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The Bomb in the Basement: How Israel Went Nuclear and What That Means for the World
In: Perspectives on political science, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 174-175
ISSN: 1045-7097
Primary Prevention on the Centennial of Social Work
In: Social work: a journal of the National Association of Social Workers, Band 43, Heft 6, S. 591-592
ISSN: 1545-6846
Slovak separation and central European security
In: Defense analysis, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 225-226
ISSN: 1470-3602
THE EMERGING PARTY SYSTEMS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
In: East European quarterly, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 47-63
ISSN: 0012-8449
Psychosocial Transitions: an Emotional Health Comparison
In: The international journal of social psychiatry, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 39-47
ISSN: 1741-2854
Utilizing the standardized Symptom Check List-90 (SCL-90), emotional health scores of those experiencing psychosocial transitions were compared. Parents whose child died approximately 60 months earlier (N=62) were compared to new immigrants living in absorption centers who arrived approximately 8 months earlier (N=122). Even 5 years after the event, the emo tional health of bereaved parents appeared to be lower than the new immigrant group. The differences appeared more pronounced for females and for the 45 + year old groupings (male and female). Depression seemed to be contrary. In most instances, no significant difference in depression scores were noted.
Corporate Culture Revolution: The Management Development Imperative
In: Journal of managerial psychology, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 3-9
ISSN: 1758-7778
There is a strong link between excellence — a major theme of the 1980s — and corporate culture. This article outlines the requirements of organisations striving for excellence and how management development programmes can be effective in assisting them.
Buffers for the Bereaved: the Impact of Social Factors On the Emotional Health of Bereaving Parents
In: The international journal of social psychiatry, Band 30, Heft 4, S. 311-320
ISSN: 1741-2854
Emotional health of bereaving parents (N = 62; control N = 56) were explored 5 years after the death of a child (age 0-12) in Israel. The Symptom Check List-90 was utilized as the primary measurement instrument. Comparisons to controls according to geographic area of birth indicated more interpersonal (over)sensitivity, obsessive-compulsiveness and anxiety among Asia/African born parents as compared to either European/American or Israeli-born. All geographical groupings of bereaving parents indicated significantly greater somatic concerns than their respective controls. The college-educated Israeli-born bereaving parents indicated significantly healthier SCL-90 scores than similarly educated European/American-born bereaving parents. This was in contrast to the trend in which European-American-born parents (regardless of educational level) exhibited scores indicating the least symptomatology. Bereaving parents are a uniquely problematic population at risk. Deaths of infants and children produce isolation and diffusion among family members. 8,18 Furthermore, the scant literature indicates that the death of a child produces higher intensities of bereavement, as well as the widest range of reactions among parents as compared to those who experience the death of either a spouse or parent. 17 Family stability and equilibrium is disturbed. Indeed, higher than average rates of marital discord occur between parents after the loss of a child. 7,3 Bereavement itself carries a considerable increased risk of morbidity and mortality.11, 12 Levav indicates that the increased risk of mortality for parents is quite high within a 5-year period after the death of their child.9 Parkes and Brown report that the bereaved differ significantly from the non-bereaved in being sicker and being admitted to the hospital more in the year following loss. They also noted increased consumption of alcohol, tobacco and tranquilizers and more disturbances of appetite, weight and sleep.11 In addition; more evidence of strain and depression was indicated among the bereaved than among the non-bereaved.11 Bereaving parents react to their loss through grief. This often manifests itself through resistance to change — a reluctance to give up possessions, relationship, status and expect ations. One approach to measuring this resistance to change is vis-a-vis levels of emotional symptomatology, e.g. depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsiveness. In a wider sense, emotional health parameters may be utilized as a means of calibrating resistance to change and response to loss. Roskin15 in his work with bereaving parents in Israel reported that even 5 years after their child died, bereaving parents indicated less emotional health than comparable controls. Bereaving mothers were more somatic and interpersonally (over)sensitive than control mothers. Bereaving fathers indicated only more somatic complaints than control fathers.
Political Forces in Spain, Greece and Portugal, by Beate Kohler, Frank Carter and Ginnie Hole
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 98, Heft 3, S. 552-553
ISSN: 1538-165X
Integration of primary prevention into social work practice
In: Social work: a journal of the National Association of Social Workers, Band 25, Heft 3, S. 192-196
ISSN: 1545-6846
Never Again: Learning from America's Foreign Policy Failures, by Earl C. Ravenal
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 94, Heft 3, S. 544-545
ISSN: 1538-165X
LIFE CHANGE AND SOCIAL GROUP WORK INTERVENTION
In: Social work with groups: a journal of community and clinical practice, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 117-128
ISSN: 1540-9481
Eurocommunism and the State, by Santiago Carrillo
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 94, Heft 1, S. 152-153
ISSN: 1538-165X