立足三个面向搞好职业教育

该文从职业技术教育的人才培养方向和人才培养目标的角度,探讨了在新的历史条件下职业技术教育面向市场、面向社会、面向未来的办学理念,这是对传统的职业技术教育办学思想的突破。     

关于提高高等职业教育质量的探索

针对我国高等职业教育的现状和存在的问题,阐述了正确理解和把握高等职业教育的定位方向和特点、优化高等职业教育办学机制和办学模式、以就业为导向深化高等职业教育教学改革、强化高等职业技能培训、加快＂双师型＂师资队伍建设、加强职业道德教育、健全高等职业教育的评价监控体系是提高高等职业教育质量的主要途径和措施。     

略谈“情境体验模式”在高职商务英语教学中的应用

本文着重分析＂情境体验模式＂在商务英语专业学生培养过程中的作用。     

多媒体网络环境下高职高专英语教学探讨

本文通过传统英语教学和多媒体教学的对比,论述英语多媒体教学的优势。     

我国职业技术教育规模结构效益分析

文章对我国的职业技术教育发展的规模、结构进行概述的基础上,利用灰色关联度分析方法,对职业技术教育的效益进行深入分析,探讨了我国职业技术教育的发展趋势,对促进我国经济发展、调整教育结构具有显见的意义。     

农村剩余劳动力转移及其农村职业教育研究

农村大量剩余劳动力的存在是我国农村经济和社会发展面临的最大制约因素,合理有序地转移农村剩余劳动力是关系到我国农村经济进一步发展和社会稳定的重大战略问题。本文从农村剩余劳动力及其转移的概念,看到农村剩余劳动力转移的重要性;进而分析制约其转移的诸多因素,认为农民素质和技能低下是制约其转移的内在因素;从而提出相应的对策,即发展职业教育是从根本上实现农村剩余劳动力有序转移的有效途径并讨论了相关问题。     

Home Futures: Living in Yesterday’s Tomorrow? Home Futures,An Exhibition by the Design Museum,London in Partnership with IKEA Museum,Almhult – 2018-9

ABSTRACT

Home Futures, the major exhibition at the Design Museum, London, and IKEA Museum Sweden, explores the trajectory of radical domestic visions from the 1960s—but it seems that the future was closer in the 1960s than now.     

Subjective distress from trauma in older clients with severe mental illness

There is little research on older persons with severe mental illness (SMI) who have experienced trauma. We conducted an exploratory study with 174 community mental health clients with SMI who were 50 years of age or older (range 50–87; mean age 58) to examine the relationship between subjective distress related to six common traumas and post-traumatic stress symptoms while controlling for gender and other key psychiatric symptoms. With regression analysis, we found that of the six common traumas, only distress from unexpected loss of a loved one was significant. That factor accounted for the most variance in post-traumatic stress symptoms than all other factors in the model including gender, psychiatric symptoms of SMI, and other trauma. Gender and symptoms of psychosis were also significant in the model. Unexpected losses, particularly in older persons with SMI, can cause considerable emotional distress and could be related to post-traumatic stress symptoms. Practitioners should be vigilant in regularly screening older people with SMI for recent loss of loved ones and be prepared to address their distress with grief/bereavement counseling.     

Gambling disorder and suicidality within the UK: an analysis investigating mental health and gambling severity as risk factors to suicidality

Greater severities of gambling behaviour and poorer mental health have been identified in the literature as risk factors for suicidality within gambling disorder (GD) populations. This is the first known study within the UK to use empirical data, taken from a UK treatment clinic for GD (National Problem Gambling Clinic, UK) to explore the associations between current suicidality (thoughts and plans) and measures assessing gambling severity and mental health. Self-report data from 122 participants were collected during the intake process at the clinic through a variety of methods including the use of questionnaires and a standardized 90-minute interview with a psychologist. Reported suicidality was high (current suicidal thoughts [28.7%] and plans [6.6%]), yet only one measure of gambling severity (estimated total losses) was found to be inversely associated with suicidality. Indices of poorer mental health were found to have a greater association with suicidality than measures of gambling severity, and a logistic regression analysis identified depressive symptomology and a history of psychiatric disorder in the participants’ family as significant factors associated with suicidality. Overall, within GD populations, factors associated with poorer mental health rather than gambling severity are seemingly a greater risk factor in patients with suicidality.     

Stepwise Psychosocial Palliative Care: A New Approach to the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder at the End of Life

Although evidence-based therapies for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) exist for physically healthy populations, these often do not adequately address PTSD in dying patients. Particularly because these interventions require 8–16 weekly sessions, and the median stay in U.S. hospices is 17.5 days (National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization [NHPCO], 2015 National Hospice &; Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). (2015). NHPCO Facts and figures: Hospice care in America. Retrieved from http://www.nhpco.org/sites/default/files/public/Statistics_Research/2015_Facts_Figures.pdf. [Google Scholar]), there is a potentially serious timing mismatch. Moreover, these treatments may temporarily increase trauma symptoms (Nishith, Resick, &; Griffin, 2002 Nishith, P., Resick, P. A., &; Griffin, M. G. (2002). Pattern of change in prolonged exposure and cognitive-processing therapy for female rape victims with posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 880–886. doi:10.1037//0022-006x.70.4.880[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), resulting in some patients dying in greater distress than had they not received care. The Stepwise Psychosocial Palliative Care (SPPC) model presented in this article compensates for these difficulties by embracing a palliative care approach to PTSD. Although it utilizes techniques drawn from existing PTSD interventions, these are re-ordered and utilized in a time-responsive, patient-centered manner that takes into account prognosis, fatigue, and logistical concerns. The SPPC approach is further considered with respect to existing social work palliative care competencies (Gwyther et al., 2005 Gwyther, L. P., Altilio, T., Blacker, S., Christ, G., Csikai, E. L., Hooyman, N., … Howe, J. (2005). Social work competencies in palliative and end-of-life care. Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life &; Palliative Care, 1, 87–120. doi:10.1300/j457v01n01_06[Taylor &; Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) and a case study is used to demonstrate its application.