Numerical integration of the divisia price index and an application of the equation of measurement to prices

First the linear and the exponential paths are chosen as examples to show how the Divisia price and quantity index can be integrated numerically. Then the equation of measurement by Eichhorn and Gleissner is adapted to price measurement and used to formulate certain properties of indices. A special class of properties, the reversal tests describing certain symmetries, is considered especially, It turns out that the corresponding antitheses form a group of eight elements.     

The Group-Centered BSW Curriculum for Community Practice

ABSTRACT

The “mundane extreme environment” of racism and poverty follows us into the new millennium (McAdoo, 1986). In response, I propose a group-centered curriculum for community practice as the professional foundation for social work education. Shifting the curricular focus from individual development to social development and from a domestic perspective to an international human rights perspective, the group-centered curriculum would teach social group work, inter-group work, and inter-professional practice as methods for promoting social and economic justice.     

团体咨询在中国的发展与展望

团体咨询是一个舶来品,自20世纪90年代被引进中国后,在不到20年的时间里,团体咨询得到了快速的发展。目前,从事团体咨询实践的咨询师不断增加,团体咨询研究的论文不断增多,团体咨询应用领域不断扩大,最为重要的标志是2011年团体咨询师能力测评被国家纳入专业人才测评体系和团体咨询师培养系列教材的出版。团体咨询在企业、学校、机关等组织发挥着积极的作用。     

Index for Volume 32

Abstract

College students with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus often ignore the care of their illness. Faced with managing this illness independently for the first time, they lack the knowledge and experience to do so effectively. Their need to establish autonomy often prevents them from seeking the advice of health professionals. In view of this, the author undertook a pilot study to investigate the role of a peer support group on a college campus as a means of improving the diabetic students' management of their illness.

Three closed-membership groups met for 10 weekly sessions. Hemoglobin A_1c (the measure of average blood sugar over the preceding 3-month interval) determinations prior to participation in the group ranged from 4.0 to 11.7, with a mean of 8.16; after participation in the group, the mean hemoglobin A_1c levels of group members dropped to 6.10 (p < .001). (Hemoglobin A_1c measures lower than 6.2 reflect physiologic blood sugar measures of someone without diabetes.)

These results suggest that the peer-group approach may be a viable way to improve the metabolic control of young adults with diabetes at the time in their lives when they are learning to manage their illness independently.     

一例大学班级哀伤辅导实例及思考

某大二学生因病突然在寝室逝世,此后其所在班级的同学陷入了情绪和行为困扰中。该校学生心理辅导中心的老师在了解事件背景后,设计并实施了一次哀伤辅导,协助该班同学处理了丧失和哀伤,合理宣泄,从负性事件中获取正面意义,取得良好效果。该文呈现了完整的哀伤辅导过程,可为学校处理类似事件提供参考,并进一步探讨了高校在应对和处理此类突发事件中的相关事宜。     

Staff responses to age‐related health changes in people with an intellectual disability in group homes

The purpose of this study was to explore how supervisors in group homes caring for people with intellectual disability responded to the development of age‐related health changes in their residents. Ten group home supervisors working in the disability sector were interviewed once. Data were analysed using Dimensional Analysis. The study identified several factors related to whether a resident could stay ‘at home’ or would need to be moved to residential aged care (nursing home) including: nature and extent of group home resources, group home staff comfort with residents’ health changes, staff skill at navigating the intersection between the disability and ageing sectors, and the supervisor’s philosophy of care. The ability of older people with an intellectual disability to ‘age in place’ is affected by staff knowledge about and comfort with age‐related illnesses, staff skills at navigating formal services, staffing flexibility, and the philosophy of group home supervisors. Despite the growing international concern for the rights of people with disability, particularly in relation to decision making, questions about the older person’s choice of residence and participation in decision making about what was best for them, were almost nonexistent. Rather, decisions were made based on what was considered to be in ‘the best interest’.     

Social workers' attitudes towards family group conferences in Sweden and the UK

The New Zealand family group conference (FGC) approach to decision making in child welfare and protection has attracted strong interest among policy makers and professionals all over the world. While New Zealand’s legislation makes use of FGCs more or less mandatory in child protection, other countries permit social workers to refer families to an FGC at their own discretion. Knowledge about social workers’ attitudes towards the model is thus paramount if we want to understand implementation and evaluations of FGCs outside New Zealand. This study looks at attitudes towards and actual referrals to FGCs amongst 219 social workers from 18 local authorities in Sweden and the UK. Results reveal an overwhelmingly positive attitude towards FGCs in both countries. Given these attitudes it was striking that only 42% of the social workers had initiated at least one FGC over an 18‐month period. The number of implemented FGCs was almost exactly the same in Sweden and the UK, after adjusting for time and number of social workers. Possible explanations for this paradox are discussed, using data from the survey and child welfare literature.     

Social class as a dimension in casework judgment 1

With few exceptions, outcome studies evaluating batterer treatment groups are inconclusive at best and, at worst, label such treatment programs as ineffectual. This qualitative research study was developed in an effort to understand the forces behind how positive change either happens or is subverted. Through analysis of treatment groups for batterers, the study investigated two questions: How do batterer treatment groups affect the psychological defenses of the members? What types of group dynamics emerge in offender treatment that might be unique to this population and promote defensive change? The theoretical frameworks used in this project include constructs from ego psychology related to defensive maturity and the curative factors in group process, articulated by Yalom (2005).     

EDITORIAL

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GROUP TREATMENT FOR DIVORCING PERSONS

Separation and divorce traumatically impact the lives of divorcing couples, their children, their relatives, their friends, their working colleagues, their jobs and their church. The couple is forced into a new life style, new roles and independence. Attachment (positive and/or negative) of each panner for the other perdures. Group counseling provides suppon and acceptance to angry, rejected, guiltridden and lonely persons. The group provides the ideal setting for cenain curative factors to take effect: realizing that one is not alone, that help in coping is available, that one can help others as well as be accepted by others, that one can have corrective experiences and catharsis, that one can learn, change and grow. Recommendations are made for similar programs in other communities.