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Direct linkZeitlin, Wendy; Claiborne, Nancy; Lawrence, Catherine K.; Auerbach, Charles – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Objective: Organizational climate has emerged as an important factor in understanding and addressing the complexities of providing services in child welfare. This research examines the psychometric properties of each of the dimensions of Parker and colleagues' Psychological Climate Survey in a sample of voluntary child welfare workers. Methods:…
Descriptors: Program Validation, Psychological Evaluation, Psychological Studies, Child Welfare
Schwalbe, Craig S. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2009
The actuarial method is the gold standard for risk assessment in child welfare, juvenile justice, and criminal justice. It produces risk classifications that are highly predictive and that may be robust to sampling error. This article reports a revalidation study of the Arizona Risk/Needs Assessment instrument, an actuarial instrument for juvenile…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Child Welfare, Predictive Validity, Juvenile Justice
Perry, Robin E. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2006
Objective: To empirically examine whether the educational background of child welfare workers in Florida impacts on performance evaluations of their work. Method: A proportionate, stratified random sample of supervisor and peer evaluations of child protective investigators and child protective service workers is conducted. ANOVA procedures are…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Predictor Variables, Educational Background, Social Work
