Many Stories to Tell: Response to the Biogram

There is nothing more challenging in the field of counselling than working crossculturally, in that the practitioner is forced to confront his or her own framework of assumptions, at the personal, professional, social and the cultural levels. For the person who moves between one culture and another, there is nothing more challenging than the act of migration itself, with its attendant losses and adjustments. These two areas of experience come together in attempting to provide a counselling service for refugees which is meaningful for them as well as for the practitioners.     

Growing the Volunteer Pool: Identifying Non-Volunteers Most Likely to Volunteer

There are ongoing management and societal challenges affecting volunteering participation. These place a premium on organizations identifying individuals that currently do not volunteer but have the willingness and capacity to do so, the “Potentials”. Supplementing the limited non-volunteer literature, we seek to quantify this potential volunteer pool using constructs aligned to the willingness, capability and availability dimensions from Meijs et al.’s (Volunt Action 8:36–54, 2006) volunteerability framework. Using binary logistic regression testing with a nationally representative sample of Australian volunteers and non-volunteers, we found partial support for the framework’s willingness and capability dimensions determining volunteer status. We then applied a predictive equation to the non-volunteer sample to calculate their percentage likelihood of volunteering, to identify a cohort of “Potential” volunteers. Further testing revealed statistically significant differences between this cohort compared to other non-volunteers based on various interventions for promoting volunteering. The implications of our novel study and an associated research agenda are discussed.

     

The Identification of Behaviour Disorder within the Community

In the absence of a clinical definition of Behaviour Disorder, those termed ‘Behaviourally Disordered’ are often considered unsuitable for psychiatric servicing and many end up inappropriately contained by the correctional system. The working definitions of 213 South Australian health and welfare professionals from six client areas (child/adolescent, psychiatric, intellectually disabled, brain-damaged, correctional and general) were surveyed. Respondents generally saw Behaviour Disorder as a recognisable disorder, involving both aggressive, disruptive behaviour and deficits in social adaptation. Perceptions of its presentation varied across client groups and across professional roles. The results highlighted a need for specialised community servicing for this group.     

A note on the mortality of british troops in Australia and New Zealand 1788–1864

TheMonthly Returns to the War Office in London are used to calculate death and sickness rates for British troops in Australia and New Zealand. In the first half of the century death rates peak in 1835–39 before declining, and are generally lower than for troops stationed in Britain. The sickness rates show no clear trend, apparently because of the impact of epidemics and war.     

Salting and other union tactics: A unionist’s perspective

The author was exposed to his first organizing campaign in 1955 while working for Solomon & Durham Construction Company, a contractor out of Quincy, Florida performing a job in the Ft. Walton Beach area. In 1956 he was initiated as a member of the International Hod Carriers', Building and Common Laborers' Union of America, Construction and General Laborers Local 741, while working in Indiana for H. C. Price Construction Company, a contractor out of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. In 1959 he became a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and, in the ensuing years, a salt, local union officer, organizer, International Representative, Director of Organizing and, finally, Executive Assistant to the International President. During this period he earned a BS in Labor Studies from Antioch University. He left the employ of the IBEW in September 1995 but remains active in its affairs. Beginning in the late 1970s, he developed the construction organizing tactic we now know as “salting” which he taught in continuing seminars under the imprimatur of the Building & Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO; New England Construction Organizing Committee; and the George Meany Center for Labor Studies. It was during this period that he wrote the “salting resolution” which was eventually condemned by the Eighth Circuit Court but resurrected by the Supreme Court in Town & Country Electric1. In the summer 1995 volume of the Labor Studies Journal, published by the University and College Labor Education Association in cooperation with Transactional Periodicals Consortium — Rutgers University, Jeffrey Grabelsk2 holds that the author is “considered by many to be a pioneer of contemporary construction organizing.”     

Control charts for monitoring the median in non-negative asymmetric data

Statistical Methods & Applications - Control charts are commonly used for monitoring the mean of processes. However, there are practical applications in which asymmetric data are the standard....