Ethical issues in consulting

Should NSPI establish on Ethics Committee? What is ethics, what are the ethical issues that confront consultants and how do they presently deal with them? This article is based on a year long research effort to identify common ethical dilemmas that arise in consultant-client relationships and the difficulties both parties have in resolving them.     

一例男大学生同性恋者的咨询案例报告

本文通过对一例男大学生同性恋求助者的咨询案例研究,结合咨询过程,运用合理情绪疗法对来访者心理问题的形成原因与发展过程进行了解释和分析,部分咨询过程说明了合理情绪疗法相关技术的使用和咨询效果评估的有关问题,最后结合该案例总结了作者对合理情绪疗法的应用体会。     

The semantic effects of consulting a textual database on rewriting

Children 8-10-years old were asked to write a story and then to improve it using resource texts. A first group accessed the resource texts through a computer database, a second group read the texts on paper and no texts were given to a third group. Regardless of their reading abilities, the children using computers produced more propositions during rewriting and, in particular, more macrostructural propositions. Inventions inspired by the resource texts outnumbered borrowings, particularly in the computer-assisted group. Our interpretation stresses the effect of the database learning environment on the reprocessing of mental models involved in generating first drafts.     

论建立东方心理咨询模式

在多元文化背景指导下有多元文化咨询.本土心理学是在某一种族或文化群体中产生、发展,并适用于该种族文化群体.它阐述该种族的心理体验,理解种族个体现实的心理生活.因而在本土心理学的指导下也就有了本土心理咨询.笔者认为只有适应且能解决本土心理问题的心理咨询模式,没有也不可能去建立所谓的东方心理咨询治疗模式.     

基于行为视角的董事会治理研究综述

传统的董事会治理主流研究以代理理论为基础,强调正式结构的作用,具有一定的局限性.新兴的行为视角研究通过打开董事会黑箱,探讨其运作过程的内在规律,成为董事会治理研究的一个前沿.对该研究范式的背景、基本框架及研究内容进行了全面综述,并对其未来的主要发展方向之一--基于当责的董事会有效性研究进行了展望.     

Steering from a distance: Power relations in Australian higher education

Conventional liberal frameworks – in which power is seen asthe property of states, and repressive in character, and market and stateexclude each other – are unable to comprehend the recent changes inliberal government, including the government of systems and institutions inhigher education. Neo-liberal government rests on self-managing institutionsand individuals, in which free agents are empowered to act on their ownbehalf but are steered from a distance by policy norms and rules of thegame. In the universities government-created markets and quasi-markets havebeen used to advance both devolution and central control, simultaneously,and national government and institutional management are increasinglyimplicated in each other. These issues are explored in relation to recenthigher education literature, and empirically, the latter by examining thechanges in the Australian higher education system in the last decade. TheAustralian system provides an example of a quasi-market in which thedevelopment of a stronger institutional management, the introduction ofgovernment-institution negotiations over educational profiles, and the newsystems of competitive bidding, performance management and qualityassessment have all been used to steer academic work and to install aprocess of continuous self-transformation along modern neo-liberal lines.Following a change of government in 1996 there has been some movement from aquasi-market to a more fully developed economic market, but no relaxation ofgovernment control.     

Support for distance learners in a Nigerian distance education programme

This paper reports on a research study that draws on the perceptions of students, tutors, field centre coordinators and central management to evaluate the support services provided to students in the National Teachers’ Institute’s distance teacher training programme. Within a conceptual framework that built upon models of teaching and learning at_A_distance, both quantitative and qualitative approaches were used for data collection and analysis. Although the major forms of support provided were found to be relevant to students, the study highlights the need to improve the current level of student satisfaction by strategies that will improve the supply of course materials and tutorial support, enhance students networking and exploit the use of multimedia.