Personalized boosters for a computerized intervention targeting college drinking: The influence of protective behavioral strategies

ABSTRACT

Objective: Computerized interventions are cost-effective and can quickly deliver individual feedback to many students. However, in-person interventions are more efficacious. The current study sought to improve the efficacy of a popular online intervention via e-mailed boosters with personalized feedback. Participants: Participants were 213 student drinkers at a southeastern public university, ages 18–24. Methods: Students were randomized into (1) intervention only, or (2) intervention plus booster. Alcohol consumption and related problems were assessed at baseline, 2 weeks post, and 4 weeks post. Results: Boosters yielded reductions in drinking, but not alcohol-related problems. Boosters were associated with significant reductions for drinking frequency, heavy drinking days, peak drinks, and associated blood alcohol concentration (BAC). Protective behavioral strategies (PBS) moderated this effect, with significant reductions for students low in PBS, but not students already highly engaged in PBS use. Conclusions: Easy dissemination and low cost make e-mailed boosters a very efficient way to promote student health.     

Most Successful Intervention Strategies for Abused Older Adults

ABSTRACT

In this Project CARE study, intervention plans for 83 cases, with a total of 473 strategies, are analyzed in a qualitative content analysis method. The 473 strategies are designed and implemented by an abuse-trained, multidisciplinary, health and social service agency, home care team. Each strategy is rated by the team for its acceptance/refusal by clients and levels of success. The most accepted and successful strategies for abused older adults are concrete: nursing and other medical care and homemaking assistance, followed by empowerment strategies, such as support groups for abused older adults, information about rights and resources and volunteer buddy/advocates. Less successful strategies for abused persons are referrals to general community activities and programs. For caregiver abusers, the most successful and accepted interventions involve individual supportive counselling to reduce anxiety, stress and depression and education and training. Abuser-oriented strategies are most accepted and successful in the study. Thus, it would seem pertinent for intervenors to focus services and strategies on abusers and not only on abused older adults, in particular offering them supportive individual counselling to reduce anxiety, stress, and depression. For abused care receivers, home-based services can offer the necessary support to move out of their abuse situation with the help of volunteers and support group activities.     

危机沟通策略在企业危机传播中的应用——以“永和豆浆粉”事件为例

本研究以Coombs提出的“危机沟通策略”为分析框架,研究豆浆粉危机中永和豆浆公司的危机沟通策略。研究发现,永和豆浆公司在此次危机事件中,主策略以保持距离和迎合为主,子策略以借口、合理化和支撑为主。对照Coombs提出的危机情境,本危机属于企业内在问题,介于意外和违法行为之间,建议使用修正行为和完全道歉的沟通策略。但无论从危机种类、证据的真实性、危机伤害程度以及组织过往表现这四个面向来看,本个案中的沟通策略都疏于相对情境下的策略建议。     

汉语话语翻译单位的英译策略

汉语流水式的短句形成长短不一的句群,以意义关系紧密的句群即话语为语义单位,在汉英语言对比基础上,综合运用语块、搭配、介词、分词、插入语、连接副词,构建主次分明、伸缩自如、逻辑清晰的英语句子,能有效提高汉英翻译译文的质量.     

Cross-Cultural Group Work Practice with African American and Jewish Adolescents: JCC/READY

This article describes a multiethnic group for high school students that were developed to promote tolerance, understanding, and healing among African American and Jewish adolescents. Social group work was used as the practice method, with a focus on ethnic-sensitive practice strategies that support cross-cultural relations and initiatives. The article explains the context surrounding the development of the group and describes the ethnic-sensitive practice strategies and the group work skills that were used to achieve desired outcomes as well as a general week-by-week account of what took place in the group.     

试论民族认同与国家认同教育的多样性策略

我国各民族的民族认同与国家认同关系具有不同表征,大体上可以分为民族认同和国家认同和谐共生型、国家认同强烈而民族认同薄弱型、民族认同强烈而国家认同薄弱型等若干类型。我国的民族认同与国家认同教育应根据类型差异,有针对性地设置侧重点不同的教育目标和教育策略,构筑明晰而高效的民族认同和国家认同教育体系,实现56个民族的族别认同、中华民族认同以及国家认同的和谐统一。     

目的论视阈下跨文化语言交际规范之研究——以辽宁旅游景区宣传资料汉英翻译为例

旅游文本的翻译质量直接影响着旅游目的地对外推介的效果、外国游客的信息需求和出游决策,进而关系到旅游业,尤其是入境旅游业的健康发展.鉴于目前旅游文本的英译质量参差不齐,本文拟以德国功能学派的翻译目的论为指导,分析旅游文本的功能,结合平行文本从语言风格、信息内容和行文结构三个方面探讨汉英旅游文本存在的差异,并在此基础上以辽宁旅游文本及其英译为研究语料,提出旅游文本英译时可以适当采用删减、增补和改写等策略,以期为提高该类文本的英译质量提供有益的借鉴.     

林语堂的中国文化外译——以《浮生六记》译本为例

林语堂先生为中国文化输出的先驱,在其诸多译著中又以《浮生六记》最见功力。以该译本为例,探讨了林语堂先生在“东学西进”的翻译探索中如何突破重重困难,通过翻译选择来挑战文化预设,并在“忠实、通顺和美”的原则下灵活应用翻译策略以求得中西文化共鸣的成功经验,对于二十一世纪如何让“中国文化走出去”的翻译实践具有重要的启迪意义。     

论汉武三传及其传人策略的典型意义

汉武三传,即指《汉武故事》、《洞冥记》和《汉武内传》,三传为突出汉武帝好神仙的品性,主要采录那些带有明显虚诞性质的求道访仙之事,而通过这些虚诞之事展现出来的汉武帝形象,无疑与历史的真实有相当的距离,具有明显的虚构性特征。汉武三传的这一传人策略值得注意,在汉魏六朝杂传中具有典型意义,而正是这一传人策略的运用,造成了汉魏六朝杂传普遍的小说化倾向,导致唐人传奇生成土壤的形成和条件的成熟,并最终促成传奇小说的兴起。对汉魏六朝杂传传人策略的考察,有助于更加深入地理解与把握汉魏六朝杂传的小说品格以及唐人传奇小说的渊源流变。     

大学生英语学习策略实证研究

语言学习策略是从学习者的角度研究英语习得的过程,学习者的学习策略随着学习者年龄、性格、学习环境、社会整体经济水平、学校教育软硬件设施水平的提高会改变,依据语言学习策略调查表7．O版,R．Oxford（1989）,对现在大学生的学习策略做抽样调查,结合统计结果,分析得出影响记忆策略、认知策略、补偿策略、元认知策略、情感策略及社交策略形成的原因。并针对每种策略提出引导学生形成自己学习策略的方法及教学建议。