Avoiding Colonizer Positions in the Therapy Room: Some Ideas About the Challenges of Dealing with the Dialectic of Misery and Resources in Families

Some authors have argued that certain acts of family therapists—despite their best intentions—may represent a form of colonizing the family. When acting as a colonizer, a therapist is understood as becoming overly responsible for the family and focusing too strongly on change. In so doing, the therapist disrespects the family's pace, and neglects their own resources for change. This paper aims to highlight the need for therapists to be hypersensitive both to the resources of families entering therapy as well as to the impact of prevailing ideologies on their own positioning in the session. The kind of sensitivity advocated here is dialectical in the sense that every family is understood as having potentials promoting dynamism, happiness, and well-being as well as potentials contributing to stagnation, unhappiness, and misery. In this article, using illustrations from clinical practice, we present some ideas for resisting the tendency by the therapist to assume a colonizing position as a professional solver of problems for families. Our main aim here is to redirect the therapist toward connecting with the family's suffering, as well as with the resource repertoire it has developed for navigating and negotiating its way through life.     

Parental Separation and Children's Behavioral/Emotional Problems: The Impact of Parental Representations and Family Conflict

In this longitudinal study, we examine whether the effect of parental separation on kindergarten children's behavioral/emotional problems varies according to the level of family conflict, and children's parental representations. One hundred and eighty seven children were assessed at ages 5 and 6. Family conflict was assessed using parents' ratings. Children's parental representations were assessed using a story-stem task. A multiinformant approach (parent, teacher, child) was employed to assess children's behavioral/emotional problems. Bivariate results showed that separation, family conflict, and negative parental representations were associated with children's behavioral/emotional problems. However, in multivariate analyses, when controlling for gender and symptoms at age 5, we found that children of separated parents who showed negative parental representations had a significantly greater increase in conduct problems between 5 and 6 than all other children. In terms of emotional symptoms and hyperactivity, symptoms at 5 and (for hyperactivity only) gender were the only predictors for symptoms 1 year later. Our results suggest that kindergarten children's representations of parent-child relationships moderate the impact of parental separation on the development of conduct problems, and underline play and narration as a possible route to access the thoughts and feelings of young children faced with parental separation.     

A Psychometric Analysis of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale—Parent Version in a Clinical Sample

The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale—Parent Version (RCADS-P) is a 47-item parent-report questionnaire of youth anxiety and depression, with scales corresponding to the DSM-IV categories of Separation Anxiety Disorder, Social Phobia, Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Panic Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). The RCADS-P is currently the only parent-report questionnaire that concurrently assesses youth symptomatology of individual anxiety disorders as well as depression in accordance with DSM-IV nosology. The present study examined the psychometric properties of the RCADS-P in a large (N = 490), clinic-referred sample of youths. The RCADS-P demonstrated favorable psychometric properties, including high internal consistency, convergent/divergent validity, as well as strong discriminant validity—evidencing an ability to discriminate between anxiety and depressive disorders, as well as between the targeted anxiety disorders. Support for the DSM-related six-factor RCADS-P structure was also evidenced. This structure demonstrated superior fit to a recently suggested alternative to the DSM-IV classification of anxiety and affective disorders—namely, the MDD/GAD “distress” factor.     

公共卫生教育的发展及其与临床医学重整的困境

近代以来人类健康的改善公共卫生的作用居功至伟。1916年约翰霍普金斯大学建立了世界上第一所公共卫生学院,是公共卫生和医学机构分离的开始。尽管公共卫生的研究成果很多,公共卫生和医学在教育和实践上的分裂,削弱了公共卫生在维护大众健康中的作用,在传染病再次成为社会的威胁和医疗费用不断上涨时,因此弥补这个分裂更为重要。如今已经为此做出许多努力,但收效不大。     

Primary shame,mortal wound and tragic circularity: Some new reflections on shame and shame conflicts

Invited to contribute some thoughts on recent developments in psychoanalytic thinking about shame, the author starts off with Aristotle's prescient analysis of shame and then focuses on accumulating experiences in the psychoanalytic treatment of patients with severe neuroses, in particular the close relationship of severe traumatization and chronic states of shame, and how this is reflected in shelfdestructive repetitions. Reminiscent of what we know from tragedy and the tragic dimension of human existence, this repetition compulsion shows a built‐in circularity. These circular dynamics have at their core struggles with deep woundedness that can variably be conceived of as primary pain, primary shame and primary anxiety. Consequently, throughout the experiences with these patients goes the absoluteness both of their conscience and of their ideal, what we know as the “archaic superego:”     

信息技术发展对医学教育的影响

信息技术的发展对医学教育产生了重要的影响。借助于电子计算机和互联网技术的优势,医学教育从手段到内容上都发生了巨大的变化,今天的医学教育也进入了新时代。此外,包括博客和Wiki在内的新兴技术也提供了新的医学教学方法。互联网的精神也将对医学教育思想产生影响。     

Mothers' and fathers' support for child autonomy and early school achievement

Data were analyzed from 641 children and their families in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development to test the hypotheses that in the early school years, mothers' and fathers' sensitive support for autonomy in observed parent-child interactions would each make unique predictions to children's reading and math achievement at Grade 3 (controlling for demographic variables), children's reading and math abilities at 54 months, and children's level of effortful control at 54 months and that these associations would be mediated by the level of and changes over time in children's observed self-reliance in the classroom from Grades 1 through 3. The authors found that mothers' and fathers' support for autonomy were significantly and uniquely associated with children's Grade 3 reading and math achievement with the above controls, but only for boys. For boys, the effect of mothers' support for child autonomy was mediated by higher self-reliance at Grade 1 and of fathers' support for child autonomy by greater increases in self-reliance from Grades 1 through 3.     

母婴保健事业中的政府职责

我国相关法律文件明确规定了政府在母婴保健事业中的职责,但就目前现状来看,政府在母婴保健服务体系的建立与完善及母婴保险制度的建立与完善这两大方面都存在职责缺失问题。中国母亲和儿童的生存权与发展权能否得到充分保障,关键在于政府是否履行其法定职责。     

我国《人体器官移植条例》评析

我国《人体器官移植条例》对有推定同意权的“亲属”的限定范围过窄,阻却了第二、第三顺序亲属实施推定同意的权利;临床应用与伦理委员会的人员组成未排除实施器官移植的专家的参与,可能影响论证结果的客观性,且伦理审查时限不明;在违反《条例》的法律责任中,排除了公民生前未表示不同意捐献器官且其家属也未表示同意捐献尸体器官,而对其实施器官摘除的情形。缺失了医疗机构及其医务人员在明知器官来源不合法或实为买卖器官却加以利用并实施器官移植的法律责任。建议尽快根据《条例》制定具体的实施细则,以确保《条例》的正确实施。     

非法行医及其侵权责任构成要件的认定

医疗行为主体的未限定性决定了非法行医主体的非限定性,医疗行为应有合法与不合法之分;行为主体故意实施的违法行医行为必须兼具营利的主观目的性才构成非法行医;非法行医作为侵权行为的一种,也符合侵权责任的构成要件,只不过有其特殊性。