Stuart A. Kirk
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American academic; Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Social Welfare
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Stuart A. Kirk holds the Marjorie Crump Chair in Social Welfare at UCLA and is a former psychiatric social worker. His research interests include mental health issues, particularly the creation and use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders . Kirk has authored, co-authored and edited many books, including most recently Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs . He was former chief editor of the Social Work Research journal.
Stuart A. Kirk's Published Works
Published Works
- Making Us Crazy: DSM: The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders (1997) (556)
- Using pencil and paper, Internet and touch-tone phones for self-administered surveys: does methodology matter? (2003) (250)
- Coping with job stress: Which strategies work best? (1993) (239)
- The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry (1992) (194)
- Science and Social Work: A Critical Appraisal (2002) (129)
- Community mental health myths and the fate of former hospitalized patients. (1975) (121)
- Measuring the Monday blues: validation of a job satisfaction scale for the human services. (1994) (119)
- Should the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for conduct disorder consider social context? (2002) (97)
- The Myth of the Reliability of DSM (1994) (87)
- Recognition of Authors in Blind Review of Manuscripts (1981) (82)
- The effect of characteristics of human service workers on subsequent morale and turnover. (1995) (82)
- The Role of Social Work Journals in the Development of a Knowledge Base for the Profession (1992) (67)
- Mental disorders in the social environment : critical perspectives (2005) (66)
- The Business of Diagnosis: DSM-III and Clinical Social Work (1988) (65)
- Social workers' involvement in research (1976) (64)
- Unscientific thinking about scientific practice: Evaluating the scientist-practitioner model (1996) (56)
- The reliability of DSM-III: A critical review. (1986) (56)
- Deliberate Misdiagnosis in Mental Health Practice (1988) (51)
- Effectiveness of community services for discharged mental hospital patients. (1976) (50)
- Direct and Buffering Effects of Internal Locus of Control Among Mental Health Professionals (1995) (49)
- Practitioner involvement in clinical evaluation. (1991) (47)
- Judging mental disorder in youths: Effects of client, clinician, and contextual differences. (2007) (46)
- Assessing assessment in social work. (1991) (43)
- Controversial Issues in Mental Health (1993) (41)
- Do Social Workers Understand Research (1976) (41)
- The effect of social context on psychiatrists' judgments of adolescent antisocial behavior. (2003) (39)
- We're All Number One: Academic Productivity among Schools of Social Work (1990) (38)
- The Fate of Optimism: A Longitudinal Study of Case Managers' Hopefulness and Subsequent Morale (1995) (34)
- Social Context and Social Workers' Judgment of Mental Disorder (1999) (33)
- Cumulative Effect of Research Courses on Knowledge and Attitudes of Social Work Students (1981) (32)
- The Nature and Purposes of Social Work (2009) (31)
- Diagnostic consistency in assessing conduct disorder: an experiment on the effect of social context. (2004) (31)
- The Contribution of Women Faculty to Social Work Journals (1984) (30)
- Changes in health and job attitudes of case managers providing intensive services. (1993) (30)
- The Continuing Crisis in Social Work Research: Conundrum or Solvable Problem? An Essay Review. (1992) (28)
- Good Intentions Are Not Enough: Practice Guidelines for Social Work (1999) (27)
- Social workers' attitudes about psychotropic drug treatment with youths. (2006) (27)
- The Prognosis for Social Work Diagnosis (1989) (26)
- The Lay Concept of Conduct Disorder: Do Nonprofessionals Use Syndromal Symptoms or Internal Dysfunction to Distinguish Disorder from Delinquency? (2006) (26)
- DSM-III and social work malpractice. (1987) (26)
- DSM-III-R: the conflict over new psychiatric diagnoses. (1989) (24)
- Women's contributions to social work journals (1980) (24)
- Methodological Issues in the Comparative Study of Schools of Social Work (1984) (23)
- Managing acute oak decline. (2010) (21)
- Should DSM be the Basis for Teaching Social Work Practice in Mental Health? No! (1995) (20)
- Aftercare for alcoholics: services of community mental health centers. (1978) (19)
- Who gets aftercare? A study of patients discharged from state hospitals in Kentucky. (1977) (19)
- Are Children's DSM Diagnoses Accurate? (2004) (19)
- Madness or Mental Illness? Revisiting Historians of Psychiatry (2013) (18)
- Denying or Delivering Services (1974) (16)
- Reputation and publication productivity among social work researchers (2003) (16)
- The sex offenses of blacks and whites (1975) (15)
- Agreeing to disagree: A study of the reliability of manuscript reviews (1997) (15)
- Science and Social Work (2001) (15)
- The $12,000 Question: Does It Pay to Publish? (1989) (14)
- Teaching Research Methodology from Z to A (1978) (13)
- Disorder attribution and clinical judgment in the assessment of adolescent antisocial behavior (1999) (13)
- RESEARCH NOTES: SCHOOL RANKINGS: MINDLESS NARCISSISM OR DO THEY TELL US SOMETHING? (1995) (13)
- Scholarship and the Professional School (1991) (12)
- DSM-5: The Delayed Demise of Descriptive Diagnosis (2015) (12)
- Influence of Social Workers’ Characteristics on the Perception of Mental Disorder in Youths (2003) (11)
- The contribution of women authors to psychiatric and other medical journals, 1951--1975. (1982) (10)
- Unjust Freedom: The Ethics of Client Self-Determination in Runaway Youth Shelters (1997) (10)
- Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs (2013) (10)
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 1994. 912 pp. $54.95 hardcover; ISBN 0-89042-061-0; $42.95 paperback, ISBN 0-89042-062-9 (1995) (10)
- Clients as outsiders: theoretical approaches to deviance (1972) (9)
- Madness in paradise: psychiatric crises among newcomers in Honolulu. (1975) (8)
- Instituting Madness The Evolution of a Federal Agency (1999) (7)
- Merging Social Work and Social Work Research & Abstracts (1990) (7)
- Sex bias in assessment: a case of premature exaggeration (1981) (6)
- Social Work Research Methods: Building Knowledge For Practice (1998) (6)
- Improving Research Writing (1993) (6)
- Social roles of women in medicine, psychiatry, and social work. (1982) (6)
- Name-Calling in Social Work (1982) (6)
- Social Work Roles in Drug Treatment with Youth (2008) (6)
- Knowledge utilization in social work and legal practice (1998) (5)
- PICKY, PICKY, PICKY: RANKING GRADUATE SCHOOLS OF SOCIAL WORK BY STUDENT SELECTIVITY (2009) (5)
- Human Errors, Attractive Nuisances, and Toxic Wastes: A Reply to Anello (1989) (5)
- Do Perceptions of Dysfunction and Normality Mediate Clinicians’ Judgments of Adolescent Antisocial Behavior? (2009) (4)
- Research on Diversity (1995) (4)
- Invited Essay Review : DSM-IV and the Hunt for Gold: A Review of the Treasure Map (1993) (4)
- The Puzzles of Peer Perusal (1993) (4)
- The psychiatric sick role and rejection. (1975) (3)
- What the Practitioner Knows Versus What the Client is Told (1997) (3)
- Politics of Personnel and Landscapes of Knowledge (2005) (3)
- Coercion: The Only Constant In Psychiatric Practice? (2013) (3)
- Telephone Interview Timing and Measurement Properties of Well-Being in a Sample of Elderly Hispanics (1995) (2)
- Practice as science, science as practice (1996) (2)
- Misdiagnosing assessment. (1993) (2)
- 1 The Nature and Purposes of Social Work (2009) (1)
- 1. Knowledge, Science, and the Profession of Social Work (2002) (1)
- BOOK REVIEW (2003) (1)
- 8. Research Dissemination and Utilization: Spreading the Word (2002) (1)
- Science, dogma, and the scientist-practitioner model (1997) (1)
- Treating the Child or Syndrome: Does Context Matter for Treatment Decisions for Antisocially Behaving Youth? (2017) (1)
- 8. The Role of Diagnostic and Problem Classification in Formulating Target-Based Practice Guidelines (2003) (1)
- Getting Chalk: Distant Reflections on Deaning (1997) (1)
- Marketing Human Service Innovations. Jack Rothman , Joseph G. Teresa , Terrence L. Kay , Gershom Clark Morningstar (1984) (1)
- 6. Computer-Assisted Social Work Practice: The Promise of Technology (2002) (1)
- Hero, Artist, Sage, or Saint? By Richard W. Coan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. 322 pp. $20.00 cloth, $6.50 paper (1978) (1)
- The Failure of Descriptive Diagnosis (2017) (0)
- Madness or Mental Illness? Revisiting Historians of Psychiatry (2013) (0)
- Monopolistic Access to Scholarly Inquiry (1981) (0)
- The Social Control of Error (2017) (0)
- The Social Context of Diagnostic Error (2017) (0)
- The Structure of Mad Science (2017) (0)
- Book Review: Clinical Judgement in the Health and Welfare Professions: Extending the Evidence Base (2004) (0)
- 3. Client Problems as Organizing Foci for Knowledge (2002) (0)
- Securing Diagnostic Turf (2017) (0)
- Illusions of Psychiatric Progress (2017) (0)
- Grantsmanship and Fund Raising. By Armand Lauffer. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1984. 320 pp. $25.00 (1986) (0)
- The attributes of mad science (2017) (0)
- Evaluation research in social work (1994) (0)
- What's the Use? (1992) (0)
- The “Therapeutic” Coercion of the Mad in the Community (2017) (0)
- Achieving accountability in community mental health programs: A proposed method (1974) (0)
- 7. Research-Based Practice (2002) (0)
- Organizational Responses to Resource Decline (1986) (0)
- Dancing with Drugs (2017) (0)
- Book Reviews : Robins, Lee N., & Rigier, Darrel A. (Eds.). (1991). Psychiatric Disorders in America: The Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study. New York: Free Press. 449 pp (1991) (0)
- Volume Information (1992) (0)
- 5. Engineering Social Work Intervention (2002) (0)
- The History and Historians of Madness (2017) (0)
- : New Directions in Mental Health Care: Cooperative Apartments (1980) (0)
- Tribute William J. Reid: A Personal Remembrance (2010) (0)
- Reply to Bloom and Orme (1998) (0)
- Managing processes in human resource development (2009) (0)
- Social Problems. Amitai Etzioni (1977) (0)
- 4. The Scientific Model in Practice: The 1960s and Beyond (2002) (0)
- Volume Information (1982) (0)
- Book Review: People and Predicaments: Of Life and Distress on Martha's Vineyard (1978) (0)
- Book Reviews (1999) (0)
- 2. Science and Social Work: A Historical Perspective (2002) (0)
- Community Mental Health Centers (1978) (0)
- The Convergence of the Interactionist and Behavioral Approaches to Deviance (1974) (0)
- 9. Knowledge for Practice: Issues and Challenges (2002) (0)
- The Art of Claim-Making (2017) (0)
- Book Review: Bringing the War Home. The American Soldier in Vietnam and After (1975) (0)
- And DSM Said: Let There Be Disorder (2017) (0)
- Treating the Child or Syndrome: Does Context Matter for Treatment Decisions for Antisocially Behaving Youth? (2017) (0)
- From Drugs to Medications— and Back (2017) (0)
- : The New Informants: The Betrayal of Confidentiality in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (1997) (0)
- Response to Gerald Klerman (1987) (0)
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