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Toward Common Performance Indicators And Measures For Accountability In Behavioral Health Care
Authors: Teague Gregory B 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In this chapter we describe an initiative that focuses broadly on organizations and systems of care. Other chapters in this volume focus on implementing specific evidence-based practice models or on developing or using measures to inform clinical practice, together offering practitioners an inviting array of diverse alternatives oriented to the clinical needs of particular groups of clients. Here, in contrast, is a plan to bridge this diversity of measurement by formulating common performance indicators and measures and promoting their widespread use across a wide array of service settings. The Adult Mental Health Workgroup (AMHW) of the Forum on Performance Measures in Behavioral Health and Related Service Systems (Forum) is a nationally representative group that has formulated and now proposes broad adoption of a few organizational performance measures for accountability and quality management in behavioral health care. The measures were carefully selected to reflect key aspects of care—access, quality/appropriateness, and outcomes—in essentially all settings providing mental health services to adults. Although the focus of the AMHW and consequently of this chapter is adult mental health services, the AMHW is working in conjunction with other Forum workgroups with corresponding initiatives in performance measurement for prevention and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders for all age groups.
Making participant observation research Matter: A Typology Based on 12,000 Felons
Authors: Reamer Frederic G 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
During much of my career I have been privileged to wear two hats simultaneously, that of an academician (professor in a graduate school of social work) and that of a practicing professional in various settings. For years I have shuttled-often on the same day-between my academic duties and my positions as a policy analyst on a governor’s staff, member of the board of commissioners of a state housing finance agency, and, most recently, as a member of a state parole board. In each instance I have sought to integrate what I have learned about research-formulating research questions, designing quantitative and qualitative empirical inquiries, gathering data, analyzing and interpreting results, and drawing on empirically based literature-with my diverse duties as a practitioner. During the years when I was active in the affordable housing field and on a governor’s staff, for example, I spent considerable time using my research knowledge and skills to gain a better understanding of the magnitude and determinants of homelessness and housing shortages, the likely benefits and limitations of various policy responses, and the impact of policy initiatives.
The Fine Art Of Grantsmanship
Authors: Streiner David L 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
For most people, the three R’s means reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic. For many in academia, though, it could easily stand for ‘riting grants, rewriting grants, and rewriting the bloody things yet again. Grant writing is an integral part of a researcher’s life, but surprisingly, few graduate schools offer formal courses in it. It is a skill that some people pick up through painful trial and error. Based on my many years as a reviewer, grant panel member, and committee chair, however, I can safely say that some people never pick it up at all (although that does not stop them from applying). Once we leave aside grants that address “who cares” types of questions, part of the problem is that proposals serve two purposes, one overt and one covert. The overt purpose-telling the review panel what you want to do, why it is important, and how you will go about it-is therelatively easy part. The covert message-convincing the panel that you are able to carry out the project-is equally important but often overlooked by applicants, to their detriment. This chapter will discuss how to address both issues in a proposal and, equally important, how to deal with rejection.
Conducting Cost Benefit Analysis In Human Services Settings
Authors: Harvey Carol 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The pressure on social work practitioners to engage in accountable service provision has increased dramatically over the past two decades. At all levels of practice, from clinical care and case management to program administration and executive decision making, interventions once viewed as demonstrations of human compassion and social justice are increasingly subject to the hard questions about treatment effectiveness, service costs, and accrued benefits that arise in an environment of managed care, public-private partnerships, and contracted-out services. Costbenefit analysis provides a useful framework within which human services administrators and supervisors can measure the relationship between effort expended and results achieved.
Concise Standards For Developing Evidencebased Practice Guidelines
Authors: Proctor Enola K , Rosen Aaron 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The central challenge now confronting the profession of social work is ensuring and demonstrating that its services are effective. In our view, agencies and individual practitioners can best enhance their effectiveness by using treatment approaches that are evidence-based. Practicing on the basis of scientifically tested evidence is responsible, consistent with social work’s values and commitment to client welfare and improvement, and responsive to societal expectations and National Association of Social Workers (NASW) aspirations for effective and accountable practice. Yet we recognize the many challenges inherent in the application of evidence-based approaches in day-to-day practice. Our chapter addresses some of those challenges and lays out steps through which practitioners’ ability to apply evidence-based practice can be enhanced.
Evidence-Based Practice With Anxiety Disorders: Guidelines Based on 59 Outcome Studies
Authors: Bloom Bernard L 
Published: November 2023

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While the number of well-designed, controlled, clinical outcome studies is not large, brief psychotherapeutic interventions appear to play a useful role in the treatment of anxiety spectrum disorders. Such interventions not only appear to be effective in their own right but also add a significant component to the benefits of medication. This chapter summarizes and describes the time-limited interventions and outcomes from 59 studies. This database includes 11 recent outcome studies that measured the effectiveness of crisis intervention and brief therapy approaches with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) precipitated by gunshot injuries, sexual assaults, terrorist attacks, vehicular accidents, and violent crimes.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Evidence-Based Approach
Authors: Vonk M Elizabeth 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs worldwide among people of all ages who experience traumatic events. The events, in which severe injury or threat of injury and death occur, may be natural disasters, such as earthquakes, or man-made, including war, automobile accidents, and crime. While most people are likely to experience some form of traumatic experience in their lifetimes, not all go on to develop PTSD. In fact, estimates of the lifetime prevalence vary widely, from 9% of the general population to 30% or more of those exposed to particular traumas such as rape, combat, or disaster (Keane, Kaloupek, 2002). In addition, several conditions are often comorbid with PTSD, including depressive and other anxiety disorders and substance abuse. Several risk factors for the development of PTSD have been identified, including female gender, history of prior psychiatric problems or abuse, and unavailability of social support (Brewin, Andrews,, Valentine, 2000). Furthermore, characteristics of the trauma itself— the severity of the trauma, the person's sense of control over the outcome and extent of injury, and the degree of actual loss—may increase the rate of PTSD development. In general, men are more likely to be exposed to trauma related to war, and women's exposure is more likely to be related to rape or assault.
Evidence-Based Practice With Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing
Authors: Knox Karen S 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The development of treatment models that have empirically based protocols has coincided with the emphasis on evidence-based practice in professional counseling and social work. One such model is eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), which was developed in 1987 by Francine Shapiro to relieve posttraumatic stress symptoms. This therapy approach uses bilateral eye movement to desensitize the distressing memories, feelings, and cognitions associated with the traumatic incident(s) and to enhance the reprocessing and replacement of negative cognitions with more positive ones (Rubin, 2002). Using EMDR with a woman who has been sexually assaulted, the therapist would target any PTSD symptoms, as well as any negative cognitions, such as blaming herself for the rape or believing that she could have prevented the assault in some way.
Data Quality For International Service Evaluation
Authors: Pane Natalia E 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
As the call for greater accountability spreads, so does the need for high-quality data. But how do you ensure good data if you are not the one collecting it? This chapter and the one that follows offer some contextual information and give some practical tips on how to improve data quality based on practices within the U.S. federal government agencies and national organizations. Data Quality for International Service Evaluation begins by presenting some contextual information and the role of evaluation. We then turn to examine the fundamental change agents, humans, and the factors that drive change within us.
Omicides Of Older Women In New York City: A Profile Based on Secondary Data Analysis
Authors: Brownell Patricia , Berman Jacquelin 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Just as news stories of murders involving older women victims are relegated to the back pages of newspapers, research involving murders of women has focused on younger victims. Certainly the specter of young women stalked and brutally murdered by loved ones or predatory strangers is terrible. However, the murder of older women—while not of childbearing age or at the beginning of their careers—is a tragic phenomenon that may reflect the continued vulnerability of women to abuse and violence in midlife and old age. As a hidden facet of violence against women, it is a social problem that deserves greater attention than it has received to date. For practitioners, researchers, and lawmakers concerned about elder abuse, it represents the ultimate expression of physical abuse. From this perspective, homicides of older women and elder abuse femicides are synonymous and will be used interchangeably in this chapter.
Measuring Clients’ Perception As Outcome Measurement
Authors: Mercier Celine 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In 1995, our team was developing a continuous quality improvement system for the DollardCormier Center, a public substance abuse rehabilitation center located in Montreal (hereafter called “the agency”). One of the main concerns for the agency was that this system reflected its stakeholder-based orientation and its participative approach. In this perspective, the clients’ input was to be a key dimension in the process of quality assessment, and their opinions should be considered in the future continuous quality improvement program.
Survival in Cold Water
Authors: Piantadosi Claude A 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In comparison to other types of cold exposure, immersion in cold water encompasses a special set of biological concerns because of the rapidity with which the human body cools in water. Water has a thermal conductivity 22 times that of air and a heat capacity 3550 times that of air. Compared to marine mammals, such as whales, seals, and walruses, and aquatic Arctic animals, such as the polar bear, the ability of the human body to tolerate immersion in cold water is negligible. This poor tolerance of cold water is directly related to lack of body insulation, such as blubber, with which to retain the metabolic heat of the body. The point is amply illustrated by the appalling history of loss of life in shipwrecks at sea in the northern and southern latitudes of the world.
Bends and Rapture of the Deep
Authors: Piantadosi Claude A 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In the early history of diving, the lack of underwater technology limited descent to the depth that could be reached with a single breath of air. As diving technology appeared and improved, the limit was pushed downward until new physiological limits were encountered. As interest grew in deeper diving, biomedical research overcame apparent limits, but new limits appeared, until ultimately the effects of hydrostatic pressure per se seemed to stop humans from descending farther. Thus, the history of diving is a paradigm for the relationships among technology, physiology, and human factors in the effort to conquer extreme environments (Phillips, 1998). This chapter describes how two important physiological limits have been dealt with in diving from scientific and engineering perspectives: decompression sickness and the effects of pressure on the nervous system. Before discussing these problems it may be helpful to review the natural limits of breath-hold diving.
Developmental Constraints on Theories of Synesthesia
Authors: Marks Lawrence E , Odgaard Eric C 
Published: November 2023

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Writing a chapter on the development of synesthesia poses a special The stems largely from the paucity of evidence that speaks directly to the origins and developmental time-course of synesthesia. To be sure, our understanding of basic processes in sensation and perception is substantial and continues to grow, and research in recent decades has considerably advanced our understanding of developmental processes in perception. Nevertheless, our understanding of sensory and perceptual development is incomplete, and, to the best of our knowledge, direct evidence about the development of synesthesia simply does not exist.
To Cast Out Disease
Authors: Farley John 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Though one of the most important public health agencies of the 20th century and the most powerful and richest branch of the Rockefeller Foundation, the International Health Division’s history (1913-1951) has never been told before. This original work is based on a vast multitude of letters, reports and photographs the author uncovered in the Rockefeller Archives. Farley describes the internal struggles and the conflicts with foreign and US governments of the “medical barons” who ran the organization as they set its goals and tried to eradicate some of the world’s most serious diseases. He also describes the first testing of DDT and the preparation for the US army of a yellow fever vaccine that turned out to be contaminated. He takes the reader into the often byzantine world where the organization endowed schools of public health and nursing in such diverse places as London, Toronto, fascist Rome, militaristic Tokyo, and Calcutta in the dying days of the British Raj. Farley enlivens the book with sketches of the personalities and prejudices of those who worked in the Division and of the scandals that rocked it from time to time. He shows that in the continuing debate between those who believe that disease is the root cause of ill health and poverty and those who see poverty as the primary cause, the Division remained firmly in the former position. He also shows that after it closed, former members exerted considerable influence on the development of the World Health Organization. Opposing some recent historians, Farley argues against the view that the Health Division served as an advance guard for American capitalism. His lively book will be welcomed by all who are interested in the history of public health, tropical disease, and medical institutions.
Introduction
Authors: Farley John 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In 1955 Paul Russell published his magnum opus, Man’s Mastery of Malaria, which told the story of how malaria was mastered. “The point is,” he wrote, “that malaria, after centuries of effort, is now universally controllable.” And if with malaria, why not with other communicable diseases? Yellow fever, for example, was no longer the threat it had been and tuberculosis was continuing its long slide, perhaps into oblivion. In Geneva members of the newly-formed World Health Organization (WHO) had set up expert committees to declare a war to the finish on malaria, venereal disease and tuberculosis, with other diseases close behind. The medical world was awash with optimism.
The First Stage: Means to an End
Authors: Farley John 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
When the International Health Commission was formed in 1913, the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission had been in operation for three years. All seemed set for it to continue its work in the South while the Health Commission took hookworm campaigns to other countries. But that was not to occur; the Sanitary Commission was suddenly closed down in December 1914 and the Health Commission left to pick up the pieces in the South. In the early years, in the South, the Health Commission operated as originally intended by its first director, Wickliffe Rose, as a copy of the Sanitary Commission. These early campaigns, whether directed by the Sanitary Commission or by the Health Commission, were not directed at the eradication of hookworm per se. Instead, hookworm was a means to an end, a way to educate the public, physicians, and politicians in public health with the hope that professionally-run public health services would develop. But there were those, such as Frederick Gates, Rockefeller’s advisor on philanthropy, who believed that its goal was indeed the eradication of hookworm. These two ideas, one focused on education and public health, the other on the eradication of disease, were to coexist uncomfortably during the entire life of the organization.
Tuberculosis in France (1917-1924)
Authors: Farley John 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In November 1914, before the Health Board’s work on hookworm got underway, the trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation sent the peripatetic Rose to France as chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation’s first War Relief Commission to Europe. As a result, three years later, the Health Board became engaged in a French tuberculosis campaign. Tuberculosis is a disease quite unlike hookworm, malaria and yellow fever. There were no magic bullets, no cure other than good food and sunlight, and no seemingly weak links which could be attacked by pesticides and larvicides. As Rose must have realized, tuberculosis was associated with “debilitating, draining labor; little or no job security; meagre wages; poor diets; slum housing; filthy bodies and surroundings; and heavy drinking.”2 Nevertheless, the campaign was in line with Rose’s early view of the mission of the Health Board; tuberculosis was to be a means to an end. When the French campaign came to an end, however, both Rose and Russell vowed never again to become involved with a social disease such as tuberculosis, or to be drawn into emergency relief operations, and never again to allow their policies to be dictated by the trustees of the foundation. They upheld the last two promises but reneged on the first. The campaign was also important in bringing them into Europe for the first time. They were to remain there until the Health Division closed, first as an outpost in Paris but soon as part of the European office of the Rockefeller Foundation situated at 20, rue de la Baume.
Malaria: The Ultimate Kill
Authors: Farley John 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Fred Soper’s long-held theory about the possibility of species eradication-the total eradication of a vector species so as to eliminate forever the need for antimalaria campaigns-had its roots years before in work in Brazil. There he had discovered that the house-loving Aedes aegypti had been virtually eliminated from some of the old seedbeds of yellow fever. And if that were possible for Aedes, why not for anophelines? After the discovery of jungle yellow fever Soper wanted to move elsewhere. And he knew exactly where that was. In I930, Raymond Shannon, an entomologist with the Yellow Fever Service, discovered Anopheles gambiae at Natal in northeast Brazil, carried there, he assumed, by visits of French destroyers based in Dakar, West Africa. By 1931 this species, described by Patrick Manson in Tropical Diseases, as “the best known, most dangerous and widely spread carrier of malaria in the whole of Africa,” had been blamed for a malaria outbreak in Natal; the threat subsided after a severe drought, but it reappeared in 1934 (see Fig. 6.4). By 1938 the mosquito had moved north and west along the coast and had penetrated inland via various river valleys, with severe outbreaks of malaria reported. A survey in August by Evandro Chagas reported that 81% of the population of Russas, on the Jaguaribe River, was infected, many with Plasmodium falciparum, the most pathogenic of all malarial species.
Reorganization and Research Laboratories ( 1928-1940)
Authors: Farley John 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Although the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation is best known for its field campaigns against hookworm, malaria, and yellow fever, it also supported laboratory-based research programs. These dealt not only with yellow fever and malaria but also with other diseases. In the process the IHD attracted a great deal of criticism from members of its own field staff. The move towards research began in October 1928, five months after Noguchi’s death, and at a time when the Rio yellow fever epidemic was casting doubt on the seedbed theory. Frederick Russell acquired two small rooms in the Rockefeller Institution’s animal house on the east side of Manhattan to act as a yellow fever laboratory.
Diseases for Research
Authors: Farley John 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Fred Russell’s decision to expand the research effort of the Health Division, was reflected not only in the activities of the New York and Tallahassee laboratories but in the decision to investigate diseases other than hookworm, yellow fever, and malaria. From 1927 on, the amount of money spent on these other diseases increased steadily, so that by the early 1940s they received between 30% and 35% of the disease budget (see Table 1.3). The diseases included the flu and common cold, rabies, syphilis and yaws, as well as tuberculosis. All shared a need for fundamental research, often targeted towards vaccine production, and in every case the laboratory proved to be pivotal. The choice of disease was often generated by a desire to support the research activities of a well-known expert whose qualities were admired by Russell. Indeed, the Health Division at times resembled an academic-granting agency.