The Open Door Project Task Force: A Qualitative Study on LGBT Aging

This paper reports formative qualitative findings from the Open Door Project (ODP), a unique program created by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Aging Project. Data were collected from Open Door Task Force members (N = 34). This includes 4 focus groups that were held with a total of 22 participants; and key informant interviews that were conducted with 12 participants from 10 different agencies. Findings revealed that agencies took significant steps to make important and long-lasting structural changes, including changing their diversity and personnel policies, and intake forms to be LGBT inclusive; implementing ongoing staff training initiatives on LGBT issues; and actively involving leadership, including senior managers, executive directors, vendors, and Councils on Aging, in helping to create and sustain organizational change. The ODP is an effective model to increase cultural competence in working with aging LGBT communities.     

On Reinventing OBM

Abstract

This article comments on an argument in favor of a change in OBM's content and focus to include certain empirical findings and theoretical constructs derived from fields like Cognitive and Social Psychology. Specifically, the argument suggests that personal beliefs such as optimism, self-efficacy, and response-efficacy are influential determinants of behavior that give rise to achievement motivation and a success-seeking typology. By incorporating such constructs into OBM, it is suggested that the field will better align itself with related disciplines sharing the goal of promoting personal success, thereby enhancing its performance-improvement toolkit and fostering greater recognition and acceptance for itself within mainstream Psychology. After summarizing key aspects of this argument, this paper identifies certain of its associated challenges and then presents some specific strategies by which the OBM community can chart a future course for the field.     

实施“青年马克思主义者培养工程”初探——以集美大学为例

＂青年马克思主义者培养工程＂的实施,对大学生骨干培养提出了新的目标和要求。从＂青马工程＂实施背景下大学生骨干的现状出发,结合分析培训目标,提出了大学生骨干培训的机制建设和模块内容设计。     

论高校学生工作中的改革创新

高校学生工作必须紧紧围绕培养社会主义事业合格建设者和可靠接班人这一根本目标来开展。不断开拓进取、改革创新，以适应新时期学生工作的现实需要是其应有之意。创新应当包括思想观念、体制机制、内容方式、队伍建设、理论研究等诸多方面。近年来，西南大学大力开展“六个好一”工程，对创新学生工作进行了一些有益的探索和尝试．有利于开创举生工作的新局面．     

“边缘地带”解决“三农”问题成败规律探析

研究"三农"问题成败的角度有很多,但从地缘政治视野中去探究"边缘地带"这一特定空间区域的成败经验,目前尚属空白。二战后的"四小龙"、日本和以色列都是成功的案例,而印度、伊拉克、伊朗则是失败的案例。总结其中成功的经验和失败的教训后可得出这样一个结论,即"边缘地带"的国家和地区,必须采取符合当时形势要求的外交战略和自身定位,通过至少与一个全球强权国家结盟,争取机遇和资源,实现"三农"问题的解决。     

运用孙子兵法“势”论于成功教育之中

孙子兵法的战略战术和辩证法思想已广泛应用于社会生活的各个领域。借鉴孙子兵法“势”论,探索与成功教育的接轨,从而寻求一条改进学生思想教育工作的新路子。     

略论公关心理在公关实务中的应用

人的行为皆有因,为了更好地做好公关工作,实现公关的功能需运用公关心理学的基本原理,了解公众的需要,完善公关人员的人格,以情制胜做好公关。     

家庭教育科学理念新探

家庭教育需要科学的理念作指导。保障孩子的身心健康、培养他们广泛的社会适应性、发现并发展他们的才能和各种天赋、最终帮助他们追求并获得人生幸福、提高在未来社会中的生活质量,是家庭教育科学理念的重要内涵。     

辛亥革命成败新论

客观、准确地审视辛亥革命的历史功绩,是正确评判辛亥革命成败的前提,当然,关键还是不能把辛亥革命与中国资产阶级革命混为一谈。如果做到了这一点,那无论长期以来一直作为主流观点的“失败论”,抑或为个别学者所主张的“成功论”,其各自缺陷就皆可避免了。     

论情商与新闻记者成才

传统观点认为人的成才只与智商有关。情商概念的提出,揭示了影响人成才的另一个重要因素。新闻报道必须建立在采访的基础上,采访就是新闻记者与采访对象面对面地交流,而这种交流必须建立在情绪情感的基础上。新闻采写要想成功,要求记者善于把握和控制自己的情绪情感,善于揣摩和驾驭采访对象的情绪情感,要有强承受逆境和挫折的能力。