Social Work and the Treatment of Substance Abuse in Israel

SUMMARY

This paper examines the role of the social worker within the field of substance abuse in Israel at the start of the 21st century, its implications for the profession, and the training of its practitioners. Addiction to psychoactive substances is viewed as a bio-psycho-social phenomenon caused by a wide variety of factors and the respective interactions between them, placing it within the realm of the expertise of the social worker. The social worker plays a central role in providing both administrative and clinical interventions with this population. Additional ways in which the education and training of social workers can prepare them to deal more efficiently and comprehensively with the problem of substance abuse in both practical and academic terms is discussed.     

Family Intervention and Services for Persons with Mental Illness in the People's Republic of China

ABSTRACT

Family services and intervention for persons with mental illness is crucial in mental health services. In this paper, the writer attempts to describe family intervention and services for persons with mental illness in the People's Republic of China. Family intervention and services like home-based care, guardianship network, family counseling, and psychoeducational programs are only preliminarily developed. Their effectiveness and challenges in future development are discussed.     

Symptoms of Mental Health Problems: Children’s and Adolescents’ Understandings and Implications for Gender Differences in Help Seeking

Amidst concerns that young people’s mental health is deteriorating, it is important to explore their understandings of symptoms of mental health problems and beliefs around help seeking. Drawing on focus group data from Scottish school pupils, we demonstrate how they understood symptoms of mental health problems and how their characterisations of these symptoms as ‘rare’ and ‘weird’ informed participants’ perceptions that peers, teachers and parents would respond to disclosure in stigmatising ways. Consequently, participants suggested that they would delay or avoid disclosing symptoms of mental health problems. We highlight subtle gender and age differences and outline implications for policy and practice.     

Collecting loss

ABSTRACT

‘Collecting Loss’ develops themes from Pleasures Taken (Mavor, Duke University Press, 1995) with an emphasis on the fetishization of photographs and old clothes (exemplified, on the one hand, in Elin O'Hara Slavick's own girlhood dresses that she has stitched with haunting memories of her childhood, and on the other hand in the lush photographs taken by Sally Mann and the Victorian photographer Clementina Hawarden). As Christian Boltanski has written: ‘What they [clothing and photographs] have in common is that they are simultaneously presence and absence. They are both an object and a souvenir of a subject, exactly as a cadaver is both an object and a souvenir of a subject.’ Reading an old photographic album made by her own grandmother against other maternal collections of plenitude (whether they be old clothes or photographs or domestic bric-a-brac), Mavor reveals how such accumulated goods are made to fill in for the pangs of loss: lost childhoods, lost family histories, lost memories, lost friends. Mixing corporeality and critical theory, Mavor engages with Emily Apter's notion of ‘maternal collectomania’ as a site of provocative meanings worthy of placement alongside more conventional discourses on visual representation and collecting.     

试论中国房产税的功能发挥与立法改革

中国房产税目前应着重发挥其调控经济和控制房价的功能,即通过税收立法手段改变投资者及投机者的经济预期,以稳定房价并使房屋还原居住属性的真实面目。通过执行超额累进税率并充分扩大税基,来保护正常购房者的合理住房需求并抑制投资投机需求。同时,根据政策需要逐步由超额累进税率转变为较低的比例税率。     

评《偃师二里头》及相关问题

笔者长期亲身参加偃师二里头遗址的考古实践,熟悉二里头遗址的发掘材料,并参加<偃师二里头>报告集的执笔编写.因此,有责任对<报告>中出现的缺点错误加以补充和更正.同时对相关问题,阐明自己的意见,全文共分为十点.可供阅读<偃师二里头>报告集和对二里头遗址有兴趣的读者参考.     

汕头市货币分房政策分析

汕头市货币分房方案符合国家和广东省房改政策要求，在住房补贴的领取条件、补贴标准、方式、资金来源、管理办法等方面都具有自身的特色。其优点很明显，也存在不少缺陷。     

两《唐书·李邕传》正补

新旧《唐书·李邕传》对传主叙述互有异同， 并有疏谬。对照两传并利用其它文献， 可以确定李邕的籍里和生卒年； 证明他“补益《文选注》”是讹误； 考辨他仕途坎坷遭遇悲惨不是因为他险躁矜狂， 而主要由于封建官场倾轧与残酷， 他性格主要是刚毅忠烈， 英风豪气； 补充他与李白、杜甫、崔颢等盛唐文坛巨子的交往事迹， 由此表现出的长者风范， 以及他诗文书法作品数量及流传情况     

灾荒·长沙抢米风潮·辛亥革命

1900-1909年灾荒直接导致了长沙抢米风潮的爆发.连年灾荒使社会生活紊乱、道德失范、人性扭曲;而政府赈灾济荒的措施不能达到安抚灾民的目的,又为民变爆发提供了某些偶然因素.以此为起点的民变与同时期各种斗争聚合在一起,从而形成为革命的环境.     

对延边风景旅游区开发建设与保护的思考

风景资源是旅游资源最主要的组成部分,合理开发和保护风景资源,对于旅游产业的发展尤为重要.开发建设风景区应本着这样的原则保护风景第一,开发建设第二.