John S. Wodarski · Laura M. Hopson Editors Empirically Based Interventions Targeting Social Problems Empirically Based Interventions Targeting Social Problems John S. Wodarski • Laura M. Hopson Editors Empirically Based Interventions Targeting Social Problems Editors John S. Wodarski Laura M. Hopson College of Social Work School of Social Work University of Tennessee The University of Alabama Knoxville, TN, USA Tuscaloosa, AL, USA ISBN 978-3-030-28486-2 ISBN 978-3-030-28487-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28487-9 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. 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Wodarski, and Fan Yang 4 Violence in Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Lisa A. Rapp and John S. Wodarski 5 Adolescent Sexuality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 John S. Wodarski 6 Preventing HIV Infection in Adolescents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Charles W. Mueller, Robert Bidwell, Scott Okamoto, Eberhard Mann, and Sarah V. Curtis 7 H elping Families Affected by Substance Abuse: What Works and What Does Not. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Jan Ligon 8 Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Lisa A. Rapp and John S. Wodarski 9 Homelessness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Shanae Shaw and Namkee Choi 10 Unemployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Anna Celeste Burke 11 Marital Conflict, Intimate Partner Violence, and Family Preservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 M. E. Betsy Garrison and Sarah V. Curtis v vi Contents 12 Practice Approaches with Older Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Nancy P. Kropf and Sherry Cummings 13 Promoting Self-Management of Chronic Medical Problems . . . . . . . 271 Jan Ligon Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 Contributors Robert Bidwell Department of Pediatrics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA Anna Celeste Burke The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA Namkee Choi Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA Sherry Cummings College of Social Work, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA Sarah V. Curtis College of Social Work, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA Catherine N. Dulmus School of Social Work, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA M. E. Betsy Garrison School of Human Environmental Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA M. Sebrena Jackson School of Social Work, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA Nancy P. Kropf Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA Jan Ligon School of Social Work, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA Peter Lyons School of Social Work, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA Eberhard Mann Department of Pediatrics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA Charles W. Mueller Department of Psychology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA vii viii Contributors Scott Okamoto School of Social Work, College of Health and Society, Hawaiʻi Pacific University, Honolulu, HI, USA Lisa A. Rapp School of Educational Social Services, Saint Leo University, St. Leo, FL, USA Shanae Shaw School of Social Work, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA John S. Wodarski College of Social Work, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA Fan Yang Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian Shi, Liaoning Sheng, China About the Editors John S. Wodarski, PhD, is professor of social work at the University of Tennessee College of Social Work in Knoxville. Dr. Wodarski has over 40 years of experience teaching graduate and undergraduate social work students. His main interests include child, adolescent, and young adult health behaviors, including research on violence, substance abuse, depression, sexuality, HIV and viral hepatitis prevention, and employment. He has written over 65 textbooks and has contributed to over 50 additional texts. Laura M. Hopson, PhD, is an associate professor at the University of Alabama School of Social Work in Tuscaloosa. Dr. Hopson has over 10 years of experience teaching social work students and practitioners. Her research focuses on prevention of health risk behaviors and academic failure among vulnerable adolescents, espe- cially ethnic minority adolescents from economically disadvantaged households. Her work also examines barriers to implementing evidence-based practices in com- munity agencies and strategies for overcoming these barriers. She has authored or coauthored over 50 publications in journals and texts and coauthored the book Research Methods for Evidence-Based Practice with John S. Wodarski. ix Chapter 1 Social Problems: A Cost-Effective Psychosocial Prevention Paradigm John S. Wodarski The cost of social problems and the negative consequences are extensive and well documented. From a cost-benefit perspective, the largely remedial, as opposed to practice, interventions the social service system has chosen are extremely costly and highly unproductive for both client and practitioner in terms of targets, timing of intervention, ages, and contexts. Social, cognitive, and academic skills that indi- viduals must master should provide the focus for intervention from a life-span development perspective. A review and analysis centering on social problems underscores the need for cost-effective, evidence-based, and preventive efforts. First, the personal and societal costs of child abuse, educational outcomes, violence in the schools, teenage sexuality, HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, crime, urban decline and homelessness, unemployment, marital conflict, race, retirement, and hospice are analyzed. Subsequent chapters review the personal, social, economic, and political benefits of prevention. Preventive models of service delivery are elucidated. The chapter concludes with specific applications and discussions. Prevention Versus Remediation Much has been written about many problem behaviors of the young and the undesir- able consequences thereof. Teenagers’ experimentation with drugs and alcohol can lead to overindulgence and abuse. Serious short-term and long-term effects include risk taking and daredevil behaviors that increase risks to mental and physical health, including accidents, which are a leading cause of death among adolescents. Likewise, risk taking may increase the incidence of irresponsible sexual activity, which eventuates in venereal disease, unwanted pregnancy, and premature J. S. Wodarski (*) College of Social Work, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 1 J. S. Wodarski, L. M. Hopson (eds.), Empirically Based Interventions Targeting Social Problems, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28487-9_1