Narratives of Low-Income Mothers in Addiction Recovery Centers: Motherhood and the Treatment Experience

ABSTRACT

This study examines the narratives shared by low-income women in addiction recovery centers about the meaning they attach to being a parent in recovery and how they view current program models that include children in daily treatment. Their stories reflect the centrality of the mothering role to women in recovery and offer insights that can guide treatment and program planning with families.     

The role of time perspective in predicting Iranian farmers’ participatory-based water conservation attitude and behavior

ABSTRACT

In current perspective, farmers’ participatory behavior toward conservation of water resources (FPBCWR) is one of the most important strategies under water resource management in rural Iran. In this regard, understanding the predictors of farmers’ participatory-based water conservation behaviors and attitudes is gaining more importance than earlier. Among different dimensions of farmers’ participatory behavior, the potential of temporal frames was examined rarely. Thus, 322 Iranian farmers were investigated to examine the potential of their time perspectives in predicting their participatory-based water conservation behavior and attitude. According to the study results, the effects of present orientation on attitude and behavior were negatively significant, while the effects of future orientation on attitude and behavior were positively significant, whereas its effects (path coefficients) were stronger than present orientation effects. Past orientation did not have a significant effect on attitude, though attitude positively and significantly affected farmers’ participatory behavior. The results of causal analysis revealed that presented model accounted for 58% of variance in farmers’ ‘behavior’ and 42% of variance in “attitude.” In conclusion, a few demonstrable illustrations of policy implications are presented to enable utilizing the important findings and concluding results of this study that is linked further with water resource management domain.     

Ethno-theatre: Exploring a narrative intervention for trafficking survivors

In the age of positivist research inquiry, evidence-based research is gaining momentum. Quantitative data supporting theoretical reasoning is allowing several advances in the Western social work curriculum and practice. However, with increasing emphasis on quantifiable significance of research outcomes, several issues and populations are being underrepresented in social work arena. Historically, the Eastern social work tradition has embraced multiple research approaches from various social science disciplines. Deriving from an anthropological approach, in this article ethno-theatre is used as a tool of narrative therapy for victims of human trafficking to assess its impact of witnessing lived experience narrated by trained actors. Results of this study reveal that staging victim narratives for girls who were sex-trafficked as minors create a cathartic environment of comfort where victims feel positive, important and empowered. This model hypothesizes that ethno-theatre operated within the framework of narrative therapy can expedite the process of recreating victim stories to build a positive social environment in the process of empowering survivors of human trafficking.     

Supportive Group Interventions with Caregivers of Frail Older Adults

The use of supportive group interventions with caregivers of frail older adults is discussed in this article. Four categories of group interventions are described: (1) mutual support groups, (2) psychoeducational groups, (3) social, recreational and educational groups, and (4) service and advocacy groups. Research evidence on the efficacy of group interventions with this population is also considered. Recommendations are made on when to refer caregivers to support groups and on what type of support group is most appropriate. Consideration by practitioners and program planners of a broader range of types of supportive groups is also encouraged.     

生命早春里的一缕轻烟——对《小城三月》主人公翠姨的命运分析

萧红是中国现代文学史上一位风格独特的女作家,翠姨是她最后一部作品<小城三月>中的主人公.萧红采用平视叙述视角,使人体会到翠姨之死,一方面是呼兰小城那愚昧、保守的社会环境造成的;另一方面翠姨自身软弱的性格和对男权至上传统道德观念习俗的认同深深毒害了她的思想,这也是她悲剧归宿的深层原因.     

交际框架下大学英语视听说课的课堂教学艺术

本文从目前大学英语视听说课教学中存在的问题出发,进一步探讨了其课堂教学的艺术。     

历史理性的审美观照与阐释——论方方的长篇小说《乌泥湖年谱》

方方长篇新作《乌泥湖年谱》的视点,主要集中于对知识分子群体命运和生存的观照上,本文对作品所体现出的宏阔的历史视野和理性思辨意义,作了充分的肯定,并通过对叙事视角、叙事层面和人物形象的分析解构,对文本的价值意义及叙事的不足作了必要的分析阐释。     

试论《庄子》对我国古代小说发展的重要贡献

《庄子》寓言的以文为戏,是对以文为史观念的反拨与颠覆.其丰富奇异的叙事性想像,是对抒情传统主导下的诗人艺术想像的重要补充.其诗入小说的成功实践,是小说史上的创举.《庄子》对我国古代小说及其理论的民族传统和审美特征的形成作出了重要贡献.     

诉说离乱与建构主体——论马来西亚华人新生代的创作

马来西亚华人新生代的崛起是20世纪90年代以来马来西亚乃至东南亚华文文坛的重要现象.马来西来华人新生代在创作中甚为繁复地诉说着离乱的过往与身世的漂泊,这不但反映了他们成长期所经受的国族认同危机,而且透露出他们试图通过离乱历史的叙事而建构其马来西亚"国境内少数民族形象"的族群意识.但这种建构虽然以寻求认同为旨归,却天然地和当局打造马来西亚国族共同体的意识形态相冲突,而这冲突的双方在当前全球化语境中似乎又共同面临本真性幻觉的困境.     

民间文化视野中的徐渭

在越地民间流传的徐文长传说是对徐渭历史形象的演绎 ,更是民众历史情感的表达方式。其中大量存在的内容复杂、形象暧昧的传说是民间文化性格的对象化显现 ,也是底层百姓的一种精神体操。在民间文化视野中 ,徐渭已经成为了一种历史风物 ,是民众历史情感和于越民间文化性格的对应物。