Recent Books
Baizerman co-edits new special issue on program evaluation
Professor Michael Baizerman is co-editor with Donald W. Compton of a special issue in New Directions for Evaluation entitled Managing Program Evaluation: Towards Explicating a Professional Practice (Number 121, Spring 2009) from Jossey Bass.
Rooney publishes Second Edition of Involuntary Client book
For close to two decades, Prof. Ronald H. Rooney's book Strategies for Work with Involuntary Clients (Columbia University Press) has led in its honest analysis of the involuntary transaction, suggesting the kind of effective legal and ethical intervention that can lead to more cooperative encounters, successful contracts, and less burnout on both sides of the treatment relationship. For this second edition, Rooney has invited experts to address recent theories and provide new information on the best practices for specific populations and settings.
VeLure Roholt and Baizerman co-edit new book on youth engagement
Assistant Prof. Ross VeLure Roholt and Prof. Michael Baizerman have authored with R.W. Hildreth a special edition of Child & Youth Services that is being published also as a book from Haworth Press entitled Becoming Citizens: Deepening the Craft of Youth Engagement.
Gilgun has published two books that are free online
Professor Jane Gilgun also has two books that are free downloads of interest to social work students and practitioners. They are:
The NEATS: A Child & Family Assessment, available at
http://www.lulu.com/content/3987178. The NEATS is based on the best we know about five areas of human development and functioning. The five areas are neurobiology, executive function, attachment, trauma, and self-regulation. The NEATS guides practitioners to gather information that will contribute to effective case plans. The book is also available as a paperback.Child Sexual Abuse: Child Survivors and Perpetrators Tell Their Stories, available at
http://www.lulu.com/content/1823038. Based on interviews with child and adult survivors and perpetrators of child sexual abuse, the book provides information found nowhere else. Here readers discover that children think sexual abuse is their fault and that many perpetrators believe sexual abuse is wrong but what they are doing is not abuse but love. Stories that mothers tell are being incorporated into the book. No hard copy is presently available.
VeLure Roholt co-authors book on using evaluation information
VeLure Roholt and two colleagues have published Information Gold Mine: Innovative Uses of Evaluation (2007) from Fieldstone Alliance Publishing. Traditional use of evaluation-for improving service quality-is well known. But staff often don't use data to full advantage. Information Gold Mine highlights 14 nonprofits that have used program evaluation in exciting, creative ways.
Edleson and Williams' book on parenting by men who batter
Profs. Jeffrey Edleson and Oliver Williams have edited a new book from Oxford University Press entitled Parenting by Men Who Batter: New Directions for Assessment and Intervention. The book focuses on key issues for emerging programs designed to help violent men change their parenting. It guides professionals in understanding men who batter, assessing their parenting skills, making decisions about custody and visitation, and modeling treatment programs that engage fathers in their children's lives while maximizing safety.