‘What Was I Thinking?!’ Rhetorical Questions as a Technique to Identify and Explore Impasses in Therapy

Rhetorical questions emerging spontaneously in consultations can be used as a tool for developing self‐reflexivity and exploring the therapeutic alliance in the process of therapy with couples and families. This paper presents a technique based on the enunciation of rhetorical questions, which can point to an impasse in the process of therapy and contain a key to its resolution. The technique focuses on the distinctive feature of rhetorical questions as convening a paradoxical injunction: a question not intended as a question, while uttered as such. The technique in four steps is illustrated by examples from therapy, supervision, consultation, and self‐supervision. Its focus is the interlink between the therapeutic relationship and the process of therapy and it is informed by a second‐order cybernetics approach, dialogical practice, and the systemic literature on emotion. The technique can help develop curiosity in working with families, lead to unforeseen developments, and touch on prejudices not made explicit in previous therapeutic encounters. Whether we are acting as supervisors, therapists, or clients, the creation of a ‘secure enough’ context for rhetorical questions becomes critical to allow freeform exploration.     

非政府组织参与家庭服务与支持的路径分析

非政府组织参与家庭服务与支持,可以实现弥补、协助、引领等积极功能.为了确保非政府组织参与家庭服务与支持的效果,非政府组织应从专业服务、内部治理和沟通公关三个方面加强能力建设.同时不同类别的非政府组织需要在准确定位的基础上发挥各自的优势,探索适合自身的参与家庭服务与支持的路径.     

Defining Social Inclusion for Children with Disabilities: A Critical Literature Review

Social inclusion is a complex and often misunderstood concept. For children with disabilities, research has documented the degree of loneliness, bullying and exclusion they often experience in their social lives. This paper presents the findings of a critical literature review on the social inclusion of children with disabilities. Study methods comprised rigorous criteria for study selection followed by established protocols for evaluating studies. Reputable rating scales were used to examine peer‐reviewed research published within the last 10 years. Fifty‐four studies were analyzed for essential themes. Findings reflect a broad range of stakeholder perspectives and factors that promote or inhibit social inclusion, including child‐specific variables as well as environmental influences. Additional research should focus on the perspectives and experiences of children in inclusive settings, particularly those with disabilities, as a means of safeguarding their future social and emotional well‐being.     

Why good practice of OR is not enough—Ethical challenges for the OR practitioner

This paper develops the idea that following rules of good OR practice is necessary, but not sufficient for ethical OR. Several challenges of introducing ethical aspects into OR are discussed, evidencing difficulties and ambiguities in the relationship to be established between the OR practitioner and his/her clients, decision-makers or stakeholders. It shows that neither analysis nor modelling work nor the choice of analytical tools is entirely ethically neutral; incomparability, incommensurability and incertitude must be dealt with. The purpose of this article is to detail several difficulties or dilemmas an OR practitioner may be confronted with in the course of his or her assignment. In such situations, following rules of good practice may not be sufficient to indicate how to act in a morally good way. This paper aims at stimulating reflection by structuring the debate; it may leave the reader unsettled—unsettlement being a result and even aim of many discussions in moral philosophy.     

Art Deco建筑中的中国传统元素

Art Deco是20世纪二三十年代风行于世界的一种装饰艺术设计风格,以大胆的轮廓、几何的形体、阶梯状的造型、新材料的运用为特点。虽然Art Deco是从欧美输入的建筑风格,但传入中国不久便吸收了中国传统建筑元素,在小木作装修、局部装饰、简化元素等方面加以运用,逐渐形成中西合璧的独特风格。     

休闲：社会主义和谐社会的润滑剂

休闲的人本特质与社会主义和谐社会的要求具有天然的一致性,社会主义和谐社会的基本特征也要求休闲的充分健康发展,而充分健康发展的休闲也将有利于社会主义和谐经济、和谐政治、和谐文化和和谐社会的建设,因而休闲是社会主义和谐社会的润滑剂,是和谐社会建设不可忽视的重要内容之一。     

左派王学与儒学的近代转型

左派王学是阳明后学的殿军,这一将王阳明心学思想推向极致的思想流派,以良知现成无待、当下即是为立论的原点,并沿着心学自我成圣论的思想理路,将率性造命的狂者精神发展为带近代色彩的救世意识.这种精神开启了儒学史上一个全新的局面,并构成了儒学现代性转型的某种信号.     

Natural and artificial computing and reasoning in economic affairs

During a century or so, good reasoning in economic affairs was reduced to the search of computable algorithms for Expected Utility Optimization: but is the “Principle of least Action”, which was so powerful for guiding the researches in Physics and Natural Sciences as relevant as expected for guiding the good use of “reason in human affairs”? The discussion of the theoretical and practical weaknesses of the Paradigm of Expected Utility Optimization proposed since forty years notably by H. A. Simon, leads to the formulation of another paradigm, probably more relevant for the guidance of researches in economics and management affairs: “the Principle of Intelligent Action”, focus on the property of symbols computation systems. The general framework of Plausible Rationality, as established by G. Polya permits the formulation of programmable heuristics (or production rules) which can be expressed in terms of artificial symbolic computations. A more General Research Program is now open to research in Economic Reasoning by the developments of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Sciences: the design of relevant economic heuristics guiding the Decision Making Processes.     

宁波与现代国际著名港城国民经济信息化比较研究

文章以笔者前期研究成果和国际通行的理论为依据，通过比较计算宁波与香港的国民经济信息化指数，从一个方面分析了现代国际著名港城国民经济信息化的实际情况及对宁波的启示。