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This article focuses on human service organizations whose ultimate service mission to public clientele is attainment of self-sufficiency. The authors cite various reasons for an ever-evolving 21 st Century human services model of enormous complexity that must exponentially increase its service delivery...

Most successful innovations, according to Drucker, come from a conscious, purposeful search for innovation opportunities. He saw four areas of opportunity inside organizations: unexpected occurrences, incongruities, process needs, and industry and market changes. Opportunities also exist outside organizations...

This article was inspired by Weisz, Weiss, and Donenberg’s (1992) look at positive child psychotherapy effects in research suggesting “…a key task for researchers [is]….identifying those proper conditions under which effects of child therapy may be optimized.” The authors suggest controlled methodological...

This article invokes a provocative view of a changed society poised on the cusp of high potential for innovation because all of us (in developed nations) now function amidst a vast complex of macro-level social networks (and thusly a new framework for the study of sociology needs to be erected). Just...

The author provides an exhaustive review of technology transfer/diffusion through his own lens: i.e., a framework he calls the Contingent Effectiveness Model; it earns its name from the fact that there are multiple ways of defining transfer effectiveness (6 by Bozeman’s count). Before outlining the key...

A search conference is a participative planning event that enables people to create a plan for the most desirable future of their community or organization, a plan they carry out themselves. Search conferencing has a long, rich history. The first search conference happened in 1960 in Great Britain when...

In the chapter, “Innovation,” Baker provides an overview of innovation research, definitions of the three main types of innovation ( process, product/service, and strategy/business concept ), the levels of innovation ( incremental to radical ), and capacities for innovation , which either enable or hinder...

Researchers from Texas Christian University studied a large population of drug abuse counselors focusing on the individuals as treatment counselors with respect to training and organization, a departure from the norm of studying counselors in the aggregate to ascertain the behavior of the organization...

The authors noted a significant gap between evidence-based practice (EBP) innovations and their adoption in the mental health care profession. [Fuller, B. E., Rieckmann, T., Nunes, E. V., Miller, M., Arfken, C., Edmundson, E., et al. (2007). Organizational readiness for change and opinions toward treatment...

Personnel from the Texas Christian University (TCU) examined the organizational functioning of alcohol and drug abuse treatment centers across two states in the Gulf Coast with reference to strategic planning, in particular staff training needs and transfer of evidence-based practice into clinical settings...