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Use of Professional and Informal Support by Black Men With Mental Disorders
This study utilized data from the National Survey of American Life (NSAL) to investigate the use of professional services and informal support among African American and Caribbean black men with a lifetime mood, anxiety, or substance use disorder. Thirty-three percent used both professional services and informal support, 14% relied on professional services only, 24% used informal support only, …
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- Vol. 21 no. 3, May 2011.pp. 328-336
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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Social and Cultural Factors Influence African American Men’s Medical Help S…
Objective: To examine the factors that influenced African American mens medical help seeking. Method: Thematic analysis of 14 focus groups with 105 older, urban African American men. Results: African American men described normative expectations that they did not go to the doctor and that they were afraid to go, with little explanation. When they did go, men reported that they were particularl…
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- Vol. 21 no. 3, May 2011 .pp. 337-347
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Does Individual Development Account Participation Help the Poor? A Review
Objectives: The purpose of this study is to review the current empirical research regarding the financial effects of participation in Individual Development Account (IDA) programs. Methods: Peer-reviewed outcome studies identified through electronic bibliographic databases and manual searches of article reference lists are reviewed. A total of 1 randomized controlled trial, 1 quasi-experimental…
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- Vol. 21 no. 3, May 2011.pp. 348-362
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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The Signature Pedagogy of Social Work? An Investigation of the Evidence
Objective: Many professions use some form of internship in professional education. Social work has utilized field instruction throughout much of its history. Recently, the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) designated field instruction as social works signature pedagogy. A systematic review was undertaken to examine evidence related to this designation. Method: Twenty-five primary databas…
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- Vol. 21 no. 3, May 2011.pp. 363-372
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Conflict in Small Groups : The Meaning and Consequences of Process Conflict
Through three studies of interacting small groups, we aimed to better understand the meaning and consequences of process conflict. Study 1 was an exploratory analysis of qualitative data that helped us to identify the unique dimensions of process conflict to more clearly distinguish it from task and relationship conflict. Study 2 used a broader sampling of participants to (a) demonstrate why pr…
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- Vol. 42 no. 2, April 2011.pp. 127-176
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- 10464964
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- Small Group Research
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Predicting Group Attendance Using In-Session Behaviors
A session-level analysis examines the relationship between intimate behaviors of an individual group member and of the other group members in a session, and individual group member attendance in the following session. Specifically, the model proposed by Kenny, Mannetti, Pierro, Livi, and Kashy (2002) for analyzing individual and group effects in small groups is used to examine session attendanc…
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- Vol. 42 no. 2, April 2011 .pp. 177-198
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The Reciprocal Effects of Self-View as a Leader and Leadership Emergence
Although it is often assumed that an individuals self-view as a leader has an impact on that individuals emergence as a leader, there is currently no empirical evidence of this effect in the literature. Longitudinal social network analysis is used to study both the impact of an individuals self-view as a leader on leadership emergence and how the process of leadership emergence influences an…
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- Vol. 42 no. 2, April 2011.pp. 199-224
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Moderators of the Relationship Between Group Helping Norms and Individual Hel…
Researchers have recently devoted increasing attention to employee helping behavior at the work group level of analysis. Despite this surge in interest, possible moderators of the relationship between group helping norms and individual helping behavior have not been empirically examined. In a study of 147 employees and their supervisors working in 30 groups of a telecommunications company, we f…
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- Vol. 42 no. 2, April 2011.pp. 225-248
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Paradoxes of the New Authoritarianism
Why are the unfree regimes of the former Soviet world proving so durable? A lack of ideology andperhaps surprisinglya degree of openness are proving to be not so much problems for authoritarianism as bulwarks of it.
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- Volume 22, Number 2, April 2011, pp. 5-16
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- 10455736
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- Journal of Democracy
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Democracy Under Duress
The past decade began at a high point for freedom but ended with freedom in peril. Yet the setbacks of the last five years do not outweigh the democratic gains of the last forty.
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- Volume 22, Number 2, April 2011,pp. 17-31
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China’s “Networked Authoritarianism”
Chinese authoritarianism has deftly adapted to the Internet Age, employing various forms of technological controls. Chinas brand of networked authoritarianism serves as a model for other regimes, such as those of Iran and Russia.
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- Volume 22, Number 2, April 2011, pp. 32-46
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The Battle for the Chinese Internet
In China, the Internet is not merely contested space between citizen and government. It is also a catalyst for social and political transformation, offering the possibility of better governance with greater citizen participation.
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- Volume 22, Number 2, April 2011, 47-61
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Whither Internet Control?
Paradoxically, the rising profile of liberation technology may push Internet-control efforts into nontechnological areasimprisonment rather than censorship, for examplefor which there is no easy technical fix.
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- Volume 22, Number 2,April 2011,pp. 62-74
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The Politics of Personality in Brazil
Dilma Rousseff won the 2010 presidential election as the handpicked successor of a towering political personality. Now she must assert firm sway over a ruling party and coalition to which she has remarkably slender ties, and face new challenges that her country cannot meet with more of the same.
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- Volume 22, Number 2, April 2011, pp. 75-88
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Kenya’s New Constitution
Wracked by postelection violence in 2007 and 2008, Kenya embarked upon a course of constitutional change that culminated in an August 2010 referendum. How was the new basic law framed and passed, and what will it mean for democracy in this key East African country?
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- Volume 22, Number 2, April 2011,pp. 89-103
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Latin America’s Gay-Rights Revolution
Even before Argentinas landmark gay-marriage law was passed in July 2010, a gay-rights revolution was well underway across Latin America. But do gay rights by law equal acceptance of gays in practice?
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- Volume 22, Number 2, April 2011, pp. 104-118
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Jordan Votes : Election or Selection?
In late 2010, not long before seismic political change was to erupt across the Middle East, Jordan held parliamentary elections. Officials were eager to present these as a fresh start, but a closer look tells a different tale.
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- Volume 22, Number 2, April 2011, 119-129
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Sri Lanka : From Turmoil to Dynasty
Having only recently emerged from a prolonged and remarkably bitter civil war, Sri Lanka is now slipping steadily under the hardening authoritarian control of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family.
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- Volume 22, Number 2, April 2011, 130-144
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Marital Name Change as a Window into Gender Attitudes
The need to revise scholars approach to the measurement of gender attitudeslong dominated by the separate-spheres paradigmis growing increasingly timely as womens share of the labor force approaches parity with mens. Recent years have seen revived interest in marital name change as a gendered practice with the potential to aid in this task; however, scholars have yet to test its effectiven…
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- Vol. 25 no. 2, April 2011.pp. 145-175
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- 08912432
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- Gender & Society
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Mothers, Fathers, and “Mathers” : Negotiating a Lesbian Co-parental Identity
This article argues that to gain a more complete understanding of how lesbian families experience parenthood outside of the heterosexual context, scholars must consider how co-parents negotiate a parental identity, rather than presuming that women parents want to mother. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 17 women in a state that denies them parental legal rights, this article asks how a nonb…
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- Vol. 25 no. 2, April 2011.pp. 176-196
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