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Constructing ‘the Psychopath’: A Discourse Analysis of Psychologists’ Understandings of Psychopathy 建构“精神病患者”:心理学家对精神病理解的话语分析

Asian journal of human services Pub Date : 2018-04-30 DOI: 10.14391/AJHS.14.38

Kitty Clark-McGhee, Maria Castro Romero

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Promoting Wellbeing: Amylase as an Indicator of Changes in Stress Level in People with Intellectual Disabilities 促进健康:淀粉酶作为智障人士压力水平变化的指标

Asian journal of human services Pub Date : 2017-04-30 DOI: 10.14391/AJHS.12.60

Nigel Marshall, Kagari Shibazaki

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Encouraging Exercise Participation amongst UK South Asians : the case of a community gym 鼓励英国南亚人参与运动:以社区健身房为例

Asian journal of human services Pub Date : 2017-04-30 DOI: 10.14391/AJHS.12.46

N. King, A. Little

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Actual Situation of the Strengths of Elderly Community Residents Living Alone 社区独居老年人优势现状分析

Asian journal of human services Pub Date : 2016-10-30 DOI: 10.14391/AJHS.11.86

Yoshiko Kurokawa, Y. Tsuchiya, Yuko Fujio, Shizuka Harada, Miki Shibasaki, N. Ogawa, Shinko Minotani

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The Verification of Reliability and Validity of the SNEAT Based on the Data from Kagoshima Prefecture:A Study on the Standardization of the SNEAT 基于鹿儿岛县数据的SNEAT信效度验证——关于SNEAT标准化的研究

Asian journal of human services Pub Date : 2016-10-30 DOI: 10.14391/AJHS.11.124

Changwan Han, Aiko Kohara

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Asian journal of human services Pub Date : 2016-10-30 DOI: 10.14391/AJHS.11.1

Sae Tanaka, H. Matsunaga, Norihito Noguchi, Kaoru Shibayama, Akina Ishibashi, Kazuyuki Akinaga, Nahoko Kakihara, Y. Fukuyama, K. Shinchi

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Effects of Cardiac Rehabilitation on Health-Related Quality of Life in patients with Cardiovascular Disease 心脏康复对心血管疾病患者健康相关生活质量的影响

Asian journal of human services Pub Date : 2016-10-30 DOI: 10.14391/AJHS.11.111

Chaeyoon Cho, Chaewon Lee, Minji Kim, M. Kohzuki

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Seeking Asylum: The Benefits for Clients, Family Members and Care-givers of Using Music in Hospice Care 寻求庇护:在临终关怀中使用音乐对客户，家庭成员和护理人员的好处

Asian journal of human services Pub Date : 2016-10-30 DOI: 10.14391/AJHS.11.18

Nigel Marshall, Kagari Shibazaki

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Online Portal 'Social Service Market': An Activation Strategy for the Social Service Market of Korea 门户网站“社会服务市场”:韩国社会服务市场的激活策略

Asian journal of human services Pub Date : 2016-10-30 DOI: 10.14391/AJHS.11.57

Taekyun Yoo, Jaok Kim, Seoyeoun Park, Kwiyeom Ko, Sungmin Kang

{"title":"Online Portal 'Social Service Market': An Activation Strategy for the Social Service Market of Korea","authors":"Taekyun Yoo, Jaok Kim, Seoyeoun Park, Kwiyeom Ko, Sungmin Kang","doi":"10.14391/AJHS.11.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14391/AJHS.11.57","url":null,"abstract":"In Korea, social service has been introduced by the Korean government in the early 2000 as the last component of the nation’s Social Security system. Despite the government’s arduous efforts, the development of social service sector has been sluggish, and today the social service market lacks vitality. The primary cause of this problem is the government’s control over social service prices; yet, the alteration of the price control policy cannot be a feasible solution to the problem. A 3-year-R&D project aiming at formulating a solution to the problem was proposed by the authors and approved by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. For the last two years, the authors have developed an online portal ‘Social Service Market’ and implemented various demonstration programs. By using the online portal, the authors have attempted to turn latent consumers and providers of social services into active participants of the social service market. So far, the attempt has been found successful; and the objectives and outcomes of the last years of project are discussed detail in this paper. During the remaining one year of the R&D project, the authors are to improve the online portal so that it serves the consumers and providers of social services as a limit free platform. social service, online portal, social service market, activation strategy ytk3471@ssu.ac.kr(Taekyun YOO; Korea) Asian J Human Services, 2016, 11:57-69. © 2016 Asian Society of Human Services 1 This study was supported by the Korea Health Industry Development Institute through Social Service R & D Fund (No. HI14C1101) Received October 11, 2016 Revised October 18, 2016 Accepted October 20, 2016 Published October 30, 2016 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14391/ajhs.11.57 Asian Journal of Human Services, VOL.11 57-69","PeriodicalId":370734,"journal":{"name":"Asian journal of human services","volume":"246 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114361993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Partnership working in the long-term care system for older people: cross-national learning from England, the Netherlands and Taiwan 长者长期照护系统的合作:英国、荷兰及台湾的跨国学习

Asian journal of human services Pub Date : 2016-10-30 DOI: 10.14391/AJHS.11.31

H. Chen

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