Chapter 13: Group Therapy for Birth Parents of Children in Foster Care

Psychological impairments render many biological parents of children placed in treatment foster care incompetent to meet child-rearing tasks. Service agreements identify and address critical areas of dysfunctioning but do not engage parents in a broader inventory of their parental functioning and dysfuntioning. A group method provides mutual support, exploration, and a positive child-rearing model. A clinical assessment of parenting that highlights ongoing developmental needs of nurturance and empathy, limit setting, structure, role modeling, reality testing, and separation and individuation is used to promote progress. Parents gain insight into their own overall impairments, origin of impairments, and compensatory techniques. Parents recognize broader responsibility for parenthood enhancing reunification efforts.     

Chapter 17: The Community as an Advocate for Youth:

State treatment foster care programs established by the National Youth Advocate Program are described in terms of youth served, homes established, treatment program, implementation problems, and evaluation procedures.     

A Defense of Professionalism: A Response to Fusco and Baizerman

Fusco and Baizerman (2013) criticized professionalization efforts for assumptions about improved outcomes, “reducing” youth work to skills, “controlling behavior,” bureaucratization, depersonalized services, a neoliberal focus, removing practice wisdom, and a “telos of …scientifically based youth work” (p. 189). They do not provide evidence or arguments for these claims. Academics benefit from professionalization, and it is curious to oppose efforts to provide those benefits to others. We believe that they and their colleagues, in the same issue, have misread other authors on key ideas and present an incomplete and rather one-sided representation. They conflate professionalization and professionalism. They conflate the industrial aspects of professionalization with the ethical aspects. They have overestimated the potential harm of professionalization and underestimated the harm being done by uninformed youth work practices. They misinterpreted social history—and Aristotle. They have incompletely cited other writers about professionalization. Professionalization and professionalism are not guarantees of anything, but our critique of them needs to be coherent, consistent, and based on arguments and evidence.     

Engaging the youth – citizenship and political participation in Pakistan

The article explores the issue of youth political participation in Pakistan. In the light of the attention devoted by the Pakistani press to the youth vote in the 2013 Pakistani elections, this article discusses young Pakistanis’ articulation of their views on mainstream politics and their views of the state, and attempts to answer the question as to why young people in Pakistan are disillusioned with mainstream politics. The article focuses in particular on the perceptions held by those in their late teens to late 20s. Since 59 per cent of Pakistan's population is below the age of 24 and overall over 67 per cent of the population is under 30, their views on the state, rights, responsibilities and their concept of citizenship are a window into how Pakistan is likely to develop. The focus of the article is on voices that are rarely heard and which stand in stark contrast to the solutions offered by the institutional literature. The research is located in the wider discussion of the concept of citizenship and builds on previous work on citizenship in Pakistan.     

试析青少年网络素质培养的现状、途径与方法

通过对于青少年网络素质培养的研究,找出青少年在使用网络的过程中显现出来的优点与不足,分析青少年使用网络的各项有利因素与不利因素,找出青少年网络素质培养的有效方法与途径,实现对于青少年使用网络的行为进行有效正确导向,达到培养人才的目的。     

意义世界的建构:对青年人进行人文教化的背景和心理分析

时代的贫乏就在于人文精神的缺席与不在场 ,而社会的进步恰恰是以人文精神的勃兴作为拱心石的。青年人作为未来社会的主体 ,只有在一种良性的人文教化与陶成下 ,才能真正成为历史交响曲的奏鸣者。青年人的心理动力学表明 ,其健全人格和良性交往资质的获得更需要人文精神的内在释义与理想性涵化     

再论广西沿海开发中的人才供给战略

广西具有沿海、沿江、沿边的独特区位优势 ,特别是长达 15 95公里的海岸线 ,113万亩的内海滩涂 ,海洋开发潜力巨大。在全球资源日趋紧缺 ,各国正把目光关注和角逐的焦点转向海洋的今天 ,广西在这方面扬长避短 ,发挥优势抓紧开发海洋资源的意义更显突出。现在的关键问题是 :人才供给源跟不上。本文从广西沿海开发的人才奇缺的严峻现实着眼 ,提出创办北海海洋大学的战略设想。作者认为 ,这样可以从人才供给源上解决根本问题 ,通过立足广西、面向全国招生 ,培养海洋的环境研究与保护、海洋资源的管理与开发、船舶与海运工程等广西乃至全国目前急需的相关人才。     

构建"学教并重"教学模式的理论与实践研究

高等教育要完成培养创新型人才的历史使命,必须改革传统的“以教师为中心”的教学模式,构建既能发挥教师主导作用又能充分体现学生主体作用的“学教并重”的教学模式。     

Focused training of child and youth-care workers for promoting social and educational inclusion of youth at risk

Engaging marginalized youngsters in the mainstream society poses a great challenge for child and youth-care (CYC) workers. Workers' ability to promote significant inclusion of these adolescents is largely shaped in process of their professional education. Most academic programs for CYC workers define the profession too broadly, and this lack of specification, reflecting the scope and complexity of the field, could have a negative impact on the inclusion-aimed process of professionalization. This opinion note aims at opening a discussion about a new, inclusion-focused perspective on higher professional education of CYC workers. This discussion could suggest a refinement of CYC curricula to reflect specific characteristics of the target populations as well as consider some core concepts of the field of child and youth care.     

Youth,parental absenteeism and political bases in Mazowe district

The study sought to establish the effects of parents and guardians' absenteeism from homes on the dependents especially the youth in the rural villages of Chiweshe in Mazowe district committing time to political bases' activities. Data for the exploratory study was collected from narratives gathered from interviews and observations that were held with 40 youth purposefully sampled from the participants based on age and exposure to circumstances of living with parents/guardians who often manned political bases. The findings did to some extent confirm that elders' absenteeism from the children has various negative effects on the children. However, there were also isolated positives that were recorded.