"Get'cha After School"

This paper points up an important aspect of latency which is much neglected in the literature of child development. The author notes the baleful effects of such neglect on the education of social workers and other professionals and on their practice with children's groups. He emphasizes the need for group workers to attend to the problems posed.     

Applying Evidence-Based Practice in Group Work at an Alternative High School

Social workers often are reluctant to use evidence-based practice in group work. Part of this reluctance is because of the perceived rigidity of the process and its emphasis on research. However, social workers can rely on the four cornerstones of evidence-based practice—research, clinical experience, personal views, and client’s perspective—to provide an evidence-based group intervention. In this article, the authors illustrate how social workers used the four cornerstones at one alternative high school to provide an evidence-based group intervention. These cornerstones were used from the beginning of the process, which started with choosing the type of intervention, through the end of the process, which concluded with assessing the intervention. In this article, the authors show that it is possible for social workers to provide an evidence-based group intervention, while remaining flexible, thereby contributing to social workers’ knowledge of how to use evidence-based practice with groups.     

VII. Foster children: The Jewish home finding society and the institute for Juvenile research 1

Although there is a body of literature that applies Gestalt therapy techniques to clinical practice, little has been written about the use of Gestalt therapy theory as a comprehensive framework for social work practice as a whole. Gestalt therapy theory unifies social work's ecological and strength perspectives and is highly consonant with the core values of the profession. Four major theoretical aspects of Gestalt therapy that are highly applicable to social work practice are described: field theory, “I-Thou” relationship, creative adjustment, and the phenomenological perspective. Case examples are provided to demonstrate a Gestalt approach to social work practice.     

论人口均衡型社会的必然选择——基于历史的视角

人口发展一直都面临着各种1＇4题和挑战,人口增长过快、人口规模太大、人口老龄化、性别结构失衡、人口与资源、环境的关系日益紧张等等。这些现象表明,人类的发展从未实现人口的均衡发展。文章在提出人口均衡型概念的基础上,从历史视角切入,通过回顾人类文明的发展阶段并梳理各时期人口自身发展及人口与资源环境的关系,来看建设人口均衡型社会的历史必然性。     

The Relationship Between Citizen Participation and Organizational Processes and Outcomes and the Benefits of Citizen Participation in Neighborhood Organizations

ABSTRACT

A major resource of neighborhood organizations is the voluntary participation of residents who give their time and energy to improve their communities. In recent years, there has been a revitalization of strategies to engage residents to volunteer for neighborhood-based organizations. Guided by organizational empowerment theory and the ecological perspective, the current study examined the relationship between citizen participation and organizational characteristics and effectiveness and the benefits received by residents participating in neighborhood organizations in poor communities. The data were gathered through a survey of resident volunteers in four neighborhood organizations in Pennsylvania and were analyzed using hierarchical multiple regression analyses. The results showed that volunteers' level of involvement in their neighborhood organization influenced their self-efficacy. However, volunteers' perceptions of their neighborhood organizations' characteristics and effectiveness were the most strongly related to the benefits of citizen participation, contributing to residents' self efficacy, collective efficacy, and sense of community. Implications for social work research and practice are discussed.     

A Qualitative Perspective of Family Resources Among Low Income,African American Grandmother–Caregivers

ABSTRACT

This ethnographic study describes a group of 7 low-income, African American, grandmother–caregivers' perceptions of family resources. An ethnographic design, enhanced by a genogram, captured those who were available and unavailable to provide support to the grandmother. The analysis used a constant comparative method to thematically capture grandmothers' perceptions of family support resources as absent, unavailable, dependent, and reliable support, and the circumstances that led to that status. The findings reveal that many African American grandmothers are rearing children with little family support, owing mainly to the devastation of negative social and economic conditions. The results suggest areas for improvement in social work assessment and intervention.     

论现代社会宗教与伦理的互渗和融通

在21世纪全球化的大趋势下,面对中国社会现状,从理论上说清宗教与道德的关系,对于克服伴随现代化进程而来的道德危机,有着十分重要的现实意义。以信仰为中介解释宗教与道德之关系,分析现时代宗教与伦理互渗与融通之实质,可以得出全球伦理这一思想运动的下一步发展就在于如何使其基本伦理准则成为人们的信念。     

论尼采的哲学解释学思想

在尼采看来，人的认识是由人的强力意志中心发射的对世界的透视，这种透视所 得的结果是“外观”；透视在本质上是评价和解释，是意义的置入，只是表达的不同价值主 体的“视界”；解释是通过语言完成的，语言作为隐喻预先就构成了人们解释的基本“视界 ”即“先见”，人们只能是在一定的语言“先见”的“视界”内实现对世界的解释；因此， 任何解释都只具有相对的意义。尼采的这些思想对哲学解释学的产生与发展具有极大的启发 意义，并由此使他自己在现代哲学解释学的发展过程中具有举足轻重的地位。     

人本观广告的创意特色

广告传播环境发展的新趋势,使人本观广告的创意思维呈现出与传统物本观广告迥然相异的特色。创意基点上,表现目标受众群体的生存状态;创意策略上,实施生活方式观念营销;创意表现上,以生活者为中心组织传播要素,从受众的视角表现创意核心。     

择偶观的进化论取向述评

择偶观是人格心理学的一个重要课题.近年来进化心理学家从达尔文性选择理论出发对人类的择偶观和择偶行为进行了较为广泛深入的探讨,颇有代表性的主要有Buss等人提出的亲代投资理论、性策略模型、好基因模型和二元模型等等.其实,择偶观和择偶行为受到多种因素影响,包含生物因素和社会因素.