Conditional openness: young people define practices for successful child protection interventions

Taking the reforms of child protection legislation that have occurred since the 1980s as a backdrop, this paper considers young people’s perspectives on the factors that facilitated their engagement with child protection services and the barriers they perceived to effective service delivery. Drawing on findings from a New Zealand study of young people’s experience of multiple service use (child protection, mental health, youth justice and remedial education), the paper identifies that that rather than being ‘resistant’ or ‘hostile’ to statutory child protection intervention, young people reported a ‘conditional openness’. This conditional openness was characterised by three themes: communication; continuity and consistency; and contextual and cultural responsiveness. Interventions with these characteristics activated this conditional openness allowing effective interventions to occur. Using a series of case studies, comprising interviews and agency case file records; the paper considers the experiences of 109 young people (12–17 years) as well as those of the ‘person most knowledgeable;’ an adult nominated by young people because they knew the young person’s situation well.     

提高高校青年干部执行力分析及其要素

当前是高等教育深化改革、创新发展的关键时期,高校青年干部的执行力某种程度上决定了学校的发展潜力。文章从职业倦怠视角分析了高校青年干部执行力现状以及职业倦怠的成因,绘制了职业倦怠与执行力的相关性曲线。提出了通过建立科学人性的制度和健康有序的社会支撑系统,引导青年干部树立积极的自我认知和评价观念,正确疏导职业倦怠情绪以及定期进行人员和资源合理流动等调节策略。最后,重点论述了综合素质、个人魅力、团结协作、绩效考核、团队与创新意识等五大要素对增强高校青年干部执行力的重要意义。     

Adolescent and Young Adult Mothers’ Relationship Quality During the Transition to Parenthood: Associations with Father Involvement in Fragile Families

Data from the Fragile Families and Child-Well-being Study were used to examine predictors of involvement among fathers of young children (N=2,215) born to adolescent and young adult mothers (ages 14–25; N=2,850). Participants were interviewed immediately following their baby's birth and at 3-years postpartum regarding co-parental relationship quality, fathers’ caretaking behavior (“father involvement”), and fathers’ provision of material support for the child (“in-kind” support). Early postnatal and 3-year postpartum parental relationship quality and father-child cohabitation predicted 3-year father involvement while early father involvement did not. The race of fathers, specifically African American, was associated with lower levels of father involvement. For in-kind support, 3-year father-child cohabitation and 3-year relationship quality were both positively associated with provision of in-kind support. Father's income was not a significant predictor but mother's involvement with a new partner at the 3-year follow-up was marginally significant. Lastly, the race of fathers, specifically African American and Latino, was associated with provision of less in-kind support. Christina B. Gee, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, The George Washington University, Christina Gee's research interests include coparenting and father involvement during transition to parenthood among adolescent mothers and fathers, adolescent mothers’ psychological adjustment, and romantic relationships among at-risk couples. Christopher M. McNerney, B.A., Department of Psychology, George Washington University, Christopher McNerney's research interests include marginalized couples, couples interventions, and family treatments to improve parenting outcomes. Michael J. Reiter, B.A., Department of Psychology, George Washington University, Michael Reiter's research interests include interfaith and interracial romantic relationships within a family systems approach. Suzanne C. Leaman, B.A., Department of Psychology, George Washington University, Suzanne Leaman's research interests include adolescents and young families, minority mental health, low-income communities, and the implications of dating violence for mental health.     

提高青年教师授课技能是实现学校跨跃式发展的基石

工会紧紧围绕学校中心工作开展青年教师教学基本功竞赛活动,既提高了青年教师的政治素质和业务素质,又提高了青年教师的授课和教学水平,在学校的发展中发挥了青年教师主力军的作用,工会为青年教师健康、快速成长做了辅路搭桥的工作。     

农村青年犯罪的现状、原因及对策思考

农村青年是农村建设和发展的主力军,但他们同时又是日趋严重的农村犯罪的主要成员,引发其犯罪的主要原因是农村社会中存在的复杂矛盾.减少和预防农村青年犯罪,要遵循"打防结合,标本兼治"的原则,既要长期坚持"严打",又要注重社会治安综合治理,还要大力发展农村经济,加强农村精神文明建设,构筑起农村长治久安的新的"长城".     

少先队体验教育基地功能发挥初探——以“楠风营地”为例

"楠风营地"是温州市首个体验教育基地,它带给我们的启示是创建少先队体验教育基地应重视三个体系的构建即:组织管理体系、教育阵地体系、活动实施体系。     

预防未成年人犯罪法若干理论问题研究

本文论述了制订《中华人民共和国预防未成年人犯罪法》的指导思想,即做好预防未成年人犯罪工作,为未成年人身心健康发展创造良好的社会环境.阐明了《中华人民共和国预防未成年人犯罪法》的主要内容,即该法明文规定了未成年人犯罪教育,明文规定了对未成年人不良行为的预防,明文规定了有关部门对未成年人健康成长的社会生活环境的管理责任,明文规定了对未成年人严重不良行为的矫治,明文规定了未成年人对犯罪的自我防范,明文规定了对未成年人重新犯罪的预防;还阐述了《中华人民共和国预防未成年人犯罪法》的主要特点和外国及联合国关于预防未成年人犯罪的立法规定。     

Profiles and Correlates of Relational Aggression in Young Adults’ Romantic Relationships

The present study examines prevalence and correlates of experiencing and perpetrating relational aggression in the context of young adults’ romantic relationships. We assess correlates of relational aggression in four domains of risk: (1) Social-cognitive, (2) Relationship, (3) Trait/dispositional, and (4) Mental health. Results indicate that modest involvement in relational aggression is relatively common. Females reported higher levels of perpetration whereas males reported higher levels of victimization. Relational aggression and victimization were related to each domain of risk for both men and women, although different patterns of findings emerged for each domain. For example, individuals who reported perpetrating relational aggression in their romantic relationships believed that aggression was most acceptable (social-cognitive risk) whereas individuals who reported experiencing relational aggression (as victims) were more likely to indicate that their self worth is contingent on relationships and that romantic relationships are very important to them (dispositional risk). Respondents who reported either perpetrating or experiencing relational aggression had higher levels of exclusivity in their relationships and were more likely to describe their relationships in anxious attachment terms (relationship risk). They also reported higher levels of depressive and anxious symptoms (mental health risk). Implications of these results for theory and prevention and intervention efforts are discussed.

The Influence of Individual and Partner Characteristics on the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence in Young Adult Relationships

This study examines individual and partner characteristics associated with the perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV) in young adult relationships with opposite sex partners. Using data from Waves 1 and 3 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examined 1,275 young adults’ heterosexual romantic relationships. Controlling for the effects of family and school correlates measured in adolescence, we examined the extent to which participants’ general violent behavior in young adulthood and their partners’ use of violence in their relationship influence participants’ IPV perpetration. We found that both having general violent tendencies and being a target of violence in a relationship influenced one’s likelihood of young adults perpetrating IPV. We also tested whether the overall influence of participants’ general violent behavior on IPV perpetration was moderated by their partners’ use of violence in the relationship. We found that young women’s greatest expression of violent tendencies emerged when in relationships with violent men; yet, when partnered with non-violent men, young women’s own violent tendencies did not lead to IPV. We found little evidence for the interactive effect for young men in the study. The lack of a significant interaction in the model indicated that young men’s general aggression was not conditioned on their partners’ use of physical aggression in their relationships.

青年白领的工作家庭冲突及其影响因素分析——对山东青岛青年白领的调查分析

本文根据抽样调查的结果,从工作一家庭冲突和家庭-工作冲突两个维度探讨了中国转型时期青年白领的工作家庭冲突问题及影响因素.分析发现,青年白领的工作家庭冲突程度总的来说并不高;工作家庭冲突并不是女性特有的,男性的工作-家庭冲突明显高于女性,而在家庭-工作冲突中并不存在显著性差异.回归分析结果表明,个体特征、工作特征和子女观等因素都对青年白领的工作家庭冲突产生了显著影响,其中工作因素的影响最大.