Adults with Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's Disease

Abstract

An increasing number of people with Down syndrome are at risk of dementia resulting from Alzheimer's disease. Many reside in community group homes. When they are affected by dementia, the challenge to agencies providing group homes is how to best provide continued housing and provide effective dementia-related care management. In the general population, long term care is typically provided in nursing facilities, often in special care units (SCUs). This study evaluated select factors found in group homes and SCUs to determine which is able to provide a better quality of life for people with Down syndrome affected by dementia. Interviews, using quality of life indicators, were conducted at 20 sites, equally selected from group homes and SCUs, on the basis of their experience with people with dementia. Results indicate that group homes can provide conditions associated with better quality of life and, additionally, operate with lower staffing costs due to the non-utilization of medical staff.     

长沙市经济适用住房货币化补贴的实践与思考

长沙出台了一系列安居政策，其中有一项重要的举措就是停止新建经济适用住房，全面实施经济适用住房货币化补贴方式，这是一次重大的变革和尝试。分析长沙实施经济适用住房货币化补贴的背景、具体做法，详细剖析经济适用住房兴建与货币化补贴的利弊，提出实施经济适用住房货币化补贴要注意的几个问题。     

中国政府教育援外短期培训项目有效性分析——基于南京、天津四所高校援外培训的实证研究

短期援外培训项目是我国援外政策的一个重要组成部分，但是缺乏对影响这类项目的有效性因素的实证研究。本文建立了一个短期援外培训项目有效性的分析框架，对南京、天津四所高校承担的部分援外培训项目进行了调研，使用偏最小二乘法对模型进行了验证。结果表明，我国短期援外培训项目的有效性与课程质量、培训机构及管理人员的执行力之间存在显著的正相关关系。文章最后对如何提高教育援外短期培训项目的有效性提出了相关政策建议。     

中外合作项目学生词汇学习策略调查与研究

以中外合作办学项目100名新生为研究对象,通过问卷及词汇试卷调查学生词汇策略使用状况,分析词汇策略和词汇成绩之间的相关性,以及词汇策略使用差异。结果表明：中外合作项目学生在词汇学习观念上存在偏差,且观念和行动不一致;词汇策略使用总体状况不理想,即使是成绩优秀的学生,也不善综合使用元认知策略和多种认知策略促进词汇学习。在研究结果基础上,对词汇教学提出了建议。     

医事法律专业方向的培养方案与课程设置研究

通过深入的、多层面和多视角的调研,明确医学院校医事法律专业方向所确立的人才培养目标和定位与国家对卫生监督人才需求相一致,具有重要意义。在此基础上提出了厘清办学理念、优化课程设置思路和建议,尤其值得注意。     

多轨道教师评鉴制度的规划与推动

教师评鉴应以形成性评鉴为主、总结性评鉴为辅，二者各有其目的和功能。规划健全的多轨道教师评鉴制度是长期而专业的任务，建议把握法制化、专业化、民主化、弹性化等策略或原则。其推动策略包括：持续推动教师评鉴纳入“教师法”、扩大办理教师专业发展评鉴、落实教师成绩考核、建立教学辅导教师制度、加强不适任教师的辅导与处理、建立初任教师辅导与评鉴制度、根据教师专业标准持续研修教师评鉴规准。     

Coping Strategies and Relapse of Substance Abusers: A Case Study of the Therapeutic Community Program in Indonesia

The present study examined the ability of people with substance‐dependence problems to cope with stressful events and refrain from resuming alcohol drinking and the use of drugs. This study specifically examined the length of time that substance abusing‐residents spent in a state‐owned, residential‐based therapeutic community program at Lembang‐Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. A study sample of 68 residents completed a questionnaire with four sections. The results of this study showed no significant differences in the scores rating the coping behavior of the residents according to the length of stay in the program. This study also found no significant differences in the Coping Behavioral Inventory scores of the residents according to the level scores of total Coping Strategy Inventory. It is important for social workers to understand the relationship between the length of stay of residents and their ability to cope so that they can effectively engage in intervention work with individuals with substance‐dependence issues who participate in the therapeutic community.     

Community-Based Program Research

ABSTRACT

At first glance, the worlds of program professionals and evaluators may seem quite separate. However, there are common issues whose resolution will enhance both program development and research on programs. Program professionals and evaluators have a great deal to learn from each other. As that learning occurs, both program delivery and evaluation research will benefit. Both are concerned about matters of validity, whether it pertains to the nature of the program intervention itself or to the nature of the assessment of the program intervention. To reinforce the development of program evaluation in partnership, this paper discusses key points about evaluation research relevant to both program professionals and researchers. These include the contextual influences on a program, the “readiness” of a program for evaluation, and whether the evaluation research “works” for the program. Underlying our discussion is a call for the development of partnerships around research on programs. In that light, this article elaborates the process steps that should be taken to build program evaluation partnerships, including a discussion of what evaluators and program professionals need to know about each other, and their respective values, interests, and professional perspectives.     

The Collaborative Research Education Partnership

Abstract

This article discusses the founding and operation of the Emmett J. and Mary Martha Doerr Center for Social Justice Education and Research, an endowed nonprofit organization located within the School of Social Service at Saint Louis University. The nonprofit Center provides a creative mechanism for facilitating university-community agency research. The Research Education Partnership (REP) model creates a partnership among students, community agency personnel, and faculty in funded practice research and program evaluation. Four collaborations, their benefits and challenges, are described. Students are prepared to integrate research into practice. The Center promotes and supports faculty-community partnerships for social justice.