Who owns the trauma? A Kleinian perspective on the dialogue between child protection social workers and the media

The present paper makes use of the developmental model of movement between mental positions that was formulated by psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, aimed at understanding the dialogue that takes place between the media and social workers in the field of child welfare, centring around incidents of murder within the family. The basic concept in the paper is that when working with children who are victims of abuse and with their parents, and when reporting on them as well, the feeling of personal control is severely undermined, being associated with the loss of the hallowed social value known as ‘unconditional love of a parent for his child’. The paper illustrates these theoretical ideas by describing two cases that took place in Israel and recommendations are made regarding ways of promoting the dialogue between the professions.     

Strange Meeting: Marxism, Psychoanalysis and Social Work

Summary It is suggested that the polarity between Marxism and psychoanalysisis one factor hindering the development of social work's professionalidentity. The first section of the article suggests ways inwhich a dialogue between the two perspectives might be established.In the second section such a dialogue is applied to a numberof central concepts in social work theory and practice.     

Peer collaboration: conflict,cooperation, or both?

The present study sought to characterize the mechanism of cognitive change during peer interaction. Forty-eight focal subjects (8-year-old females) were paired with either their mother or their best friend for dyadic discussion of two socio-moral dilemmas. The focal subjects were pretested and posttested to assess any change in their socio-moral reasoning. The hypothesis tested was that subjects cooperatively co-construct solutions to dilemmas; therefore, the discussions regarding solutions they eventually accept, as opposed to those they reject, will be positively related to posttest performance. Contrary to expectations, it was discovered that only the discussion of rejected solutions has a significant relation to cognitive outcome. Close analysis revealed that the consequence of a rejected solution discussion often is the focal's proposal of a more acceptable solution, and this also has a strong relation to outcome. A new conceptualization of collaboration is proposed, one that focuses on the importance of dyadic consideration of multiple perspectives. The consequence of such consideration is both critical analysis of ideas (socio-cognitive conflict) and co-construction of new understanding (cooperation).     

Dialogue and Social Change: An Interdisciplinary and Transformative History

Intergroup dialogue is an interdisciplinary field of practice that seeks to improve intergroup relations and effect social change. The use of dialogue as a method is growing within numerous social science professions including social work, and an understanding of the origins of dialogue will allow current practitioners to place their work within a larger context. This article provides a historical overview of the application of dialogue theory and methods, an analysis of the relationship between social constructionism and intergroup dialogue, and provides important directions for social workers who can utilize intergroup dialogue to promote social justice.     

中国共产党与权力总量

权力总量与权力结构、制度化水平和政治体系的开放程度有关。只有权力结构处于均衡状态、政治体系内部各权力主体之间制度化程度较高以及政治体系保持开放的状态 ,权力才会保持最大量。中国共产党在社会主义革命和社会主义建设时期 ,都成功地创造了权力运行的良好政治环境 ,这与她合理地处理好影响权力总量的几个要素及其相互关系密不可分 ;同时 ,中国共产党在新形势下自觉地进行政治变革 ,使得权力总量始终保持着增量发展的态势 ,这也是中国共产党保持强大生命力的重要原因。     

印巴全面对话：进程、成果与未来走向

印巴于2004年启动全面对话进程,至孟买恐怖袭击进程中断,两国就进程所涉及的八项议题共举行了四轮全面对话。两国在建立信任措施、经贸与民间交往等领域取得了一定成果,但在涉及彼此核心关切的议题上没有实质进展。印度断然中止全面对话后又于2009年开始释放积极信号,是其大国诉求等诸多因素使然。有利于推动印巴接触的积极因素在积累,但一些阻碍因素仍然存在,重启全面对话进程还有一定的难度。但只要印巴保持接触,没有必要对印巴未来重启全面对话悲观。     

Development of the Distinction Among the "Desirable", Morality, and Personal Preference

Israeli children of grades 1, 4, and 7 were asked, with respect to nine types of behavior, whether such behavior is bad, whether a child should be brought up to behave otherwise (and why), whether a child should be required to behave otherwise, and whether such behavior should be punished. Analysis of their responses and the reasons they provided supports the hypothesized distinction between three categories of behaviors or reasons for action—morality, “the desirable” and personal preferences—in terms of two dimensions: desirability and obligatoriness. Specifically, moral norms were perceived as both desirable and strictly obligatory, and were justified in terms of inherent goodness/badness and the welfare of others. Behaviors in the category of “the desirable” were perceived as desirable but not obligatory, and were justified in terms of self-development and long-term utility. Behaviors in the category of personal preferences were perceived as non-obligatory and neither desirable nor undesirable, and were justified in terms of personal choice. This distinction was less sharp among first graders, who exhibited some tendency to view desirables and preferences, as well as moral behavior, as obligatory. In light of these findings, it is suggested that the young child's “intuitive morality” relates only to the dimension of desirability and not to that of obligatoriness, which seems to develop somewhat later.     

外推背景下的总体性:对总体性的一种辩护

针对后现代思潮对“总体性”这个辩证法范畴进行的猛烈批判 ,从外推角度进行一种辩护 ,不失为一种新的解决问题思路。从这一角度看来 ,现代制度的进步能在特定范围内克服自悖谬性 ,但在更大的范围内就做不到了。在现代制度中 ,自悖谬、令人难受的东西常常是被外推到远处 ,越出“观察”之外。自悖谬和那些人们不愿看到的东西就常常存在于更大、更远的“总体”之中。在这个意义上 ,消解一切总体、拒斥一切宏大叙事 ,不但难以做到 ,而且恰恰迎合了现代性的内在需求 ,因而在意识形态上是现代性的同谋。总体思维方式必须拯救 ,不能抛弃     

SPECIAL ISSUE： DIALOGUE,INTERACTION AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN PHILOSOPHY IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA- SPECIALIST FORUM ON CHINESE,WESTERN AND MARXIST PHILOSOPHIES：The development of Western philosophy in China and dialogue between Chinese,Western and Marxist philosophies

中、西、马哲学对话体现出中国哲学界的开放性，几种不同文化背景和学理路径的哲学的相互诠释，必将促进新的哲学的产生。这种对话应以问题为导向，面对今日世界全人类所共同面临的问题和当今中国人民最为关切的问题，贡献出各自的智慧，从不同的文化视角、不同的思维方式提出各自的解决方法。因此，中、西、马哲学的对话也是发展哲学的一种重要形式。     

Toward a Dialogical Perspective on Agency

The aim of this article is to motivate and outline a dialogical perspective on agency that accommodates centrifugal and centripetal tendencies in current cultural theories of agency. To complement approaches that assume a high degree of integration and clarity, we emphasise the diversity of agency as it is experienced in the open-ended dialogical relationship with a particular other. While these former approaches to agency provide us with the means to examine the influence of social processes such as division of labour and reproduction of community, they tend to underplay the importance of agency as it is embodied and experienced in the lives of particular people. To reflect on this aspect of agency, we will draw extensively on Bakhtin's work, which crosses boundaries between philosophy, psychology and literary criticism, and which is concerned to understand what is personal in activity. In terms of agency, his work draws our attention to the sense of responsibility and potentiality that imbues our dialogues with particular others, the aesthetics and ethics involved in dialoguing with the other, and the sense of dilemmatic choice and intonation that is involved in our dialogue with the other.     

Reorganizing Social Policies through Social Partnerships: Greece in European Perspective

In postwar Western Europe social policies in the wider sense relied in many countries on neo‐corporatist policies of implementation. Since the 1980s such policies have ceased to be as dominant as they used to be, being associated with what has been called “policy communities” and “policy networks”. As far as the reforms pursued by many countries in order to readjust their economies and labour markets are concerned, significant shifts of such a kind were observed. Illustrations of these trends are presented in a comparative section. We attempt to demonstrate the dual structures of social policy formation and implementation, i.e. neo‐corporatist and network/policy community policies, and to discuss the “how” of such policies, i.e. their “raison d’être” and their “real world” enforcement. Against a background of various semi‐corporatisms and adversarial trade union politics, Greece is trying at the moment to adopt this pattern in several social policy areas, though this is not yet quite visible. Neo‐corporatism is also enhanced. We attempt to show where neo‐corporatism is tried (e.g. certain “social dialogue” structures) and where policy communities are encouraged (e.g. public health, local social policies, etc.). Sometimes the boundaries between the two systems are blurred, with some social dialogue committees appearing as quasi‐policy communities. Finally we endeavour to examine the outcomes of such policies and to see their inner logic against the theoretical background. The concept of multilevel governance as a wider policy instrument which incorporates both the above systems is of special interest here.     

Cooperation between politicians and econometricians and the search for optimal economic policy

The problem of formalizing the cooperation between politicians and econometricians as an iterative—or trial and error—process, such that the weights in a preference function can be obtained in a finite number of steps, is considered. The approach is based on the pioneering suggestions made by Tinbergen and Frisch within the framework of a formal theory of economic policy. Using the implicit information given by a possible and implementable dialogue between a policy maker and a model builder it is shown that it is possible to take into account explicitly the interdependence between targets, instruments, and weights.     

Negative Aspects of Therapy: Client Perceptions of Therapists' Social Influence, Burnout, and Quality of Care

This study investigated the relationships between client perceptions of therapist use of social influence strategies, therapist burnout, and clients' perceptions of the quality of their therapy. Scales were developed to measure personal coercive power, personal reward power, various forms of expert power, and compromise strategies. A scale was also developed to measure clients' perceptions of their therapists' burnout that contained a combination of modified items from the Maslach Burnout Inventory (Maslach & Jackson, 1986) and original items based on stereotypical burnout behaviors. Research participants were 131 undergraduate students at the University of Pittsburgh who reported their experiences as therapy clients. Therapist use of personal coercive influence strategies and certain types of expert influence strategies were negatively associated with clients' perceptions of the quality of their therapy. Therapist use of personal reward influence strategies, compromise, and the therapist's reputation as an expert were positively related to clients' perceptions of the quality of their therapy. Perceived therapist burnout was positively associated with therapist use of personal coercive influence strategies, direct expert influence strategies, and indirect expert influence strategies. The implications of these findings are discussed.     

Case work treatment of adult patients of a psychiatric clinic 1

Social work instructors need to understand racism and promote racial justice to help social work students become skillful at addressing racism in practice and policy. Reflective practices, such as journal writing, can help instructors explore the impact of their racial socialization and identity on their teaching and guide their professional development in this area. This article presents a shared journaling project between peers within a social work doctoral program. Participants used this medium to increase their self-awareness and promote racial dialogue within a relational context. Relational-cultural theory is used as a lens for understanding how the relationships between journaling partners deepened over time and facilitated antiracist practice. Implications for social work practice, education, and research are discussed.     

Analysis,modeling, and the management of international negotiations

Negotiation management, a framework for practical implementation of computer-based support to negotiators and their staffs, is defined and described in this paper. In particular, three integrated tools and their underlying methodologies, are illustrated. The collaborative use of computers and information techniques in complex negotiation is framed in terms of a discovery and design paradigm in which parties engage in dialogue, learn, and develop trust that can support the negotiation itself through a process of joint analysis and modeling.     

走近罗蒂--与罗蒂先生关于分析哲学、后现代主义和文化哲学的对话

美国新一代分析哲学家已经突破了传统分析哲学所设定的意识的哲学和语言的哲学的界限 ,并试图与欧洲大陆哲学进行积极的对话。应该说这是当今世界哲学发展的一个引人注目的转向。虽然差别仍然存在 ,但是正如维特根斯坦和海德格尔的殊途同归一样 ,分析哲学与大陆哲学正在走向某种共同的主题 ,比如说 ,以对话的哲学取代意识的哲学等。这使得我们这个时代哲学的面貌与过去相比已经有了很大的不同。中国哲学界正在试图融入到这一意义深远的转变之中 ,而中国学者最为关心的问题无疑是 :传统与现代的充分沟通以及东方与西方的深层对话     

SPECIAL ISSUE： DIALOGUE,INTERACTION AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN PHILOSOPHY IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA - SPECIALIST FORUM ON CHINESE,WESTERN AND MARXIST PHILOSOPHIES：Wanted： dialogue at the level of value beliefs among Chinese,Western and Marxist philosophies

价值信念层面的对话是哲学对话的深层维度，同时也是最为困难和艰难的维度。价值信念层面的良性对话，是中国哲学、西方哲学、马克思主义哲学三者之间进行一种真正开放和深入的沟通和融合的前提条件，也是立足于当代中国人的生活世界，推进当代中国人生命存在的自我理解、建构当代中国哲学形态并生成我们民族“哲学自我”的重要内容与根本途径。     

现代性的三重维度及其在中国的生成

现代性从根本上说是人自身的现代性,它是人在自我敞开中呈现的现代性理念、制度和态度所形成的多维互动的总体性,这种总体性使现代性拥有自我修复的能力.现代性在中国生成的主要问题不只在于人们所强调的现代性理念的不普及、宏观现代性制度的不健全,而且在于微观现代性的理性机制还没有成为国人日常生活的文化机理,在于作为人自身现代性最活跃维度的现代性态度远没有发育,以至于人自身的现代性无法真正生成.     

Normality,Justifiability and Abusiveness in Physical and Psychological Behaviours

Significant differences in the judgement of levels of normality, justifiability and abusiveness were generally found on severely physical and psychological abuse variables such as hitting and threatening. Different levels of frequencies on tolerance judgments for different variables between the different ethnic groups were found. Most of the significant differences, both between gender and ethnic groups, concerned personal rather than participants' perception of their cultural views.     

What factors may assist social workers to promote life satisfaction and personal growth among first‐time grandfathers?

Drawing on positive psychology and the perception of families as systems, the current study examined the contribution of variables regarding first‐time grandfathers and their sons, who have become first‐time fathers, to grandfathers' life satisfaction and personal growth. In addition, the association between the frequency of meetings between grandfather and grandchild to grandfathers' life satisfaction and personal growth was examined. The sample consisted of 106 pairs of first‐time Jewish Israeli grandfathers and their sons (n = 212). The grandfathers completed questionnaires relating to personal variables such as narcissism, family relations and frequency of meetings with the grandchild, and reported on their sense of life satisfaction and personal growth. The fathers completed questionnaires relating to personal variables, narcissism and family relations. Higher levels of grandfathers' life satisfaction were associated with their own perception of good family relations; higher levels of grandfathers' personal growth were related to their narcissism. The grandfather's perception of the frequency of meetings with the grandchild was found to moderate between the father's narcissism and the grandfather's life satisfaction and personal growth. The findings point to the crucial role social workers may play in enhancing life satisfaction and enabling personal growth through dedicated intergenerational interventions.