Päihdeperheiden avokuntoutuksen ja lastensuojelun perhetyön välinen yhteistyö : Millaista yhteistyö on, toteutuuko lapsen näkökulma?

Opinnäytetyöni käsittelee päihdekuntoutusyksikön ja lastensuojelun perhetyön välistä yhteistyötä ja työnkuvia. Kummatkin ovat lastensuojelun avohuollon tukitoimia. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli kartoittaa edellä mainittujen työmuotojen eroavaisuuksia ja mahdollisia samankaltaisuuksia sekä sitä, hyötyvätkö perheet tahojen tarjoamasta samanaikaisesta tuesta. Selvitin myös lapsen näkyväksi tekemistä työprosesseissa. Opinnäytetyöni on kvalitatiivinen eli laadullinen tutkimus, johon sisältyy sekä työntekijöiden haastatteluja että teoriaa. Tiedonhankintamenetelmänä olen käyttänyt puolistrukturoitua teemahaastattelua. Haastattelut toteutin ryhmähaastatteluina. Aineisto on analysoitu käyttäen teemoittelua. Tutkimuksesta saatujen tulosten mukaan kyseisten kahden toimijan yhteistyö perheiden asioissa on tarvittua. Yhdessä ne muodostavat monille perheille tarpeellisen tuen. Yhteistyökumppanin tunteminen ja tiivis yhteydenpito yhteisten perheiden asioissa mahdollistaa informaation mutkattoman kulun. Se myös estää päällekkäisyyksiä perheiden kanssa työskennellessä. Tutkimus nosti esille hyvän yhteistyön lisäksi myös muutamia kehitettäviä asioita. Ehdotuksia, joita yhteistyön kehittämiseksi nousi esille, oli muun muassa perheiden mahdollisten läheisverkostojen suurempi hyödyntäminen. Yhteiselle keskustelulle yhteisten asiakasperheiden tiimoilta olisi hyvä löytää lisää aikaa. Mitä tulee työskentelyyn ja sen aloittamiseen, olisi perheille selkeämmin kerrottava työskentelyn tarkoituksesta ja sen tavoitteista, toisin sanoen odotuksien esiinnostaminen, puolin ja toisin, vaatisi enemmän huomiointia. Tuloksia voi hyödyntää pohdittaessa yhteistyön eri puolia ja suunniteltaessa yhteisen työskentelyn kehittämistä.Collaboration between intoxicant rehabilitation of noninstitutional social care and family work of child welfare - what is the nature of such collaboration and how is child's point of view taken into consideration? The main purpose of this thesis was to examine collaboration and forms of work between intoxicant ‎rehabilitation of noninstitutional social care and family work of child welfare. The objective of this ‎research was to cover above-mentioned forms of work and to find out possible related similarities or differences and to see, whether client families benefit from simultaneous forms of support. In addition, child's visibility in such client process was analysed. This qualitative thesis included interviews and theory. As a method, half structured ‎theme interview was used. The employees were interviewed in two small groups, and the material of these interviews was ‎analyzed by using theme analysis. ‎ According to the results of the thesis, both forms of work support families and there is a special need for them ‎together. Together, they form an important support system for families. Information passes smoothly ‎when you first learn to know your co-operation partner. After that, it's more unlikely that the ‎family gets identical help from two places.‎ Also, based on the results, it can be said that there are still some minor matters that need to be developed. The people who are close and important in family's life should be more involved ‎when working with the family. The employees also felt that they should have more time to talk ‎together about their common clients. One important thing when starting the client process with ‎a family is to clarify the meaning and goals of co-operation, so both parties know exactly what is expected from them.‎ The results of this thesis can be used when discussing how to further promote this type of co-‎operation

Prediction of Associations between microRNAs and Gene Expression in Glioma Biology

Despite progress in the determination of miR interactions, their regulatory role in cancer is only beginning to be unraveled. Utilizing gene expression data from 27 glioblastoma samples we found that the mere knowledge of physical interactions between specific mRNAs and miRs can be used to determine associated regulatory interactions, allowing us to identify 626 associated interactions, involving 128 miRs that putatively modulate the expression of 246 mRNAs. Experimentally determining the expression of miRs, we found an over-representation of over(under)-expressed miRs with various predicted mRNA target sequences. Such significantly associated miRs that putatively bind over-expressed genes strongly tend to have binding sites nearby the 3′UTR of the corresponding mRNAs, suggesting that the presence of the miRs near the translation stop site may be a factor in their regulatory ability. Our analysis predicted a significant association between miR-128 and the protein kinase WEE1, which we subsequently validated experimentally by showing that the over-expression of the naturally under-expressed miR-128 in glioma cells resulted in the inhibition of WEE1 in glioblastoma cells

A História da Alimentação: balizas historiográficas

Os M. pretenderam traçar um quadro da História da Alimentação, não como um novo ramo epistemológico da disciplina, mas como um campo em desenvolvimento de práticas e atividades especializadas, incluindo pesquisa, formação, publicações, associações, encontros acadêmicos, etc. Um breve relato das condições em que tal campo se assentou faz-se preceder de um panorama dos estudos de alimentação e temas correia tos, em geral, segundo cinco abardagens Ia biológica, a econômica, a social, a cultural e a filosófica!, assim como da identificação das contribuições mais relevantes da Antropologia, Arqueologia, Sociologia e Geografia. A fim de comentar a multiforme e volumosa bibliografia histórica, foi ela organizada segundo critérios morfológicos. A seguir, alguns tópicos importantes mereceram tratamento à parte: a fome, o alimento e o domínio religioso, as descobertas européias e a difusão mundial de alimentos, gosto e gastronomia. O artigo se encerra com um rápido balanço crítico da historiografia brasileira sobre o tema

Especificidades e complementaridade entre ensino de ciências e divulgação científica : reflexões a partir da análise de revista mensal voltada à inserção das «atualidades» no ambiente escolar

Tendo como marco teórico a reflexão sobre as interfaces entre os campos da Educação e da Comunicação - e, particularmente, do ensino das ciências e da divulgação científica - como necessariamente complementares na promoção da cultura científica, o trabalho analisa os textos publicados na revista Carta na Escola (publicação mensal que se propõe a apoiar a abordagem das atualidades veiculadas pela mídia em sala de aula). O objetivo foi, simultaneamente, caracterizar as metas e estratégias adotadas pela publicação e, pela análise dessas estratégias à luz dos princípios e objetivos colocados para o ensino das ciências - particularmente aquele pautado na abordagem CTSA - contribuir com subsídios à mediação exercida pela escola e, particularmente, pelo professor, entre os estudantes e as informações veiculadas em meios de comunicação

Ideas and Institutional Change in Social Security: Conversion, Layering, and Policy Drift

In recent years, social scientists such as Kathleen Thelen and Jacob Hacker have introduced new concepts to assist in the understanding of institutional change. Fostering some of these concepts, this article proceeds to augment the theoretical debate on institutional change in social science and policy research. A discussion of Social Security development in the United States advances the article's main objective: to uncover the relationship between ideational processes and policy development. Copyright (c) 2007 Southwestern Social Science Association.