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Record W2512857631 · doi:10.1093/sw/sww056

From “Saving Satir” to “Evolving Satir”

2016· letter· en· W2512857631 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueSocial Work · 2016
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHomelessness and Social Issues
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Lethbridge
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEliteStatus quoPsychologyFamily therapySocial workGrassrootsSociologySocial psychologyPsychotherapistPoliticsLawPolitical science

Abstract

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This commentary offers an expanded viewpoint to Christopher J. Wretman's (2016) article titled “Saving Satir: Contemporary Perspectives on the Change Process Model,” which appeared in the January 2016 issue of Social Work. The article observed that Virginia Satir's work has been underrepresented in the research and academic literature. Its author was concerned that in today's evidence-based climate, Satir's work and ideas run the risk of being lost short of empirical validation. Wretman attempted to identify what key constructs belong to Satir and pitched for the systematization of Satir's model, that is, to subject it to empirical research and thus “save Satir.” Satir, a teacher, social worker, and pioneer figure in family therapy (Nichols, 2013), cut out a path that was more in the tradition of social movement leaders (Lee, 2002c) than researchers in the academe. Working in a time of momentous change in the United States in the 1960s to 1980s, when the status quo of women, race, war, environment, and marriage were being questioned (Eyerman & Jamison, 1991), she struck a chord with those who lived under oppressive institutions of hierarchical domination. In the spirit of a movement leader, she pursued a strategy of working outside of institutions to reach the masses rather than gain acceptance among the elite (King, 1989). Her penchant for connecting with the grassroots and with families directly is not foreign to social workers, who can be seen as forerunners to the profession of marriage and family therapy (Bond, 2009). Through workshops and staged family reconstructions, Satir challenged the medical pathology-focused convention, raised consciousness about the human being positioned as the center of possibilities (Duhl, 1989), and rallied a sizable following that has a groundswell effect to this day. She wrote for the general public in a manner she hoped would be accessible even to those with an elementary school education (S. Loeschen, personal communication, February 9, 2016), reaching millions across the globe.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesResearch integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.391
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0030.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.007

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.059
GPT teacher head0.403
Teacher spread0.344 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it