Opportunities to enhance relational wellbeing through the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Implications from research on relationships and a content analysis of NDIS documentation

Interpersonal relationships are critically important to ensuring that people with disability can access the benefits of individual funding models such as the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). The NDIS aims to enhance participants’ self‐determination of supports and social and economic participation, but the emerging evidence indicates that achieving these policy outcomes requires stronger recognition of participants’ relational context, even in a system focused on individual choice and control. This paper reports on a content analysis of the NDIS Act, NDIS Rules, Operational Guidelines, and Price Guide to examine the extent to which the scheme's conceptual foundations and funded supports in individual plans enable it to support relationships. Implications are drawn from this analysis and theory and evidence about the importance of relationships for disability policy and practice. The paper outlines three areas where the approach of the NDIS to relationships is limited and can be improved: first, by conceptualizing relationships as relationships rather than simply sources of informal support; second, through provisions to actively support relationships; and third, by considering the relational appropriateness of support provided by family, carers, and friends. It concludes with suggestions for how relational considerations can be enhanced, including implications for government in administering the scheme.     

Young people,family relationships and civic participation

This article examines young people’s civic participation and the extent to which this is influenced by the family. Although literature on young people’s civic participation is abundant, the role of the family in influencing this participation is largely absent. Drawing on survey data collected from 976 young people aged 13–14 in South Wales, we outline the extent and nature of civic participation and how this varies according to relationships with parents and grandparents. Our data show that relationships with mothers and grandparents are particularly important in young people’s accounts of their participation, suggesting that family is far more important in developing a propensity for engagement in civil society than is commonly understood.     

人大监督功能弱化的若干因素分析

人大监督功能严重弱化已是不争的事实。之所以如此,本文不仅分析了人大自身运行机制的因素,而且着重从人大监督制度的理论立足点、经济、政治文化、政治体制、选举制度等方面的深层次因素进行了剖析。     

新警的心理适应探析

适应是人生永恒的主题,它需要一个过程。新警是公安队伍的生力军,能否尽快适应新的工作环境不仅关系到新警自身的发展是否顺利,而且关系到整个公安工作是否能顺利进行。在警务工作中,会存在多种不确定因素让新任警察产生失落感,担忧感,疲劳感,恐惧感,紧张感等问题,严重影响新警的工作和生活。改变认识,树立目标,掌握一定的方法、技巧,建立广泛的社会支持系统,不断增强自信心等可以加快新警的心理适应过程。     

从《普通教育学》探寻赫尔巴特的师生观

赫尔巴特作为一位著名的教育家,其教育教学思想非常丰富。本文从赫尔巴特的代表作《普通教育学》出发,围绕其中管理、教学和训育三大核心问题进行探讨,展示和分析赫尔巴特关于师生观的论述,全面、客观地探寻其师生观,以期使人们能够更加清楚地了解和认识赫尔巴特师生观的主要内容及其现实意义。     

East Asians’ Social Heterogeneity: Differences in Norms among Chinese,Japanese, and Korean Negotiators

East Asian cultures are widely held to be fairly homogeneous in that they highly value harmonious social relationships. We propose, however, that the focus (dyadic versus group) and the nature (emotional versus instrumental) of social relations vary among the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cultures in ways that have important implications for the negotiation tactics typically employed by managers from these three cultures. Our data are from a web survey administered to three hundred eighty‐eight managers from China, Japan, and South Korea. In this article, we discuss how the differences in the focus and the nature of business relationships in China, Japan, and Korea are manifested in the different norms for negotiation tactics endorsed by managers from these three countries.     

20年中国法理学的嬗变及其时代课题

要克服中国法理学在嬗变中存在的缺陷,重塑科学精神,必须处理好本土化与国际化、制度研究与过程研究、现实主义与理想主义、核心问题的拓深与边缘领域的拓展等四大关系。     

OUTING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Studies show that domestic violence among same-sex couples occurs at approximately the same statistical frequency and has many of the same characteristics as domestic violence among heterosexual couples. In addition to the elements involved in domestic violence among heterosexual couples, gays and lesbians face a series of highly specific forms of abuse perpetrated exclusively in same-sex relationships. Yet a severe disparity exists in the services that are available to victims based on which of the two types of relationships they are involved in. In the vast majority of states, family is narrowly defined within domestic violence statutes, precluding gays and lesbians from seeking civil redress for crimes perpetrated against them by their partners. For this reason, it is imperative that state legislatures react to this discrepancy by redrafting domestic violence statutes and defining family more inclusively to provide appropriate protections to victims of same-sex domestic violence.     

“村庄社区化”管理的社会资本分析

城乡结合部作为城市化进程的产物,外来人口多、基础设施差、管理难度大、社会矛盾交织．已经成为社会治安案件的多发地带,严重威胁着首都的和谐稳定。北京市公安局大兴分局就这一现状推出了“村庄社区化”管理,积极探索流动人口的管理创新,取得了一定的成效。为此,只有运用社会资本理论来分析“村庄社区化”管理前后大兴城乡结合部地区的社会资本状况及其成因,才能探究社会资本对城乡结合部地区社会管理的影响及作用,进而提出培育社会资本的路径。