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Supporting parents whose children are in out-of-home care
No full textThis chapter will enable you to: Understand the role of out-of-home care in keeping children safe from harm - Identify the advantages and disadvantages of maintaining contact between natural parents and their children in out-of-home care - Develop awareness of the experiences of parents whose children have been placed in out-of-home care - Recognise the potential of child welfare practitioners to engage parents involved with the child protection system in ways that will enhance their ability to interact with their children in out-of-home care - Identify the characteristics of parenting programs that promote engagement of parents whose children are in out-of-home care
Think child, think family, think community - 2nd edition
No full textPromoting child development, well-being and safety relies upon the ability to ‘think child, think family and think community ’. Our knowledge about how biological, psychological and social factors interact to influence the development and well-being of children has never been greater. In a growing number of countries, this knowledge has led to intense interest in early childhood, motivated both by social justice concerns as well as an increasing awareness that the economic future of a society depends on the degree to which its children are healthy, educated and well-adjusted.
Some children are exposed to a volatile mix of poverty, violence, parental mental illness and substance dependence that can erode the capacity of families to nurture their children, causing intense suffering and long-term harm.There are a number of conceptual frameworks and ideas that enable us to understand this, including an ecological model of human development.
Family-centred practice is based on four elements: the centrality of the family as the unit of attention; maximising families’ choices; a strengths rather than a deficits perspective; and cultural sensitivity. The quality of the worker–family relationship is the cornerstone of family-centred practice.The key practitioner qualities of empathy, respect, genuineness and optimism are vital to working with vulnerable families.
We each bring a unique combination of personal qualities and values,knowledge and skills to our work. It is important for us to identify our strengths as well as the areas in which further professional development or the expertise of others may be required if we are to serve families and their children wel
Parenting in a new culture: Working with Refugee Families
No full textThis chapter will enable you to: Understand the experiences of refugee and newly arrived migrants - Reflect on the personal and professional challenges that may be faced when responding to the needs of refugee and newly arrived migrants - Develop an understanding of the cultural and parenting differences that may contribute to parents and families from refugee backgrounds being involved with the child protection system - Recognise the potential of practitioners to engage parents from refugee backgrounds in ways that will enhance their ability to parent in Australia - Learn about an innovative exemplar of working with refugee families - Think about how different professions and services can work together for and with refugee families
Sustained nurse home visiting with families of Aboriginal children
No full textF. Arney, K. Bowering, A. Chong, V. Healy and B. Volkme
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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