Spinal Cord Injury

ABSTRACT

This article provides an overview of spinal cord injury (SCI) that is useful and informative for social workers and other health care professionals who work with this population. Social workers new to the specialty of spinal cord injury must expand their knowledge base of this chronic injury. Social workers contribute to the rehabilitation process through assessment, education, and discharge planning. This article also may be used to inform persons with spinal cord injury and their families and to encourage them to engage in dialogue about SCI in the earliest stages of treatment and rehabilitation.     

Community-Based Research Strategies for Social Work Education

Teaching students to understand, appreciate, and utilize research based in the community is needed in social work education. This paper outlines five strategies for involving students in community- based research and discusses the advantages to this approach. Examples drawn from the authors' experiences are used to demonstrate application.     

Assessing the Integrity of Community Organization and Administration Content in Field Practice

The effort to ensure that students acquire knowledge and skills in macro social work practice requires considerable attention in the face of stronger interests in micro practice on the part of students and their field instructors. This study evaluates the effectiveness of the field component at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to provide learning opportunities for the development of macro practice skills and knowledge. Over 85% of the student respondents had responsibility for at least one macro practice activity during their first field placement. Although a majority of the macro practice assignments were related to organizational interventions and very few to community interventions, the study provides guidance for improving the teamwork of faculty and field instructors in an articulated approach to field learning.     

从财政部公告(2011年第63号)看高校会计工作的加强和改进

近年来,各高校会计工作不断加强,会计工作质量有所提高。但由于多方面因素的影响和制约,高校会计工作还存在不少问题,亟需加强治理。针对财政部发布2011年63号公告所发现的高校会计工作中存在的问题,分析问题产生的原因,提出改进高校会计工作的政策建议。     

学士导师工作浅谈

本文就如何做好学士导师,并从加强对学生的管理、教育以及学习等方面着手,结合作者本人的工作经验进行了论述.     

The Psychoanalytic Social Worker/The Social Work Psychoanalyst: What Shall Be Our Message?

Many social workers experience a powerful bond with their profession and with the contributions of psychoanalysis. This paper explores these bonds and demonstrates the substantial overlap, and occasional divergence, which exists between these two important fields. It is especially gratifying to see the renewed emphasis on the treatment relationship in contemporary psychoanalytic writings because the relationship has always been central to social work practice. Finally, all psychoanalytic social workers are encouraged to invest themselves in transferring the legacy of their work to beginning social workers, social work students, and the generations of social workers that will follow them.     

Studying Postmodern Families: A Feminist Analysis of Ethical Tensions in Work and Family Research

Through dialogue and reflexivity, feminist researchers aim to create knowledge that is emergent from people in relationship with one another. Reflexivity is a process whereby researchers place themselves and their practices under scrutiny, acknowledging the ethical dilemmas that permeate the research process and impinge on the creation of knowledge. Guided by these tenets, we analyzed the relations among our research practices, our participants, and ourselves to understand and reduce the ethical tensions we encountered in a multimethod research project designed to investigate work and family processes. Our reflective efforts underscore both the active nature of research participants and the importance of the sociopolitical contexts within and around the research process. We make suggestions for more ethical research.     

Issues Affecting Utilization of Hospice Services by Rural Hispanics

Abstract

As the population of Hispanics in the U.S. is growing, their utilization of hospice care remains low. In a study of 110 rural His-panics, most (88%) were not familiar with hospice, but did report willingness to accept such service in their homes. The most important possible barrier to receiving hospice care was language, along with poverty, lack of health insurance, and low levels of education. Hospice social workers can contribute greatly to an effort to increase access to hospice by offering education to the Hispanic community and promoting cultural awareness among hospice staff.     

Begging as work: a study of people with mobility difficulties in Accra, Ghana

Even though begging is illegal in Ghana, an increasing number of disabled people engage in it. Begging is not only abhorred by the law, but also regarded by many Ghanaians as stigmatizing and devaluing. Successive governments of the country and some non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have made efforts either to reduce or eliminate begging. The attempts made have, however, been unsuccessful and the disabled beggars involved have returned to the streets of Accra. The question is why is it difficult to reduce begging in the research area. While poverty, mobility needs, lack of education and employable skills and employment avenues are factors that explain the decision to start begging, it also seems that the ways in which beggars justify their activities contribute to its perseverance. The study aims at sensitizing policy-makers and other stakeholders in attempts to find empowering alternatives to begging.     

民族高等院校大学生思想政治工作面临的问题及其对策

新时期民族高等院校思想政治工作面临着新形势、新情况和新问题。主要问题有 :一是学生中存在讲功利、图实惠现象 ;二是对邓小平理论学习的重大意义认识不足 ,存在思想模糊不清现象 ;三是学生中存在个人价值目标与社会价值目标割裂现象 ;四是学生因学习、生活和就业压力而产生的问题。主要对策有 :一是要提高思想政治工作队伍的整体素质 ;二是结合少数民族大学生的思想实际 ,以邓小平理论课和“两课”为主渠道进行理想信念教育 ;三是把思想政治教育融于学生管理工作全过程 ;四是以大学生心理指导工作促进思想政治教育工作 ;五是民族高等院校的思想政治工作要充分利用网络教育阵地。