Ariel - Volume 5 Number 5

Editors Mark Dembert J. D. Kanofsky Entertainment Robert Breckenridge Joe Conti Gary Kaskey Photographer Scot Kastner Overseas Editor Mike Sinason Circulation Jay Amsterdam Humorist Jim McCann Staff Ken Jaffe Bob Sklaroff Janet Welsh Dave Jacoby Phil Nimoityn Frank Chervane

Effect of Client's Race/Ethnic Status and Level of Acculturation, and the Influence of Practitioner Characteristics, on Social Workers' Clinical Judgments

This study examined whether social workers' clinical judgments reflect differences in the client's level of acculturation; or whether their judgments are influenced by the client's race/ethnic status, ignoring important differences in the client's level of acculturation. This study also examined whether the practitioner's race and years of clinical experience moderate these clinical judgments. Finally this study analyzed patterns of differences in the clinical judgments between various racial/cultural/-ethnic client groups. The primary statistical procedure used in this study was the univariate (mixed-model) ANOVA for repeated measures (mixed-model) designs. The instrument used in this study consisted of sets of questions (The Cross-Cultural Clinical Judgment Inventory), requiring the respondent to make judgments (perceived importance of cultural/ethnic issues) about eight analogues. Two analogues per ethnic group (i.e. Black, Puerto Rican, Polish and Jewish) were provided. The CJI scale had excellent internal consistency reliability, with Coefficients alpha ranging from.92 to.96 for each of the eight analogues. Results suggest that social workers are sensitive to the client's level of acculturation in their clinical judgments. However, specific comparisons within each of the ethnic group analogues reveal that this is not the case across all client groups. This is, there was an inability to distinguish between levels of acculturation within the two Black family case vignettes. The analysis also revealed that the practitioner's race did not have a significant effect on clinical judgments. However, the practitioner's years of clinical experience did have significant effect on clinical judgments. Finally, this study revealed significant differences between (high acculturated) racial minority and White ethnic family analogues; results were not significant with low acculturated analogues. The finding that the level of acculturation is not differentiated within the Black family analogues provides some empirical evidence to question whether Blacks are seen as a homogeneous group, and if ethnocentrism and stereotypical assumptions cloud systematic differential clinical decision making. This study also implies that highly acculturated racial minority clients are more at risk of being overassessed with reference to the assumption of the importance of cultural issues, and thus inappropriately served

Play and metaphor in clinical supervision: keeping creativity alive

This article explores the use of play and metaphor in clinical supervision. The intention is not to attempt to cover the whole area of play, or the use of metaphor in clinical supervision, but rather to highlight particular aspects of their respective roles in the service of learning about therapeutic work. The relevance of the arts - especially the visual arts - in relation to this is also discussed. A number of brief clinical vignettes are included by way of illustration. All names, and some identifying details, have been changed to preserve confidentiality. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved

Quality management in a private speech-language therapy practice

This study investigated the principles of quality management and their application to a private speech-language therapy practice. The history of quality management and the development of quality management in industry and health care services were reviewed. Quality was defined in terms of the context of the author's private speech-language therapy practice and a working definition of quality was developed. The principles in the development of a quality management programme were described. These principles were used to develop and implement a quality management programme in the author's private speech-language therapy practice. Financial management and client satisfaction were selected as strategic quality factors in the initial stages of the quality management programme. Practice policies were revised to establish success criteria and to measure the practice's conformance to these criteria. The quality management programme enabled the author to improve the quality and effectiveness of her practice's financial management system and to demonstrate the client-centered orientation of the practice by implementing client satisfaction as a quality indicator

Dealing with abstraction: Case study generalisation as a method for eliciting design patterns

Developing a pattern language is a non-trivial problem. A critical requirement is a method to support pattern writers with abstraction, so as they can produce generalised patterns. In this paper, we address this issue by developing a structured process of generalisation. It is important that this process is initiated through engaging participants in identifying initial patterns, i.e. directly dealing with the 'cold-start' problem. We have found that short case study descriptions provide a productive 'way into' the process for participants. We reflect on a 1-year interdisciplinary pan-European research project involving the development of almost 30 cases and over 150 patterns. We provide example cases, detailing the process by which their associated patterns emerged. This was based on a foundation for generalisation from cases with common attributes. We discuss the merits of this approach and its implications for pattern development

New Economics Books

A wide ranged Editor Selection of economic books published within the last 3 months by the publishers (for now; Edward Elgar, Springer, and World Scientific) which are reached out “the consensus of no copyright infringement exists” could be found under this title. Afterwards, JEL will continue to publish the economic books published within the last 3 months as listing them in its quarter edition. This is expected to enable the journal readers to follow the related literature and be aware of the new books. The list will continue to expand as accepting the books of new co-operated publishers and personal applications. The list order is organized according to book titles’ alphabetic priority

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Non-Formal Education: A Manual on Organizing Workshops for Training Rural Facilitators

The objective of this manual is to provide guidance for those persons involved in the Nonformal Education Project who will be organizing training workshops for rural facilitators for nonformal education purposes. Since this document is a by-product of a workshop organized for those members of the Center for International Education who were leaving different West African sites during summer in order to conduct rural facilitator training workshops, it is limited in its scope. This is not a workshop report, however. The usefulness of this manual mainly lies in treating it as a possible way of organizing a workshop for facilitator training. Hence it should be comprehended as a process. Details regarding the subject-matter, content, timing, etc. should be looked at as something which demands necessary revisions, additions and deletions. Such adjustments will be determined by several situation factors such as geographical location, audience, human and material resources available, etc. This manual presents just one case study. There are no specific section(s) devoted to bibliography. This is because necessary references have been integrated within the text. For all those interested in the format of the workshop out of which this manual emerged, an appendix on the tentative schedule of the workshop has been included at the end of the manual

A School Law Resource Manual for Coaches in the South Kitsap School District

The purpose of this project was to develop a school law resource manual for athletic coaches employed in the South Kitsap School District in the state of Washington. To accomplish this purpose, a review of current literature regarding selected law and legal issues related to athletics was conducted