Preparing Parents for Adoption: An Agency Experience

To prepare for the complexities of family formation, 78 prospective adoptive parents participated in Pre-Adopt, a psychosocial educational orientation program offered by one private nonprofit agency. The five-session curriculum included an overview of adoption policies and procedures, discussion of the child placement process, exploration of couples' adoption concerns and expectations about child characteristics, information about adoption laws and birth-parent/child searches, and examination of anticipatory fantasies about birth parents. Program evaluation yielded statistically significant and clinically meaningful findings about changes in emotional readiness to adopt, parenting knowledge, and satisfaction with group participation, adoption policies and agency practices. Practice implications are considered.     

大学定位与管理创新——浙江师范大学的探索与实践

本文以浙江师范大学为例,分析了高等教育大众化进程中的大学定位与管理创新问题.大众化必然带来竞争与多样化,只有找准学校定位,办出特色,才能在竞争中获胜.浙江师范大学正面临着从师范性向多科性、从教学型向教学研究型的转型任务,必须在观念、制度、操作等层面进行管理创新.为此作者提出了"塑造办学理念,设置多样化的组织,形成学科特色"三大措施.     

地方普通本科院校办学定位及分类发展研究--以广西为例

通过非介入性研究方法，对广西普通本科院校办学定位进行分析，从办学目标、办学类型、办学层次、人才培养、服务面向等六个方面论述办学定位现状，分析定位特征及其存在的问题。     

Support for a Fluid-Continuum Model of Sexual Orientation: A Large-Scale Internet Study

In a study with 17,785 subjects obtained over the Internet from the United States and 47 other countries, Kinsey's hypothesis that sexual orientation lies on a continuum was supported. Self-identifications of subjects as gay, straight, bisexual, and other corresponded to broad, skewed distributions, suggesting that such terms are misleading for many people. Sexual orientation range—roughly, how much flexibility someone has in expressing sexual orientation—was also measured. The results support a fluid-continuum model of sexual orientation, according to which genetic and environmental factors determine both the size of the sexual orientation range and the point at which an individual's sexual orientation is centered on the continuum.     

对我国高校社会工作专业人才培养的思考

2011年11月,中组部等18个部门和组织联合发布《关于加强社会工作专业人才队伍建设的意见》,充分说明国家对社会工作专业人才的高度重视,同时也进一步体现经济社会发展对社会工作专业人才的迫切需求。因此,高质量社会工作专业人才的培养已经成为高等学校的重大课题,本文从人才培养目标定位、服务面向、培养模式构建等三个重要方面切入,提出对我国高校社会工作专业人才培养的思考。     

大学生流行语变迁的心理学分析

大学生流行语是在某一个特定时期内,流行于高校大学生中的一种具有代表性的话语,能够概括性地反映出当代社会的某种本质性特点及大学生的普遍心态。大学生流行语的价值取向表现出兼容性、多样性和时代性特点。负面词汇流行语是大学生释放心理压力的一种方式。同时,大学生并不会偏重某一方面的流行,而是兼容了正负面的影响。大学生流行语体现了当代大学生的心理状态,成为大学生社会文化心态的表征符号,为我们了解大学生的心理状态和人生价值取向等问题提供了一面镜子。     

实施"兴边富民行动"政策的理论思考

本文从边疆政策的历史沿革、"兴边富民行动"的历史背景、政策取向等方面,深入探讨了"兴边富民行动"政策的作用和意义。     

顾客导向和创新导向对企业绩效的影响机制研究

在市场导向相关研究的基础上.本文探索了顾客导向(Customer Orientation)以及创新导向(Innovation Orientation)经由组织学习(Organizational Learning)对公司绩效(Firm Performance)的影响.通过对欧洲的390家制造企业的调查.发现顾客导向和创新导向都对组织学习产生正向影响,组织学习提高了公司的新产品绩效(New Product Performance).最终提升了公司绩效.最后,文章讨论了本研究的理论和实践意义,以及未来的研究方向.     

试析高校党建进学生公寓的目标定位与工作理念

高校党建工作进学生公寓工作的着力点，首先应放在推动建设优良学风，促进大学生成才；其次是放在培育和发展学生的自我管理能力上；第三是放在大学生人生观、价值观的培养上。应围绕这三个着力点，开阔工作思路。拓展工作内容，创新工作方法，坚持以人为本，不断提高党建工作进学生公寓的实效性。     

Some indications for professional development in social work: a study of theoretical interest and attitudes towards research among Icelandic social workers

This study among Icelandic social workers generally showed positive attitudes towards research activity in the field. Most respondents, whereof half were practice teachers, saw the practicum as an important tool for the integration of theoretical application and research activity to practice. Almost all saw research activity as a feasible way to empower social work as a profession. Simultaneously, a relatively small percentage report their own research activity. Besides this discrepancy some interesting differences were found according to number of years after graduation, field employment and experience as practice teachers. It is argued that the theme in focus is a critical indication of professional development and highly relevant for the educational discourse as for future professional development.