ABSTRACT The SRJV (Registration Foundation of Youth Facilities) is a national Dutch organisation that is responsible for setting up a national registration system for youth services. The main objective of the foundation is to generate information for government policy and management information for the involved organisations. To gain better insight into this territory, it is essential to have knowledge of a number of developments within youth assistance in the Netherlands. This will be in line with the new law on youth assistance, which has been effective since the middle of 1989. The previous history and the development of the registration system will be discussed. Attention will also be given to the actual structure of the system. A look into the future will conclude this article.
{"title":"A national registration system for youth assistance","authors":"A. Smorenburg, Jules Prickarts","doi":"10.1300/J407V12N03_15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J407V12N03_15","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The SRJV (Registration Foundation of Youth Facilities) is a national Dutch organisation that is responsible for setting up a national registration system for youth services. The main objective of the foundation is to generate information for government policy and management information for the involved organisations. To gain better insight into this territory, it is essential to have knowledge of a number of developments within youth assistance in the Netherlands. This will be in line with the new law on youth assistance, which has been effective since the middle of 1989. The previous history and the development of the registration system will be discussed. Attention will also be given to the actual structure of the system. A look into the future will conclude this article.","PeriodicalId":422385,"journal":{"name":"Computers in Human Services","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117291837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT This paper argues for the recognition of the ethical dimension in the use of IT to promote economic development. It analyzes four areas in which the spread of new technologies are having an impact on individual and community life-unemployment., delinquent and criminal behaviour, smart weapons, and citizenship-inan attempt to establish that IT is too important to be left to politicians and business people. Instead it should be treated as a matter of great relevance and decision for the whole of society.
{"title":"The ethics and economics of IT","authors":"Bryan Glastonbury","doi":"10.1300/J407V12N03_20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J407V12N03_20","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper argues for the recognition of the ethical dimension in the use of IT to promote economic development. It analyzes four areas in which the spread of new technologies are having an impact on individual and community life-unemployment., delinquent and criminal behaviour, smart weapons, and citizenship-inan attempt to establish that IT is too important to be left to politicians and business people. Instead it should be treated as a matter of great relevance and decision for the whole of society.","PeriodicalId":422385,"journal":{"name":"Computers in Human Services","volume":"17 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120856215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT This paper examines issues of reliability in the development of computerized information systems and presents several strategies for dealing with them. It is based on our experience in developing a national hospital social work information system in Israel. Strategies included the careful and explicit definition of categories and the assessment of inter-rater reliability based on case records and on the systematic manipulation of key variables. Analysis of the data confirmed the reliability of most items of the system. It also pointed out a number of problem areas, and service as the basis for further refining variable categories and definitions to overcome difficulties revealed in the Study.
{"title":"Reliability issues in the development of computerized information systems","authors":"G. Auslander, M. E. Cohen","doi":"10.1300/J407V12N03_11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J407V12N03_11","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines issues of reliability in the development of computerized information systems and presents several strategies for dealing with them. It is based on our experience in developing a national hospital social work information system in Israel. Strategies included the careful and explicit definition of categories and the assessment of inter-rater reliability based on case records and on the systematic manipulation of key variables. Analysis of the data confirmed the reliability of most items of the system. It also pointed out a number of problem areas, and service as the basis for further refining variable categories and definitions to overcome difficulties revealed in the Study.","PeriodicalId":422385,"journal":{"name":"Computers in Human Services","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127231379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information systems for agencies and practitioners: introduction","authors":"J. Steyaert","doi":"10.1300/J407V12N03_08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J407V12N03_08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":422385,"journal":{"name":"Computers in Human Services","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130405556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT Successful development and implementation of MS requires an understanding of how organization goals and structures constrain and/or facilitate MIS. Some organizational factors influencing MS are: ideology, staff resistance, power structure, efficiency vs. effectiveness; agency stability, leadership, organizational change and politics and self-interest. Strategies to overcome these barriers are: structural location of MIS; user involvement in MIS design and implementation; and organizational analysis, as perquisites for MIS.
{"title":"Organizational influences on management information systems in the human services","authors":"B. Neugeboren","doi":"10.1300/J407V12N03_09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J407V12N03_09","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Successful development and implementation of MS requires an understanding of how organization goals and structures constrain and/or facilitate MIS. Some organizational factors influencing MS are: ideology, staff resistance, power structure, efficiency vs. effectiveness; agency stability, leadership, organizational change and politics and self-interest. Strategies to overcome these barriers are: structural location of MIS; user involvement in MIS design and implementation; and organizational analysis, as perquisites for MIS.","PeriodicalId":422385,"journal":{"name":"Computers in Human Services","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116052526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT The problems encountered when Introducing information technology in social work are commonly considered as caused by compiler fear among social workers. A distinction is introduced between automation and “informatisation.” Introduction of IT applications in social work is an informatisation process most of the time, which means that new information is produced whose role in the organisation is not yet defined nor accepted. Organisational as well as technical suggestions are made to solve this problem.
{"title":"Solving the problems of computer use in social work","authors":"Peter Roosenboom","doi":"10.1300/J407V12N03_16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J407V12N03_16","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The problems encountered when Introducing information technology in social work are commonly considered as caused by compiler fear among social workers. A distinction is introduced between automation and “informatisation.” Introduction of IT applications in social work is an informatisation process most of the time, which means that new information is produced whose role in the organisation is not yet defined nor accepted. Organisational as well as technical suggestions are made to solve this problem.","PeriodicalId":422385,"journal":{"name":"Computers in Human Services","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124557122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT Managing a non-profit organization for public social work is primarily a matter of quality management which is the responsibility of the service manager. Because of (a) the actual state of quality assurance in the public social work branches, and (b) the professional character of the organizations, a Public Social Work Quality System asks for intensive involvement of professional workers in the development of the system. PS+QS is both a development method and a system model. It organizes the clients' routing through the institution. The major part of the workflow management concerns phasing of the service and counselling processes. PS+QS is a system of communication structured by information techniques. Professional counsellors and their service managers apply the professional standards and check on their application.
{"title":"Information technology and quality management in public social work","authors":"L. Haas","doi":"10.1300/J407V12N03_14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J407V12N03_14","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Managing a non-profit organization for public social work is primarily a matter of quality management which is the responsibility of the service manager. Because of (a) the actual state of quality assurance in the public social work branches, and (b) the professional character of the organizations, a Public Social Work Quality System asks for intensive involvement of professional workers in the development of the system. PS+QS is both a development method and a system model. It organizes the clients' routing through the institution. The major part of the workflow management concerns phasing of the service and counselling processes. PS+QS is a system of communication structured by information techniques. Professional counsellors and their service managers apply the professional standards and check on their application.","PeriodicalId":422385,"journal":{"name":"Computers in Human Services","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133588261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT The need for qualified computer professionals worldwide is presenting physically challenged individuals with unique employment opportunities. This paper presents a model for initiating and operating training programs in computer related occupations. Emphasis is placed on admission and selection procedures, the computer curriculum and professional behavior training, as well as on placement activities. The special partnership between industry, the vocational rehabilitation system, and educational institutions is examined. Attention is given to the role of social work in initiating and maintaining this partnership and implementing the professional behavior training aspect of the program.
{"title":"Training in computer related occupations: an opportunity for vocational rehabilitation of physically challenged individuals","authors":"John G. Vafeas","doi":"10.1300/J407V12N03_05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J407V12N03_05","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The need for qualified computer professionals worldwide is presenting physically challenged individuals with unique employment opportunities. This paper presents a model for initiating and operating training programs in computer related occupations. Emphasis is placed on admission and selection procedures, the computer curriculum and professional behavior training, as well as on placement activities. The special partnership between industry, the vocational rehabilitation system, and educational institutions is examined. Attention is given to the role of social work in initiating and maintaining this partnership and implementing the professional behavior training aspect of the program.","PeriodicalId":422385,"journal":{"name":"Computers in Human Services","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126802617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT The relationship between social work and information technology (IT) is explored and conclusions are drawn about using IT effectively within a social work value framework. Conceptions of the nature of IT within social work are reviewed, followed by a discussion of different paradigms of social work. Behavioural social work is used as an example of effective interaction between IT and social work. It is argued that IT can enhance professional practice across the whole spectrum of social work approaches without compromising their humanistic value base.
{"title":"Two faces of information technology: what does the social worker see in the mirror?","authors":"Y. Berman, D. Phillips","doi":"10.1300/J407V12N03_18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J407V12N03_18","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The relationship between social work and information technology (IT) is explored and conclusions are drawn about using IT effectively within a social work value framework. Conceptions of the nature of IT within social work are reviewed, followed by a discussion of different paradigms of social work. Behavioural social work is used as an example of effective interaction between IT and social work. It is argued that IT can enhance professional practice across the whole spectrum of social work approaches without compromising their humanistic value base.","PeriodicalId":422385,"journal":{"name":"Computers in Human Services","volume":"29 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133043403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT This paper describes the development of a prototype computerised psychiatric social history system that provided both statistics and a draft narrative report in word processed form. Using this prototype system roughly halved the production time for the final report. The paper then goes on to describe a user-friendly shell system developed from the prototype that allows new systems, based on user defined interviewing schedules to be developed with relative ease. This system, called R-Quest(c), allows the user to construct libraries of questions, tables and lists which can be drawn upon to construct new questionnaires.
{"title":"Automated report writing","authors":"M. Ferriter","doi":"10.1300/J407V12N03_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J407V12N03_03","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper describes the development of a prototype computerised psychiatric social history system that provided both statistics and a draft narrative report in word processed form. Using this prototype system roughly halved the production time for the final report. The paper then goes on to describe a user-friendly shell system developed from the prototype that allows new systems, based on user defined interviewing schedules to be developed with relative ease. This system, called R-Quest(c), allows the user to construct libraries of questions, tables and lists which can be drawn upon to construct new questionnaires.","PeriodicalId":422385,"journal":{"name":"Computers in Human Services","volume":"318 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133781878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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