have practical and policy relevance. Methods: We identify nine ideal attributes of a mental health practice (well defined, reflecting client goals, consistent with societal goals, effective, minimum side effects, positiv…
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- Vol. 20 no. 5, September 2010.pp. 493-501
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Preventing Childhood Bullying: Findings and Lessons From the Denver Public Sc…
Twelve-month follow-up outcomes from a group-randomized trial (GRT) of a classroom curriculum aimed at preventing bullying and victimization among elementary students in the Denver, Colorado, public school system are presented. Twenty-eight elementary schools were randomly assigned to receive selected modules of Youth Matters (YM), a skills-training curriculum that targets bullying and victimiz…
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- Vol. 20 no. 5, September 2010.pp. 509-517
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Assessing Long-Term Outcomes of an Intervention Designed for Pregnant Incarce…
Objectives: Approximately 25% of women are pregnant or postpartum when they enter prison. This study assesses a system-level intervention that prevented the separation of mothers and infants at birth, allowing them to reside together in an alternative community setting. Method: Longitudinal analysis of several state-level administrative databases compares the intervention (n = 48) group to the …
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- Vol. 20 no. 5, September 2010.pp. 528-535
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Research in the Real World: Studying Chicago Police Department’s Crisis Int…
Police agencies across the country are struggling to respond to significant number of persons with serious mental illness, who are landing on their doorsteps with sometimes tragic consequences. Arguably, the most widely adopted approach, the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) model, is a specialized police-based program designed to improve officers’ ability to safely and effectively respond to ment…
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- Vol. 20 no. 5, September 2010 .pp 536-543
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Rethinking the Bar on Standards of Evidence for Social Work Intervention Rese…
The research reports by Boyd et al. and Herman et al. provide insights about intervention research with vulnerable populations that highlight often-neglected standards of evidence. This commentary describes linkages of nonspecific therapeutic factors critical to these outcome studies as illustrative of research to practice standards we must continually promote. Embedding intervention research w…
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- Vol. 20 no. 5, September 2010.pp. 547-549
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Commentary: The Challenge of Nonexperimental Interventions Studies in Social …
The challenging context of social work interventions require that most intervention studies will be derived from nonexperimental research designs. Two evaluation studies in this special issue employed nonrandomized designs to examine the efficacy of two programs—a police crisis intervention team designed to enhance officers’ responses to mental health crisis and a program for pregnant incarcera…
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- Vol. 20 no. 5, September 2010.pp. 550-552
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It Takes a Village to Deliver and Test Child and Family-Focused Services
Objectives: The purpose of this article is to highlight the benefits of collaboration in child focused mental health services research. Method: Three unique research projects are described. These projects address the mental health needs of vulnerable, urban, minority children and their families. In each one, service delivery was codesigned, interventions were co-delivered and a team of stakehol…
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- Vol. 20 no. 5, September 2010.pp. 476-482
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Critical Time Intervention: Model Description and Implications for the Signif…
Relatively little attention has been paid to the dimension of time in the design of social work interventions. Critical time intervention (CTI), an empirically supported psychosocial intervention intended to reduce the risk of homelessness by enhancing continuity of support for individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) during the transition from institutions to community living, is a model t…
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- Vol. 20 no. 5, September 2010 .pp. 502-508
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Disseminating Effective Community Prevention Practices: Opportunities for Soc…
In the United States, about 17% of adolescents meet diagnostic criteria for mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) disorders. Six million young people receive treatment services annually for mental, emotional, or behavioral problems. These problems affect one in five families and cost $247 million annually. Some strategies for preventing MEB disorders in young people have been developed, teste…
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- Vol. 20 no. 5, September 2010.pp. 518-527
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Commentary: Cultural Adaptation, Collaboration, and Exchange
This commentary reviews three articles linked together by two themes (a) the use of cultural adaptation of evidence-based practices to reduce disparities in health and services delivery and (b) the importance of collaboration involving intervention developers, practitioners, and consumers when delivering services. Both themes illustrate a process of cultural exchange, enabling researchers to de…
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- Vol. 20 no. September 2010.pp. 544-546
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Nongovernmental Organizations in Business and Society, Management, and Intern…
This review shows how the relationship between nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and businesses has been examined in business and society, management, and international business (IB) literatures. Altogether 88 relevant studies have been identified through the analysis of article abstracts from 11 leading journals in these fields. The articles have been classified into three categories accord…
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- Vol. 49 no. 1, March 2010.pp. 35-67
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The Private Regulation of Global Corporate Conduct: Achievements and Limitations
The article assesses the achievements and limitations of the private regulation of global corporate conduct. Private regulation occurs through voluntary, private, nonstate industry and cross-industry codes that address labor practices, environmental performance, and human rights policies. The author argues that while private regulation has resulted in some substantive improvements in corporate …
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- Vol. 49 no. 1, March 2010.pp. 68-87
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The Contested Politics of Corporate Governance: The Case of the Global Report…
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has successfully become institutionalized as the preeminent global framework for voluntary corporate environmental and social reporting. Its success can be attributed to the “institutional entrepreneurs” who analyzed the reporting field and deployed discursive, material, and organizational strategies to change it. GRI has, however, fallen short of the aspir…
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- Vol. 49 no. 1, March 2010.pp. 88-115
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(Re)Forming Strategic Cross-Sector Partnerships: Relational Processes of Soci…
This study explores the relational processes that underpin social innovation within strategic cross-sector partnerships. Using four longitudinal narratives to document the duality of success and failure in strategic collaborations between nonprofit and for-profit organizations, the authors explain how partners navigate this duality: deliberate role (re)calibrations help the partners sustain the…
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- Vol. 49 no. 1, March 2010.pp. 140-172
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Review Essay: Reflections on Relationships Between NGOs and Corporations
This review essay reflects on relationships between the NGO activism and advocacy movement and corporations. The essay does so through a review of Yaziji and Doh’s 2009 book NGOs and Corporations: Conflict and Collaboration. The review essay considers the strengths and weaknesses of the book in relationship to our understanding of NGOs. The essay emphasizes that both NGO and corporate perspect…
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- Vol. 49 no. 1, March 2010.pp. 173-178
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