Teaching Family Policy

Abstract

Preparing students to engage in family policy education and advocacy is a challenge and opportunity for departments that teach family studies and family policy courses. Students not only need to know theoretical implications of family policy and how research enhances the theory, but also understand the policy process and how research-based information about family can inform policymaking. These students also need to acquire advocacy skills in order to work effectively in different policy arenas. This article illustrates how university family policy educators can structure curricula to provide students with both knowledge and skills vital to effective participation in family policy formation, analysis and critique.     

Self‐Reported Likelihood of Whistleblowing by Social Work Students

This article presents a first study on the professional–ethical dilemma of whistleblowing in social work, and suggests some lines for further research on this topic as well as ways for integrating it in the social work curriculum. The study examines the self‐reported readiness of social work students to blow the whistle, whether internally or externally. Internal disclosure entails reporting the wrongdoing to an authority within the organization. External disclosure entails reporting the offense to an outside agency, such as the police, professional organization, or press. The findings indicate that the students view the acts that are detrimental or cause injustice to the client in a very serious light. In dilemma situations such as these, the students reported a willingness to act. The students also report considerably greater likelihood of whistleblowing internally than externally.     

Testing Cross-National Conflict Shifting theory: An analysis of Chiquita Brands’ transnational crisis in Colombia

This study uses the Cross-National Conflict Shifting theory to analyze Chiquita Brands’ transnational crisis originated in Colombia with consequences in the United States. The research includes a content analysis and a case study conducted by U.S. and Colombian scholars. This research contributes to the global public relations’ body of knowledge by supporting 9 out of the 10 CNCS theoretical propositions, and further supporting the theory with 3 research questions and 8 hypotheses (2 partially supported, 6 supported).     

“Are they allowed to do that?” Content and typology of corporate socio-political positioning on TWITTER. A study of DAX-30 companies in Germany

In the USA, corporate attitude communication has been identified as an irreversible trend. Outside the USA, it is a comparatively new phenomenon. We have conducted a content-analytical study on the publicly communicated socio-political positioning of DAX-30 corporations and their CEOs in Germany. Based on the Corporate Social Advocacy (CSA) approach, our results reveal a typology of different strategies. It shows that the companies under investigation differ significantly in terms of the degree of controversy and positioning frequency. The study provides evidence that corporate characteristics (e.g. size), timing and thematic factors, as well as the communicative behavior of other companies/organizations determine positioning strategies. We identified two different strategic motives for socio-political positioning: The aim to (1) further improving trust, image, and reputation while avoiding risk as far as possible or (2) to secure room for maneuver within the framework of specific, very concrete (socio-political) challenges and in doing so accepting certain risks in the process.     

世界500强在华设立研发中心的特征及其成因分析

世界500强在华设立研发中心的数量在迅速增加,这与申请中国专利一样都是跨国公司在华竞争战略的一部分,主要取决于跨国公司全球经营战略和中国的区位变量。500强在华跨国研发中心多来自发达国家,在华的区位和行业结构分别与其FDI的区位和行业结构高度相关。在华跨国研发中心以独资方式为主,在跨国公司全球研发体系中的地位不断上升。政府应据此运用政策引导跨国研发资源合理配置,推动国家创新体系的建立和完善。     

关于发展跨国经营,提高我国企业国际竞争力的思考

跨国经营自二战后产生以来发展迅速,尤其是进入９０年代达到了兴盛时期。许多发达国家通过制定全球战略,在海外投资、生产,获取了巨大利益。我国自改革开放以来,一些企业踏出国门从事跨国经营,虽然也不乏成功之例,但总的来看数量少、规模小、区域分布不广,且技术密集型项目少。究其原因,主要由于从事跨国经营的企业大多是中小型企业,在对外投资方面的政策及措施不健全,管理落后,缺乏跨国经营的人才,信息系统不完善等。针对以上存在的问题,文章提出了几点建议：加强联合以壮大企业跨国经营的规模和实力;完善对外投资方面的政策及措施;加强对跨国企业的管理;培养跨国经营人才;加强信息开发等     

I’m Here,You’re There: In-Absentia Caregiver Stress & Transnational Support of Elderly Mothers by Adult Children

ABSTRACT

Providing support between generations in a transnational family context is understudied in the aging literature. Specifically, this study investigated the stress experiences and stressors experienced by adult children in the United States when providing transnational support to their elderly mothers in India. Information gathered from two focus groups was supplemented by an online survey of 131 adult children. Participants expressed sentiments of worry, sadness, guilt, and especially helplessness at their limited capacity to care for their mothers from a distance. Results indicate that transnational family aged care is an important dimension of aging that requires further research. In particular, “in absentia caregiver stress” is experienced remotely, and has implications for the immigrant adult’s health and well-being.     

以世界政治实现人类主义价值共识——从联合国宪章看主权与超国家权力的关系

在经济全球化和国家间政治多边化的潮流中,国际机制已成为学术探讨和外交实践的主流,绝对国家主权话语丧失根据。作为发展中国家,为了在国家力量差距仍然严重分化的世界政治格局中规避发达国家的欺压,中国应该主动建构以“权利政治”和“超国家权力”为核心概念的国际政治理论来批评“权力政治”和“强权”、“霸权”现实。作为世界政治的超国家权力主体,联合国可以为克服霸权主义政治形态而实现人类主义价值提供可能性,超国家权力与主权、人权的辩证关系是发展中国家必须深入体会的外交哲学。     

Advocacy in Practice: The Troubled Position of Advocates in Adult Services

This paper is a review, and critical appraisal, of the theoryand practice of advocacy. Advocacy is not social work, but itsprinciples and values resonate closely to those espoused bythe British Association of Social Workers (BASW, 2002). In thispaper, we interrogate the assumption that advocacy is necessarilyalways a positive and enabling experience. Indeed, we suggestthat the use of advocacy can be contested from the point ofthe view of the service user (the advocacy partner¹), the advocateand from professionals working with advocates (or positioningthemselves as advocates). Drawing on recent research that evaluated advocacy servicesin Nottinghamshire, we discuss some of the key tensions. Inparticular, we consider the reality of the advocate’srole, including where it relates to and differs from socialwork, and the issue of whether advocacy can be part of whata social worker does anyway. We also review, briefly, the dilemmasarising from professionals acting as advocates, especially inrelation to being independent of services.