Jeanne M. Giovannoni

Jeanne M. Giovannoni (1931–2009) was an author, professor, and associate vice chancellor at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Social Welfare. Her research ( and subsequent book,[1] written with Rosina Bercerra) focused on child abuse and how community members, social workers, and law enforcement respond.

Biography[edit]

Giovannoni was born in San Francisco on October 31, 1931. Her undergraduate education was at UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare, earning a bachelor's of social work in 1953 and her Master of Social Work at the same school in 1955. Her doctorate was in 1966 from Brandeis University.[1]

Before starting to teach at UCLA in 1969, she taught for three years at the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare. She retired from UCLA in 1993.[1]

She died at UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica on December 17, 2009, of lung cancer.[1]

Publications[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Giovannoni, Jeanne M.; Becerra, Rosina M. (1979). Defining Child Abuse. Free Press. ISBN 978-0-02-911750-7.[1]
  • Billingsley, Andrew; Giovannoni, Jeanne M. (1972). Children of the Storm: Black Children and American Child Welfare. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. ISBN 978-0-15-117340-2.[2]
  • Giovannoni, Jeanne M.; Conklin, Jonathon; Iiyama, Patti (1978). Child Abuse and Neglect: An Examination from the Perspective of Child Development Knowledge. R&E Research Associates. ISBN 978-0-88247-514-1.

Articles[edit]

  • Giovannoni, Jeanne M.; Billingsley, Andrew (1970). "Child Neglect Among the Poor: A Study of Parental Adequacy In Families of Three Ethnic Groups". Child Welfare. 49 (4): 196–204. JSTOR 45392531.
  • Giovannoni, Jeanne M. (1971). "Parental Mistreatment: Perpetrators and Victims". Journal of Marriage and Family. 33 (4): 649–657. doi:10.2307/349437. JSTOR 349437.
  • Groeneveld, L. P.; Giovannoni, J. M. (June 1977). "Disposition of child abuse and neglect cases". Social Work Research and Abstracts. 13 (2): 24–30. doi:10.1093/swra/13.2.24.
  • Ullmann, Leonard P.; Giovannoni, Jeanne M. (January 1964). "The development of a self-report measure of the process-reactive continuum". The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 138 (1): 38–42. doi:10.1097/00005053-196401000-00005. PMID 14106322.
  • Giovannoni, Jeanne M. (August 1967). "Socially Disruptive Behavior of Ex-Mental Patients". Archives of General Psychiatry. 17 (2): 146–153. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1967.01730260018003. PMID 4952170.
  • Giovannoni, Jeanne M. (January 1995). "Reports of child maltreatment from mandated and non-mandated reporters". Children and Youth Services Review. 17 (4): 487–501. doi:10.1016/0190-7409(95)00035-B.
  • Lewis, M. A.; Giovannoni, J. M.; Leake, B. (June 1997). "Two-year placement outcomes of children removed at birth from drug-using and non-drug-using mothers in Los Angeles". Social Work Research. 21 (2): 81–90. doi:10.1093/swr/21.2.81.
  • Giovannoni, Jeanne M. (12 September 1991). "Unsubstantiated Reports: Perspectives of Child Protective Workers". Child & Youth Services. 15 (2): 51–62. doi:10.1300/J024v15n02_03.

Book Reviews[edit]

  • Giovannoni, Jeanne (January 1991). "Review of For Reasons of Poverty". Children and Youth Services Review. 13 (3): 223–229. doi:10.1016/0190-7409(91)90007-5.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Woo, Elaine (December 26, 2009). "Jeanne Giovannoni dies at 78; UCLA professor helped expand understanding of child abuse". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  2. ^ Butler, Elizabeth (June 1973). "Children of the Storm: Black Children and American Child Welfare . Andrew Billingsley , Jeanne M. Giovannoni". Social Service Review. 47 (2): 294–295. doi:10.1086/642988.


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