An Experiment Promoting Interdisciplinary Applied Human Development: The University of Pittsburgh Model by Robert B. McCall, Christina J. Groark, Mark S. Strauss, and Carl N. Johnson (1995), 28 pages. Full document
ABSTRACT
The University of Pittsburgh Office of Child Development is an unusual university facilitative and administrative unit that promotes, funds, plans, implements, manages, and conducts interdisciplinary applied educational, research, service demonstration, program evaluation, and policy projects pertaining to children, youth, and families. In the eight years of its existence, its soft-money budget has grown more than 30 times, its employees have increased 23 fold, and it has played a major role in $56
million worth of collaborative projects. This paper describes the Office's rationale, structure, purposes, principles of operation, projects, evaluation, and positive and negative factors in its development so that others may benefit from this case-study experiment in interdisciplinary applied human development programming.
McCall, R.B., Groark, C.J., Strauss, M.S., & Johnson, C.N. (1995). An experiment promoting interdisciplinary applied human development: The University of Pittsburgh model. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 16, 593-612.
Building Successful University-Community Human Service Agency Collaborations by Christina J. Groark, and Robert B. McCall (1996), 14 pages. Full document
ABSTRACT
Applied developmental scholars are very likely to need to collaborate with community agencies to conduct their studies and education. Such university-community collaborations not only help to provide an important context for applied developmental training and research, they also can contribute directly to the welfare of children, youth, and families. But such a smoothly operating and productive collaboration is by no means assured, especially when it involves professionals trained in different
disciplines with different methods and values and who have different professional purposes and standards of performance. This paper outlines the typical barriers to successful university-community human service agency collaborations and provides some guidelines on how to overcome them, primarily aimed at students and academics about to embark on a university-community collaboration.
Groark, C.J., & McCall, R.B. (1996). Building successful university-community human service agency collaborations. In C.B. Fisher, J.P. Murray, and I.E. Sigel (Eds.), Applied developmental science: Graduate training for diverse disciplines and educational settings (pp.237-251). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
