The discursive construction of community identity

The aim of this article is to illustrate how a discourse‐oriented approach would open new theoretical and methodological perspectives to the study of community identity. Here outlined is the idea that community identity is discursively constructed by members in order to lend meaning to experience. An analysis of how community identity is constructed in subjects' discourse with reference to the local context is presented. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

论医院服务效益范畴及其评价

正确运用医院服务效益的评价指标,才能引导医院健康发展。在服务产品理论基础上,探讨医院服务的经济效益与社会效益范畴及其评价指标。通过分析两个效益的辩证关系认为,医院坚持社会效益首位原则与重视经济效益并行不悖。     

Reducing Consumers’ Perceived Risk through Banking Service Quality Cues in Taiwan

This study not only elucidates how service quality cues and perceived risk are related, but also explores the internal composition of this relationship. Financial and psychological risks found to be affected mainly by reliability and empathy of service quality, whereas functional and social risks are influenced by tangibles cues of service quality. Finally, exactly how demographic variables affect the relationship between service quality and perceived risk is considered, and the family life cycle notably modulates this relationship. People in various stages may perceive different levels of service quality, according to their age, which is a variable in the family life cycle.     

青少年的人格特征与互联网娱乐服务使用偏好的关系

利用互联网进行娱乐已经成为了一种全新的时尚,如何使成长中的青少年不在这个虚拟的娱乐世界中“玩物丧志”,需要我们充分地了解使用互联网娱乐服务过程中的基本现象,有的放矢地对青少年的网上行为进行疏导.该研究通过对339名中学生进行问卷调查,对青少年的人格特征、社会支持与互联网娱乐服务之间的关系进行了探讨,结果表明:(1)客观社会支持、主观社会支持对互联网娱乐服务的使用偏好有着直接的正向作用;而对社会支持的利用对互联网娱乐服务的使用偏好有着直接的负向作用;(2)宜人性、外向性均可以通过客观社会支持、主观社会支持和对社会支持的利用间接地影响互联网娱乐服务的使用偏好;(3)客观社会支持会影响主观社会支持,主观社会支持对社会支持的利用水平也有影响.     

社区医师应成为脑卒中治疗的重要环节

我国现代医疗技术对脑卒中的诊断和治疗手段越来越完善,但对于脑卒中的急救和预防水平却不尽人意,应当重视社区医院、社区医生在脑卒中急救、预防、治疗、康复中的重要作用,建立符合我国国情的“卒中单元”,使社区医生成为脑卒中治疗体系的起始点和终结点。     

Community and school choice: Geographies of care and responsibility

This paper draws on elements of critical discursive psychology in order to explore some of the issues and concerns raised by parents' responses to the policy and practice of school choice. Drawing on data from a group of mothers of diverse social class and racial backgrounds, this paper examines the dilemmas some mothers engage with in their role as chooser—reconciling competing rationalities for choosing or trying to manage contradictions. A central argument of this paper is that the policy and political context shaping the emergence of school choice in Britain has provisionally secured the development of certain trends in education—consumerism, individualism and competition. Alongside and coupled with this has been the veneration of a narrow utilitarian conception of parents as consumers of education services, defined as people who share the capacity and willingness to maximize the utility of their decisions in a rationally self‐interested way. This paper questions the value of this approach as a framing for understanding the aspirations, motivations and fantasies informing parents' school choice and highlights instead the ways in which some mothers articulate the importance of community in their decision‐making practices. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Delivering Parent-Child Interaction Therapy in an Urban Community Clinic

Extensive evidence supports the efficacy of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) for reducing behavior problems in young children; however, little is known about the use of PCIT in a community mental health center (CMHC). This paper provides four clinical case examples of families who were referred to and successfully completed PCIT in an urban CMHC. The families were ethnically and socioeconomically diverse and presented with a wide range of treatment concerns and needs (e.g., autism, severe maternal psychopathology, involvement in child protective services, and complex family configurations) in addition to disruptive behavior. Our data and clinical observations suggest that PCIT decreased behavior problems, improved parent-child interactions, and, in some cases, reduced parental stress, with differing levels of change across families. Overall, the cases demonstrate that PCIT can be transported into a CMHC, and they illustrate supplemental services or minor accommodations to the established treatment protocol used to address individual family needs. Issues regarding the balance between fidelity and flexibility in transporting PCIT to a community setting are discussed, and future research topics are recommended.     

Shared service centers and professional employability

This paper presents case study evidence of evolutionary changes in business support functions resulting in a fundamental hollowing out of the professional space over time and distance, creating the ‘hourglass’ profession. In an IT-enabled, boundaryless world, many professional activities can now be undertaken, in the manner of the Martini slogan, ‘any time, any place, anywhere’.This paper aims:

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  To investigate the shared service center as an emerging organizational form with the potential to drive fundamental change in the nature and location of professional work.

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  To explore the impact of these changes for individual professional workers, and to highlight the need for a greater focus on individual employability as the driver of an overall career trajectory.

     

Religion and suicide acceptability: a cross-national analysis

Four perspectives (moral community thesis, religious integration, religious commitment, and social networks) guide the selection of variables in this study. Data are from the combined World Values/European Values Surveys for 2000 (50,547 individuals nested in 56 nations). The results of a multivariate hierarchical linear model support all four perspectives. Persons residing in nations with relatively high levels of religiosity, who are affiliated with one of four major faiths, are religiously committed, and are engaged with a religious network are found to be lower in suicide acceptability. The religious integration perspective, in particular, is empirically supported; affiliation with Islam is associated with low suicide acceptability. The findings provide strong support for an integrated model and demonstrate the usefulness of the moral community thesis in understanding suicide acceptability.