Developing a program for social work with Latino populations: a case study

ABSTRACT

This paper presents a case study of the development of a program in a large U.S. School of Social Work to train social work students to work with Latina/o populations entitled ‘Latino/a Initiatives for Service, Training, and Assessment’ (LISTA). Using a case study methodology, this work fills a current gap in the literature as it examines the programmatic and curricular dynamics associated with such an effort. The methods section details LISTA’s planning process and early implementation. This includes the demographic, theoretical, and professional context of the program along with the stages of curricular development. The results section examines LISTA’s current curriculum, including three courses, field placements and study abroad program, as well as its assessment processes. It further examines issues and challenges related to developing a new curricular emphasis in a graduate program, including funding, recruitment, and securing field placements. The discussion section provides a set of recommendations, including the institutionalization of mechanisms for community feedback and the recruitment of ethnic minority students and faculty. LISTA serves as a potential model for recruiting and training social workers to serve diverse ethnic minority populations.     

Appetitive and impulsive: Examining alcohol use via the motivational and self-control systems

This study examines how trait differences in the appetitive and defensive systems and how automatic, impulsive and deliberate, reflective responses to alcohol cues predict overall alcohol use. By utilizing a measure of trait motivational activation and measures of implicit and explicit attitudes toward alcohol that indicate the self-control system – impulsive vs. reflective – that determines behavior, this research demonstrates that higher trait appetitive system activity, ASA, and positive impulsive/implicit alcohol attitudes independently predict alcohol use, while trait defensive system activation, DSA, and explicit attitudes toward alcohol did not independently predict use.     

南朝文笔之辨

笔从言分化出来后,在社会生活中的地位日益重要,尽管受到传统势力的长期排斥,终就成为寒门士子的仕进之梯。到南朝,文风愈盛,文士集团崛起,文笔受到普遍重视,别集、总集大量产生,文笔之辨成为文章学的重要内容。南朝学者试图从目录、音韵、情感三方面对文笔进行区分,虽有许多不周全之处,但也从一个侧面反映了南朝文学的盛况。     

Mean-Minimum Exact Confidence Intervals

This article introduces mean-minimum (MM) exact confidence intervals for a binomial probability. These intervals guarantee that both the mean and the minimum frequentist coverage never drop below specified values. For example, an MM 95[93]% interval has mean coverage at least 95% and minimum coverage at least 93%. In the conventional sense, such an interval can be viewed as an exact 93% interval that has mean coverage at least 95% or it can be viewed as an approximate 95% interval that has minimum coverage at least 93%. Graphical and numerical summaries of coverage and expected length suggest that the Blaker-based MM exact interval is an attractive alternative to, even an improvement over, commonly recommended approximate and exact intervals, including the Agresti–Coull approximate interval, the Clopper–Pearson (CP) exact interval, and the more recently recommended CP-, Blaker-, and Sterne-based mean-coverage-adjusted approximate intervals.     

No place like home? Familism and Latino/a–white differences in college pathways

Recent research has argued that familism, defined as a cultural preference for privileging family goals over individual goals, may discourage some Latino/a youth from applying to and attending college, particularly if they must leave home (Desmond and López Turley, 2009). Using data from the Education Longitudinal Study, we find that Latino/a students and parents indeed have stronger preferences than white students and parents for living at home during college. For students, most differences in preferences for proximate colleges are explained by socioeconomic status, academic achievement and high school/regional differences. Moreover, controlling for socioeconomic background and prior achievement explains most racial/ethnic gaps in college application and attendance among high school graduates, suggesting that familism per se is not a significant deterrent to college enrollment above and beyond these more primary factors. However, results indicate generational differences; cultural factors may contribute to racial/ethnic gaps in parental preferences for children to remain at home.     

Exploring African American and Latino Populations Perceptions of Parenting Education Programs: A Qualitative Assessment of Enablers and Barriers

Abstract

Parenting education programs aim to enhance the quality of parenting. Preferences vary between African American and Latino parents, but the context is not well known, and the ethnic/racial differences may have implications for parenting education programs. Focus groups were conducted with seven African American and eight Latino parents, and semi-structured interviews with eight key informants. This qualitative assessment provided information to identify barriers and enablers to participation in parenting education programs. Enablers included parental interest in learning about the developmental stages of their children, the convenience of locations and times, and incentives. Minority parents desired to obtain adequate parenting education. The scarcity of culturally sensitive programs, transportation, affordability, and childcare were significant barriers. There were both significant similarities and differences between the two parent groups. From the perspectives of African American, Latino parents and key informants, a range of resources are necessary to enable the participation and the delivery of high-quality parenting education. The findings from our research will help address the unmet parenting education needs of African American and Latino parents. Future research should work to develop a tailored and culturally sensitive parenting education programs to reduce the divergence between parents and service providers.     

心术动远 文情变深——谈谈高中教材《屈原列传》的写作艺术

本文评论的《屈原列传》,有如明清时期人金圣叹选编到《才子古文》一书中的《左传·郑伯克段于鄢》,艺术性之高 ,着实堪称旷世之作文范本。本文尝试从中心确立 ,材料选择 ,人物塑造 ,手法运用 ,结尾安排五个方面对它的写作特点进行了分析 ,目的在于借此探求出一些切合实用而又特别的写作规律来 ,以供爱好传记文学的读者和作者们借鉴。     

Latinas’ Transition to First Marriage: An Examination of Four Theoretical Perspectives

National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and census data are used to examine the effect of both individual‐ and contextual‐level determinants on Latinas’ transition to first marriage (n= 745). Hypotheses derived from 4 leading theories of marriage timing are evaluated. Discrete‐time event‐history models that control for clustering within Labor Market Areas suggest that foreign‐born Latina and Anglo women have virtually identical marriage trajectories. Analyses further demonstrate that Latinas’ individual human capital, and residence in areas characterized by a relatively large supply of single foreign‐born Latino men, are associated with higher probabilities of marriage, whereas women’s aggregate economic opportunities are correlated with the predicted postponement of first marriage.     

Nb_2O_5掺杂对MnCoNi系NTC热敏电阻材料的影响

采用Ｘ射线衍射分析、ＳＥＭ、阻值测量等手段，通过实验研究了Ｎｂ２Ｏ５掺杂对ＭｎＣｏＮｉ系ＮＴＣ热敏电阻材料的影响。以ＭｎＣｏＮｉ系为基，掺入适量的Ｎｂ２Ｏ５后，其阻温特性变化规律与传统Ｍｎ－ＣｏＮｉ系材料一致，同时室温阻值、Ｂ值略有增加，电学稳定性提高了两倍以上。     

利用弹性参数识别气、水层

摘要：对于复杂孔隙结构储层而言,孔隙结构对电阻率的影响程度可能远大于流体类型对电阻率的影响,这就使得气、水层的电阻率特征差别不明显,利用电阻率不能有效区别气、水层。基于孔隙中天然气与油、水体积模量的显著差别,根据孔隙流体体积模量的大小来识别气、水层。研究采用了纵横波速度比（vp/vs）和孔隙流体的体积模量这两个与电阻率无关的弹性参数来判别储层的流体类型。理论模拟表明含有少量气体时可使纵波速度及其纵横波速度比显著减小,横波对气体含量不敏感,水层的 vp/vs显著大于气层。采用 vp/vs与横波交会法识别气、水层可消除孔隙和岩性的影响而突出流体类型的影响。