Development of a fostering purpose intervention

Evolutionary Evaluation is a framework for understanding the evolution of programs. Just as programs grow and develop, so can standalone interventions. This paper focused on building and evaluating a purpose intervention to scaffold adolescents and young adults’ search for purpose. Four studies were conducted at each phase of the intervention’s lifespan to assess if modifications were needed and to test the viable validity of using online activities to increase both the search for and the discovery of a purpose in life. These studies can be viewed through the lens of the Evolutionary Evaluation framework. Study 1 evaluated the intervention at its initiation phase, which consisted of developing and testing the intervention activities. Study 2 tested the intervention during the development phase to determine which activities most effectively increased rates of purpose. Study 3 evaluated the intervention in its stability phase by experimentally testing all activities together in a full curriculum via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Finally, study 4 assessed the dissemination of the intervention by testing the full curriculum with over 500 high school and college students. These studies suggest that the fostering purpose intervention cultivated purpose among adolescents and young adults. Additionally, the success of the intervention demonstrates that the Evolutionary Evaluation framework may be an effective model with which to develop an intervention, from initiation through dissemination phases.     

感觉统合训练对儿童认知与执行功能影响的干预研究

为了探讨感觉统合训练对执行功能的影响，笔者从福建省龙岩市某注意力培训学校中选取6-7岁学龄前儿童28名， 所有儿童接受《儿童感觉统合检核表》和执行功能的认知测验，并将被试分为实验组和控制组，接受不同的干预训练。结果发 现：1)64.3%的儿童存在不同程度的感觉统合失调的现象；2)运动与认知配合的训练方案要比单纯的认知训练方案在儿童执行 功能的提升方面有更明显的效果。     

Making a target work: Messages from a pilot of the 6‐month time limit on care proceedings in England

Since 2014, it has been a legal requirement in England and Wales for child care proceedings to be concluded, apart from “exceptional cases,” within 26 weeks. When this was first proposed, there were concerns that it might lead to poorer decision‐making or to delay being squeezed to either side of the court proceedings, before or afterwards. This paper reports on the messages from a pilot programme to hit the 26‐week target that took place in London in 2012–2013. The study compared the progress of the cases from the pilot year with those the year before, 180 cases in total, involving 256 children. The local authorities involved were able to achieve considerable improvements in timeliness, not just in the proceedings, but for the pre‐ and post‐court processes too; and the quality and fairness of decisions did not seem to be impaired, in terms of the plans for the children and subsequent outcomes over a period of 2 years. “Targets” do not generally find a warm welcome in the social work literature, but this paper shows that when collaboratively implemented, with a measure of flexibility and adequate resources, they can be an effective way of helping to achieve positive change.     

Intervention time series analysis of voluntary,counselling and testing on HIV infections in West African sub-region: the case of Ghana

In this paper, intervention time series models were developed to examine the effectiveness of the voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) programme in the northern and southern sectors of Ghana. Pre-intervention data of HIV reported cases in the northern and southern sectors were first modelled as Box–Jenkins univariate time series. Second, the adopted models from the pre-intervention data were extended to include the intervention variable. The intervention variable was coded as zero for the pre-intervention period (1 January 1996–31 December 2002) and one for the post-intervention period (1 January 2003–31 December 2007). The models developed were applied to the entire data for the two sectors to estimate the effect of the VCT programme. Our findings indicate that the VCT programme was found to be associated with detection of 20 and 40 new HIV infections per 100,000 persons per month in the northern and southern sectors (p?相似文献   

市场、国家与经营者自由——反垄断法的经济伦理学批判

反垄断法是市场经济的国家干预法。它提供给人们的思考是,意图通过国家干预手段达到资源优化配置作用的效果是否会优于市场机制本身?为之,经济学理论研究却提供了两种截然相反的结论。但问题是,如果国家干预优于市场机制本身,那么市场机制还有存在的必要吗?如果不是,那么市场的自生自发秩序如何塑造,作为市场主体之一经营者的自由权利最大可以扩展到什么范围,国家规制垄断的合理边界该如何限定?     

浅析高校突发事件中大学生心理危机干预

高校突发事件不仅直接危害大学生的人身安全,更会给其造成巨大的心灵创伤,如果得不到及时有效的治疗,将会影响其今后的生活和身心健康,形成心理危机。根据危机生命周期理论,从时间序列角度探讨当前高校突发事件中大学生心理危机干预存在的危机前预防预警不到位、危机中被动干预且干预主体单一及忽视对危机个体周围相关人员的干预、危机后干预缺失等问题。大学生心理危机干预的有效实施需要对上述问题进行完善和改进。     

高校辅导员职业倦怠成因分析及干预策略

职业倦怠对于组织开展正常工作,提高工作效率危害较大,它作为现代职场的流行病已受到全社会的广泛关注。由于工作中各种主客原因的影响,目前高校辅导员队伍已成为职业倦怠的高危人群。在阐述高校辅导员职业倦怠的内涵和特征的基础上,分析了辅导员队伍中的职业倦怠现象的成因,并提出了干预策略。     

高校贫困生心理危机干预策略研究

针对高校贫困生心理问题,分析高校贫困生产生心理危机的原因,提出从建立资助体系、心理危机预警机制和创建良好校园环境三个方面着手的心理危机干预策略,以期有效预防高校贫困大学生产生心理危机。