Jeanne M. Giovannoni Explained

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

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.

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.

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

Publications

Books

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

Articles

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

Book Reviews

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

Notes and References

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