Caregiver engagement in the behavioral health screening and assessment for child welfare-involved children: child welfare and behavioral health workers’ perspectives

Caregivers are frequent sources of information of their children’s behavioral health and other service needs. It is particularly challenging to engage child welfare-involved caregivers who risk losing custody of their children. This case study explores how caregivers who were about to lose custody of their children engage in their children’s behavioral health screening and assessment from the perspective of child welfare and behavioral health workers. Using qualitative data collected via focus groups from child welfare and behavioral health workers, themes were identified related to the process of engaging caregivers in child behavioral health screening and assessment, determinants (both internal and external) for the caregiver engagement process, and how this process affected screening and assessment outcomes. Findings have implications for screening and assessing behavioral health needs of children involved with the child welfare system and recommended strategies to better engage caregivers in the process.     

日本老年人社会福利事业的结构与法律变迁——兼评中国老年人福利与保障法的定位

人口老龄化已成为中国社会发展中的一个难题，尽管早在1996年中国就已颁布了《老年人权益保障法》，然而中国老年人权益保障的现状还不能令人满意。在新法修订之际，检视旧有的问题，合理借鉴其他国家的经验是当务之急。本文通过分析日本社会老年人福利事业的结构与法律制度的变迁，提出在中国《老年人权益保障法》修改的过程中应当从社会公共利益的本位出发，顺应老年人福利事业社会化的进程，将老年人保障与福利问题还原到社会法的定位加以考虑，从而减少行政公权对老年人社会福利事业的过度干预。     

符号权力视角下广告中的美女形象

走在大街小巷或是打开电视屏幕,充斥于人们眼球的总少不了美女广告的影子,无论是报刊杂志上引人注目的封面女郎,还是电视广告画面中充满诱惑的霓裳艳影,美女广告无疑迎合了当前商业社会的需要,广告中的美女形象不仅深得男性的认同,更使得女性认同了它的运作逻辑,并自觉自愿的以其中的形象为模板来塑造自己。这看似表达了大众隐秘的内在审美标准,深得大众的认可,然而这种审美标准的背后却充满了男权话语的叙述,所谓的＂美＂与＂性感＂无不深深的打上了男权的烙印。本文试图通过对布迪厄的符号权力理论的论述,对广告中的＂美女形象＂进行社会学解读,探讨广告中的性别支配现象深层的原因,即当女性用一种男性的标准来看待自己时,她没有意识到她的思维方式包括行为方式已经被男权制的＂惯习＂深深的浸染了,并无意中成为男权制度的合谋和帮凶,从而从一个受害者又变成男权统治的压迫者、建构者。笔者希望借此唤醒女性的主体意识,彰显女性的独立人格与尊严。     

对国际贸易影响国民福利机制问题的量化研究

本文通过对一个经济社会的模型分析,论证了政府财政支出与调控货币投放的区别和居民储蓄所形成的社会消费需求漏洞是政府旨在维持社会经济总供求平衡的调控货币投放的根本经济原因。对外贸易是一国全部经济活动的重要组成部分。一国对外贸易影响着本国社会经济的总供给和总需求,因而影响着本国政府的调控货币投放及其规模。居民福利可分为居民个人福利和居民社会福利。居民储蓄是居民社会福利的根本;政府的调控货币投放是居民社会福利的重要来源。因此,本国的对外贸易也影响着本国居民的社会福利的多少。     

Cabinet ministers and inequality

Scholars and commentators increasingly wonder whether governments’ failure to address socio-economic inequalities is the result of unequal representation. Recent literature on policy responsiveness in the United States and Europe finds evidence that party and parliamentary policy proposals and actual policy outcomes are closer to the preferences of the rich than of the poor. However, the extent and character of such unequal representation remains thinly understood. Among the most thinly understood mechanisms are the political conditions that link socio-economic inequalities to unequal representation. This paper thickens our understanding of (unequal) representation by investigating the class composition of parliamentary cabinets and its effect on social welfare policy. With the aid of a new dataset on cabinet ministers’ social class, the paper shows that responsiveness to the social welfare preferences of poorer voters varies by cabinet ministers’ professional backgrounds, above and beyond the partisan orientation of the government.     

Stuck in Mobility? Interrupted Journeys of Migrants With Precarious Legal Status in Europe

Abstract

Due to lack of access to work and support services migrants with precarious legal status engage in onward mobility within EUrope and thus contest the migration regime that aims to control and limit their mobility. This article highlights the ambiguous nature of mobility from a critical mobilities perspective based on multi-sited ethnographic research and interviews with migrants in Austria, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. By focusing on their interrupted journeys, the article shows how migrants use mobility to secure basic needs and avoid migration control attempts and how this enhanced mobility aggravates emotional instability.     

Labour market regulation and subjective well-being in low-income countries

A growing literature suggests social democratic policies, as exemplified by the welfare state and active labour market policies, promote higher levels of life satisfaction compared to the neoliberal agenda of austerity, smaller government and more ‘flexible’ labour markets. In this article, this inquiry is extended to low-income countries. A theoretical argument is developed for why labour market regulation (LMR) (rather than social welfare spending or the general size of government) is a more appropriate locus of attention outside of the industrial democracies. The relationship between LMR and several measures of well-being is then empirically evaluated, finding robust evidence that people live more satisfying lives in countries that more stringently regulate their labour market. Moreover, it is found that positive benefits of LMR on well-being are the largest among individuals with lower incomes. The implications for public policy and the study of human well-being are discussed.     

基于政府采购经济效益的微观经济学分析

政府采购作为利用国家财政资金和政府借款购买货物、工程和服务的行为,对于我国的经济发展起着重要的作用。在采购活动中,存在着委托代理问题、合作博弈问题以及福利效益不能最大化等问题。本文从微观经济学角度对政府采购中的上述3个问题进行分析,并给出合理的解决方案。     

Baltic Refugees and Policy Formation in Sweden 1940–1950

The Baltic refugees of the Second World War, in Sweden, were part of the opening up of Sweden to immigration. New research, after the turn of the century, has shown how this change of policy was part of the emerging welfare state, embracing a wider geographical area. Still, the opening was conditioned by degrees of “Nordicness” and the conditions of neutrality toward Germany and not least the Soviet Union. This review article highlights some of the new insights of Swedish historiography.     

韩国老年人福利法的变迁及对我国的启示

人口老龄化问题在发达国家早已为人所熟知,进入21世纪,一些发展中国家也开始进入老龄化行列之中,而同属东亚的韩国和我国在很多方面,有着惊人的相似之处,在人口老龄化问题上也不例外。由于两国的老龄化进程相对较快,使得两国在应对老龄化问题上面临了新的挑战。自上世纪60年代后,韩国老年人福利法制的发展与完善对我国相关法制的建立提供了可以借鉴的经验和启示。