Recent Faculty Publications
Publications are listed in chronological order. (This page is currently under development.)The School's standing faculty publish numerous books, chapters, and journal articles. The following is a sample of some recent faculty publications:
Phyllis Solomon, PhD
Corrigan, P., Mueser, K., Bond, G., Drake, R., Solomon, P.
Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Rehabiliation: An Empirical Perspective
Guilford Press
This comprehensive, authoritative work provides a state-of-the-art review of current knowledge and best practices for helping adults with psychiatric disabilities move forward in their recovery process. The authors draw on extensive research and clinical expertise to accessibly describe the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of psychiatric rehabilitation. Coverage includes tools and strategies for assessing clients' needs and strengths, integrating medical and psychosocial interventions, and implementing supportive services in such areas as housing, employment, social networks, education, and physical health. Detailed case examples in every chapter illustrate both the real-world challenges of severe mental illness and the nuts and bolts of effective interventions.
Femida Handy, PhD
Femida Handy, Meenaz Kassam, Suzanne Feeney, and Bhagyashree Ranade
Grassroots NGOs by Women for Women: The Driving Force of Development in India
Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd: 2006
Based on empirical evidence from first-hand interactions with 20 Indian women founders of NGOs, this book presents a theoretical understanding of the role and impact of NGOs in women's development. It looks at what motivates and facilitates female entrepreneurship in NGOs, the structures that evolve based on their feminist ideologies, the services they provide and the social impact of these NGOs in promoting the empowerment of women.
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Roberta Rehner Iversen, PhD
Roberta Rehner Iversen & Annie Laurie Armstrong
Jobs Aren't Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006
"This is an excellent and carefully crafted ethnography of how millions of people in the United States have jobs, work hardbut still have to live in poverty. To improve the situation, the authors argue, we need a new approach to social policy and a new theory of economic mobility. Highly recommended!"
Richard Swedberg, Department of Sociology, Cornell University
This unflinching ethnographic examination of the obstacles to economic mobility for low-income families exposes the ugly reality that lies beneath the shining surface of the American Dream. The fact is that nearly 25% of employed adults have difficulty supporting their families today. In eye-opening interviews, twenty-five workers and nearly a thousand people who are linked to themchildren, teachers, job trainers, and employerstell wrenching stories about "trying to get ahead." Spanning five cities over five years, this study convincingly demonstrates that prevailing ideas about opportunity, merit, and "bootstraps" are outdated. As the authors show, some workers who believe the myths end up hurting their health and families in the process of trying to "move up."
Jobs Aren't Enough demonstrates that the social institutions of family, education, labor market, and policy all intersect to influence and inhibit employment mobility. It proposes a new mobility paradigm grounded in cooperation and collaboration across networks of social institutions, along with revitalization of the "public will."
For more information, see: www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1755_reg.html
More information about Dr. Roberta Iversen's research and publications
Mark J. Stern, PhD
Mark J. Stern and Michael B. Katz
One Nation Divisible: What America Was and What it is Becoming
Russell Sage Foundation: 2006
Since the mid-twentieth-century America has experienced two great social movements: the civil rights movement and the women's movement. Although neither reached all its goals, each achieved major successes. Yet, in the years of their greatest accomplishments, Americans became massively more unequal. How and why did this happen? One Nation Divisible clarifies why America remains one nation divisible, what those divisions are, and the powerful role of government in both mitigating and exacerbating them.
Through four themes - the paradoxical history of inequality, the multiple forms of diversity, the powerful influence of government, and the need to reformulate the ideas that guide thinking about great public issues - One Nation Divisible traces the impact of economic globalization at both ends of the century. It shows that today the nation is undergoing economic and social transformations as profound as the ones driven by the industrial revolution of past centuries. This book is the story of their consequences.
For more information, visit www.onenationdivisible.net.
More information about Dr. Mark Stern's research and publications
Richard J. Estes, DSW, ACSW
Sharon W. Cooper, MD, FAAP, Richard J. Estes, DSW, ACSW, Angelo P. Giardino, MD, PhD, FAAP, Nancy D. Kellogg, MD and Victor I. Vieth, JD
Medical, Legal & Social Science Aspects of Child Sexual Exploitation
A Comprehensive Review of Pornography, Prostitution, and Internet Crimes
Two-Volume Set with Supplementary CD-ROM
G. W. Medical Publishing: 2005
Detailing the different aspects of child sexual exploitation and trafficking, including children victimized through pornography, prostitution, cyber-enticement, sex tourism, and human trafficking, Medical, Legal, & Social Science Aspects of Child Sexual Exploitation is an exhaustive resource representing the latest research and wisdom of more than 60 international experts in crimes against children, sexual victimization, exploitation, and trafficking. It will be the standard for multidisciplinary team members in the medical evaluation of victims, investigation and prosecution of perpetrators, and the protection of children and teenagers in the 21st century.
The Child Sexual Exploitation CD-ROM is an exhaustive researcher's companion to the two-volume set. Users can browse through tutorials on spotting defects in morphed images, sift through the extensive collection of more than 100 articles and government documents from the United States and abroad, assemble a collection of best practices from federal and local agencies, or create their own training curriculum using slide presentations and case studies of sexual maturation, taxonomy of pornography, and sexually transmitted diseases. The editors have combed through the vast library of knowledge available and have consolidated the most vital information onto this CD-ROM, making it a required companion to the two-volume set.
For more information, visit the G. W. Medical Publishing website.
More information about Dr. Richard Estes' research and publications
Phyllis Solomon, PhD
Leslie Alexander and Phyllis Solomon (Eds)
The Research Process in the Human Services: Behind the Scenes
Wadsworth Publishing: 2005
In this book, Alexander and Solomon have compiled twenty original research articles (previously published in respected journals) that illustrate and exemplify the research process. Each article is supplemented with informative introductory sections written by the editors, as well as original commentary from the articles' authors, in which they describe how and why they came to do the research and how they chose the topic; what concerns were considered in the design and conduct of the study; their own views about the strengths and limitations of the study; major advice for future research in the area and their own views about the applications of their findings in practice in both micro and macro levels. Through this presentation, the text explains the experience of research and thus makes the topic more approachable.
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More information about Dr. Phyllis Solomon's research and publications
Ram A. Cnaan, PhD
Ram A. Cnaan & Stephanie C. Boddie
The Invisible Caring Hand: American Congregations and the Provision of Welfare
New York University Press, 2002
"The first systematic and comprehensive social science description of social service contributions of diverse religious congregations... Could not be more timely or useful to academic and religious community audiences which now seek credible 'handles' for accessing and understanding this newly exposed but surprisingly extensive faith based contribution to human welfare in the United States."
- Edward Newman, Temple University
Popular calls to transform our current welfare system and supplant it with effective and inexpensive faith-based providers are gaining political support and engendering heated debate about the separation of church and state. Yet we lack concrete information from which to anticipate how such initiatives might actually work if adopted.
Despite the assumption that congregations can help many needy people in our society, it remains to be seen how extensive they wish their involvement to be, or if they have the necessary tools to become significant providers in the social service arena. Moreover, how will such practices, which will move faith-based organizations towards professionalization, ultimately affect the spirit of volunteerism now prevalent in America's religious institutions?
We lack sufficient knowledge about congregational life and its ability to play a key role in social service provision. The Invisible Caring Hand attempts to fill that void. Based on in-depth interviews with clergy and lay leaders in 251 congregations nationwide, it reveals the many ways in which congregations are already working, beneath the radar, to care for people in need. This ground-breaking volume will provide much-sought empirical data to social scientists, religious studies scholars, and those involved in the debates over the role of faith-based organizations in faith-based services, as well as to clergy and congregation members themselves.
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More information about Dr. Ram Cnaan's research and publications
Kenwyn K. Smith
MANNA In the Wilderness: Ten Lessons in Abundance
Copyright 2002 by Kenwyn K. Smith
The poignant story of how a tenacious group of seven individuals from a Philadelphia church transformed a modest initiative to serve food to those with HIV/AIDS into a vibrant, interfaith, nonprofit organization--MANNA (Metropolitan AIDS Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance)--and in the process, revitalized themselves and their church and community.
MANNA embodies Philadelphia's spirit of brotherly love.
- Ed Rendell, Mayor of Philadelphia, 1992-2000This book tugs at the heart and lifts the spirit.
- Gloria Guard, Executive Director, People's Emergency CenterKenwyn was always our anchor. He's the perfect person to tell our shared story and to convey the life-sustaining lessons learned by the MANNA community.
- Kay Keenze, Reid Reames, and Bob Prischak, MAANA co-foundersMANNA represents the best of the human spirit. This story of how a church basement ministry became on of the most impressive, vibrant, non-sectarian, volunteer organizations in America... A must read for those needing to know how to run non-profit organizations or wishing to understand theology in action.
- Ram Cnaan, Director, The Program for the Study of Organized Religion and Social Work, University of Pennsylvania
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More information about Dr. Kenwyn Smith's research and publications