Reimagining dialogue in public relations: Bakhtin and open dialogue in the public sphere

Over the past several decades, public relations scholarship has added significant richness to its understanding of dialogue. Such research has followed a theoretical trajectory centered on the “I and Thou” philosophy of Martin Buber. Drawing from Mikhail Bakhtin’s Dialogic Imagination, this essay puts public relations dialogic scholarship into conversation with the concept of dialogue in a broader societal context. Bakhtin’s work provides additional understanding of public relations’ roles in dialogue, particularly in regards to facilitating public conversations. Bakhtin’s emphasis on contextual and individually generated meanings illuminates the nature and structure of public conversations and the potential for public relations practitioners to play a more active and positive role in the enactment of open dialogue.     

Experiencing Civil Unrest: Elder Voices on Ferguson

ABSTRACT

Ferguson, Missouri became the center of the nation’s attention when an unarmed African American teenager was killed by a Caucasian police officer. Civic unrest continued for weeks. The aim of this study was to learn how older adults experienced the social unrest. Ten focus groups were conducted with 73 participants. Eight themes were identified. Issues related to safety were most commonly discussed. Participants reported a breakdown in intergenerational communications and expressed a desire for more exchange. Findings are being discussed with relevant organizations to increase the involvement of older adults in on-going community development efforts and to provide opportunities for intergenerational dialogue.     

新时期构建我国意识形态“对话平台”面临的挑战

解读时代特征,推动马克思主义中国化与大众化,维护我国意识形态安全,不能仅仅止于研究和探讨马克思主义的科学性与优越性;而应站在历史唯物主义的角度,结合时代特征,探讨马克思主义面临的各种对话＂困境＂;并在批判、继承与建设中探索马克思主义理论与实践层面的具体对话平台。通过与西方资本主义国家以及国内社会各阶层和各利益团体等进行科学对话,实现马克思主义的大众化并维护我国意识形态的安全。     

How a Therapist Responds to Cultural Versus Noncultural Dialogue in Cross-Cultural Clinical Practice

A therapist's capacity to respond appropriately to a client is crucial in fostering positive therapeutic relationships and outcomes in general but it is even more important in cross-cultural therapy. Given the clinical significance of the dyad-specific and dynamic nature of the therapist's responsiveness, our study explores one white female therapist's responsiveness with three racial/ethnic minority clients in the beginning phase of therapy sessions. Using the structural analysis of social behavior and conversation analysis, the turn-by-turn intensive analysis of culturally relevant and nonrelevant talk in therapy illustrates how a therapist, who is appropriately and positively responsive to clients in other contexts, becomes disengaged and even negatively oriented during culturally relevant talk. This finding illustrates the challenges involved in maintaining positive engagement and responsiveness in cross-cultural therapeutic communication. Our findings also highlight the usefulness of focusing on moment-to-moment interactions in cross-cultural clinical practice.     

从“局外人”到“反抗者”——默尔索在边缘情境中的自我超越

《局外人》揭示了20世纪西方世界的荒诞性,并通过主人公默尔索的精神发展历程。启示我们应对荒诞的正确态度和途径是在“爱”与“对话”中“重新开始”,重建人与世界、与他者的关联,创造性地进行反抗。而默尔索从“局外人”向“反抗者”的成长,则是在辍学、入狱、被判处死刑等一系列边缘情境中逐步实现的。     

全球视野中的文明冲突

塞缪尔·亨廷顿认为,当代世界国际冲突的根源将主要是文明的冲突,而将国际冲突的利益本原漠然置之。对此,我们首先必须看到其理论提出的深层原因,明其所以;其次必须谨慎对待这一理论,未雨绸缪,做出有理、有利、有节的应对之策。     

Multiple stories: Collaborative and generative possibilities for psychological evaluation

This paper explores a collaborative generative approach to psychological assessment employed in Puerto Rico, with children, adolescents, and adults. It begins with a critical reflection on how the dominant discourse of mental health, founded in the suppositions and practices of Euro-American-centred psychological knowledge, has been disseminated to the globalise south under the claim that its assertions are unaffected by social, ideological, or historical forces. It discusses how its claims of expert scientific knowledge have contributed, through classificatory instruments such as the DSM and the ICD, to the production and re-production of deficit narratives in our day-to-day life. It also examines how these practices have been applied in the use of assessment instruments in Puerto Rico. It then describes, how, through a collaborative approach and narrative theory, the established colonising practices and narratives of traditional forms of psychological assessment can be questioned, deconstructed, and transformed. This approach promotes the co-creation of dialogic and generative spaces that allow for the emergence of multiple stories and performances that give meaning to a person's identity and relational being. A brief clinical case exposition is used to illustrate how this collaborative, dialogic, and culturally sensitive approach to psychological assessment can help to undermine and disrupt deficit-based narratives and provide families with new generative possibilities for re-storying and re-performing their lives and particularly, the lives of their children.     

比较思想政治教育学学科意识的演进与展望

30年来，比较思想政治教育学学科孕育、萌生、成长，其学科意识也经历了“鉴别比较”“比较研究”“跨文化对话”的更替过程。比较思想政治教育学研究者要通过“聚焦居间研究”“发掘文化设定”“觉悟自身实践品质”的方式深化和践履“跨文化对话”的学科意识，并在归正学科规范、正视学科地位的学科意识自觉中内在地推动比较思想政治教育学学科的后期发育和成熟。比较思想政治教育学学科在扩展、充盈并检验思想政治教育学学科研究成果的发展路径上前途光明。 高度“中国化”的思想政治教育学学科应当在其科学化过程中经历比较思想政治教育学学科研究成果的检验。     

提高学士论文质量的路径分析

应用系统论、协同论的方法，充分调动教师的主导性和学生自主性、积极性，全员、全方位、全程挖掘师生的潜能，实现师 生横向互动整体、整合、互补互动、相互鼓励、观念交融、思想交锋和生成学习、教学相长,充分发挥师生互动学习、思维碰撞、相 互整合的协同作用,产生优势互补的协同效应，提高师生的协同创造能力，实现学生写作或科研能力的提高。     

Outline of the conceptual evolution of the CEFYP*

This article presents a historical journey through the concepts developed (i.e., worked, modified, and made more complex) over four decades in the existence of one of the first family therapy institutions in Argentina: the CEFYP. This journey travels from its beginnings, in the midst of the military dictatorship, to the present. The concepts will be introduced and discussed taking into account those concepts that emerged and stood out as we worked therapeutically, enriching our clinic in each new paradigm. We will start from the CEFYP's emergence within the socio-political framework of Argentina in the 1970s, its constitution as differentiated from the prevailing psychoanalytic context within the field of psychotherapies, and its evolution, an evolution that was always attentive to the particular questions that accompanied its relational approach. These questions, which intersected philosophy, anthropology, art, and critical history, will express the position of the CEFYP in relation to change, history, power, dialogue, and the therapist and their place in the process of change. Finally, it will also discuss the CEFYP's way of thinking and developing the teaching and training of relational systemic therapists. This article will also present the most outstanding clinical themes, exemplified with the use of vignettes. Among others, these include our trajectories in the clinic of violence and partner violence, the clinic in destructive divorces, and the clinic with seriously disturbed families.