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As
part of its Quality Agenda, the Ohio
Department of Mental Health (ODMH) is facilitating the adoption
and assimilation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) by behavioral
healthcare providers through the creation of Coordinating Centers
of Excellence (CCOE). This longitudinal study is examining factors
and processes that are expected to explain adoption and assimilation
of these practices. The project is funded by the ODMH and the
MacArthur Network.
DSS
and ODMH project staff and consultants include: Phyllis
Panzano, Dee Roth, Dushka Crane-Ross, Bev Seffrin, Sheri Chaney,
Sheayuen Yeo, Vandana Vaidyanathan, Carol Carstens, Rick Massatti
and Paul Nutt.
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The
main goal of this study is to evaluate the extent to which the
Job Characteristics Model (JCM) (Hackman & Oldham, 1976),
the most widely-studied approach to motivational job design,
can be used to understand and improve the experience of work
for adults with limited work experience and/or psychological
and other disabilities. The Job Profile Model (JPM) and its
companion instrument, the Job Profile Questionnaire (JPQ™),
tailor the JCM to these populations. Findings are expected to
have utility for improving work-related outcomes for these adults.
Project
staff and consultants include: Phyllis Panzano, Bev Seffrin,
Sheri Chaney, Sheayuen Yeo, Pud
Baird, Bob Billings, Jim Austin, Ryan Fillmann, Craig Gebers,
Doug Bailey (ODMH) and Jessica Vines-Ritchey
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Information:
It
is generally acknowledged that the population of adults with
severe mental disabilities (SMD) is heterogeneous. In fact,
an extensive program of research conducted in Ohio over more
than a decade identified five core clusters of adults who share
common strengths, problems, treatment histories, and life situations
(Rubin & Panzano,
Psychiatric
Services, April 2002, 53:4, pages 450-457). This research
tests the efficacy of service models that were developed by
expert workgroups for two of the clusters within the broader
population.
Project
staff and consultants include: Bill
Rubin, Phyllis Panzano, David Granger, Emily Bunt, Janice Ossa,
Alex Ossa, Liza Vidal, Jim Schwartz and George Sheppard.
A
field study involving fifty organizations investigated whether
risk perception and risk propensity mediated the effects of
problem framing and inertia on risk taking. At the organizational-level,
five of seven direct effect hypotheses and both hypotheses predicting
mediation were supported using an objective measure of risk
taking.
The
stances taken by 48 Community Mental Health Boards (plaintiff,
non-party, intervenor, defendant) in a lawsuit against the mental
health department were conceptualized as levels of resistance
to institutional pressure. An expanded strategic issue diagnosis
model (context --> frames --> working relationships -->
organizational resistance) was used to explain this unusual
interorganizational response.
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