Integrating Behavior into Health Research and Health Care: One Psychologist's Journey

The author narrates a history of the development of her interest in integrating behavior into heath research and health care. Using diabetes as an exemplar, she describes some of the challenges of integrating behavior into health research and health care: (1) becoming a member of interdisciplinary research and health care teams; (2) acquiring funding for behavioral research with medical populations; (3) communicating scientific findings; and (4) acquiring reimbursement for psychological services rendered. Specific examples of how the author and other psychologists can address these challenges are provided.     

The Parents Matter! Program: Building a Successful Investigator-Community Partnership

We examine the issues involved in creating and maintaining a successful collaboration between university-based researchers and community members when designing and implementing the Parents Matter! Program (PMP). The roles of focus groups, community advisory boards, and community liaisons are highlighted. PMP provides an illustration of the ongoing process of collaboration between investigators and community members and the benefits and challenges of such a partnership.     

日本的人类胚胎干细胞研究

干细胞研究的进展体现了人类智慧的一个胜利,但同时也对人类的生命提出了极大的挑战,因为这意味着无论是作为一个整体的社会还是个体,都将面临严肃的伦理、法律及社会问题.通过成人干细胞临床研究原则草案论纲,讨论日本的人类胚胎干细胞研究.     

职业压力、教学效能感与中小学教师职业倦怠的关系

以199名中小学教师为被试,采用典型相关研究的方法考察了职业压力、教学效能感与教师职业倦怠的关系。结果表明:(1)职业压力将导致中小学教师出现情绪衰竭和人格解体症状,职业压力越大,则职业倦怠的程度就越严重;(2)教师的教学效能感越低,则其情绪衰竭和人格解体的程度也将越严重;(3)教学效能感在职业压力与职业倦怠之间可能具有调节作用,高教学效能感可以改变职业压力的作用,减少"情绪衰竭"和"人格解体"的程度。     

Working with differences: Issues for research and counselling practice

This paper considers our experience within a group researching domestic violence in minoritised groups and the implications for counselling practice. Issues of race, gender and power were significant within the research team. These issues are intrinsic to minoritised women's experiences of service responses and are also a powerful, yet often unexplored, dynamic in counselling practice. We reflect on issues of ‘outsiders’ and ‘insiders’ in terms of the research process and findings, and the impact and influence of these power roles on counselling practice. We acknowledge that it is only by retrospectively engaging with each other and our differences that we have been able to explore our parallel processes and consider their implications for counselling practice.     

学生对教学调节策略的公平知觉

以141名中小学生为被试,采用访谈法和问卷法研究学生对教学调节策略的公平知觉及其公平观念。结果表明：(1)学生对教学调节策略的公平知觉存在差异．同伴辅导是学生认为最公平的教学调节策略,其次是丰富。高中生与初中生和小学生对加速和等待两种教学调节策略的公平知觉存在差异。(2)学生的公平观念存在年级差异,公平知觉与公平观念有关。     

Book reviews

Books reviewed:
Hauke, Christopher and Alister, Ian (eds.) Jung and Film: Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image
Meador, Betty de Shong Inanna Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna
Barnes, Fiona Palmer and Murdin, Lesley (eds.) Values and Ethics in the Practice of Psychotherapy and Counselling
Mitrani, Judith L. A Framework for the Imaginary: Clinical Explorations in Primitive States of Being
Mitrani, Judith L. Ordinary People and Extra-Ordinary Protections: A Post-Kleinian Approach to the Treatment of Primitive Mental States
Aulagnier, Piera The Violence of Interpretation: From Pictogram to Statement     

Internet Discussion Forum Summary

Article Discussed in this forum:
'Memories, fantasies, archetypes: an exploration of some connections between cognitive science and analytical psychology' by Jean M. Knox ( JAP , October 2001, 46:4)     

Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, andPedagogical Technique

Changes in the aims and methods of the philosophy of mind have occurred in recent decades. In particular, computer simulations have emerged as a means of constructing empirically and conceptually defensible theories of mind. This article explores pedagogical innovations that may be necessitated by these changes. One question raised is whether hands-on teaching of simulation methods should be a standard part of philosophy of mind courses. These courses, because of an increasing empirical orientation, are becoming more interdisciplinary, and certain consequences of this development are elaborated here.     

Building Simple Mechanical MindsUsing LEGO® Robots for Research and Teaching in Philosophy

In this essay I discuss how I built a cognitive-robotics lab using inexpensive LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ robot kits. The lab has provided pedagogical and research opportunities for a number of philosophy courses, and I briefly describe the results of those efforts. I also describe how one might build a similar lab. Philosophers need to be more directly involved in the field of robotics. There is much work to do in tidying up the philosophical debris left by the last wave of robotics research, which the researchers have been unwilling or unable to do themselves. The major barriers to participation have been hardware costs and a lack of technical expertise among most philosophers. In recent years, though, these barriers have become less of a problem. At the end, I present some ideas about the kinds of experiments that such kits make possible and how to expand beyond the limitations of the basic LEGO® hardware.