Emerging adult identity following adolescent experiences with psychotropic medications: A retrospective study

This study examines the perceptions of mental illness identity among a group of emerging adults based on their retrospective experiences with diagnoses and psychotropic medication use during their earlier formative adolescent years. A short questionnaire was administered via online social media platforms to volunteers between the ages of 19 and 30 and who self-identified as having taken psychotropic medication between the ages of 12 and 18 (N = 46). Correlation analysis revealed that several variables were associated with a stronger illness identity, including participant’s happiness with their medication experiences, the belief that medication made them more like their “true” selves, and the belief that their diagnosis was accurate. Content analysis of participant narratives suggested themes related to discontinuation and barriers to adherence. These results contribute to the growing knowledge base around lived experiences of psychiatric medication use and suggest further study on how to advance more informed and compassionate mental health care.     

Prediction of posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology after childbirth – A Croatian longitudinal study

Background

Following childbirth, a vast number of women experience some degree of mood swings, while some experience symptoms of postpartum posttraumatic stress disorder.

Care in a Time of Austerity: the Electronic Monitoring of Homecare Workers’ Time

Austerity places intense pressures on labour costs in paid care. In the UK, electronic monitoring technology has been introduced to record (and materially reduce) the working time and wages of homecare workers. Based on empirical findings, we show that, in a ‘time of austerity’, care is reductively constructed as a consumption of time. Service users are constructed as needy, greedy, time‐consumers and homecare workers as resource‐wasting time‐takers. We point to austerity as a temporal ideology aimed at persuading populations that individual deprivation in the present moment, self‐sacrifice and the suppression of personal need in the here and now is a necessary requirement to underpin a more secure national future. Accordingly, women in low‐waged care work are required to eschew a rights‐bearing, present‐tense identity and are assumed willing to suppress their entitlements to lawful wages as a sacrifice to the future. By transforming our understandings of ‘care’ into those of ‘time consumption’, and by emphasizing the virtue of present‐tense deprivation, a politics of austerity appears to justify time‐monitoring in care provision and the rationing of homecare workers’ pay.     

新世纪前后中国文学版图中的“宁夏板块”

“宁夏文学”在中国当代文学史上占有一席之地,始于社会主义新时期。20世纪80年代,张贤亮以其饱经沧桑和忧患之后的慷慨悲歌征服了大江南北。张贤亮的小说创作,不仅提升了宁夏文学总体的创作水平,也为宁夏文学在中国文坛赢得了美好声誉。进入20世纪90年代,宁夏文学在略事犹豫和徘徊之后,终于在新世纪前后,再次向中国文坛奉献了“宁夏青年作家群”。这一创作群体的崛起,不仅给新世纪前后的中国文学界吹来一股清新怡人的创作之风,而且,这一与广阔深厚的中国古老土地和“中国经验”血脉相连,并因此取得了不凡文学业绩的青年创作群体的成功,也充分证明,在市场经济条件下,居于偏远地区的文学创作事业,只要领导得法,调动有方,是可以走在全国前列的。     

西方语言学关于内在体验性认知特质的文化之思

西方认知语言学经历了从唯理认知观到非理性认知观又到生存认知观的历史嬗变,这表明内在体验性的认知虽然是西方语言学在各个发展阶段上的共同特质,但它的哲学基础不仅不稳固,而且比较脆弱,这期间曾发生了从理性的自省到非理性的体验,从"在"的召唤到后现代的解构等几次重大的意义断裂。因其只强调语言意义的自生性、体验性的内在特质,忽视了语言对外在世界、经验事实或社会实践的依赖性特质,以至于常常使现代语言学之社会语用价值处于遮蔽状态。     

当前高校学生党支部建设中存在的问题与对策

高校学生党支部是在高校党委领导下的基层党组织,担负着党在高校直接联系大学生,把党的路线、方针、政策落实到大学生群体中的重要职责,我校在开展学生党建工作时积极创新学生党支部工作模式,积累了一些经验,但也存在一些亟需解决的问题。对此应继续加强党支部组织建设,强化各支部委员职责意识;建立健全各项制度,加大党员的继续教育力度;强化大学生思想政治教育工作,端正学生入党动机;重视网络党建工作,拓展党建阵地,发挥网络服务党员的作用。     

转型期我国职工下岗问题的社会学分析

企业职工大规模下岗是我国转型期特有的经济社会现象.从社会学视角看,下岗实质上是失业,必然产生多重社会效应.再就业工程作为政府动员社会资源解决下岗失业问题的应急措施,不可能长期搞下去,必须着眼于劳动力市场的发育和完善,寻找市场、政府和社会三方面的结合点,这是解决下岗失业问题的治本之策.     

马克思主义学习型政党建设研究综述

党的十七届四中全会以来,学术界开启了关于建设马克思主义学习型政党的研究热潮。学术界关于建设马克思主义学习型政党的研究,主要集中在对马克思主义学习型政党的科学内涵、时代意义、基本特征、基本经验、实现路径等方面。对这些研究情况进行梳理,有助于为建设马克思主义学习型政党提供借鉴。     

关于高等学校教学督导工作的几点思考

教学督导制是高等学校提高教学质量的重要措施之一,对高等学校教学质量和教学改革起着重要的保障和推进作用.通过对教学督导的职责和工作制度及督导工作中存在的问题进行探讨和分析,旨在揭示教学督导工作的重要性.     

马克思主义中国化时代化的新鲜经验略探

党的十六大以来,在带领全国人民推进马克思主义中国化的过程中,既继承了以往马克思主义中国化的基本经验,也积累了丰富的新鲜经验：认真学习、准确把握马克思主义基本理论;勇于创新,以新观点继承发展马克思主义;深刻洞察,准确把握中国特色之基本国情;不断探索,更加明确理论实践之具体结合;注重民生,回归马克思主义理论的终极关怀。概括起来,就是理论与现实结合,继承与发展兼顾,原则性和灵活性并用,理论应用和理论创新并举,更加注重马克思主义的终极目标。