Bridge over troubled water: using implementation science to facilitate effective services in child welfare

To maximize benefits to children and their families, effective practices need to be used competently in child welfare settings. Since the 1990s, researchers and policy makers have focused attention on empirically supported interventions (ESIs). Much less attention has been paid to what is needed to implement these in a range of real-world settings. Without proper implementation, which includes an evaluation strategy from feasibility to fidelity to on-going work on moderators and mediators of program effects, established effective programs can be rendered ineffective in practical application. The paper will touch on progress, to date, of implementation science, its application to child welfare programs and practices, and will highlight a set of practical strategies for implementing empirically supported interventions in child welfare.     

The rates and correlates of the exposure of Palestinian adolescents to family violence: toward an integrative-holistic approach

OBJECTIVES: First, to examine the rates of Palestinian adolescents' exposure to (i.e., witnessing and experiencing) different patterns of psychological aggression and physical violence in their families of origin; and second, to examine the correlation between this exposure and sociodemographic characteristics, parents' psychological adjustment problems, and family exposure to political stressors. METHOD: A cross-sectional survey was carried out among a sample of 1,185 Palestinian secondary school students. RESULTS: The study reveals very alarming rates of witnessing interparental and parent-to-sibling aggression and violence, and high rates of experiencing aggression and violence by parents and siblings during childhood and adolescence. In addition, these rates were found to be intercorrelated, and correlated significantly with several sociodemographic characteristics such as parents' levels of education, place of residence, family size, religious affiliation, family income, and housing conditions, as well as with parents' psychological adjustment problems and with family exposure to political stressors. CONCLUSIONS: The results of the study reveal strong evidence that emphasizes the importance of studying violence in the family from an integrative, comprehensive, and ecological perspective that incorporates intrapersonal traits, family stress theory, family resources theory, social learning theory, and sociological and environmental factors, to explain the risk factors and predictors of violence in the family.     

Two Writing Activities for Extensive Reading

当您在费思细量如何提高这群淘气孩子的泛读能力时,这两种活动是否给你一些豁然开朗的提示呢?-- One magical thing will happen that the students gain more benefit through these activities.     

绿色的田野

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《公民韦尔斯》——又一部韦尔斯传发表

人们仍然怀念已故的奥森·韦尔斯。他曾是一位活跃于舞台、银幕和广播电台的明星,也是一位无论是他的失败或成功都受到人们关注的自视颇高的天才。在漫长而渐渐衰微的艺术生涯中,他表演过各种各样的节目:从古典作品到商业广告。老一代人依然记得他演出过有争议的新编莎士比亚戏剧,也记得他演播的广播剧《星际战争》,这部广播剧曾使千千万万听众相信火星人曾经入侵新泽西州。     

鱼与熊掌如何兼得？

在过去20多年中，美国高校的本质发生了剧烈的变化。由于越来越多的人把高等教育视为形成自身优势的途径，所以各高校便借机不断提高教育收费．其结果是许多公立大专院校不再依赖州政府的财政拨款，其运作模式更像私立院校。与此同时，许多私立院校——特别是那些获得社会捐助很少、比以往更加依赖学费和研究补助收入的院校，事实上已经完全放弃了其对社会、州和国家应尽的文化与经济义务。     

运动员使用促合成代谢类固醇的益处和害处

自1950年以来,用促合成代谢药物做实验的运动员愈来愈多了。这些药物能促进组织生长,因此推测也能促进肌肉增长,从而增加运动员的力量。在这些促合成代谢药物中,最常滥用的是促合成代谢雄性激素类固醇,即雄性激素、睾丸酮及其人工合成类似物,它们不是以针剂形式注射,就是以片剂形式口服,除促合成代谢作用之外,这些类固醇还具有男性化(masculinizing)效应,促合成代谢雄性类固醇是本综述的焦点。从化验报告得知,生长激素和人绒毛膜促性腺激素正越来越多地被国家级和世界级运动虽使用。可能运动员开始实验促合成代谢类固醇—雌性激素为时不长,这是与女性激素相似的化合物(在饲养家畜时,雄