END-OF-LIFE DECISION MAKING: PRACTICES,BELIEFS AND KNOWLEDGE OF SOCIAL WORKERS IN HEALTH CARE SETTINGS

The aim of the present study was to examine the involvement, beliefs, and knowledge of social workers in health care settings in the process of making decisions regarding life-sustaining treatments. A convenience sample of 68 social workers participated in the study (65 F and 3 M; mean age = 42.4 ; SD = 10.0 . Fifty-two participants worked at hospitals and 16 at nursing homes. The area in which social workers reported being more involved were activities related to family members. The extent of social workers' involvement was related to their beliefs regarding their role and their knowledge about life-sustaining treatments. Findings of this study emphasize the need for developing educational programs aimed at expanding social workers' knowledge in order to increase their autonomy and professional involvement in end-of-life decision making.     

The proposal of a broadening of perspective in evaluative bibliometrics by complementing the times cited with a cited reference analysis

A proposal is made in this paper for a broadening of perspective in evaluative bibliometrics by complementing the (standard) times cited with a cited reference analysis for a field-specific citation impact measurement. The times cited approach counts the citations of a given publication set. In contrast, we change the perspective and start by selecting all papers dealing with a specific research topic or field (the example in this study is research on Aspirin). Then we extract all cited references from the papers of this field-specific publication set and analyse which papers, scientists, and journals have been cited most often. In this study, we use the Chemical Abstracts registry number to select the publications for a specific field. However, the cited reference approach can be used with any other field classification system proposed up to now.     

EVALUATING AN ABBREVIATED VERSION OF THE PATHS CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTED BY SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIANS

When evidence‐based prevention programs are implemented in schools, adaptations are common. It is important to understand which adaptations can be made while maintaining positive outcomes for students. This preliminary study evaluated an abbreviated version of the Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) Curriculum implemented by school‐based mental health clinicians in preschool/kindergarten classrooms. Results suggest that students (N = 80) demonstrated increases in emotional understanding and prosocial behavior. Children with low initial levels of problem behavior demonstrated large and continual increases in prosocial behavior over the entire course of the intervention, whereas children with high initial levels of problem behavior only demonstrated small gains in prosocial behavior during the first half of the intervention. These preliminary results support the general effectiveness of the adapted intervention, but also suggest the need for additional intervention to produce meaningful and sustained behavioral gains for higher‐need students.     

Jarass, Hans D.: Charta der Grundrechte der Europ?ischen Union 504 Seiten. Verlag C.H. Beck, 2010, EUR 64. ISBN 978-3-406-60337-2

Mit Schreiben vom 30.11.2010 legte die zust?ndige Wissenschaftsministerin, Frau Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Beatrix Karl, den Entwurf zu einem „Qualit?tssicherungsrahmengesetz 2011“ zur Begutachtung vor; das genannte Gesetz beinhaltet die Neukodifikation eines „Qualit?tssicherungsgesetzes“, weiters die Etablierung eines „Privatuniversit?ten- und Zertifikatslehrgangsgesetzes“ – welches das bisher geltende Universit?ts-Akkreditierungsgesetz ersetzen soll – sowie die Novellierung des „Fachhochschul-Studiengesetzes“.     

Photography and Film

Estelle Jussim's Visual Communication and the Graphic Arts: Photographic Technologies in the Nineteenth Century (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1974—$25.00)

Donald Chase's Filmmaking: The Collaborative Art (Boston: Little, Brown, 1975—$9.95)

D.J. Wenden's The Birth of the Movies (New York: Dutton Paperbacks, 1975—$5.95, paper)

Peter Bowen, Martin Hayden, and Frank Riess' Screen Test: A Quiz Book About the Movies (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1974—$2.50, paper)     

Historical and Pedagogical Perspectives on Entertainment,Popularization and Learning in Science

This is an introduction to the following papers of a conference: From Itinerant Lecturers of the 18th Century to Popularizing Science for the 21st Century.     

Methode zur Aktivenraten-Prognose in der Sportentwicklungsplanung

The quantitative sports development planning needed as a basis a forecast of sports practice on the quantitative extent and location. To support this it would be helpful to have cohort data, but their preparation needed at least a generation time, but then they would already be out of date. It is therefore appropriate to go back to resorted longitudinal data in lower age subdivisions which are, in a suitable manner with modified cross-sectional data are linked. Which is common practice, for example in the preparation of forecasting mortality tables for demographic prognosis. In the previous practice were predominantly empirical data on sport activity are kept constant and only linked to the future population. The survey results have only been published for age classes, which is unsuitable for a prognosis. The paper shows alternative how such class values in single year of age data can be transmitted when the results of an empirical study have been published only grouped. Then we made a suggestion as to how the development of cohorts in longitudinal section and the age specific sports activity can be linked to a forecast. For this, the sports activity is expressed as active rate (physically active inhabitants/1000 residents) defined and consistently over all ages from 0 to 99 years and more developed. From this it can be a measure of the active sporting years under the conditions of study year developed. These are the combined active rates, as can be expressed as years active in sports per inhabitant, when the ratios of the survey year would apply to the entire population. The new code is similar to the “combined birth rate” in the demography, where they give good services in analysis and forecasting. The forecast latitude per year of age is limited by external circumstances, so that it never reached 1000 active per 1000 inhabitants. These are the “obstacle rates” to determine inhabitants who are hindered to active sports at that age in that year. As the difference between the unattainable maximum of 1000 minus the obstacle rate to the current active rate results in the age specific prognosis latitude, called “potential rate”. From present periodic surveys of the extent of sporting engagements by age and sex and its projection on the entire forecast period results in “years with sport” expressible annual change. Oriented to the also changing annual potential rates may apply to the change volume sports years are divided annually to the individual age years. This is a data forecast oriented on longitudinal and cross-sectional data of the degree of physical activity in the form of an age-specific active rate.