是研究家庭问题的时候了

美国的社会危机在社会变化、经济不稳和道德混乱的狂飚袭击下,美国的家庭开始反击了.八十年代初,千百万美国人在认真探索支撑家庭生活和对付影响家庭习惯的巨大变化的办法.人们大声疾呼:"家庭破裂了!""家庭瓦解了!""家庭出现了危机!"美国儿童、青年、家庭行政管理专员J. 卡尔霍恩说他从未见过人们象现在这样关心家庭问题.根据最近的民意测验,广大的美国人认为家庭问题是他们生活中"最重要的"问题之一.91%的人想往过去的"传统家庭体制".     

经济民主:八十年代的策略

美国经济一直没有从1973至1975年的衰退中完全恢复过来,却又向着另一次更为深重的危机发展着.目前虽然没有三十年代大危机那样严重,但由于这次危机时间长、范围广、程度严重而且是全球性的,使人不能不意识到它已经具有上次大危机的意味.难怪千百万美国人日益盼望扭转这一江河     

The art and science of winning physician support for Six Sigma change

Active physician participation and acceptance of Six Sigma is critical to successful implementation. Take a look at strategies and techniques that can help secure physician support for Six Sigma.     

Cultural perspectives of death,grief, and bereavement

The cultural makeup of the United States continues to change rapidly, and as minority groups continue to grow, these groups' beliefs and customs must be taken into account when examining death, grief, and bereavement. This article discusses the beliefs, customs, and rituals of Latino, African American, Navajo, Jewish, and Hindu groups to raise awareness of the differences health care professionals may encounter among their grieving clients. Discussion of this small sample of minority groups in the United States is not intended to cover all of the degrees of acculturation within each group. Cultural groups are not homogeneous, and individual variation must always be considered in situations of death, grief, and bereavement. However, because the customs, rituals, and beliefs of the groups to which they belong affect individuals' experiences of death, grief, and bereavement, health care professionals need to be open to learning about them to better understand and help.     

Storming the ivory towers. A look at violence and stalking on campus

1. Organizations should establish workplace violence prevention policies and education programs. 2. Multidisciplinary teams should be established to address potentially violent situations. 3. Law enforcement or other experts should be consulted in stalking cases.     

Alternative solutions to the problem of selection bias in an analysis of federal residential drug treatment programs

In an evaluation of prison-based residential drug treatment programs, the authors use three different regression-based approaches to estimating treatment effects. Two of the approaches, the instrumental variable and the Heckman approach, attempt to minimize selection bias as an explanation for treatment outcomes. Estimates from these approaches are compared with estimates from a regression in which treatment is represented by a dummy variable. The article discusses the advantage of using more than one method to increase confidence in findings when possible selection bias is a concern. Three-year outcome data for 2,315 federal inmates are used in analyses where the authors separately examine criminal recidivism and relapse to drug use for men and women. Statistical tests lead the authors to conclude that treatment reduces criminal recidivism and relapse to drug use. The treatment effect was largest when the inference was based on the Heckman approach, somewhat smaller when based on the instrumental variable approach, and smallest when based on the traditional dummy variable approach. Treatment effects for females were not statistically significant.     

客观性与交互文化的经验

在文化接触中摆脱偏见并建立严格的客观性是文化交往理论的努力目标,遗憾的是当代思想屡屡在此失足。利用胡塞尔构造现象学的资源,以交互主体性、意向性、生活世界和自属性等概念为启发性类比的关节点,可以创造性地提出一条通向“情境客观性”的道路。     

互补品天才

安德烈和爱德华当初是怎么想的？ 1900年，就在两兄弟刚刚接管家族设在克莱蒙一费朗市橡胶生意之后不久，他们决定为旅行者出版一本指导手册。在他们的《米其林指南》一书当中，作者提供了大量加油站、酒店、餐厅和观光景点的信息，并配有详尽的地图和旅行提示。该书第一版印刷了35000册，米其林公司免费将其发放给那些感兴趣的读者们。他们的这一做法后来被证明是一个极其天才的举动。