Parent Management Training, Relationships with Agency Staff, and Child Mental Health: Urban Foster Parents' Perspectives

Many foster parents are ill prepared to meet the behavioral needs of children placed in their homes. Research suggests they lack training in evidence-based behavioral interventions and feel unsupported by child welfare professionals. Given the complex needs of foster children and increased rates of placement disruption for foster children with behavior problems, implementation of effective interventions is essential. However, little is known about foster parents' receptivity to these types of interventions. In this qualitative study, we examine urban foster parents' perceptions of the specific elements of parent management training (PMT), an evidence-based treatment for disruptive behaviors that teaches parents to improve desired behaviors and decrease oppositional behaviors by rewarding positive behaviors (positive reinforcement) and responding to negative behaviors with mild, consistent punishments such as timeout or a privilege removal. We present data from four focus groups (N = 38). While the questions focused on parent's perceptions of PMT, responses often related to parent interactions with agency staff. Four strong themes emerged from the data. First, foster parents discussed a need for more support and training in how to address children's behaviors, but also had concerns that some PMT discipline techniques would be ineffective based on their past experiences with foster children. Second, they described how staff communication skills and allegations of child abuse could affect parents' motivation to continue fostering. Third, they expressed a need for more detailed information about children's histories and visits with biological families as the lack of information contributed to difficulty in meeting foster children's needs. They suggested that joint training of foster parents and staff in the intervention could improve their ability to work together to support the child's positive behaviors. Finally, parents reported little involvement in child mental health services and doubted the effectiveness of the mental health services their foster children received.     

人力资源管理实践与企业绩效:基于动态环境的实证研究

根据对中国大陆企业人力资源部的经理和有关管理人员进行调查的111份有效问卷,分析经济转型和企业国际化的动态环境下,人力资本、人力资源管理实践与企业绩效的关系。通过质量和数量、匹配性、互补性、异质性这4个指标来衡量企业的人力资本,并以层级回归和多层次理论对假设进行实证检验。研究结果表明,人力资源管理实践对企业绩效的影响是通过人力资本的部分中介作用来表现的;动态环境会减弱人力资源管理实践影响人力资本的直接作用关系,以及减弱人力资本的中介作用,即与稳定的环境相比,动态环境在人力资源管理实践与人力资本间具有调节效应。     

我国电子商务网站FIPs实施现状研究

针对我国电子商务网站实施FIPs现状进行研究,通过调查国内100家网站实施FIPs的情况发现:①国内大多数网站除隐私声明和告知等方面做得较好外,其他方面都较差;②知名网站与非知名网站的FIPs实施情况存在显著差异,综合型网站在FIPs绝大多数方面做得比其他类型网站要好,不同成立时间的网站差异并不明显。③美国网站FIPs的实施情况总体优于中国网站。     

基于行为过程的城市加油站营销绩效评价研究

在市场竞争模式下,城市加油站的绩效由销售行为创造,而销售行为的产生由消费者认知、消费者行为、竞争环境、营销创新等要素构成, 营销绩效是由销售行为要素共同作用的结果。基于这一认识,以导致销售行为产生的消费者认识、购买行为、市场结构、创新等构成要素为总体指标,并根据主体指标的内含体系对主体指标进行分解,构建了影响城市加油站营销绩效的评价指标体系,根据指标体系的层次性特征,采用层次分析方法,选用具体的加油站,对所构建的指标体系进行了检验。研究结果表明,消费者满意度、忠诚度和认可的服务质量对加油站的营销绩效有重要影响。     

来自麦金太尔的道德尺度

当代世界著名的伦理学家麦金太尔指出,现代社会处于传统德性伦理之后,其基本特征就是道德纷乱,这种纷乱的根源就是五花八门的道德概念和理论之间的不可公度性。为了扫清这种纷乱,他提出新的美德概念:美德就是在有益于整个历史传统和整个人生基础上对各种实践的内在利益的追求。这就是评判我们言行是非曲直的道德尺度。     

国家法与民间法双向互动之思考

国家法由民间法发展而来。但由于国家的加入,民间法和国家法出现了分野,同时产生了冲突、互动和融合。笔者认为国家法与民间法的二元建构应在消除两者之间存在的文化上的差异和阻隔基础上,实现两者的良性互动和双向对接,并对此作了一些尝试性探讨。     

Adoptive family life and adoption support: policy ambivalence and the development of effective services

Adoption policy and practice in England is being ‘modernized’ in order to increase the number of permanent placements for children in public care. Success depends on improving adoption services as well as reforming the adoption process itself. To this end the Adoption and Children Act 2002 places new duties on local authorities to ensure greater consistency and quality of service in adoption support as well as in care planning. Questions now arise locally about what priority and focus to give to adoption support. Yet service development is inhibited by the ambivalence of New Labour about exactly what it is that adoption support is supposed to be supporting and how. Funds are limited and service re‐organization is always difficult to achieve. However, mixed policy messages result largely from the ambiguous social role and expectations of adoptive family life and kinship. In law adoption replicates the autonomous normative birth family whilst in policy it provides reparative parenting for particularly vulnerable children. A lack of clarity about the claims for support of those affected by adoption results. This paper argues a fresh case for the distinctive claims of adoptive family life for support. It suggests how new thinking about adoptive family life and kinship might stimulate local service collaboration and effective adoption support.     

日常仪式化行为：以知青为例的研究

一、导论仪式(ritual),虽然早在19世纪就进入了社会科学的视野,然而关于日常仪式化行为的研究却是近些年的成果。对日常仪式化行为的关注延续了将仪式从起初集中于神圣的、宗教的、神秘的活动拓宽至世俗的、日常的活动的传统,从而将现代社会中具体的、日常的具有象征性意义的活动也纳入仪式的研究领域(Gusfield&Michalowicz,1984)。在日常仪式化行为的研究中,关于日常仪式化行为的功能及意义的研究占据了主要地位。这与传统仪式研究的特征有关(Roth,1995),也与日常仪式化行为与行为人之间的密切关系有关。本文关注日常仪式化的行为,虽然部…     

清末民初甘肃省婚姻习惯评析

清末民初的民商事习惯调查运动波及全国各地,调查内容之广泛、组织之严密可谓空前绝后。以前南京国民政府司法行政部所编辑的《民商事习惯调查报告录》为基本研究资料,对清末民初甘肃省的婚姻习惯进行简要评析,内容主要涉及婚姻预约、同姓相婚、孀妇改嫁、特殊婚习、婚姻解除等方面。通过剖析各项习惯的利弊得失,以期对进一步完善今天婚姻制度有所启迪。