Chapter 11. The Economics of Group Care Practice

Abstract

For the past two decades, economic influences have significantly impacted the provision of health and welfare services for children, young people and their families in communities around the world. The dynamic of cost has reshaped both the nature and provision of group care services, promoting de-institutionalization and transforming the nature of caring services offered in local communities. In a reappraisal of themes identified in his seminal contribution more than two decades ago, this leading authority looks back at key themes impacting on the economics of social care that shape group care services for the new millennium.     

Methodology

Abstract

Any discussions about specialized helping environments for children or young people would be incomplete without reference to the relationships found between practices in group care centers and schools. This involves thinking of a child's total environment as a curriculum for teaching competencies and learning outcomes important to daily living. The task involves making a conscious effort to deal with a child's functioning in the present, thereby avoiding diagnostic conclusions that emphasize difficulties in one area of their life as the cause of learning problems.     

Name Index

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The Gender Gap in Ideology

Over the past few decades, a gender gap has emerged in the mass public in ideological self-placement. While most men and women moved in the conservative direction, another segment of women retained their liberal self-identifications. A gender gap also exists in how men and women define their ideology. Which issues are linked to ideological identities is conditioned by gender and time period. Finally, ideological identities are structure by nonpolitical values as well as political issues. Religiosity and religious beliefs have come to increasingly shape Americans’ ideological identities, with some differences across the two sexes.

中国与东南亚、南亚壮泰族群的基本文化特征

中国与东南亚、南亚有一个壮泰族群,她的基本文化特征是：共同聚居区——连片带状分布,共同历史渊源——族群同源异流,共同体质特征——个子中等的黄种人,共同语言——基本用语相同,共同经济生活——＂那＂文化,共同的精神文化——宗教、节庆文化相似等。     

移居印度的傣族后裔阿洪姆人的历史文化变迁

今天居住在印度东北部阿萨姆邦一带的阿洪姆人的祖先,是13世纪以后从中国云南德宏一带地区迁过去的傣族,他们的先民辗转迁徙到今天的印度东北部地区以后,在当地建立了一个叫做“勐顿孙罕”的王国并统治了当地。这些傣族移民的后裔后来被当地人称为阿洪姆人。在他们统治印度东北部地区的同时,他们也逐渐接受了印度教和当地的语言,文化上发生了很大的变化。     

对明代文词派传奇的再认识

明代成化、万历时期,在传奇剧坛占主导地位的是文词派.然而长期以来,文词派倍受批评,这实在有失公正.宣扬伦理以正风俗的<香囊记>,以渊博的学识、淳雅的语言奠定了文词派的基础;渗透着强烈现实批判精神的<玉玦记>,以"使事稳贴"、曲词雅丽、宾白通俗赢得了观众和读者的青睐,确立了文词派在剧坛的主导地位;沦入佛道的<昙花记>头绪纷繁、典雅缛丽,标志着文词派脱离观众、走向衰落.而衰落的文词派,却孕育了临川派和吴江派的胚胎.由此可见,文词派影响了整个明清两代传奇的风格.<琵琶记>是文词派的源头,八股科举制和文字避忌促成了文词派的诞生,诗文复古运动对文词派的发展推波助澜,这是文词派产生、发展、壮大的原因.     

云南新型毒品滥用群体朋辈行为因素实证分析

新型毒品滥用群体朋辈的日常行为从总体上而言,偏常是较为明显的,有三类滥用新型毒品群体与日常行为指标不同而呈现出不同的特征。一是"h igh"妹朋辈群体大部分指标值高于公司职员朋辈群体,在"与人发生非婚性关系"上,甚至高于无业者群体朋辈;二是公司职员朋辈群体整体指标平均值最低,接近于正常水平,但在"喝酒"指标上赋值最高。三是无业者朋辈群体偏常行为最为明显,在"偷盗"、"抽烟"、"打架斗殴"、"谈论过自杀"、"尝试过自杀"几个指标上赋值最高;因此,要加强对上述三类群体接触新型毒品的预防教育。     

论党的执政中介：党组

党组是落实党的领导和执政的中介机构,是把党的领导和执政贯彻到非党领导机关中的桥梁和纽带。应当以历史的视角、开放的眼光和改革的精神,系统梳理党组的历史发展轨迹,切实解决好党组的理论架构问题,充分开发党组的制度性功能和潜能,以党组的作用发挥拉动党的领导方式和执政方式的变革。