Loyd will assess the types and frequency of stressors experienced by Black youth involved in the juvenile justice (JJ) system. She will use quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the relationship between stress and youth’s mental health and examine how behavioral and cultural assets might promote the mental health of JJ-involved youth. Her goal is to develop more effective and culturally relevant prevention and intervention programs that promote resilience among JJ-involved Black youth.
Race-related stress faced by Black college students may undermine their academic engagement and persistence. Hope will examine whether student racial justice activism is associated with reductions in the negative effects of race-related stress. Hope will investigate Black student’s daily experiences of race-related stress and racial justice activism, and the implications of these everyday experiences on their academic outcomes.
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Social Work Year Book, 1941
A Description of Organized Activities in Social Work and in Related Fields
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828 pages
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The sixth biennial issue of reports on the status of organized activities in social work and in related fields, including 83 signed articles prepared by authorities on the topics discussed as well as a directory of national and state agencies, both governmental and voluntary, related to social work.
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A report on conditions and care of mental health patients in the United States, with details on attempts to alleviate the dilemmas faced by large public mental hospitals in different parts of the country.
Otto von Mering, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Stanley H. King, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
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Racial inequities in policing have eroded trust between police and communities, and implicit biases have been identified as a mechanism underlying these racial inequities (Jones, 2015; Spencer et al., 2016). In response, some police departments have sought to promote equitable police treatment of citizens with bias training programs. A recent survey of 155 police departments in large metropolitan areas indicates that 69 percent have some type of implicit bias training program.
Although Americans generally believe that the U.S. has made significant progress toward achieving racial equality, recent research suggests that these beliefs are optimistic at best, and unfounded for some indicators of well-being. Survey respondents significantly overestimated the degree of racial progress and equity in economic domains such as income, employer-provided health benefits, and wages among high-school and college graduates. These misperceptions were especially severe in regard to black-white differences in wealth.
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Children’s life outcomes differ markedly as a function of their family’s socioeconomic conditions. Some pronounced and intractable disparities are in the development of human capital. By the early years of childhood, disparities in language acquisition, school readiness, and executive functions are evident.
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Evaluative Research
Principles and Practice in Public Service and Social Action Programs
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196 pages
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978-0-87154-863-4
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Proving that any program designed to change our social behavior is doing what it set out to do is one of the most difficult problems faced by social science. Yet those responsible for such a program must attempt an evaluation of its results if they are to achieve the support they need. Edward A. Suchman, one of the world's foremost experts in measuring social behavior, presents the most comprehensive study of evaluation available to date.
In Evaluative Research he describes the techniques used to determine empirically the extent to which social goals are actually being achieved, to locate the barriers to the achievement of these goals, and to discover the unanticipated consequences of social actions.
The book is divided into three main sections, representing the conceptual, the methodological, and the administrative aspects of evaluation. It begins with a brief historical account and a general critique of the current status of evaluation studies. The introduction is followed by a conceptual analysis of the evaluative process, including a discussion of different levels of objectives. The methodological section includes an analysis of various research designs applicable to evaluative research. The place of evaluation in the administrative process is related to program planning, demonstration, and operation. Administrative resistance and barriers to evaluation are examined along with the problems in the utilization of the findings.
The book concludes with a brief exposition on the relationship of evaluative research to social experimentation stressing the potential contribution which public service and social action programs can make to our knowledge of administrative science and social change.
This book will have many uses. It will aid the evaluative research person in striking a balance between rigorous method and the situation in which he must function. For the operating practitioner, the book will explain what competent evaluation involves. Administrators will find the volume and invaluable aid.