THE LEGACY OF AIDS: CHALLENGE FOR THE NEXT CENTURY

AIDS presents an unprecedented challenge for family therapists. A method of response is suggested involving three stages of therapy: (a) dealing with the crisis of disclosure; (b) interacting with larger systems; (c) working on family relationships and the grieving process. Countertransference issues which threaten to disrupt this three-stage therapeutic process are discussed.     

Learning under uncertainty with multiple priors: experimental investigation

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty - We run an experiment to compare belief formation and learning under ambiguity and under compound risk at the individual level. We estimate a four-type mixture...     

Risedronate, the BBC and me

Risedronate is a drug used to reduce fractures in women with osteoporosis. The story of the Sheffield Risedronate trial made national news when one of the clinical researchers, Aubrey Blumsohn, dissociated himself from the trial because he was refused access to the data he had helped to collect. Later, some of that data turned up. Here Martin Bland describes how he came to analyse the data on behalf of the BBC, what he found and what happened next.     

Frontline Participatory Behavior in Networks: Identity Work and the Corresponding Behavioral Determinations

Studies that adequately reflect on the distinctive workings of collaborative networks and, more specifically, the importance of the participatory behaviors of frontline workers are in short supply. To address this gap in the literature, this article reports on a quantitative study of the identity work tensions and corresponding behavioral determinations of a set of frontline workers from thirteen collaborative social welfare networks in Virginia. This study found some evidence that their roles as enacted inside of the boundaries of their home organizations and the associated identities may differ from or conflict with their interorganizational, boundary spanning roles and associated identities. In some instances, the resulting tensions complicated the achievement of behavioral determinations by these frontline workers that would favor the realization of a collaborative advantage.     

Welfare gains of the poor: An endogenous Bayesian approach with spatial random effects

We introduce a Bayesian instrumental variable procedure with spatial random effects that handles endogeneity, and spatial dependence with unobserved heterogeneity. We find through a limited Monte Carlo experiment that our proposal works well in terms of point estimates and prediction. We apply our method to analyze the welfare effects generated by a process of electricity tariff unification on the poorest households. In particular, we deduce an Equivalent Variation measure where there is a budget constraint for a two-tiered pricing scheme, and find that 10% of the poorest municipalities attained welfare gains above 2% of their initial income.     

Collaborative Ties Within: Public Organizations and the Latent Capacity for Advice Network Formation

Public Organization Review - Many organizations have benefited greatly from an informal structuring process, whereby individuals voluntarily cross intraorganizational boundaries to seek or share...     

Program evaluation of the CREST project: empirical support for kinship care as an effective approach to permanency planning

The number of children, especially from ethnic minority groups, in substitute care is growing rapidly even as the number of foster care homes is steadily decreasing. Kinship care has quickly become the permanency planning option of choice. This article describes a model kinship care project and the results of an extensive program evaluation. Results show that the project enhances functioning of relative caregivers and reduces the cost of care. Implications for contemporary permanency planning are presented.