Homeless Adults’ Recovery Experiences in Housing First and Traditional Services Programs in Seven European Countries

Across Europe, as governments turn to housing-led strategies in attempts to reverse rising rates of homelessness, increasing numbers of Housing First (HF) programs are being implemented. As HF programs become more widespread, it is important to understand how service users experience them compared to the more prevalent traditional treatment-first approach to addressing long-term homelessness. Although there is a large body of research on service users’ experiences of Housing First compared to treatment-first in North American contexts, comparatively less is known about how these two categories of homeless services are experienced in the European context. In a correlational and cross-sectional study, part of a larger examination of homelessness in Europe, participants (n = 520) engaged with either HF (n = 245) or traditional services (TS; n = 275) programs in seven countries completed measures of their experiences of services (consumer choice, housing quality, and service satisfaction) and recovery (time in independent housing, psychiatric symptoms, and community integration). Across the seven countries, participants engaged with HF programs reported experiencing more consumer choice, better perceived housing quality, and more satisfaction with services than participants engaged in TS programs. Participants in HF programs also reported a greater proportion of time in independent accommodation, fewer psychiatric symptoms, and more community integration. Varying patterns of association between experiences of services and recovery outcomes were observed. Findings indicate HF consistently predicts greater recovery than TS across diverse sociopolitical and economic contexts. Implications of findings for configurations of homeless services and homeless services policy are discussed.     

Comparative differences in the self-perceptions of disadvantaged and advantaged students

Previous research had indicated positive and significantly higher self-perceptions for disadvantaged children in comparison to advantaged children in grades four through eight. The intention of this research was to determine whether disadvantaged children maintain their more positive self-images when they enter the more integrated environment with advantaged children. It was discovered that both disadvantaged and advantaged high school students had significantly lower self-perception scores than did the elementary school pupils. The importance of the study is in the continued non-support of the hypothesis that disadvantaged children of all ages have negative self concepts—whether in segregated or integrated situations. However, the study further shows that high school students' self-images are not as high as those of younger children—whether they are disadvantaged or advantaged.     

初中一年级数学自学辅导教学协作实验研究结果——北京市五个实验班的初步总结

本文叙述了自学的必要性和研究自学的方法,概括论述怎样担任自学辅导教学实验班的老师。从四次定量材料中,五个实验班的学习成绩和自学能力成长几乎都优于对比班;从定性材料中,否定了自学会对概念和法则理解不深入以及解题的灵活性较差的说法,记忆的持久性也比对比班略好。这次实验还证明了基础较差的学生也能自学。     

国内九个地区3—7岁儿童数概念和运算能力发展的初步研究综合报告

这个报告中的初步研究工作在做法上甚有可取之处,在收获上也令人感觉到有广阔的前途。但诚如作者自己所说,这项初步研究工作还有不少不足之处,很有待继续努大加以充实和提高。我们希望有更多同志共同探索各种做法,研究有关问题。     

不同发展阶段的习得性长时程突触增强对新学习的影响

在慢性实验条件下观察到大鼠由学习训练所产生的海马CA_3区习得性长时程突触增强,它的不同发展阶段对新学习任务的习得有不同的作用:(1)在它的形成阶段及巩固阶段对新学习均有易化作用,虽然两个阶段突触效应增强的程度都处于相同的高水平,但后者的易化作用相对要大些,提示这两个发展阶段突触的可塑性变化是有差异的;还有,新学习任务的训练并没有引起突触效应的进一步增强,表明突触效应的长时程增强有“饱和”现象。(2)在它消退后,对新学习任务的习得没有影响。上述结果提示学习的组织形式不同,可从突触机制上影响学习的效果,并进一步证明习得性长时程突触增强是学习和记忆的神经基础。     

藏族、维吾尔族在表音、表意文字辨认上大脑两半球的功能特点

用半视野速示术对藏族、维吾尔族人(各60名),进行辨认表音、表意文字的研究。结果表明,无论是藏族还是维吾尔族被试,对汉字(表意文字)的辨认都是两半球均势的,而对藏/维文(表音文字)的辨认却出现两种不同的结果:对熟练掌握和使用汉语多年(五年以上)的藏族被试出现两半球均势,而学习汉语一年左右的藏族及维吾尔族被试以及学习汉语四年的维吾尔族被试却为左半球优势。这表明对表意文字汉字的辨认是两半球均势的,对表音文字藏/维文的辨认似乎受被试使用汉语的影响,会由左半球优势转变为两半球均势。