Slavery: Annual bibliographical supplement (1998)

Author: HARRILL, J. ALBERT; The Manumission of Slaves in Early Christianity; Reviewer: Andrew Chester; Author: MENARD, RUSSELL R.; Migrants, Servants and Slaves: Unfree Labor in Colonial British America; Reviewer: Alison Games; Author: MORGAN, KENNETH; Slavery and Servitude in North America, 1607-1800; Reviewer: Alison Games; Author: WOOD, MARCUS; Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America, 1780-1865; Reviewer: Judie Newman; Author: SCHWARTZ, MARIE JENKINS; Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South; Reviewer: Emily West; Author: SMITH, JOHN DAVID; Slavery, Race and American History: Historical Conflict, Trends and Method, 1866-1953; Reviewer: John B. Boles; Author: LANDERS, JANE; Black Society in Spanish Florida; Reviewer: Jennifer L. Baszille; Author: SUSSMAN, CHARLOTTE; Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender and British Slavery, 1713-1833; Reviewer: Claire Midgley; Author: DELLE, JAMES A.; An Archaeology of Social Space Analyzing Coffee Plantations in Jamiaca's Blue Mountains; Reviewer: Kathleen E.A. Monteith.     

Effect of warning placement on the information processing of college students reading an OTC drug facts panel

Objective: To compare three over-the-counter (OTC) Drug Facts panel versions for information processing optimization among college students.

Participants: University of Houston students (N = 210) participated in a cross-sectional survey from January to May 2010.

Methods: A current FDA label was compared to two experimental labels developed using the theory of CHREST to test information processing by re-positioning the warning information within the Drug Facts panel. Congruency was defined as placing like information together. Information processing was evaluated using the OTC medication Label Evaluation Process Model (LEPM): label comprehension, ease-of-use, attitude toward the product, product evaluation, and purchase intention.

Results: Experimental label with chunked congruent information (uses-directions-other information-warnings) was rated significantly higher than the current FDA label and had the best average scores among the LEPM information processing variables.

Conclusion: If replications uphold these findings, the FDA label design might be revised to improve information processing.     

Effects of resistance training on liver structure and function of aged rats

The aging process may cause negative physiological changes. However, exercises as resistance training (RT) have been considered an important intervention to attenuate these changes. Additionally, liver plays an important role in blood glucose homeostasis in exercise.

Aim: This study aimed to analyze the effects of RT on the liver components of aged animals.

Methods: Male Wistar rats were divided into two groups: 24 months’ group (CONTROL); and group submitted to a progressive RT protocol for 16 weeks (EXERCISE). Both groups were sacrificed at 24 months.

Results: We observed a decrease in blood flow due to the practice of resistance exercises. Besides, our results showed that hepatic tissue plays an important role in glycemic homeostasis during RT. In addition, RT increased mitogen capacity of hepatocytes.

Conclusions: Our study showed many implications for the knowledge about the effects of strength training on old animals’ liver.     

Independent Comment on Audio‐visual and Print Materials: The Graduate Diploma in Family Centred Practice,Monash University

Book reviewed in this article: Brief Therapy for Couples: W. Kim Halford NY Domestic Violence in Australia: The Legal Response, 3rd edn.: Renata Alexander Intimacy & Solitude: Balancing Closeness and Independence.: Stephanie Dowrick Clinical Epiphanies in Marital and Family Therapy: A Practitioner's Casebook of Therapeutic Insights, Perceptions, and Breakthroughs: David A. Bastiste Jr. (Ed.). Comparative Treatments for Relationship Dysfunction: Frank M. Dattilio Women's Stories of Divorce at Childbirth: When the Baby Rocks the Cradle: Hilary Hodge Recreating Partnership: A Solution Oriented, Collaborative Approach to Couples Therapy.: Phillip Ziegler and Tobey Hiller But Facts Exist: An Enquiry into Psychoanalytic Theorizing: Thomas Freeman Refugees: Living on the Margins: Helen Pavlin     

Housing in Old Age: Dynamical Interactions Between Neighborhood Attachment,Neighbor Annoyance,and Residential Satisfaction

Objective: Residential satisfaction and neighborhood quality play major roles in aging well. However, longitudinal research about the interplay between such factors is still sparse. Our 1-year study examined whether change in residential satisfaction was associated with change in two indicators of neighborhood quality: neighborhood attachment and neighbor annoyance.

Methods: Findings come from a longitudinal study with 85 community-dwelling German older adults (age range: 60 to 92 years). Participants filled out questionnaires at two measurements that were 1 year apart. The interplay between residential satisfaction and neighborhood was explored using a cross-path model.

Results: Higher levels of residential satisfaction predicted enhanced attachment and reduced annoyance over time. Moreover, attachment predicted positive change in residential satisfaction over the course of 1 year.

Conclusion: Results suggest that older adults may apply adaptive behaviors and strategies to optimize their neighborly experiences. Such findings have implications for improving residential satisfaction in community-dwelling older adults.     

Engendering Whiteness White Women and Colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627-1865

Author: GARNSEY, PETER; Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine; Reviewer: Niall Mc Keown; Author: JOHNSON, WALTER; Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market; Reviewer: Richard Follett; Author: GLAUDE, EDDIE S., JR.; Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America; Reviewer: Chris Dixon; Author: HADDEN, SALLY E.; Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas; Reviewer: Tim Lockley; Editors: CIMBALA, PAUL A. and MILLER, RANDALL M.; The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction: Reconsiderations; Reviewer: S.-M. Grant; Author: SHELLER, MIMI; Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica; Reviewer: Diana Paton     

A longitudinal analysis of the relationships among daytime dysfunction,fatigue, and depression in college students

Objective: To examine the longitudinal trajectory of daytime dysfunction (DD) and its relationship with fatigue by depression status in university students.

Participants: 243 students completed online surveys from September- December 2016.

Methods: Surveys were conducted at three time points over a semester period: the beginning of the semester, the end of mid-term and the end of the semester.

Results: Results indicated that the DD significantly increased in all students over the semester. Students with depression showed a higher initial level of DD and faster rate of change compared to those without depression. A faster rate of change of DD predicted a higher level of end-semester fatigue.

Conclusions: Depression is related to a higher initial level of DD and its faster rate change which in turn, predicted end-semester fatigue, identifying one of the possible pathways through which depression impacts the functioning and health of affected students.     

Slavery: Annual bibliographical supplement (1983) Part I

Author: ELTIS, DAVID; The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas; Reviewer: Stuart Schwartz; Author: GOMEZ, MICHAEL A.; Exchanging our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South; Reviewer: Philip Morgan; Author: WALVIN, JAMES; Making the Black Atlantic: Britain and the African Diaspora; Reviewer: Howard Temperley; Author: NEWTON-KING, SUSAN; Masters and Slaves on the Cape Eastern Frontier; Reviewer: Clifton Crais; Author: ROSS, ROBERT; Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870; Reviewer: Clifton Crais; Author: MORRISON, MICHAEL A.; Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War; Reviewer: S-M. Grant; Editor: INSCOE, JOHN C.; Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation; Reviewer: Tim Lockley; HODGES, GRAHAM RUSSELL; Root &; Branch: African Americans in New York &; East Jersey, 1613-1863; Reviewer: Edward Countryman; Author: YOUNG, JEFFREY ROBERT; Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837; Reviewer: Ingeborg Dornan; Author: JEFFREY, JULIE ROY; The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement; Reviewer: Christopher L. Brown; Author: SMITH, JOHN DAVID; Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro; Douglas Ambrose; Author: KOUSSER, J. MORGAN; Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction; Reviewer: Stephen Tuck     

Independent comment on Audio‐visual and Print Materials

Book reviewed in this article: The Heroic Client: Doing Client‐Directed, Outcome‐Informed Therapy: B. L. Duncan and S. D. Miller Don't Let Her See Me Cry: A Mother's Story: H. Barnacle The Adolescent Psyche: Jungian and Winnocottian Perspectives: Richard Frankel Behaviour Exchange Systems Training: A Program for Parents Stressed by Adolescent Substance Abuse: A. Blyth, J. Bamberg, J. Toumbourou Feminine Sensuality: Alcira Mariam Alizade Family Therapy Concepts, Process and Practice: Alan Carr Stepfamilies: History, Research, and Policy: Irene Levin and Marvin B. Sussman (Eds) André Green at the Squiggle Foundation: Jan Abram (Ed.) Hand Me Down Blues: How to Stop Depression from Spreading in Families: M.D. Yapko Tales from Family Therapy: Life Changing Clinical Experiences: Frank N. Thomas and Thorana S. Nelson (Eds).     

Effects of testosterone administration on liver structure and function in aging rats

Aging males have a decrease in testosterone levels, by which the testosterone treatment may influence in a negatively fashion the liver.

Aim: This study aimed to analyze the effects of aging with or without testosterone administration on the liver components of animals.

Methods: Wistar rats were divided into three groups: 20 months’ group (G20), 24 months’ group (G24), group treated with testosterone for 16 weeks (GT). All groups were sacrificed at 24 months except for G20 that was sacrificed at 20 months.

Results: Aging and testosterone treatment alters the body weight (BW), liver weight (LW) and relative liver weight. Besides, testosterone increased the mitogen capacity of hepatocytes. Nonetheless, we reinforce the negative effects of testosterone on old animals’ liver as chronic hepatic congestion and/or cholestasis. In addition, we observed that testosterone plays an important role on hepatic glycogen stores.

Conclusions: Our study showed many implications for the knowledge about the effects of aging with or without testosterone administration on old animals’ liver.     

Heart checks in college-aged students link poor sleep to cardiovascular risk

Objective: To describe the relationships between the cardiovascular health, lifestyle behaviors, and lifestyle beliefs among college-aged students.

Participants: Seven hundred and twenty-nine college-aged students participated between October 2016 and April 2017.

Methods: Heart checks, consisting of a cross-sectional survey and biometric screening, were conducted on a large Midwestern university campus.

Results: A small proportion of students (24.5%) engaged in the recommended 150+ minutes of physical activity per week and 7.9% consumed 5+ servings of fruit/vegetables daily. Half (49.6%) slept 7 hours or less per night. Biometric screenings found that 26.4% of the students had high stress, 31.9% were overweight or obese, and 17.3% had prehypertension or hypertension. Less sleep was significantly associated with higher risks of being stressed, being overweight/obese, and having elevated blood pressure.

Conclusions: Early detection, treatment, and education is critical to identify individuals at risk for cardiovascular disease and to promote healthy lifestyle changes before heart disease develops or progresses.     

Grandiose and vulnerable narcissism: Associations with alcohol use,alcohol problems and problem recognition

Objective: This study fills a gap in the literature by examining the relationship between two types of narcissism, vulnerable and grandiose, and five alcohol-related outcomes (ie, alcohol use, alcohol problems, evaluation and expectancies of problems, and readiness to change).

Participants: 345 college students (28% men, 72% women) from a Midwestern university were recruited from undergraduate psychology courses from April 2015 to October 2016.

Methods: Participants completed an online survey with questionnaires measuring the variables of interest. Multiple regression analyses were used to test the hypotheses.

Results: Grandiose narcissism was a positive predictor of alcohol consumption and a positive (ie, good) evaluation of alcohol-related problems. Vulnerable narcissism was a positive predictor of alcohol-related problems, problem recognition (ie, readiness to change), and problem expectancies.

Conclusions: The results speak to the effects that different types of narcissism have on alcohol use, alcohol problems and attitudes towards alcohol problems among young adults.     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article: Reviews: Beyond the new paternalism: Basic security as equality . Guy STANDING. Reviews: Family life and family interests: A comparative study on the influence of the European Convention of Human Rights on Dutch family law and the influence of the United States Constitution on American family law . Gerda A. KLEIJKAMP Reviews: The dynamics of full employment: Social integration through transitional labour markets . Günther SCHMID; Bernard GAZIER (eds.) Recent books: Critique du droit du travail . Alain SUPIOT Recent books: Réseaux de sociétés et codes de conduite. Un nouveau modèle de regulation des relations de travail pour les entreprises européennes . André SOBCZAK Recent books: Sociologie de la négotiation . Reynald BURQUE; Christian THUDEROZ New ILO publications: Fifteenth American Regional Meeting (Lima, December 2002), Report of the Director‐General: Globalization and decent work in the Americas New ILO publications: Annex: ILO activities in the Americas, 1999–2002 New ILO publications: International Labour Conference, 90th Session, Geneva, 2002: Record of proceedings New ILO publications: International Labour Conference, 91st Session, 2003, Report IV(2): Learning and training for work in the knowledge society: The constituents' views . New ILO publications: International Labour Conference, 91st Session, 2003, Report VII(1): Improved security of seafarers' identification New ILO publications: A statistical profile of the teaching profession . By Maria Teresa SINISCALCO New ILO publications: Alcohol and drug problems at work: The shift to prevention Argentina: Una década de convertibilidad. Un análisis del crecimiento, el empleo y la distribución del ingreso . By Mario DAMILL, Roberto FRENKEL and Roxana MAURIZIO New ILO publications: Corporate success through people: Making international labour standards work for you . By Nicolai ROGOVSKY and Emily SIMS New ILO publications: Decent work in Denmark: Employment, social efficiency and economic security . Edited by Philippe EGGER and Werner SENGENBERGER in collaboration with Peter AUER, Marco SIMONI and Corinne VARGHA New ILO publications: Employment, employability and equal opportunities in the postal and telecommunications services New ILO publications: Employment trends in the tobacco sector: Challenges and prospects . Report for discussion at the Tripartite Meeting on the Future of Employment in the Tobacco Sector New ILO publications: Formación profesional en el cambio de siglo . By Claudio de MOURA CASTRO. Edited by Klaus SCHAACK and Rudolf TIPPELT New ILO publications: Global employment trends New ILO publications: How to read a balance sheet New ILO publications: ILO generic crisis response modules . ILO InFocus Programme on Crisis Response and Reconstruction. Geneva, 2002. xxi + 132 pp. Loose‐leaf binder, glossary, boxes, tables, checklists, bibliography. 25 Swiss francs. ISBN 92–2–112690–0. Crisis response: Rapid needs assessment manual New ILO publications: Lifelong learning in the mechanical and electrical engineering industries New ILO publications: Managing disability in the workplace New ILO publications: Measuring the non‐observed economy: A handbook New ILO publications: Micro‐finance in the industrialized countries: Helping the unemployed to start a business New ILO publications: Panorama laboral 2002: America Latina y el Caribe New ILO publications: Pension reform in central and eastern Europe . Edited by Elaine FULTZ New ILO publications: Pensiones no contributivas y asistenciales: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Costa Rica y Uruguay . Edited by Fabio M. BERTRANOU, Carmen SOLORIO and Wouter van GINNEKEN New ILO publications: Public emergency services: Social dialogue in a changing environment New ILO publications: Social dialogue in the health services: Institutions, capacity and effectiveness New ILO publications: Social reinsurance: A new approach to sustainable community health financing . Edited by David M. DROR and Alexander S. PREKER New ILO publications: The Committee on Freedom of Association: Its impact over 50 years . By Eric GRAVEL, Isabelle DUPLESSIS and Bernard GERNIGON New ILO publications: The evolution of employment, working time and training in the mining industry     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
PROFESSIONAL BOOKS: Doherty, W. J. (1995). Soul searching: Why psychotherapy must promote moral responsibility .
PROFESSIONAL BOOKS: McGoldrick, M. (1995). You can go home again Reconnecting with your family .
PROFESSIONAL BOOKS: Chamberlain, P. (1994). Family connections: A treatment foster care model for adolescents with delinquency .
PROFESSIONAL BOOKS: Emery, R. E. (1994). Renegotiating family relationships: Divorce, child custody, and mediation .
PROFESSIONAL BOOKS: Worden, M. (1994). Family therapy basics .
PROFESSIONAL BOOKS: Stahl, P. M. (1994). Conducting child custody evaluations: A comprehensive guide .
PROFESSIONAL BOOKS: Karpel, M. A. (1994). Evaluating couples: A handbook for practitioners .
PROFESSIONAL BOOKS: Johnson, S. M., & Greenberg, L. S. (1994). The heart of the matter: Perspectives on emotion in marital therapy .
GENERAL INTEREST BOOKS: Wallerstein, J. S., & Blakeslee, S. (1995). The good marriage: How and why love lasts .
GENERAL INTEREST BOOKS: Straus, M. (1994). Beating the devil out of them: Corporal punishment in American families .
SELF-HELP BOOKS: Kelley, P. (1995). Developing healthy stepfamilies .
SELF-HELP BOOKS: Mueser, K., & Gingerich, S. (1994). Coping with schizophrenia: A guide for families .
SELF-HELP BOOKS: Grant, G. G. (1995). The best kind of loving: A black woman's guide to finding intimacy .
VIDEOTAPE REVIEW: Couples Skills: Making Your Relationship Work . (1995). (Videotape based on the book of the same name.)     

Childhood Victimization,Cognitive Schemas,and Unwanted Consensual Sex Among College Students

Objective: Unwanted consensual sex (UCS)—freely consenting to sex that is neither wanted nor desired—is largely excluded from campus programming and the literature on sexual behavior. The present study expands on previous research to examine the relation between childhood victimization experiences and UCS.

Methods: Data were gathered using an online survey of college students.

Results: In the past year, 43% percent of 587 college students who engaged in sexual activity also engaged in UCS at least once. Childhood victimization was modestly related to frequency of UCS. The relation between childhood victimization and UCS was mediated by disconnection/rejection schemas (e.g., beliefs that one’s needs will not be met by others).

Conclusions: Results suggest that altering cognitive schemas through evidence-based psychotherapy may interrupt the relation between childhood victimization and engagement in UCS.     

Book Reviews

Knowledge, Ideology and Discourse: A Sociological Perspective Tim Dent Heterology and the Postmodern: Julian Pefanis A Sociology of Monsters: Essays on Power, Technology and Domination: John Law, (ed.) Max Weber: from History to Modernity: Bryan S. Turner Erving Goffman: Tom Burns Ethnomethodology and the Human Sciences: Graham Button (ed.) Family and the State of Theory: David Cheal Families and Households: Divisions and Change: C. Marsh and S. Arber, (eds) The British Population: Patterns, Trends and Processes: David Coleman and John Salt Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings: The Eugenics Society, Its Sources and Its Critics in Britain: Pauline M. H. Mazumdar Towards a New Sociology of Social Work: Roger Sibeon Corporate Society: Class, Property and Contemporary Capitalism: J. McDermott Deconstructing America: Representations of the Other: Peter Mason Unwrapping Japan: Society and Culture in Anthropological Perspective: E. Ben-Ari, B. Moeran, and J. Valentine (eds) Enterprise and Heritage: Crosscurrents of National Culture: John Corner and Sylvia Harvey (eds) In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity: Frank Krutnik Fieldwork in Educational Settings: Methods. Pitfalls and Perspectives: S. Delamont     

Book review

Wives and warriors. Women and the military in the United States and Canada L. Weinstein & C.C. White (Eds) Westport, Connecticut; London: Bergin & Garver, 1997. ISBN: 0-89789-491-X (hbk), 0-89789-526-6 (pbk)

Social skills for people with learning disabilities–A social capability approach Mark Burton & Carolyn Kagan (with Pat Clements) London: Chapman and Hall, 1995 ISBN: 0-412-43380-X (pbk)

Social Work with Children. The Educational Perspective

Jobs, Technology and People

Children in Difficulty: A Guide to Understanding and Helping

Step-parenting in the 1990s

Jobs and Economic Development Strategies and Practice

Caring to Work: accounts of working parents of disabled children

The WorWFamily Challenge. Rethinking Employment

No Place to Go. The Civil Commitment of Minors

Black Families in Corporate America     

Life after loss: Comparing student service member/veteran and civilian mental health characteristics among individuals exposed to death by suicide

Objective: This study evaluated the mental health characteristics and beliefs of student service members/veterans (SSM/Vs) who have been exposed to another’s death by suicide.

Participants: A total of 39 SSM/Vs exposed to suicide and 32 SSM/Vs not exposed to suicide were sampled from a larger, epidemiological survey. An age- and gender-matched group of 39 civilian (C) students was drawn from a larger sample of individuals exposed to suicide.

Methods: Data were collected as part of an Internet-based, campus needs survey that occurred in Fall 2014. Participants were asked to complete measures about suicide-related behaviors, suicide prevention, help-seeking, and demographics.

Results: SSM/Vs exposed to suicide had more positive mental health/suicide prevention beliefs than SSM/Vs not exposed to suicide. Cs exposed to suicide were not significantly different from either group. Unique help-seeking patterns were also identified.

Conclusions: The current study identifies unique characteristics of SSM/Vs exposed to suicide that may inform prevention programming.