scholarly journals Mothers' Perceptions of Factors Influencing the Restabilization of Homeless Families

1996 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 203-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth W. Lindsey
Keyword(s):  
Program Development ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Homeless Families ◽  
Family Homelessness ◽  
Direct Practice ◽  
External Resources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Homeless Mothers

Family homelessness has increased dramatically in the past decade, but little attention has been focused on the process by which homeless families become restabilized. The author presents findings from a qualitative study of the restabilisation process. Four factors that affect the process are discussed: children, personal resources, external resources, and socioeconomic context. The findings indicate the significant role shelter staff and other social service providers can play in assisting mothers in both emotional and instrumental ways. Implications for direct practice with homeless mothers and their families are discussed as well as implications for policy and program development.

Unterschiedliche Einflussfaktoren auf das Vertrauen in Organisationen - Ein Vergleich zweier Anbieter sozialer Dienstleistungen / Different factors influencing organizational trust - a comparison of two different social service providers

Arbeit ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Kretzschmann ◽  
Ulrike Leistner ◽  
Lothar Stock
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Organizational Trust ◽  
Quantitative Methoden ◽  
Social Service Providers ◽  
Factors Influencing

AbstractSeit den 1980er Jahren erlangt der Vertrauensbegriff im organisationalen Kontext eine immer größer werdende Bedeutung. Dennoch sind die Einflussfaktoren, welche auf die unterschiedlichen Arten des organisationalen Vertrauens wirken, weitestgehend unbekannt. Daher sollen in diesem Beitrag durch qualitative und quantitative Methoden zunächst die unterschiedlichen organisationalen Rahmenbedingungen zweier verschiedener sozialer Dienstleister aufgezeigt werden. In einem weiteren Schritt sollen mittels quantitativer Methoden die Einflussfaktoren auf die unterschiedlichen Formen des Vertrauens in Organisationen dargestellt sowie Konsequenzen für die praktische Arbeit abgeleitet werden.

Understanding the Bereavement Process: Voices of Bereaved Parents

2021 ◽  
pp. 105413732110304
Author(s):  
Kimberly A. Calderwood ◽  
Amy M. Alberton
Keyword(s):  
Program Development ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Direct Practice ◽  
Bereaved Parents ◽  
Continuing Bond ◽  
New Beginnings

Analysis of in-depth qualitative interviews with 20 bereaved parents and 11 service providers revealed a more holistic conceptualization of the bereavement process for parents who have lost a child. Holistic “states” included: “helplessness prior to the death,” “fog,” “turmoil,” “transition,” “new beginnings,” and “stability.” Findings showed that loss and restorative processes are characteristic of more than one state, the bereavement narrative starts prior to the death, there is often a downturn after the bereaved parent seemingly is doing better, and the process never ends but may include a continuing bond with the deceased and reoccurring moments of extreme grief. Recommendations for direct practice, program development, and future research are presented.

“We Are All Humans and Deserve a Decent Way to Go”: Examining Professional’s Experiences With Providing End-of-Life Care in Correctional Institutions

2021 ◽  
pp. 073401682110208
Author(s):  
Mollee Steely Smith ◽  
Brooke Cooley ◽  
Tusty ten Bensel
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Prison Population ◽  
Correctional Institutions ◽  
Southern State ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Past ◽  
Eol Care ◽  
Emotional Effects

The aging prison population has increased dramatically over the past two decades. As this population increases, correctional institutions are faced with health care challenges. Specifically, providing adequate end-of-life (EOL) care for terminally ill inmates has been a concern. Despite issues relating to providing EOL care, little is known about medical and correctional staff’s attitudes toward the implementation of EOL care. The purpose of this study was to understand the challenges faced by correctional and medical professionals, focusing on job satisfaction, obstacles, and emotional effects of providing EOL care in correctional institutions. Our data included 17 semistructured, face-to-face interviews with medical and correctional staff assigned to the EOL care unit in a southern state. Although the entire sample stated overall satisfaction with their job, participants noted several challenges and stressors, which included the lack of resources and difficulties in balancing care. Participants agreed that it was emotionally stressful to maintain appropriate relationships with the inmates, deal with patient manipulation, and be surrounded by dying and death. Implications are discussed relative to the needs and experiences of service providers and how to more effectively treat EOL inmate patients.

Experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Michela Fazzolari ◽  
Francesco Buccafurri ◽  
Gianluca Lax ◽  
Marinella Petrocchi
Keyword(s):  
Relative Frequency ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Real Data ◽  
Online Reviews ◽  
Purchase Decision ◽  
The Past ◽  
Supervised Classifiers ◽  
Relative Frequency Distribution ◽  
Opinion Spam ◽  
Fake Reviews

Over the past few years, online reviews have become very important, since they can influence the purchase decision of consumers and the reputation of businesses. Therefore, the practice of writing fake reviews can have severe consequences on customers and service providers. Various approaches have been proposed for detecting opinion spam in online reviews, especially based on supervised classifiers. In this contribution, we start from a set of effective features used for classifying opinion spam and we re-engineered them by considering the Cumulative Relative Frequency Distribution of each feature. By an experimental evaluation carried out on real data from Yelp.com, we show that the use of the distributional features is able to improve the performances of classifiers.

scholarly journals Special issue on ‘Program development’

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 423-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAURICE BRUYNOOGHE ◽  
KUNG-KIU LAU
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Program Development ◽  
Real World ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Logic Program ◽  
Future Challenge ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Logical Foundations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Specification Synthesis

This special issue marks the tenth anniversary of the LOPSTR workshop. LOPSTR started in 1991 as a workshop on Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation, but later it broadened its scope to logic-based Program Development in general.The motivating force behind LOPSTR has been a belief that declarative paradigms such as logic programming are better suited to program development tasks than traditional non-declarative ones such as the imperative paradigm. Specification, synthesis, transformation or specialisation, analysis, verification and debugging can all be given logical foundations, thus providing a unifying framework for the whole development process.In the past ten years or so, such a theoretical framework has indeed begun to emerge. Even tools have been implemented for analysis, verification and specialisation. However, it is fair to say that so far the focus has largely been on programming-in-the-small. So the future challenge is to apply or extend these techniques to programming-in-the-large, in order to tackle software engineering in the real world.

Small Bowel Obstruction

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-194
Author(s):  
Colleen Trevino
Keyword(s):  
Small Bowel ◽  
Physical Examination ◽  
Surgical Intervention ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Bowel Ischemia ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Imaging Response

Strategies for the management of small bowel obstructions have changed significantly over the years. Nonoperative medical management has become the mainstay of treatment of many small bowel obstructions. However, the key to the management of small bowel obstructions is identifying those patients who need surgical intervention. Identification of those at risk for bowel ischemia and bowel death is an art as much as it is a science. Using the current literature and the past knowledge regarding small bowel obstructions, the clinician must carefully identify the signs and symptoms that suggest the need for operative intervention. Classification of the obstruction, history and physical examination, imaging, response to decompression and resuscitation, and resolution or progression of symptoms are the key factors influencing the management of small bowel obstructions.

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