How Can Positive Psychology Influence Public Policy and Practice?

2017 ◽  
pp. 257-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger G. Tweed ◽  
Eric Mah ◽  
Madeline Dobrin ◽  
Rachel Van Poele ◽  
Lucian Gideon Conway
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Policy And Practice

Moving the National Institute of Justice Forward: July 2010 through December 2012

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-174
Author(s):  
John H. Laub
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Evaluation Agency ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
National Institute Of Justice ◽  
Rigorous Research ◽  
Criminology And Criminal Justice ◽  
New Strategies

Criminologists are often frustrated by the disconnect between sound empirical research and public policy initiatives. Recently, there have been several attempts to better connect research evidence and public policy. While these new strategies may well bear fruit, I believe the challenge is largely an intellectual one. Ideas and research evidence must guide public policy and practice. In this article, I present highlights from my tenure as the Director of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the research, development, and evaluation agency in the Department of Justice. One of the ideas that I emphasized at NIJ was “Translational Criminology.” I believe translational criminology acknowledges NIJ’s unique mission to facilitate rigorous research that is relevant to the practice and policy. I also discuss the challenges I faced in bringing research to bear on public policy and practice. I end with a call for my colleagues in criminology and criminal justice to become more involved in government.

The Politics of Paternalism: Adult and Youth Perspectives on Youth Voice in Public Policy

2016 ◽  
Vol 118 (8) ◽  
pp. 1-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerusha O. Conner ◽  
C. Nathan Ober ◽  
Amanda S. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
New Media ◽  
Youth Voice ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Community Forum ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Axial Coding ◽  
The Impact

Background/Context Over the last two decades, youth involvement in policy advocacy has increased sharply, through youth councils, organizing coalitions, and new media forums. Currently 12 states and 140 American cities have youth councils or commissions established to advise policymakers on the impact of their legislation on youth. Despite their growing presence, we know little about what these councils do, how they are viewed, or how, if at all, they influence policy-making processes. Purpose This study explores manifestations of adultism during the first 4 years of the Ballou City Youth Commission (BCYC) from the perspectives of 22 youth members and adult allies. Research Design Though primarily interview-based, this study also draws on field notes collected during a BCYC meeting and a BCYC community forum and organizational artifacts to explore the nature and dynamics of adultism as they played out in BCYC. Data Collection and Analysis In-depth, individual interviews were conducted with 11 current and former youth commissioners and 11 adults who represented the target audience for BCYC's work or who partnered with the commission on various initiatives. The theoretical framework of adultism guided the analysis, which included open and axial coding, memo writing, and the construction of matrices and charts to track emergent patterns. Findings/Results Using a critical theory lens, we find that adultism has played a prominent role in limiting BCYC from achieving the goals laid out in its charter. We identify a “roller coaster of adultism” that illustrates how weak initial structures coupled with deeply entrenched views of youths’ limited capacity adversely impacted the functioning of BCYC and propelled a cycle of externalized and internalized adultism. Conclusions The study adds to the scant literature on youth voice in public policy, raises six clear implications for policy and practice, and extends theory by illustrating the complex ways in which external and internalized forms of adultism interact with and reinforce each other.

Reassessing the Effect of Public Policy on Family Functioning

1978 ◽  
Vol 59 (8) ◽  
pp. 451-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley L. Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Family Functioning ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Family

The primacy of the family must be reflected in both policy and practice if families with socially dependent members are to be served effectively

Supporting Family Strengths: Orienting Policy and Practice toward the 21st Century

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Weick ◽  
Dennis Saleebey
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Family Treatment ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Family Strengths ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Cultural Challenges ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Support Family

Families today are under siege as they try to respond to economic, social, and cultural challenges beyond their control. The myths of economic self-sufficiency and psychological normalcy have engendered, in both public policy and family treatment, strategies that isolate, punish, and pathologize families. To move beyond these myths, it is necessary to draw more generous definitions of what constitutes family by placing families within the nurturing membrane of community life and actively seeking to support family strengths through imaginative and innovative policies and empowering practices.

For the sake of the children? Children, domestic violence and public policy

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-12
Author(s):  
Suellen Murray ◽  
Anastasia Powell
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Specialist Services ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Discursive Constructions

More attention than ever before is being paid to children in Australian public policy concerned with domestic violence. In family law and in the areas of child protection, policing and in the provision of specialist services, there is recognition that children are affected by domestic violence. Yet the ‘discovery’ of the impact of domestic violence on children and the development of public policy responses have not been straightforward processes of problem identification and solution. Rather, there are a number of competing discourses which underlie various policy approaches. Drawing on Bacchi’s (1999) ‘what’s the problem represented to be?’ approach, we examine the discursive constructions of children’s experiences of domestic violence and the responses to them as evident in Australian public policy. In identifying these particular understandings, and considering the implications of these meanings for current policy and practice, we aim to contribute to debate on the future direction of domestic violence policy concerned with children.

Generating and using evidence to guide public policy and practice: Lessons from the Campbell Test-bed Project

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phoebe Cottingham ◽  
Rebecca Maynard ◽  
Matthew Stagner
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Test Bed ◽  
Policy And Practice

AFTER SOCIALISM: MUTUALISM AND A PROGRESSIVE MARKET STRATEGY

2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 204-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Galston
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Market Strategy ◽  
Laissez Faire

I undertake three tasks in this exploratory essay. First, I examine some of the lessons of recent history concerning the relation between socialism, markets, and liberal democracy. Second, I lay out the basic theoretical building-blocks of an alternative to both socialism and laissez-faire that I call “mutualism.” Finally, I draw some conclusions for public policy and practice, in the form of what I call a “progressive market strategy.” A brief conclusion ponders the question, What's left of socialism?

scholarly journals Abuse of Power on Managing the Health Care Services Policy for the Indonesian National Army Forces and its Implication on Marginalized Soldier’s Health

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 1677-1689
Author(s):  
Ida Bagus Purwalaksana ◽  
Sumartono Sumartono ◽  
Bambang Santoso Haryono ◽  
Wike Wike ◽  
Bambang Slamet Riyadi
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Abuse Of Power ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Better Regulation ◽  
Service Policy

This research aims to understand the abuse of power on managing the health service policy and its implication that is very significant in reducing marginalized soldiers’ health due at the ontological level and sociological level. The problem is very interesting to be analyzed by conducting a qualitative research method based on public policy theory, abuse of power theory, and health services theory. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, observation, and documentation related to managing the health service policy cases in Indonesia. Data were analyzed by using interactive models are data reduction, data display, data verification, and supported by triangulation. The results were based on ontological level and sociological level using public policy perspective and power perspective for improving health service policy and practice for The Indonesian Army Forces. Vision and mission of public policy on managing health service policy are needed for providing information to stakeholders related, regarding the regulations and sanctions in health service policy. This result provides inputs for making better regulation on health service policy in Indonesia for state agencies as public officials and practitioners.

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