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Autor:
Julie A. Wilcox, Merlin A. Taber
Publikováno v:
Health & Social Work. 16:258-265
Most functionally impaired elderly people rely exclusively on family and other informal helpers. This article examines whether elderly people who turn to formal service providers also receive help from informal sources. A sample of 100 clients of a s
Autor:
Louis V. DiBello, Merlin A. Taber
Publikováno v:
Computers in Human Services. 6:181-197
Use of computers in everyday professional tasks by caseworkers is described. Eighteen front line workers, after two or three hours of training, created and manipulated data bases of client, service, and outcome data tailored to their own caseloads. T
Autor:
Merlin A. Taber, Julie A. Wilcox
Publikováno v:
Journal of Gerontological Social Work. 15:137-154
Decisions of social service professionals were studied. The hypothesis tested was that decisions would reflect workers' values about responsibility for care of the elderly. One hundred fifty-eight professional home care assessment workers were survey
Autor:
John P. Poertner, Merlin A. Taber
Publikováno v:
Evaluation Review. 5:549-566
Service delivery systems influence outcomes of personal social services. To understand and redesign delivery systems new conceptual and analytic tools are needed. The notion of delivery systems as a set of statuses through which clients move permits
Autor:
Merlin A. Taber
Publikováno v:
Administration in Social Work. 11:115-126
Autor:
Merlin A. Taber, Kathleen Proch
Publikováno v:
Social Work Research and Abstracts. 23:9-13
Publikováno v:
Administration in Mental Health. 3:186-192
Information reported by clients on their previous contacts with community agencies is not accurate. A study of hospital and clinic records indicates that these reports contain omissions significant enough to jeopardize continuity of care.
Autor:
Kathleen Proch, Merlin A. Taber
Publikováno v:
Children and Youth Services Review. 7:309-320
The authors define “placement disruption” as repeated moves among foster care placements, which reflect a pattern of reciprocal alienation and rejection between a child and successive caregivers. Child welfare researchers have not studied placeme
Autor:
Anthony J. Vattano, Merlin A. Taber
Publikováno v:
Social Service Review. 44:34-43
Conflict between clinical and social orientations was identified in the social work literature. The notion of two opposing orientations was tested by assessing extent of agreement with clinical-social items on a questionnaire completed by a national
Autor:
Harold Mark, Merlin A. Taber
Publikováno v:
Sociological Focus. 1:21-31
This paper presents a preliminary statement of a frame of reference for the collection and utilization of ethnographic and documentary data.1 This framework was developed as part of a six-year study of the Illinois "zone center" program. The Illinois