A Cognitive Approach to Direct Practice with the Aging

The recent prominence of cognitive approaches in psychotherapy and more recently in social casework holds considerable promise for direct practice with olderpersons on both an individual and group basis. Several central concepts in cognitive theory are delineated and found to have particular advantages for the aging. First, they deal with conscious concerns and avoid the dangers of affective or regressive approaches in breaking down defenses. Second, they are heavily concerned with questions of meaning and self-concept, issues that are central to the last stage of life, as delineated by Erikson, and the task of achieving ego integrity over despair. Two case illustrations of the application of a cognitive approach in a group context are given.     

关于发展我国个人住房贷款业务的思考

随着经济的发展和人民生活水平的提高 ,住房消费成为城市居民的消费热点 ,为抓住这一契机 ,各家商业银行相继推出了个人住房贷款业务 ,但这一业务从推出到现在却发展缓慢。本文从居民个人和银行两个方面分析了我国个人住房贷款业务发展缓慢的原因 ,提出了发展我国个人住房贷款业务的一系列措施     

Issues of Elder Care and Elder Abuse in the Indian Context

Summary

With 7% of the population of India being elderly, two-thirds of whom live in villages and nearly a half of them in poor conditions, the care of the elderly is a difficult problem to be tackled. The dwindling of the joint family, the rise of dual-career families, a possible shift in filial piety values, the increasing life expectancy with greater chances of a prolonged old age characterized by poverty, degeneration, more empty-nest years, and dependency, have all added to the seriousness of the problem and made the elderly more susceptible than ever to abusive treatment. This paper examines these issues as well as the issue of elder abuse in light of available data and suggests some strategies to meet the problem. Also discussed are the problems, stresses, and strains of caregivers of the elderly. A greater role is envisaged for Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) than the state in the care of the elderly, particularly in providing support services to family caregivers.     

美国次贷危机的形成机理及其启示

从探究美国次贷危机的源头入手分析其形成原因,理清次贷危机被过度放大的环节所在,进而认为近期金融市场的动荡和流动性不足主要是市场的恐慌情绪和投资者避险行为的结果,最后指出次贷危机对我国房贷市场的启示。     

市场的制度性分割:经济适用房制度的博弈分析

为低收入者提供基本住房保障是政府的基本职责,经济适用房是实现该职责的一个制度体现.但是中国的经济适用房制度并没有实现其设计目标.那么是什么原因导致了这个结果,如何实现为低收入者提供基本住房保障的目标?从政府、开发商、购买者三方博弈的角度,可以发现经济适用房制度失败的关键在于它造成了市场的制度性分割,由此产生的市场套利行为瓦解了经济适用房的制度基础.改革方向在于撤销经济适用房制度,实施住房补贴制度,重新建立统一的住房市场.     

Sustainable urban development? Low-cost housing challenges in South Africa

Low-cost housing provision has been a major focus of government in post-apartheid urban South Africa. While successes can be noted, there is growing concern regarding the social and environmental sustainability of housing programs and the impacts upon both the surrounding environment and human health. Utilizing key informant interviews, survey research, Census data and documentary review, this essay identifies the major impediments to a sustainable low-cost housing provision in urban South Africa. The essay also points to hopeful signs in new policy directions, particularly attention to health issues and informal settlement upgrade programs. However, the major obstacles to a sustainable low-cost housing process, including macro-economic conditions, enduring historical legacies of race and class, the scale and rapidity of urban growth and institutional challenges show little indication of abating.     

我国个人住房贷款风险因素分析

我国个人住房贷款的风险正日益积累却没有得到充分重视 ,可能成为未来银行不良贷款增加的重要因素之一。本文旨在对我国个人住房贷款的风险因素进行分析 ,以期为寻求防范风险的机制提供基础。     

论预售商品房权属之博弈

商品房预售在我国的房地产市场中已经成为主要的销售形式,而商品房预售的特殊性质决定了预售商品房上的权利主体较多,各权利主体均对预售商品房主张权利并由此产生争议。本文从司法实践中预售商品房上权利主体之争出发,探析预售商品房权属发生争议的原因,厘清预售商品房从开发公司建造房屋到预购人完成不动产物权登记期间,不同时间段预售商品房上权利主体及其所享有的权利性质,使各权利人明确自身权益并进行有效的权利救济。     

The Role of the Housing Allowance for the Elderly in Norway: Views of Recipients

This article concerns the housing allowance, an economic benefit provided to low-income households and the elderly in Norway. Ensuring a high quality of housing for the elderly has been a priority in the development of the Norwegian welfare state. This article is based on results from a qualitative study among elderly recipients of a housing allowance. The study shows that while these recipients viewed the financial support the allowance offered as crucial, they still felt impoverished. The study raises some questions about whether the housing allowance scheme encourages high-quality housing.     

Fear and Urban Planning in Ordinary Cities: From Theory to Practice

The paper complements Abu-Orf's theory about violent settings by setting out a theory of fear in urban planning in ordinary urban contexts around three arguments: spatialization of fear; (modernist) spatialities and the encounter and political economies of urban fear. The three theoretical arguments are used to re-frame the planning history of Chelas, an affordable housing district in Lisbon, Portugal, and debate the way fear shapes, and is shaped in turn by, planning practice. Confirming that (growing) fear in ordinary urban contexts is not just an effect of the contemporary organization of cities, the paper argues for a theorization of fear that combines global (hegemonic) and a local (discursive/contingent) perspectives in the theorization of urban fear, and advocates for the need to put fear, and its capacity to create a crisis in urban policy, at the heart of planners' agendas.