People with sight impairment in the world of visual arts: does it make any sense?

Abstract

The article describes an educational and artistic project in Poland where individuals with sight impairments could learn more about visual arts through guided city tours around their greatest monuments, appreciation of art pieces and meetings with artists. During workshops, they could test their own artistic skills by creating tactile drawings, pottery sculptures, photographs and tactile picture book. The effects of their attempts were presented in a temporary exhibition in the contemporary art gallery (with an associated educational program). The exhibition was a significant experience both for the artists with visual impairments and the visitors. Through analysis of the structure and content of the artworks, the gallery visitors could understand more about the situation of people with sight impairments as they struggle with everyday tasks and how creative they are.     

Governing Through Critique: Post-Conditionality and Bottom-Up Governance in the Merida Initiative

This article is about how the governmentality critique of top-down governance feeds into current interventionary policy thinking. Drawing on the Merida Initiative, a US–Mexican security cooperation agreement signed in 2007, the article brings out how neo-liberal civil society discourse continuously deconstructs the normative and analytical assumptions, categories, and concepts of modern liberal-universalism. In the Merida Initiative, civil society representatives were repeatedly delegitimized for being part of a detached internationalized NGO bubble. The goal was to enable idiosyncratic local knowledge-power to unfold its creative governing potential unencumbered by the oppressive and counterproductive reductions and exclusions of liberal-universal episteme. In this way, policy thinking actually coincides with the governmentality critique of standardized knowledge and top-down imposition. One of the negative implications is that international policy-makers lose their ability to arbitrate according to fixed normative standards.     

Improving physical and mental health in frontline mental health care providers: Yoga-based stress management versus cognitive behavioral stress management

The need for brief, low-cost, easily disseminable, and effective interventions to promote healthy lifestyles is high. This is especially true for mental health providers. The authors developed two studies to compare the impacts of Cognitive Behavioral Stress Management (CBSM) and Yoga-Based Stress Management (YBSM) interventions for health care professionals. Study 1 offered an 8-week YBSM intervention to 37 mental health care participants and collected health data pre- and post. Study 2 offered YBSM and CBSM classes to 40 randomly assigned mental health care providers and collected mental and physical health data at four time points. In Study 1, using t tests, the YBSM intervention affected a number of mental and physical well-being indices pre to post. In Study 2, using linear mixed modeling, YBSM and CBSM groups both improved significantly (p?p?F?=?4.34), physical activity (YBSM increased more, p?F?=?3.47), overall mental health (YBSM increased more, p?F?=?5.32), and secondary traumatic stress (YBSM decreased more, p?F?=?4.89). YBSM and CBSM appear to be useful for health care professionals’ mental and physical health. YBSM demonstrates some benefit above and beyond the extremely well studied and empirically supported CBSM, including increased physical activity, overall mental health, and decreased secondary traumatic stress benefits.     

大学新生适应问题与教育干预模式探讨

大学新生普遍存在"新生综合征",在心理学上表现为认知、行为、情绪三方面问题."新生综合征"本质上是个体原有认知结构和行为模式不能应对新环境而带来的一系列混乱.认知结构和行为模式具有生物学意义上的稳定性,不是简单的"说教"所能改变的.新生适应教育的真正出路在于如何把经验教育化,然后通过教育化的经验改变认知和行为,诸如发展心理学教育,进行"尝试错误"、"心理成熟"和灵活看世界等认知改变训练,在行为上进行"学习行为"、"人际行为"、"做事行为"的训练等.     

弱势劳动者群体的就业公平与促进机制

在没有外力干预的情况下,弱势劳动者群体的就业公平在市场当中的缺失是一个常态。但是,市场自身也存在一定的自动增进就业公平的机制。但总体上来说,市场在解决就业公平问题方面存在一些自身无法弥补的缺陷,因此必须寻求政府干预等外力的介入。政府干预在弥补市场促进就业公平的缺陷方面具有优势,但是政府手段也有其自身固有的缺陷,所以应当维持在一定的限度。法律是现阶段我国克服市场调节和政府干预缺陷,维护和促进弱势劳动者就业公平的根本保证。     

Improving the parental self-agency of depressed Latino immigrant mothers: Piloted intervention results

Segmented assimilation theory posits that uneven rates of intergenerational acculturation—the process by which immigrants and their children learn the language and normative lifestyles of a new culture—can be detrimental to the parent-child relationship. This paper presents results on parental self-efficacy from an intervention study—Vida Alegre [Happy/Contented Life]—for depressed immigrant mothers that includes a three-session module based on Gottman & DeClaire (2001) concept of emotional bidding. Using a mixed-methods design, this study examines whether exposure to the intervention increased parental self-efficacy. Outcome data from the Parenting Self-Agency Measure (PSAM) administered at three points in time—pre-test, post-test, and 3 months follow-up—was analyzed using the Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Test. Constant comparative analysis was used to code 3 focus groups and 10 post-treatment interviews. Results indicate a significant increase in parental self-efficacy between pre-test and post-test. An analysis of mixed methods results further highlights the importance of tailoring interventions to help immigrant parents reinterpret their child's communications to strengthen family relationships.     

私法公法化视野下的公权干预私权——从上海市政府介入“群租房”现象考察

房屋租赁关系本属民事法律关系范畴,相关的问题可以在私法的领域内调整。但是当下,一方面由于代表公权的行政权的扩张和膨胀,公权越来越深入到私权领域;另一方面由于社会公共利益和秩序的需要,合意性的私权又应该受公权的监督。而房屋群租行为由于其存在的不合理性受到了公权的执行人——政府的干预。政府介入房屋群租现象直接目标是打击有碍公益的群租行为,规范租房市场,而其根本目的则应是践行服务型政府的理念,解决目前住房难的问题。     

“安全流变—突变”理论对心理危机干预的理论探讨

"安全流变—突变"理论作为事物安全演化过程的本质规律,为心理学研究提供了一个新的理论视角。文章运用"安全流变—突变"理论诠释心理危机从产生到发生的变化过程,此对高校心理危机干预工作提供有益借鉴。     

当代知识分子如何表述底层——从打工文学透视底层写作

无论从政治、经济层面,打工阶层都属于社会底层.学术界纷纷认为当今的底层是一个被知识分子表述出来的底层,应该让底层发出自己的声音.当前由底层自己向社会发出声音仍需要一个过程.知识分子在一段时间内为底层代言无疑是构建底层文学最可能的路径.知识分子应以真诚的姿态,平视、介入、设身处地的写作去观照和表现底层.＃     

大学生自杀危机预警及危机干预体系的构建与思考

高校大学生自杀等危机事件不断发生,引起社会各界和高教界的高度关注。构建高校危机预警及危机干预体系是预防和减少大学生自杀等危机事件的有效途径。结合工作实际,文章从危机预警与危机干预的概念界定,构建大学生危机预警及危机干预体系的依据及构建的思路等方面,对高校危机预警及危机干预体系的构建做了一些思考。