基于环境心理的高层住区外部空间环境研究

以研究高层住区外部空间环境特征为基本出发点,融入环境心理学学科知识作为理论依托,总结出影响居民居住满意度的实用性、安全感、归属感和美观性四大因素,并逐个分析相关的构成要点,周全之间的相互联系,从环境感知和行为特征角度来探讨合理的空间处理方式和优化策略,意在为高层住区居民做出最人性化的空间环境规划设计。     

对持有型商业地产开发的思考

在调控政策的作用下鉴于住宅投资的信贷条件紧缩,商业地产的长期收益特性优势凸显,因此成为退出住宅市场的大量资金的追逐目标,大批住宅地产开发商已经向商业地产开发领域做出了探索。商业地产开发包括销售和自持模式,现阶段不少开发商选择销售商业地产模式给后期的运营带来致命的伤害,为了使其进入良性发展轨道,持有型商业物业将成为未来发展的必然选择。     

日照市农村居民点整理运行机制探究

首先给出了日照市农村居民点用地现状,对2003～2012年日照市农村居民点用地变化从数量和区域差异上进行分析,在此基础上指出了存在的问题;重点分析日照市农村居民点整理的主要运行机制:政府主导型、企业主导型、村集体自主型.不同的运作模式中农村居民点整理的承担角色不同,适用的对象不同,具有明显的地域性、差异性,因此,应因地制宜选择合适的运作模式.     

我国发展逆年金住房抵押贷款的分析

生育率的迅速下降,使我国提前面对人口老龄化问题。然而薄弱的社会保障体系还不足以支撑迅速庞大的老龄化社会,传统的家庭养老模式面临着严峻的挑战。逆年金住房抵押贷款业务作为一种新型的养老方式,将对解决我国老龄人口养老问题具有积极的意义。     

Young people's and carers' perspectives on the mental health needs of looked-after adolescents

While the mental health needs of looked‐after young people have been described in a number of clinical studies, the views of looked‐after adolescents themselves concerning their mental health needs have only rarely been reported. This study used focus groups to elicit the ideas and experiences of looked‐after young people in two local authorities in England. Front‐line carers in the region were also surveyed. Young people and carers were agreed in highlighting the damaging effects of the discontinuity and change experienced in the looked‐after system. Young people emphasized the importance of exercising choice and control when seeking and receiving support and identified the value of positive role models provided by ‘survivors’ of the care system. Carers reported high levels of risk behaviour, particularly self‐harm, among young people in children's homes. These differing perspectives need to be openly acknowledged and negotiated within care settings in order that relevant and accessible therapeutic and support services can be offered to looked‐after adolescents.     

Focused participation in social work and social action

Focused participation proposes that total participation by clients of social work and communities involved in social action is no participation if it neglects the severe blocks on capacity to participate imposed by oppressed life experience and poverty. Workers should take on the responsibility for including a planned program of participation in every intervention focused on what is most important to the client or community members. Case examples in residential care for elderly people, a child advocacy service concerned with the closure of children's homes, cutting a voluntary organization's budget and family social work illustrate the main points of focused participation.     

Factors that contribute to high turnover among residential child care staff

In this paper we draw on our own empirical research and that of others to consider the factors that contribute to high staff turnover in residential child care. First, we focus on the problem of retaining staff in children’s services. Second, we turn our attention to the factors that contribute to staff turnover in residential care: namely, perceptions of the service; of children and young people; and of human resource issues. Third, we attempt to draw out the implications of high turnover for policy and practice. The negative image of residential care has persisted in the wake of a plethora of abuse scandals. The increasing emotional and behavioural problems presented by the children cared for, and the violence and verbal abuse directed at staff are key retention issues. Moreover, poor conditions of employment contribute to staff perceptions of the work as a short‐term career choice only. The potential means of resolving these problems are explored, and the future research agenda highlighted.     

Life Satisfaction Among Israeli Youth in Residential Treatment Care

This study is a preliminary examination of life satisfactionamong 103 children in one residential treatment care (RTC) settingin Israel. Life satisfaction was examined using the MultidimensionalStudents Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS). Gender differencesin life satisfaction and correlations with background and in-carevariables were examined. The study revealed that girls weremore satisfied with RTC-specific domains than boys and thatthe residential child-care worker–child relationship playsa major role in the child’s life satisfaction. Findingsprovided some support for the utility of the MSLSS to describeRTC children and youth’s life satisfaction across a numberof important life domains. Ongoing administration of such scaleshas the potential to monitor RTC children’s life satisfactionand its correlates throughout their stay in care.     

Residential Location,Work Location,and Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Israel

We develop and estimate a comprehensive dynamic programming (DP) model for the joint decisions of residential location, employment location, occupational choices, and labor market outcomes. We use data on immigrants from the former Soviet Union (FSU). We provide an extensive empirical evaluation of policies that have been designed to affect the residential and employment location decisions of the migrant population. The results shed new, and important, light on several issues regarding this group of immigrants. We find large regional differences in wages for the white‐collar workers, but only little differences for the blue‐collar workers. A careful examination of a number of policy measures indicate that a direct subsidy, in the form of a lump‐sum transfer, is most effective in achieving the government stated goal of inducing people to reside in the northern region of the Galilee and southern region of the Negev. Other policies, such as rental and wage subsidies, can also be quite effective, but these are more difficult to administer.     

Breakdown of teenage placements in Danish out‐of‐home care

This study deals with the problem of breakdown in out‐of‐home placements for Danish teenagers. How often are these placements prematurely terminated against the requests and intentions of the child welfare authorities? Which factors seem to increase and decrease placement breakdown? The sample consists of 225 youths and 367 placements during the years 2004–2008. Among the 225 youths, 44% experienced a breakdown, and 33% of the 367 placements ended with a breakdown. A large proportion of the placement breakdowns (20%) occurred before 4 months, and within the first year, 62% of the placement breakdowns had taken place. Replacements took place in 61% of all placement breakdowns. The analysis showed that type of placement and number of youth at the same placement had significant association to placement breakdown, but variables based on the social worker's clinical assessment showed no association to breakdown. However, while the logistic regression model was significant, it explained only 6% of the variance. Earlier studies have indicated that breakdown is a substantial problem of child welfare in several other western countries, Denmark is no exception. These corresponding breakdown rates point out that no child welfare system yet have found a method to reduce breakdown substantially.