Effectiveness of a school-based intervention to prevent child sexual abuse—Evaluation of the German IGEL program

BackgroundChild sexual abuse (CSA) is a problem with severe consequences for victimized children. A variety of interventions have been developed and implemented over the last decades to prevent CSA. However, most of them have not been systematically evaluated to determine their effectiveness. The IGEL program is a school-based intervention to prevent CSA in third-grade primary school children in Germany.MethodsThis study was conducted using a quasi-experimental design, in which almost 300 children and their parents from eight intervention and four control schools were surveyed three times (pretest, posttest, 3 months later). In order to measure outcomes, a questionnaire was developed based on validated instruments to assess the knowledge, courses of action and self-protective skills of the children. Furthermore, increased anxiety and generalized touch aversion were examined as potentially harmful side effects of the program.ResultsThe results clearly demonstrate increased CSA-related knowledge and courses of action in children from the intervention group compared to the control children. These effects were medium-sized and sustained for at least three months after the last session. No meaningful negative side effects were detected in the evaluation for either the children or parents.ConclusionThe outcome evaluation indicates that the IGEL program is an effective intervention in terms of knowledge about CSA and known courses of action, and may therefore contribute to the prevention of CSA in primary schools. Despite this positive core finding of the intermediate outcomes, some adaptations of the program to children with different cultural backgrounds were made prior to further dissemination.     

Expanding media and sexuality studies: a transnational study of sex museums

This article offers an introduction to my current project that investigates transnational flows of mediated sexuality among sex museums and other exhibitions of explicitly erotic materials. The project expands a communication studies focus on electronic media to consider alternative sites of mediation, such as the museum, as richly communicative. I explore the embodied context of museums to shift our traditional focus on audiences toward the more expansive concept of publics. I also trace different types of mobility—of discourses, materials, and people—in the circulation of commodified sexuality. The goal for these explorations is to theorize how sexual publics and mobilities intersect to construct an urbane, cosmopolitan, citizen consumer.     

言语风格的性别差异

作为文化色彩较浓的两性角色在社会的许多方面都体现出其差异性,在言语交际中,由于性别的不同形成了不同的言语风格。本文就男女两性的言语风格从话语主题、话语量和话语得体性,即遵从礼貌准则和合作原则的差异等方面,探讨两性的社会地位的差异和造成此差异的社会根源。     

同等级仪表使用应注意的问题

介绍电表准确度在表盘上两种标记方法的差异,通过计算讨论了每种标记的严格区别.     

刘大櫆与方苞文论的本质性区别

方苞的“义法”说与刘大櫆的“神气”说不是继承和补充的关系，而是存在着对文章本质认识的根本对立，是古代文论中“文”与“道”关系论争的延续和具体化，“义法”说的实质是文章工具论，“神气”说则是文章审美论。     

Sexual Minority Health: A Bibliography and Preliminary Study of the Book Literature

The literature on health in people who identify as sexual minorities is scattered in many types of resources and disciplines. To help address the need for relevant, well-organized information for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and health care providers, this study first identified books published in a ten-year period and then examined the topics, the number of books published per year, most prolific authors, and primary publishers. A wide range of publishers published a relatively small number of books (521). Most were about mental health or relationships and 24% were personal accounts. There were many subject deficiencies in the published book corpus.     

郁达夫小说中的"忏悔情绪"

现代文学受基督教的影响，许多作家的作品中存在着强烈的仟悔意识。郁达夫的仟悔意识不是纯粹宗教意义上的仟悔，它不是发端于原罪，而是指向具体的个人生活。同郁达夫的小说风格一样，他的仟悔带有浓重的感伤色彩，仟悔情绪与真率、清新的抒情风格相联系，还体现着作家的创作意图。郁达夫在小说中不断地仟悔，自我谴责，既与充满矛盾的动荡时代有关，又与作家纤敏的情感、柔弱的性格和自我表现的坦率的气质有着密切联系，还受到基督教文化影响等因素的制约。     

Third-Party Funding and Counselling in New Zealand: Implications for Counselling Services and Professional Autonomy

When, in New Zealand, a new third-party government funding arrangement was introduced for sexual abuse counselling, counsellors experienced challenges to their work practice and professional autonomy. There are some parallels between this experience and the influence of Managed Care on counselling in the United States. This article interprets the ways in which the development of counselling in New Zealand, and the New Zealand Association of Counsellors (NZAC) interacted with the government agency, the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC). responsible for the funding. The resulting funding arrangements, while initially mutually beneficial to government and counsellors, are now being questioned by counsellors and the NZAC. Possible responses to this situation by New Zealand counsellors are explored and discussed in the context of wider international responses to third-party funding issues.     

道教房中术对中晚唐艳情诗的影响

房中术是道教主要法术之一,在中晚唐十分流行。服食丹药与房中术是通向长生的两个主要途经,且服食有助于房中术养炼。而这恰好符合此时文人既嗜欲又延年的社会文化心理。房中术对中晚唐文人艳情意识的催化有着重要作用,进而促成了艳情诗在中晚唐的勃兴。