Norwegian Social Work and Child Welfare Students’ Attitudes Toward Research-Supported Treatments

Individual Worker-Level Attitudes Toward Empirically Supported Treatments.

OBJECTIVES: There is a growing literature indicating that organizational and individual worker-level factors affect decisions about whether or not empirically supported treatments (ESTs) are adopted within health care agencies. The purpose of this pilot study is to further investigate and measure worker's attitudes within a community organization. METHOD: A small organization participated in t...

Child Welfare Work

Work, Welfare, and Child Maltreatment

This paper examines how child maltreatment is affected by the economic circumstances of parents. “Child maltreatment” encompasses a wide range of behaviors that adversely affect children. It includes neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and other forms of abuse or neglect. Using state-level panel data on the numbers of reports and substantiated cases of maltreatment, we examine whether socioe...

Knowledge of the animal welfare act and animal welfare regulations influences attitudes toward animal research.

Recent public-opinion polls indicate that Americans have shown a decline in support for animal experimentation, and several reports suggest a relationship between people's knowledge of animal welfare regulations and their attitudes toward animal research. Therefore, this study was designed to assess respondent's knowledge of several provisions in the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) and Animal Welfare ...

parental attitudes of female students toward child-parent interactional behavior

background: bringing up children is one of the most complicated responsibilities an adult experience in his/her life. however, most people are not completely prepared to be a parent. current study was carried out to analyze the attitude of participants toward becoming parent. methods: this is a descriptive study in which questionnaire 1-1-pi which is consisted of 32 items was used. sampling met...