The Psychoanalytic Social Worker/The Social Work Psychoanalyst: What Shall Be Our Message?

Many social workers experience a powerful bond with their profession and with the contributions of psychoanalysis. This paper explores these bonds and demonstrates the substantial overlap, and occasional divergence, which exists between these two important fields. It is especially gratifying to see the renewed emphasis on the treatment relationship in contemporary psychoanalytic writings because the relationship has always been central to social work practice. Finally, all psychoanalytic social workers are encouraged to invest themselves in transferring the legacy of their work to beginning social workers, social work students, and the generations of social workers that will follow them.     

Studying Postmodern Families: A Feminist Analysis of Ethical Tensions in Work and Family Research

Through dialogue and reflexivity, feminist researchers aim to create knowledge that is emergent from people in relationship with one another. Reflexivity is a process whereby researchers place themselves and their practices under scrutiny, acknowledging the ethical dilemmas that permeate the research process and impinge on the creation of knowledge. Guided by these tenets, we analyzed the relations among our research practices, our participants, and ourselves to understand and reduce the ethical tensions we encountered in a multimethod research project designed to investigate work and family processes. Our reflective efforts underscore both the active nature of research participants and the importance of the sociopolitical contexts within and around the research process. We make suggestions for more ethical research.     

Bootstrap confidence regions computed from autoregressions of arbitrary order

Given a linear time series, e.g. an autoregression of infinite order, we may construct a finite order approximation and use that as the basis for confidence regions. The sieve or autoregressive bootstrap, as this method is often called, is generally seen as a competitor with the better-understood block bootstrap approach. However, in the present paper we argue that, for linear time series, the sieve bootstrap has significantly better performance than blocking methods and offers a wider range of opportunities. In particular, since it does not corrupt second-order properties then it may be used in a double-bootstrap form, with the second bootstrap application being employed to calibrate a basic percentile method confidence interval. This approach confers second-order accuracy without the need to estimate variance. That offers substantial benefits, since variances of statistics based on time series can be difficult to estimate reliably, and—partly because of the relatively small amount of information contained in a dependent process—are notorious for causing problems when used to Studentize. Other advantages of the sieve bootstrap include considerably greater robustness against variations in the choice of the tuning parameter, here equal to the autoregressive order, and the fact that, in contradistinction to the case of the block bootstrap, the percentile t version of the sieve bootstrap may be based on the 'raw' estimator of standard error. In the process of establishing these properties we show that the sieve bootstrap is second order correct.     

Issues Affecting Utilization of Hospice Services by Rural Hispanics

Abstract

As the population of Hispanics in the U.S. is growing, their utilization of hospice care remains low. In a study of 110 rural His-panics, most (88%) were not familiar with hospice, but did report willingness to accept such service in their homes. The most important possible barrier to receiving hospice care was language, along with poverty, lack of health insurance, and low levels of education. Hospice social workers can contribute greatly to an effort to increase access to hospice by offering education to the Hispanic community and promoting cultural awareness among hospice staff.     

论西塞罗的历史观

西塞罗在《论演说家》（De Oratore）中阐述了历史的特性、历史的目的以及应该怎样写作历史。他对这一问题的看法没有超出修辞学家的认识范畴，认为历史写作应该强调两个方面，即历史的“真实”和文学的加工，“真实”在他那里其实是“公正”，而文学的渲染则体现了历史应该具有的教化功能。他的历史理论和方法对后来罗马史学的发展产生了深远的影响。     

提高计算方法教学质量的方法探讨

文章阐述了提高计算方法教学质量的意义以及指导式教学法的内涵,在教学实践中应用指导式教学法取得了良好的效果。     

混凝土结构设计原理五步教学法研究与实践

针对混凝土结构设计原理与前期课程相比所存在的诸多特点,结合教学实践,从教学思路、内容、方法和手段等多方面进行了细致深入的教学探讨,形成了以导、精、学、理、解为步骤的五步教学法,明显提升了教学效果。     

Begging as work: a study of people with mobility difficulties in Accra, Ghana

Even though begging is illegal in Ghana, an increasing number of disabled people engage in it. Begging is not only abhorred by the law, but also regarded by many Ghanaians as stigmatizing and devaluing. Successive governments of the country and some non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have made efforts either to reduce or eliminate begging. The attempts made have, however, been unsuccessful and the disabled beggars involved have returned to the streets of Accra. The question is why is it difficult to reduce begging in the research area. While poverty, mobility needs, lack of education and employable skills and employment avenues are factors that explain the decision to start begging, it also seems that the ways in which beggars justify their activities contribute to its perseverance. The study aims at sensitizing policy-makers and other stakeholders in attempts to find empowering alternatives to begging.     

民族高等院校大学生思想政治工作面临的问题及其对策

新时期民族高等院校思想政治工作面临着新形势、新情况和新问题。主要问题有 :一是学生中存在讲功利、图实惠现象 ;二是对邓小平理论学习的重大意义认识不足 ,存在思想模糊不清现象 ;三是学生中存在个人价值目标与社会价值目标割裂现象 ;四是学生因学习、生活和就业压力而产生的问题。主要对策有 :一是要提高思想政治工作队伍的整体素质 ;二是结合少数民族大学生的思想实际 ,以邓小平理论课和“两课”为主渠道进行理想信念教育 ;三是把思想政治教育融于学生管理工作全过程 ;四是以大学生心理指导工作促进思想政治教育工作 ;五是民族高等院校的思想政治工作要充分利用网络教育阵地。