Perceptions of Parental Support by HIV Positive Asian and Pacific Islander American Gay Sons

SUMMARY

This quantitative/qualitative exploratory study, examined HIV positive gay, Asian/Pacific Islander sons' perceptions of their parents' levels of support. Self-administered questionnaires were disseminated predominantly in San Francisco, to obtain a sample of 33 men identified via a snowball sampling strategy, and supplemented by ten in-depth interviews with subjects and service providers. Results suggest that sons were more likely to make disclosures about their homosexuality and HIV serostatus to their mothers, and perceived them to be more supportive than their fathers. With rare exception, parents found ways to be supportive, and time was identified as the most important facilitator of positive transformation.     

Australia's leading social work authors

A list of the 215 full-time academic staff employed within Australian university social work departments was compiled from university websites and the Department of Education Training and Youth Affairs (DETYA) approved publications generated by these staff over the period 1998–2000 were searched using three major databases: AUSTROM, PsycINFO and Sociological Abstracts. From these sources, a list of Australia's most published authors was created. Next, a citation analysis using Social Sciences Citation Index was conducted on all Australian authors who had published a DETYA approved publication during the target period. The results of this study should help to identify the influential social work scholars in Australia.     

A Consumer Cooperative Association Specializing in Services for the Elderly

Summary

Over the past 10 years, a Japanese cooperative association named Fukushi Club Seikyo (FCS) has developed a unique, non-profit business specializing in services for the elderly. It aims to promote a reciprocal support system among neighborhood community members. FCS has successively organized its active members, mainly homemakers, into workers' collectives and successfully provided various life support services at a very small charge. Their human-touch service appears in sharp contrast to bureaucratic public services and profit-making private services. The civil initiative presented by FCS suggests a potential for a community-based social service system that may guarantee quality services without raising taxes and premiums for social insurance.     

Professional Social Work Education in End-of-Life Care

Abstract

Social work education in both BSW and MSW level courses is missing vital content about end-of-life care, palliative care, and bereavement. End-of-life care training opportunities through continuing education programs have also been limited. This deficit is significant because a vast number of social workers are already confronted with end-of-life issues on a daily basis in a variety of practice settings. Through the Project on Death in America, Social Work Leadership Development Awards initiative, many programs and models for professional social work education and training in end-of-life care have been developed and are presented in this article. These include: end-of-life care courses, symposia, training manuals, certificate programs and fellowships. Although the curricula continue to be refined, many of these programs are available to practitioners to advance their knowledge and skills and their curricular models are available to social work educators for possible replication.     

Interdisciplinary Practice in Developmental Disabilities

ABSTRACT

This article explores the development of interdisciplinary team practice within the field of development disabilities. Various interdisciplinary models are described, and the role of the social worker is specifically reviewed. As social workers practice as members of teams in a variety of contexts, a greater understanding of an interdisciplinary approach is warranted.     

Leadership Dimensions,the Critical Link for the Evolution of Collaboration

Abstract

This article traces the history of one community's efforts to coordinate services to address family violence. The current mazeof organizations in communities is overwhelming to the professionals who work in them, the political leaders who authorize them, the foundations and United Ways who fund them, and, most assuredly, to the persons for whom the various organizations were established. A review of the literature on coordination and collaboration is included as well as a discussion of leadership challenges during the various stages in the evolutionary process to provide confidential, culturally sensitive, comprehensive, accountable, and user-friendly community social service systems.     

论高校社科学报编排规范问题

高校社科学报编排规范在执行中存在着几个问题，即明确性规范与未明示要求、弹性规范与硬性规定、统一规范与个性化风格等。高校社科学报在编排过程中要提高对明确性规范的执行力度，并正确理解未予明示要求的规范；要正确理解和区分弹性规范与硬性规定，提高对规范的准确认识和执行规范的水平；要在坚持规范的前提下，从编排形式、刊物对作者研究方向的引导及研究的深度和力度上铸造学报的个性化特色和风格。     

Mobilizing on Campus: Conservative Movements and Today’s College Students1

Social movement scholars have known for some time that students, and particularly college students, play an important role in modern social movements. Yet the full extent of conservative mobilizing, both today and in the past, is frequently overlooked. This article highlights the critical role college campuses have played in the rise of conservative movements in the United States over the last 40 years. In doing so, it develops a concept of transition points to help explain the mechanisms responsible for the longstanding finding that college students form an important core of many social movements. Transition points are marked by both changes in routines and changes in social network configuration. The utility of the transition point concept is explored through ethnographic and interview data from the American pro‐life movement.     

论20世纪80年代中国先锋戏剧的思想主题

二十世纪八十年代，中国的先锋戏剧明显受到了西方文化思潮以及西方戏剧观念的影响，同时探询中国先锋戏剧的民族品格。由于彼时中国特定的国情，决定了此时的先锋戏剧多从“人”出发，对人性进行探讨，对普通人的焦灼生存状态和人的精神世界的多面性进行展示，从“人”、异化、心理、社会批判四大基点出发，在思想层面形成明显的主题性特征。     

“互构”型社会支持系统的缺失与城市外来青少年犯罪

近几年来,城市外来青少年犯罪问题成为广受关注的问题;在对某省未成年犯管教所未成年犯深入访谈的基础上,文章从社会支持和社会网络的角度分析了城市外来青少年犯罪的重要社会成因;外来青少年由于缺乏各种社会支持而受同龄群体的吸引,在同龄群体中建立起了封闭而又具有强力关系的社会网络,城市外来青少年犯罪的重要社会原因之一是：社会支持不足造成的封闭社会网络,封闭的社会网络导致城市外来青少年主动构建社会支持的能力不足。＂互构＂的社会支持系统对预防城市外来青少年犯罪具有非常重要的意义。