The work of psychologists in the U.S. Intelligence community.

This reviews articles in a special issue (Civiello, 2009) of the Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research on applications of psychology in the U.S. intelligence and military contexts. It identifies some common themes of the articles, as well as provides individual critiques of them. In general, the reviewer notes that the articles focus more on the current and desired state conditions than on the strategies, process, and mechanisms that might have been employed to obtain those desired states. This suggests that embedded psychologists might adopt a socio-technical-structural systems perspective and attempt to expand their specialized roles to include consulting on organizational change. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The working alliance and employment outcomes for people with severe mental illness enrolled in vocational programs.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the working alliance and employment outcomes in persons with severe mental illness receiving vocational services. Another purpose of this study was to determine whether working alliance differences exist between clients receiving evidence-based supported employment services and those receiving traditional stepwise vocational services. Design: This study was a secondary analysis of a 2-year randomized controlled trial comparing two employment programs providing services to people with severe mental illness. Results: Contrary to expectations, no overall relationship was found between the working alliance and employment outcomes. As predicted, supported employment participants each assigned to a single vocational worker had more positive working alliances than participants served by a team of vocational workers in the traditional vocational program. Conclusions/Implications: The lack of an association between the working alliance and employment outcomes is inconsistent with previous literature. Further research is needed using standardized working alliance measures and larger samples that include both working and nonworking clients. Evidence-based supported employment, which employs individual caseloads, seems to foster better relationships than a team-based vocational approach, although future research is needed to replicate this finding. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Whole person healthcare, Volumes 1, 2, & 3 (2007).

Reviews the book, Whole person healthcare, Volumes 1, 2, & 3 by I. A. Serlin, M. A. DiCowden, K. Rockefeller, S. Brown, J. Sonke-Henderson, R. Brandman, and J. Graham-Pole (2007). With the more-than-1,000-page tour de force titled Whole Person Healthcare, Ilene Serlin, current president of the San Francisco Psychological Association, has purposefully edited a three-volume series aimed at humanizing the fields of psychotherapy and health care. Throughout the series, all of the authors carry the message that integrative treatment strategies in psychotherapy and health care are more valuable than reductionist “treat the symptom rather than the person” approaches as a way to humanize patient–client interaction. Whole Person Healthcare persuasively presents the principle reasons for integrating human-centered strategies into psychotherapeutic and health care practices. Volume 1 of the series, Humanizing Healthcare, sets the tone for the other two volumes, providing a conceptual scaffold for framing humanistic and positive psychological theories within an applied health care setting. Volume 2 of the series, Psychology, Spirituality, and Health, focuses on presenting concrete, evidence-based examples of integrative therapeutic techniques such as imagery and visualization, meditation, meaning finding, prayer and psychospiritual practices, yoga, tai chi, and qi gong. Volume 3 of the series, The Arts and Health, provides a critically important contribution to the field because the art therapies are so often forgotten in the world of managed health care. Volume 3 gives evidence-based examples of the valuable contributions of artistic interactions within therapeutic contexts. The collection of readings in Whole Person Healthcare covers a wide spectrum of modern healing approaches, and this series is a must for any practitioner of integrative, holistic therapies. However, there are two practical barriers of note. First is cost: The price is too steep for most readers, especially students and new professionals who are still in the process of training. Second is accessibility: In the age of instant Internet access and hyperlink text, the content could be more available to both clients and therapists as a Web-based resource. Those two reservations aside, I would urge serious consideration of Whole Person Healthcare. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Community mental health service use by older adults with dementia.

We considered the role of community-based public mental health services in providing care to older persons with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, and examined service outcomes within California's county-based public mental health system over a 3-year period. Treated prevalence rates, repeat service use rates, and service mix patterns were regressed onto individual, market, and contextual variables across 25 counties over 12 observation periods. The number of older adults with dementia who used community mental health services increased slightly over the observation periods, and service use was associated with age and Medicaid status. Service outcomes also were affected by complementary mental health and aging service systems within each county, as well as the poverty rate and location of the county. Future research is needed to clarify how administrative policies and service management practices contribute to increasing community mental health service use by persons with dementia. In the meantime, these findings can help program administrators and service providers understand the role of community-based mental health services in providing care to persons with dementia. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

电力科技信息服务创新研究

从科技情报研究的主业一科技情报信息服务的几项工作出发,提出了力求在开发利用信息、深化信息服务、转变观念、增强创新意识等方面,将电力科技信息服务工作推向深入。     

矿区生态系统健康趋势评价方法研究

根据矿区生态系统健康内涵,建立了评价指标体系,提出了矿区生态系统健康趋势评价方法。通过建立的方法,对研究矿区的生态系统健康趋势进行了评价,并提出了相应的对策和建议。     

一种网格信息服务模拟器的研究与设计

网格技术为广域范国内各种资源、应用以及服务的共享和聚合提供了有效手段,而网格系统的设计是一项非常复杂的系统工程。网格模拟器的出现,给网格研究带来了极大的便利。本文针对网格系统的信息服务部分,在对现有的典型系统进行分析的基础上,对其各部分功能进行抽象和划分,形成独立的功能部件,提出了一种对网格信息服务进行模拟研究的机制,为分析其在不同架构下的性能和可扩展性提供了有效手段。     

公平有效的WEB视频服务即付即看协议设计与分析

给出一个WEB视频服务即付即看模型,在这一模型上,基于多HASH链技术与公钥加密及数字签名技术的结合,提出一个公平有效的WEB视频服务即看即付协议的集合,协议不仅从公共参数的存储空间需求和户端计算负葆上是轻量级的,而且在解决PPV支付争端上是有效的,方案可以保护用户不被错误收费,同时提供防止用户抵赖的合法证据,最后,根据电子商务协议所应满足的8个方面的特性对协议进行了全面的分析。     

IP网络的综合服务

阐述了在综合业务网上提供不同服务质量QoS的方法,由于网络应用需要不同的服务质量,IETF提出了综合服务模型.首先描述了综合服务的3个服务等级和相应的服务质量,接着分析了综合服务实现框架的基本组件分组分类、调度、准许控制、分组丢弃和预留协议,其中包括路由器中对通信量控制的实现机制,最后论述了综合服务的信令协议——资源预留协议及其对综合服务QoS的支持.     

基于Web服务的图形CAD网络化协同设计框架

为了适应图形计算机辅助设计系统的异地广域协同任务要求,分析了Web服务概念体系在图形计算机辅助设计网络化协同集成应用中的作用,构架了一种以Web服务为基础的图形计算机辅助设计协同设计框架模型,并由此给出了一种基于优先权控制的分层式协同设计过程模型,提出了一种集中式的冲突解决方法。最后,通过应用实例验证了模型的有效性。该模型基于Internet构件,能够适应协同设计者分布广域性的特点,同时又能提高设计任务的精确性和设计效率。