Group Work with Inner City Persons with AIDS

A model for serving inner city poor persons with AIDS through a medical facility is described. The mixed factors of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, race and modes of transmission are examined as influences on the group process. Objectives, pre-group planning, formation guidelines, and presenting problems of members are identified. Through case illustrations group issues are used to point out interventive strategies. Because of the shifting demographics of people with AIDS and their families, the group modality provides a vital educative and supportive vehicle to highly disadvantaged persons affected by the disease.     

有陕西特色的城乡协调发展的城市化研究

2004年陕西省人均GDP已经突破了1000美元,按照国际经验和我国目前发展的态势,这表明陕西省城市化的高潮正在到来。但是,近些年来,在我国城市化快速发展的背景下,城乡差距反而越来越大。因此,在我国城市化加速发展的新时期,城市化一定要与农村发展紧密结合,走城乡协调发展的城市化道路。对陕西省省情及其城市化特点充分了解的基础上,可以了解陕西城市化进程中存在的主要问题,并进而提出陕西省应走有陕西特色的城乡协调发展的城市化道路。     

仁政宽容与无为而治

政象无错综则会成苛政;法象无错综则会生乱法。处权而不用,清静而不动,宽大以兼容,慈厚以怀众,以民为功,以众为势,由此无为而治。当政者无为,国权政权俭约,人权民权易行。无为而治有助于厚养民生,富民乐民。政府缓和规制,可以克服横征暴敛,减轻农民负担,开放择业经营自由,使民富足。     

Patients with Keloids

ABSTRACT

A great deal has been written about the possible patho-genesis and treatment of keloids. However, the psychological effects these often disfiguring lesions have on affected individuals remains largely unexplored. During face-to-face and telephone interviews, patients were asked how keloids and keloid therapy may have affected their personal and social lives. This preliminary inquiry suggests that careful counseling may prove worthwhile for such patients.     

Wrestling with Legacy

Abstract

Those of us who are children of Holocaust refugees and survivors inherit a complex, multi-faceted legacy that manifests itself in various conscious and unconscious ways at different stages of our lives. In the following pages, I share my journey toward a better understanding and integration of my parents' Holocaust experiences, and of the losses they and their extended families suffered under Nazi rule. That understanding necessitated traveling to my father's place of birth, developing relationships with Germans currently residing there, and immersing myself in the details of the demise of the Jewish community of the small rural village of Roth, Germany.

Immersing myself in my father's Holocaust history was both daunting and healing. It provided me with an opportunity to wrestle with my legacy in a way that interrupted the cycle of intergenerational prejudice that I was passing on to my own children. It inspired me to create an educational exhibit that could teach the lessons of the Holocaust in a way that is personal and relevant to students, with the intent of helping visitors to understand their civic responsibility to actively protest against prejudice and social injustice.     

Living with an elephant: Growing up with parental substance misuse

Although parental substance misuse is now a focus of concern in child welfare practice, we know little about what it is really like for children who grow up in families where adult drug and/or alcohol use is an issue. Set against a backdrop of research links between parental substance misuse and child maltreatment, this article examines a number of studies that focus on the experiences of children and young people in this context. Emerging themes are identified which provide insight into the world of children for whom a substance is, effectively, a family member –‘the elephant in the living room’– and the implications for practice, particularly in relation to children's visibility, disclosure and confidentiality, are considered. It is argued that a focus on the ‘elephant’ often leads to children remaining ‘invisible’ to those whose role it is to ensure their welfare.     

Considerations in Care for Individuals with Intellectual Disability with Advanced Dementia

Abstract

A number of physical, psychosocial, or ethical issues related to the care of the individual with advanced dementia are reviewed and related to individuals with intellectual disabilities. The sources used include the published literature and illustrations drawn from personal observations. The author notes that through anticipation and early planning, advanced directives and service planning (which looks to adaptation of services and other care management interventions), can effectively impact care at the end. Areas that need to be addressed include technical information, including a review of and, as appropriate, adaptation of general advanced dementia resources, relief, rest, support, reassurance, receipt of on-going information, participation in planning, a sense of humor, and appreciation. Also noted, are the differences experienced because of the presence of paid staff as carers and residence outside of the family home. It is concluded that, although the goals of quality care is the same for all people with advanced dementia, the process by which to reach these goals often needs further consideration and adaptation for people with intellectual disabilities.     

以科学发展观应对全球纺织品贸易一体化

随着2005年1月1日全球纺织品配额体制的结束,全球纺织品服装市场进入后配额时代。本文按照科学发展观的要求,分析了纺织品配额制度的形成、发展与解体;同时分析了在全球纺织品贸易一体化的后配额时代,中国面临的机遇与挑战,以及中国纺织品行业面对随之而来的一系列问题的解决方法。     

Home modification among families with older adults with disability in Korea

Abstract

This study explores psychosocial factors related to the use of home modification among older adults with disabilities and their caregivers in Korea. Using in-depth interviews, this study elaborates specific socio-cognitive factors leading to home modification from the multiple perspectives of care recipients, family caregivers and home care helpers. The study findings are theoretically organised into four domains: structural factors, care recipients’ service needs, socio-cognitive factors, and enabling resources. Practice and policy implications are discussed in the context of underdeveloped housing policies for ageing-in-place in Korea.     

Satisfaction with Personal Assistance Services of People with Disabilities in Korea

An essential component for achieving independence in a community setting for people with disabilities is the ability to perform personal care activities with or without assistance. This paper aims to evaluate the level of satisfaction of people who used personal assistance services (PAS) during 2007 in Korea. People's satisfaction was high when they were able to use all of the assigned hours and when they had been assigned enough hours to meet their needs. Therefore, policymakers must try to increase service hours for people with disabilities so that they have enough help from attendants. The more the opinions of people with disabilities were considered in shaping the plan of care, the higher the satisfaction score. To increase the satisfaction, service users' involvement with the program has to be incorporated into the program as much as possible.     

Exploring Autonomy in Group Work Practice with Persons with Intellectual Disabilities

Preserving the autonomy of individuals with intellectual disabilities in group work is challenging. Group workers often experience inadequate guidance about autonomy—an individual's capability to act independently without influence by others. Group workers can enhance autonomy through group activities that promote self-efficacy, empowerment, and the ability to make decisions. Fostering autonomy requires that the group workers be knowledgeable and aware of personal biases, analyzing their expectations and actions. To promote the autonomy of persons with intellectual disabilities in group work practice, the authors make recommendations to strengthen the IASWG Standards for Social Work Practice with Groups in this area.     

Trained volunteers for families coping with a child with a life-limiting condition

One hundred and seven families with a child diagnosed with a life-limiting condition, from all over Queensland (Australia), were surveyed on their need for a trained volunteer. Their comments provide important insights into an area which has not previously been researched or documented. In summary, their responses indicate that many families have only minimal or no support, and are coping with extraordinary physical, emotional and social demands from the child's condition and treatment. The majority of the participants are very positive about the need for a trained volunteer and are clear about the activities that trained volunteers could provide assistance with. These activities range from practical assistance such as baby-sitting and help with household chores and errands to emotional support. Not all families would be comfortable using a volunteer, and some respondents did outline perceived obstacles to including a volunteer in family activities. For others there were comments about why volunteers would be perceived as unproblematic. Respondents specified important criteria that would need to be addressed in volunteer training. The largest number of respondents were coping with cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy. It is the hope and expectation that, with the communication of the insights gathered from this geographically diverse group of families, encouragement will be given to others working in this area to explore the possibility of establishing outreach volunteer programmes for such families.     

A Model for Inservice Training with Professional Staff in Work with Groups

The lack of practitioners who are trained in the group work method has a negative impact on the: development of new group services, quality of group work and the education of students. Inservice training for professional staff can help to reduce these problems. The paper describes a model for inservice training which the author has developed and implemented to train agency practitioners. The model consists of four stages. Marketing strategies to recruit agencies make up the first stage. The second stage is devoted to planning activities. The third stage covers the training, and the fourth deals with follow-up steps after the formal training is completed.     

我与文纳的笔墨情缘

梁文纳，籍贯重庆市，1947年生，1967年入伍，1989年转业至辽宁省人民政府工作，先后任省政府调研室调研员、省政府参事处长、省文史研究馆副馆长等职。     

Decisions with indeterminate probabilities

Decision-making under partial ignorance and partial knowledge of risk is discussed. The presented approach is unlike traditional approaches, but is not novel. It retains the MEU rule and advocates further determination of probabilities. However, the further determination does not require personal introspection or additional empirical data.The approach is possible under any inductive theory of rational belief with a parameterized rule of acceptance, wherein the choice of parameter value trades informativeness against freedom from error. With such a rule, it may be possible to identify justifiable determinate probabilities with a judicious choice of parameter value.I argue that rationality obliges the use of determinate probabilities, if identifiable, and I make a claim about the epistemological priority of some determinate probabilities over others when there is a choice.     

Play Therapy with Rosy

Summary Rosy is typical of many problematic children in residentialsettings as well as natural homes. What is perhaps not so typicalin social work practice is play therapy, an intervention thathas been acknowledged as having contributed to a significantimprovement in Rosy's behaviour and emotional stability. Certainconditions are necessary—a suitable playroom; assuranceof regular sessions; a play therapist who is, at least to someextent, freed from her own unconscious preoccupations so thatshe can work effectively on the child's needs without interjectingher own. The aim of this paper is to present a synopsis of thetheoretical background, to outline some practical considerations,and to quote from my work with Rosy as a living example of playtherapy in the hope that others will be stimulated to considerplay work as a viable method of intervention with some children.Rosy's play sessions lasted a little over a year, many othercases require less time.