Dr. Daniel Harkness joined the faculty of the School of Social Work at Boise State University in 1993. His B.A., M.S.W., and Ph.D. were all earned at The University of Kansas. In addition to teaching at the University, Dr. Harkness is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and maintains a private practice for consultation and supervision in clinical social work. Dr. Harkness pursues a wide variety of social work research issues including addictions and codependency, client outcomes, clinical social work practice, educating and credentialing social workers, evaluation and treatment of mental disorders, social work supervision, and quantitative methods.
Articles
The Diagnosis of Mental Disorders in Clinical Social Work: A Review of Standards of Care, Clinical Social Work Journal (2011)
Licensed to diagnose and treat mental disorders, clinical social workers have begun to develop and...
Codependent Attitude and Behavior: Moderators of Psychological Distress in Adult-Offspring of Families with Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Problems (with Shawna Manhire, Jennifer Blanchard, and Jennifer Darling), Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly (2008)
This study explored a model of codependent attitude and behavior as moderators of the relationship...
To Have and to Hold: Codependency as a Mediator or Moderator of the Relationship Between Substance Abuse in the Family or Origin and Adult-Offspring Medical Problems, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs (2003)
This pilot study explored the putative role of codependency as a mediator or moderator of...
The Development, Reliability, and Validity of a Clinical Rating Scale for Codependency (with Melaney Swenson, Kathryn Madsen-Hampton, and Richard Hale), Journal of Psychoactive Drugs (2001)
This investigation examined the reliability and validity if a rating scale for codependency in substance...
Testing Cermak's Hypothesis: Is Dissociation the Mediating Variable that Links Substance Abuse in the Family of Origin with Offspring Codependency?, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs (2001)
This is a pilot study of substance abuse in the family of origin and its...
Books
Supervision in Social Work (with Alfred Kadushin), Faculty Authored Books (2002)
The book provides an overview of the art of social work supervision. It is designed...