
Patrick MckiernanUniversity of Louisville | UL · Kent School of Social Work
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The Creating Lasting Family Connections® (CLFC) program is designed to help improve relationship skills and reduce antisocial behaviors. Strader and colleagues propose that prosocial connectedness is responsible for program outcomes. We propose that the intersection of high agreeableness and low impulsivity represent an operational definition. We e...
This chapter describes the Creating Lasting Family Connections (CLFC) personal and family strengthening curriculum model currently in use throughout the United States and six other countries. Further, this chapter describes the CLFC program's theoretical framework and populations of focus, along with the strategies and techniques used in the progra...
This chapter describes the Creating Lasting Family Connections Fatherhood Program: Family Reintegration (CLFCFP). This personal and family strengthening curriculum model is currently in use throughout the United States. This chapter describes the CLFCFP program's theoretical framework and populations of focus, along with the strategies and techniqu...
This chapter describes the Creating Lasting Family Connections Marriage Enhancement Program (CLFCMEP). This model is currently in use throughout the United States. Further, this chapter describes the CLFCMEP program's theoretical framework and populations of focus, along with the strategies and techniques used in the program to achieve positive out...
The present study is a replication of the Creating Lasting Family Connections Fatherhood Program (CLFCFP) using a randomized controlled trial (RCT). CLFCFP has been shown in prior studies to have a positive impact on relationship skills and recidivism using weaker quasi-experimental designs (McKiernan et al., 2013 Shamblen, S. R., Arnold, B. B., Mc...
Divorce proportions are currently high in the US and they are even higher among those who are incarcerated with substance abuse problems. Although much research has examined marital interventions, only two studies have examined marital interventions with prison populations. There is some empirical evidence that incarcerated couples benefit from tra...
There is increasing evidence of the effectiveness of continued care after reentry for those who have participated in prison-based substance abuse treatment. This article presents results from analyses of program and comparison group data from two community-based programs that implemented a culturally adapted version of the Creating Lasting Family C...
The focus of this study was to qualitatively evaluate worker's attitudes about clinical supervision. It is believed that poor attitudes toward clinical supervision can create barriers during supervision sessions. Fifty-one participants within a social services organization completed an open-ended questionnaire regarding their clinical supervision e...
This study compared the 40-item Alcohol Abstinence Self-Efficacy (AASE) scale with domains of confidence and temptation to a new 12-item version developed by the authors consisting of the same domains. There were 126 participants who completed the survey. Psychometric analysis demonstrated high reliability and validity consisting of high correlatio...
Although there have been efforts to advance evidenced-based practices into community-based organizations the limited successes of dissemination and poor implementation of efficacious treatments within these organizations are beginning to be documented. This article builds on the knowledge gained from organizational research and those internal struc...
This article provides information about a Youth Service Bureau’s (YSB)
experience in collaborating with court officials to expand services and a subsequent
funding base. YSBs, like many other nonprofit human service agencies, have found
that partnering with local governmental officials, especially judges, can enhance
sustainability. Implications fo...
Recent twelve-step (TS) program research has suggested a dose threshold consisting of minimum weekly TS meeting attendance that is necessary to derive substantial benefit. Unfortunately, other research has observed the vast majority of patients do not attend meetings or attend sporadically in the period following treatment. As another example of re...
Treatment systems within the U.S. are almost exclusively focused on abstinence as the goal of treatment for alcohol use disorders. This article reviews literature on the natural course of recovery from alcohol disorders and examines the role of testing control over drinking in the course of successful resolution of alcohol problems. Theory, quantit...