Promoting Fathers' Engagement With Children: Preventive Interventions for Low‐Income Families

Few programs to enhance fathers' engagement with children have been systematically evaluated, especially for low‐income minority populations. In this study, 289 couples from primarily low‐income Mexican American and European American families were randomly assigned to one of three conditions and followed for 18 months: 16‐week groups for fathers, 16‐week groups for couples, or a 1‐time informational meeting. Compared with families in the low‐dose comparison condition, intervention families showed positive effects on fathers' engagement with their children, couple relationship quality, and children's problem behaviors. Participants in couples' groups showed more consistent, longer term positive effects than those in fathers‐only groups. Intervention effects were similar across family structures, income levels, and ethnicities. Implications of the results for current family policy debates are discussed.     

A Commentary on “Gender Perspectives in Cross-Cultural Couples”

This commentary expands on Kellner’s article by discussing clinical practice with Asian and Euro-American couples. Differences in Western and traditional Asian cultural expectations around intimacy and styles of emotional expression can often lead to misunderstanding among couples. Therapy can also be a challenge for couples when they do not share the same first language. A therapist who only speaks English can inadvertently create an alliance with the partner whose first language is English. On the other hand, bilingual therapists who use both English and an Asian language in the session can face challenges differentiating their roles as a therapist versus a translator. Case illustrations are presented to illustrate these challenges.

Clinical Social Work and Psychoanalysis: Introduction to the Special Issue

As clinical social work developed in America it was highly influenced by the concepts and techniques of psychoanalysis and many of its practitioners became interested in seeking psychoanalytic training. More and more psychoanalysts are now coming from a background in clinical social work due to the development of a network of interdisciplinary training institutes and the opening of the Institutes of the American Psychoanalytic Association to non-medical candidates. This special issue considers how psychoanalysis may be affected as more of its practitioners and contributors come from a background in clinical social work. This introduction reviews the history of the development of clinical social work and outlines the issues related to “lay analysis” in this country.

The healthy immigrant (migrant) effect: In search of a better native-born comparison group

This paper evaluates whether immigrants’ initial health advantage over their U.S.-born counterparts results primarily from characteristics correlated with their birth countries (e.g., immigrant culture) or from selective migration (e.g., unobserved characteristics such as motivation and ambition) by comparing recent immigrants’ health to that of recent U.S.-born interstate migrants (“U.S.-born movers”). Using data from the 1999–2013 waves of the March Current Population Survey, I find that, relative to U.S.-born adults (collectively), recent immigrants have a 6.1 percentage point lower probability of reporting their health as fair or poor. Changing the reference group to U.S.-born movers, however, reduces the recent immigrant health advantage by 28%. Similar reductions in the immigrant health advantage occurs in models estimated separately by either race/ethnicity or education level. Models that examine health differences between recent immigrants and U.S.-born movers who both moved for a new job—a primary motivation behind moving for both immigrants and the U.S.-born—show that such immigrants have only a 1.9 percentage point lower probability of reporting their health as fair or poor. Together, the findings suggest that changing the reference group from U.S.-born adults collectively to U.S.-born movers reduces the identified immigrant health advantage, indicating that selective migration plays a significant role in explaining the initial health advantage of immigrants in the United States.     

十九世纪初期美国客邮述论

19世纪初期事关贸易成败的美国客邮是学界研究的空白。通过分析美国“太平洋商人号”商船在澳门修理期间发往广州的一批信件,证明了美国在广州客邮的关键环节：依托十三行商馆区后勤服务区秘密栖身,接收转发地址为广州十三行商馆区凿石街的泗兴办馆,办馆承担了邮局的收发邮政功能,澳门广州间的美国短途客邮具有独立运行的特点。这也为19世纪初期美国在华客邮提供了详实的个案。     

多元·创新·现实主义--20世纪美国文学综述

20世纪美国文学取得了举世瞩目的成就.其主要有以下几个特点文学流派繁多,异彩纷呈;戏剧、诗歌、小说各领风骚,现实主义小说成就最高;文学批评表现出独立性、多元性和科学性;文学创作者具有反传统性与创新性.这些特点使美国文学充满了生机和活力,并对世界其他国家的文学发展产生了越来越大的影响.     

易洛魁联盟与美国革命

18世纪美国革命是一场社会参与度极大的运动,参与者不仅包括殖民地社会内部工人、商人、农民、地主等各个阶层,还体现了多种族的特征,黑人、印第安人也都在美国革命中发挥了重要的作用。易洛魁联盟是其中最重要的印第安人部落联盟,无论对美国革命的进程,还是美国革命对其后来的发展都有重要影响。在某种程度上,易洛魁联盟的经历也可以被看做是整个北美印第安人社会发展的缩影。     

略论近代美国新教传教士在华的教育活动

美国新教传教士在中国的教育活动以建立的教会学校最为典型,它是中国近代历史上的特殊的文化现象,对促进中国高等教育现代化以及中西文化交流起着重要的作用。文章对教会学校的三个发展阶段进行了论述,并对这一现象进行了评价。     

美国移民政策动因分析

在200多年的历史进程中,外来移民对美国政治、经济、文化等方面产生了深远影响,移民政策因而成为美国社会机制的一个重要层面。美国移民政策的制定与不同时期的政治、经济、文化背景相关,政策动因各具特色。基于提供平等人权与促进经济发展两个根本动因,美国确立了鼓励移民的立国思想。此后,美国的移民政策经历了自由开放、限制与选择、限制松动、全面改革几个时期以及21世纪初的局势突变阶段,其动因特点分别为经济动因至高无上、种族主义兴风作浪、政治动因十分突出、政治与经济动因并重、国家安全成为重中之重。这一演变反映了美国移民政策的实质。     

美国研究视阈中的三K党运动——以“中层结构”和“社会空间”理论为视点的论析

从美国研究的“中层结构”理论和“社会空间”理论来看,美国三K党组织作为一种“中层结构”破坏了美国社会文化正常发展所依赖的“社会空间”。三K党运动的演进过程是中层机制的消极构成在“社会空间”中的病态表征,彰显了美国多元文化的深层矛盾,成为美国文化史上一个特有的悖论。