Let\u27s Get Personal: Exploring the Professional Persona in Health Care

This paper describes how a group of counselors and counseling lecturers at a rural university in New South Wales, Australia, initiated an exploration of their personal experiences as health care providers using an innovative research approach in which they engaged in a series of open, tape-recorded conversations with one another about their work. Their method also included transcribing and analyzing their narratives in a search for underlying themes in the thoughts and feelings that they shared. The intent behind their project was to find a way to voice how health care providers are affected by their work, and in so doing to make public the kinds of concerns, disappointments, fears, and difficulties they encounter -- feelings that are seldom mentioned in the literature. The group was also hoping that their approach might invite other health care providers to engage in similar dialogues about how they, too, are personally affected by the work they do

Looking at Male Violence

This article examines the three classes of theories traditionally used to explain the causes of male violence: physiological, psychological, and sociological. It argues that the search for such causes may in the long run be counterproductive, not only for the person who has been violated, but for the man who has committed the violence. A treatment approach is then suggested that helps the violent man to become both accountable and responsible for his violence. This involves inviting the man to consider not what appears to be causing his violent behaviour—something in himself, his background, or in his culture—but rather how these very forces might somehow be restraining him from acting respectfullv towards the people in his life.Cet article examine les trois principales théories qui sont traditionnellement employées dans l'explication des causes de la violence chez les hommes: physiologique, psychologique, et sociologique. Cet article affinile que la recherche de ces causes peut à long tenue nuire non seulement à l'individu qui fut violenter, mais aussi à l'homme qui a fait violence. Un traitement est proposé qui aide l'homme violent à répondre de ses actes et devenir responsable de sa violence. Ce traitement nécessite que l'homme soit invité à examiner non pas ce qui paraît être la cause de ses actes violents—provenant de quelque chose en lui, de son milieu, ou de sa culture — mais plutôt comment ces influences pourraient d'une facon ou d'une autre l'empêcher d'agir avec respect envers les gens dans sa vie

Introduction: Silent Spring, Raucous Summer, and the Looming Winter of Our Discontent

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