A Contextual Analysis of Caregivers of Children With Disabilities

When a child is born with a disability, the caregiver's life is altered. With the numerous challenges caring for a child with disability brings, caregivers may feel devastated. These challenges often result in increased stress on the caregiver, which, in many cases, places the child at risk for maltreatment. The purpose of this study is to explore issues a caregiver faces when caring for his or her child. In this contextual analysis, seven caregivers of children with moderate-to-severe disabilities completed a questionnaire, were interviewed individually, and assisted the researcher in constructing an ecomap of their current living environment. Content from the interviews was analyzed and several themes developed from the data. Implications for clinical practice and future research ideas are discussed.     

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Growing Up with Philosophy, edited by Matthew Lipman and Margaret Sharp. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1978), 410 pp. $20.00. Reviewed by William Proefriedt.     

“四个河南”建设实践探索中的“四发挥”体制创新

"四个河南"建设,需要在实践中着力于体制创新,重视从宏观层面进行制度设计,发挥好市场在富强河南建设中的决定性作用、政府在文明河南建设中的宏观指导地位、民间力量在平安河南建设中的保障性作用、生态在美丽河南建设中的引导性作用。     

景观生态学在合肥市绿地系统规划中的应用分析

利用景观生态学的斑块-廊道-基质理论、景观异质性理论及生物多样性理论对合肥市绿地系统规划进行应用分析,指出合肥市绿地系统的优点与不足,并就此提出了改进措施,以期为进一步从生态学角度指导合肥市绿地系统规划提供参考。     

论儒家生态妥协思想及当代意义

地球生态的不断恶化威胁着人类及其他生物的生存,文章试从生态妥协的概念入手,剖析儒家生态妥协思想的核心、实现过程,提出儒家生态妥协思想的当代意义在于：首先它为人类文明的生态回归提供了借鉴,其次儒家生态妥协思想克服了人类中心主义主—客二分的思维方式,同时也克服了非人类中心主义对人主体性的贬损。     

我国公共管理模式创新的行政生态学分析

以行政生态学理论为研究视角，根据我国国情和独特的历史、社会、文化条件，对我国公共管理模式的发展历程、公共管理模式创新的起点与背景进行了分析，并围绕“一种理念，两个转变，三项提高”的思路对我国公共管理模式创新的路径提出了相关的政策性建议。     

Condom Use at Most Recent Intercourse Among African,Caribbean, and Black Youth in Windsor,Ontario

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Bronfenbrenner's social ecology model was used to examine macro-, micro-, individual-, situational-, and chrono-levels of influence on condom use among unmarried African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) Canadian youth. Gender-segregated bivariate and multivariate logistic regression models were used to identify social-ecological levels of influence on condom use at most recent penile-vaginal intercourse (PVI) in a sample of 283 ACB youth. Among women, condom use was associated with micro-, situational-, and individual-level influences. Among men, condom use was associated with chrono-level and individual-level influences. Future research should elaborate specific mechanisms of influence within identified social-ecological levels.     

金融生态理论研究:进展与评述

金融生态理论的发展历程大致可分为起源、形成和发展三个阶段。当前,已有的研究对金融生态的系统性认识和量化研究关注不够,在一定程度上制约了金融生态理论的进一步发展和完善。因此,未来在金融生态理论的研究中应重点关注以下三个方面内容:一是把握金融生态理论的核心议题;二是明确和量化金融生态系统内外部因素的作用和影响;三是科学认识和评价金融生态系统的平衡和突变。     

从教育生态学角度思考教育科学研究方法

教育生态学强调联系。基于教育生态学的教育科学研究方法应关注教育研究走出空泛教育,关注教育的可持续发展。     

Neighborhoods in the Network Society the e-Neighbors study

This study examines whether the Internet is increasingly a part of everyday neighborhood interactions, and in what specific contexts Internet use affords the formation of local social ties. Studies of Internet and community have found that information and communication technologies provide new opportunities for social interaction, but that they may also increase privatism by isolating people in their homes. This paper argues that while the Internet may encourage communication across great distances, it may also facilitate interactions near the home. Unlike traditional community networking studies, which focus on bridging the digital divide, this study focuses on bridging the divide between the electronic and parochial realms. Detailed, longitudinal social network surveys were completed with the residents of four contrasting neighborhoods over a period of three years. Three of the four neighborhoods were provided with a neighborhood email discussion list and a neighborhood website. Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) was used to model over time the number of strong and weak ties, emailed, met in-person, and talked to on the telephone. The neighborhood email lists were also analyzed for content. The results suggest that with experience using the Internet, the size of local social networks and email communication with local networks increases. The addition of a neighborhood email list further increases the number of weak neighborhood ties, but does not increase communication multiplexity. However, neighborhood effects reduce the influence of everyday Internet use, as well as the experimental intervention, in communities that lack the context to support local tie formation.