Utilizing cognitive-behavioral techniques in psychodynamic practice with clients diagnosed as borderline

Many factors, including theoretical controversies, treatment constraints, and an increasing awareness of the high incidence of childhood trauma, compel practitioners to reevaluate both theory and practice in the treatment of clients diagnosed as borderline. Our purpose in this paper is to encourage clinicians who practice primarily from a psychodynamic perspective to reconsider the judicious use of relevant cognitive/behavioral techniques with this population. We focus on the rationale of utilizing relevant cognitive/behavioral techniques in out-patient settings, and discuss specific problem areas where these techniques might be useful. These problem areas include (1) cognitive and affective splitting, (2) affective dysregulation, and (3) faulty attributions. Each problem area is discussed with clinical illustrations of appropriate cognitive/behavioral interventions. The vignettes also illustrate the essential role the therapeutic relationship plays in order for cognitive/behavioral interventions to be effective.     

“Close to home”: The work of avoiding politics

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Returning to sexual stigma: post‐trafficking lives

This article is concerned with returning to sexual stigma in two key respects. First, it prompts a return to the conceptual understanding of sexual stigma and makes an important contribution to critiques of the individualized frameworks that have dominated much of the literature on stigma to date, through a critical analysis of sexual stigma as a collective process at different scales and locations. Second, using empirical data from a qualitative study of post‐trafficking experiences of women in Nepal as a case study to develop theoretical understandings of the production of stigma, it explores modalities of sexualized stigma encountered on return from trafficking situations. Within the trafficking literature there has been very little attention to what happens after trafficking. This article addresses this gap in focusing on lives post‐trafficking and, in addition, contributes to the limited research on trafficking in Nepal.     

民国时期国际妇女节功能探析

1924年,国际妇女节传入中国,并成为中国妇女运动的标志性节日。受政治环境和国共两党妇女政策的影响,妇女节庆祝在中国呈现两种迥然不同的面貌。节日的庆祝,将广大妇女团结起来,以群体面貌参与社会生活,增强了妇女的凝聚力和认同感。同时,作为节日,妇女节也成为政党进行文化传播的方式之一。     

There's no place like home: achieving safety,permanency, and well-being for lesbian and gay adolescents in out-of-home care settings

A study was conducted with 45 self-identified gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning (GLBTQ) youth and agency staff at the two known gay-affirming child welfare agencies in the United States: Green Chimneys GLBTQ Programs in New York City and Gay and Lesbian Social Services in Los Angeles, California. The study examined the question, "What are the challenges presented in ensuring permanency, safety, and well-being for gay and lesbian youth in a gay-affirming child welfare environment?" Guided by the framework outlined in the Child and Family Services Reviews National Standards, which support better outcomes for children and youth, the investigators sought to explore the challenges of ensuring permanency, safety, and well-being for this population, as these challenges were identified by the agency staff and youth who live and work in either of these two gay-affirming programs.     

Engagement, but for what kind of marriage?: community members and local planning authorities

In recent years there has been an international trend to encouragegreater participation by community members in making decisionsover local developments. A small study of the experiences ofcommunity activists residing in the City of Moreland (Australia)indicates that existing political and economic structures areneither flexible nor supportive of greater, substantive, democracy.Indeed the kinds of barriers reported at the grassroots suggestthat deep reforms in the traditional patterns of engagementbetween political and bureaucratic authorities and neighbourhoodcommunities are necessary in order to enhance the power of communitymembers. This analysis of community engagement practices drawsa parallel between the multi-various scales of struggles necessitatedfor women's liberation and the breadth of reforms necessaryfor neighbourhood residents to achieve greater power in decisionmaking over local developments.