Children’s Psychosocial Rehabilitation: Clinical Outcomes for Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance Living in Foster Care

Children living in foster care are an especially vulnerable population who often come to the attention of Medicaid mental health providers. These children experience a high incidence of emotional and behavioral disorders and may have specialized treatment needs related to their living arrangement status. This study assessed whether Children’s Psychosocial Rehabilitation could effectively treat youth with severe emotional and behavioral disorders who live in foster care. Analysis of data from an open trial of 218 clinically-impaired youth, aged 3–18 years, revealed no reliable differences in treatment outcome between foster versus non-foster children, with a trend toward more favorable outcomes for foster youth. Findings justify further study of the effectiveness of this Medicaid-funded service for the treatment of youth in care.     

心理危机干预中的问题解决

文章对影响心理平衡状态的因素、心理危机干预的基本模式和危机干预的基本步骤做了简要的介绍 ,这使人们能够更好地在危机中找到应对策略 ,克服因危机而给人们带来的心理失衡。     

女大学生心理健康状况调查及干预研究

调查女大学生心理健康状况,并提出有效的干预措施,为高校心理健康教育工作提供依据。抽取南京3所高校475名女大学生为研究对象,采用大学生人格问卷和90项心理症状自评量表进行调查研究。根据UPI得分,4.2%的女大学生可能存在一些心理障碍。SCL-90结果统计发现,女大学生在强迫、焦虑、恐怖、精神病性四个因子上分数高于全国常模,差异显著。这些心理健康问题需要关注,采取有效的干预措施是非常必要的,必须有针对性地、系统地进行有效的干预。     

孤独者的寻觅形象——试论李白诗歌对现实世界介入的努力

从太白诗作看,他对现实对人生的态度是:对之只当作一种把玩,一种游戏,没有必要也不可能为之牺牲自己的自由与快乐。这就使得李白自身的存在和他的诗歌,在现实世俗世界中,都只能作为一种形象出现,而他的介入现实也只是一种意识的努力,他的诗歌始终摆脱不了第三者的形象和声音,并成了他塑造自我形象的手段,是一种试图证明自己的存在的方式。     

关于提前介入制度若干问题的探讨

提前介入制度是检察机关履行法律监督职能的重要手段,有其存在的法律依据,在司法实践中也有其必要性．对刑事侦查的质量和刑事诉讼效率的提高越来越凸显其重要作用。提前介入制度与侦查保密制度、回避原则的冲突之处,是可以解决的,这有待在制度的设计上进一步完善。     

Standing Up for the Victim,Siding with the Bully or Standing by? Bystander Responses in Bullying Situations

In this study we examined children's self‐efficacy, outcome expectations, and outcome values in relation to bystander responses in bullying situations. We proposed that beyond the effect of self‐efficacy, the decision to defend the victim of bullying vs. remain passive vs. reinforce the bully depends on outcomes children expect from defending, and on the value they place on these outcomes. Our sample consisted of 6397 Finnish children (3232 girls and 3165 boys) from third, fourth, and fifth grades (mean ages 9–11 years). Results showed that the motivational underpinnings of defending the victim, remaining passive, and reinforcing the bully varied. Defending was associated with the expectation that the victim feels better as a result of defending as well as valuing such an outcome. Reinforcement of bullying was associated with negative expectations and not caring about the positive outcomes. Conflicting expectations and values were linked to remaining passive. Results are discussed in terms of their implications for anti‐bullying interventions.     

Back to basics: explaining sample size in outcome trials,are statisticians doing a thorough job?

Time to event outcome trials in clinical research are typically large, expensive and high‐profile affairs. Such trials are commonplace in oncology and cardiovascular therapeutic areas but are also seen in other areas such as respiratory in indications like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Their progress is closely monitored and results are often eagerly awaited. Once available, the top line result is often big news, at least within the therapeutic area in which it was conducted, and the data are subsequently fully scrutinized in a series of high‐profile publications. In such circumstances, the statistician has a vital role to play in the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of the trial. In particular, in drug development it is incumbent on the statistician to ensure at the outset that the sizing of the trial is fully appreciated by their medical, and other non‐statistical, drug development team colleagues and that the risk of delivering a statistically significant but clinically unpersuasive result is minimized. The statistician also has a key role in advising the team when, early in the life of an outcomes trial, a lower than anticipated event rate appears to be emerging. This paper highlights some of the important features relating to outcome trial sample sizing and makes a number of simple recommendations aimed at ensuring a better, common understanding of the interplay between sample size and power and the final result required to provide a statistically positive and clinically persuasive outcome. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

ADAPTING THE MODEL: THERAPEUTIC WORK WITH CHILDREN FROM ARMY FAMILIES

This paper describes the development of a specialised therapeutic service for parents and their young children in an inner city social services family centre. The Under five's counselling service, based on the Tavistock Model, offers brief psychoanalytic interventions to parents who are worried about their young child's development e.g. crying, eating, persistent crying etc. The premise behind setting up such a service was to provide therapeutic intervention to the parent-child relationship at the earliest possible stage, preventing further ongoing difficulties. The paper draws upon observations and interventions with families I have seen in the first year the service was opened. Particular themes which emerged in the work with these families will be highlighted. In particular a link is made between early childhood difficulties and unresolved loss in the mother's lives. Furthermore, the impact of the service upon the rest of the social services family support services is commented upon.     

Employee Assistance Program Staffing

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秦兆阳与《组织部新来的青年人》——对一桩历史公案的再认识

王蒙《组织部新来的青年人》发表于《人民文学》1956年9月,秦兆阳对这篇小说的修改引起了一场轩然大波。秦兆阳的修改主要集中在对区委书记周润祥形象的改写和对林赵爱情的强化上。这种修改与秦兆阳的现实主义理论有密切的关系。小说的改写触动了《在延安文艺座谈会上的讲话》关于"文艺与政治的关系"、"歌颂与暴露"、"写真实"等重大问题,因此引起了毛泽东的关注。