Visualizing practice with children and families

Mattaini, Mark A.

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“…legal status, language, health beliefs etc). Used extensively in practice, these tools have paved the way for clinicians to practically assess and organize information on the family’s cultural and ecological systems that directly or indirectly affect treatment delivery (Congress, 2008; Hodge & Williams, 2002; Mattaini, 1995). …”

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The Cultural Ecogram: A Tool for Enhancing Culturally Anchored Shared Understanding in the Treatment of Ethnic Minority Families

Yasui

2015

Journal of Ethnic And Cultural Diversity in Social Work

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Ethnic and racial disparities in mental health care continue to exist, highlighting the increasing concern within the realm of clinical practice as to how clinicians are to effectively integrate the central role of culture and context into the treatment delivery process for culturally diverse children and families. The current paper presents the Cultural Ecogram, - a clinical engagement tool designed to facilitate the development of a culturally anchored shared understanding – as one method that may facilitate clinician-client shared understanding on the client’s cultural, ethnic and racial context central to the effective implementation of treatments with ethnic minority children and families.

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The Cultural Ecogram: A Tool for Enhancing Culturally Anchored Shared Understanding in the Treatment of Ethnic Minority Families

Yasui

2015

Journal of Ethnic And Cultural Diversity in Social Work

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“…A comparison of these eco-maps might help families and interventionists measure the changes that have occurred over time. Mattaini (1995) suggested that sequential eco-maps can be useful particularly in family situations where the interconnected networks of stressors, supports, resources, and issues are complicated and a single measure simply cannot capture all of the data of importance.…”

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“…Eco-maps have been used in multiple ways by early intervention providers and rehabilitation specialists and within the clinical practice of social workers, psychologists, and other mental health professionals (Bailey & Simeonsson, 1988;Mattaini, 1995). Originally developed as a schematic "thinking tool" (Hartman, 1978, p. 117) for the social worker to use as a visual representation of the family system at the beginning of intervention, clinicians quickly came to value its use as a mechanism to (a) foster collaboration between families and professionals and (b) jointly organize and depict information.…”

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“…In short, practitioners use ecomaps as a mechanism to establish rapport with families (Cox, 2003), learn more about the perceptions of the family at their initial meeting (Hartman, 1978), organize information and facts (Hanson & Boyd, 1996), set goals in intervention (Horton & Bucy, 2000), and monitor progress (Mattaini, 1995). For each purpose, the primary value of the eco-map is in its visual impact and simplicity.…”

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Using Eco-Mapping to Understand Family Strengths and Resources

McCormick

Stricklin

Nowak

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Young Exceptional Children

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A s professionals and families work together to identify and celebrate the strengths and resources unique to each family, new and innovative ways to describe and discuss family characteristics are needed. The eco-map, borrowed from social science disciplines, is one method used to describe family strengths and resources. The ecomap was developed in 1975 by sociologist Hartman (1978) to help social workers in public child welfare practice better understand the needs of the families with whom they worked. An eco-map is a graphic representation or visualization of the family and linkages to the larger social system, including informal (e.g., friends, extended family members) and formal (e.g., early care and education providers, early intervention providers) supports. It illustrates how the family exists within the context of its Eco-Mapping / McCormick et al.

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“…Graphic tools (contingency diagrams, practice diagrams, behavioral ecomaps) are valuable and effective teaching tools (Mattaini, 1995a) because images have tremendous power to capture the realities of complex behavioral and cultural phenomena (Mattaini, 1993b(Mattaini, , 1995bMattaini, under review). We, therefore, made extensive use of these tools in the classroom, and in student assignments.…”

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Reminiscences: Excerpts From The Diary of a Behaviorist: The Search for a Science of Psychology, the Early Years

Mattaini

1995

Behav. Soc. Iss.

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One of the central goals of Walden Fellowship, Inc. is to interest new people in the science of behavior, how it can contribute to quality of life, and in becoming involved in related activities. An important group to reach in these efforts, as Skinner clarified in Walden Two (1948), are students and recent graduates who may be searching for ways that they can make a difference. First, the author discusses first efforts to interest graduate social work students in cultural design through the development of a new course in community organization and community practice, then presents examples of work produced in the course, and lastly describes initial successes in recruiting new behaviorists through the course. KEY WORDS: Cultural design, teaching behavior analysis, contingency diagrams.

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Visualizing practice with children and families

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

The Cultural Ecogram: A Tool for Enhancing Culturally Anchored Shared Understanding in the Treatment of Ethnic Minority Families

The Cultural Ecogram: A Tool for Enhancing Culturally Anchored Shared Understanding in the Treatment of Ethnic Minority Families

Using Eco-Mapping to Understand Family Strengths and Resources

Reminiscences: Excerpts From The Diary of a Behaviorist: The Search for a Science of Psychology, the Early Years

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