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• Disability advocates: Close Canada institutions, improve job access

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 434
  From the Montreal Gazette, Toronto Star:Canada must end institutionalization of mentally disabled people and invest in their quality of life by improving access to jobs and social supports, says a report released to coincide with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.The report by the Canadian Association ...
  4 days ago

• ASAN New England Testimony on Aversives

  
  Astrid's Journal — Authority: 122
  Stephanie Lynn Keil reprinted the ASAN New England testimony on aversives , and I just have to link to it as well. It is very unfortunate that Sara Willig was unable to say what she wanted to say at the hearing. I hope her testimony comes to the eyes of legislators anyway. They need to know that the abuse occurring ...
  1 week ago

• What Makes Us “Institutionalized”?

  
  Astrid's Journal — Authority: 122
  Institutionalization, in the context of this post, refers to the overreliance on the institutional structure, that some mental patients are described as displaying, and which is often viewed as a problem by the staff. Cellar_Door of “Not Another Nursing Student Blog…” describes it here and uses two seemingly ...
  2 weeks ago

• Should Forensic Psychiatric Inmates Have Sex?

  
  Astrid's Journal — Authority: 122
  Today, a new documentary film came out, entitled Longstay . Longstay refers to long-term care units in forensic psychiatric institutions, where criminals with severe, chronic mental illness are detained, sometimes for life. The film stirred controversy, because it asks the question whether inmates of longstay units ...
  2 weeks ago

• Message pointer: Demonstrating value

  
  PR Conversations — Authority: 107
  I’m pointing you to the Message from the President , which recently went online on the Canadian Public Relations Society’s website. In his message, Dr. Terrence (Terry) Flynn, APR, FCPRS, outlines an organizational need for public relations: “My new presentation, which was launched this month in Regina and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Proper Care Isn’t “Sitting on Patients”

  
  Astrid's Journal — Authority: 122
  People are locked up in isolation rooms, restrained, or otherwise severely restricted in their freedom of movement, on a daily basis. A study a few months ago found that, in the Netherlands, between 2004 and 2008, about 150 people have been secluded for a year or longer at a time. For comparison: our country has 16 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is Institutionalization Necessary?

  
  Astrid's Journal — Authority: 122
  Stephanie Lynn Keil commented on my previous post at her own blog . The issue she raises is the one I failed to address properly in that post: whether you’d actually rather starve or be institutionalized. Stephanie writes that she’d rather starve. It is not something that surprises me. In fact, I’d not be ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Shift in Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard Message

  
  Closing the Intelligence Gap — Authority: 107
  This week I attended the 12th annual Balanced Scorecard Collaborative (now called Palladium ) Americas Summit conference. This conference attracts relatively more advanced and mature organizations who have implemented strategy maps and the balanced scorecard (BSC) concepts developed by Dr. Robert S. Kaplan and Dr. ...
  3 weeks ago

• 0.18: Anthropology and the Rise of the Social Sciences within the Structures of Knowledge – Immanuel Wallerstein

  
  OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY — Authority: 109
  Professional Knowledge Creation in the World-System Building an anti-imperialist “anthropology,” plus an anthropology that studies imperialism, and that studies itself as a received invention of imperialism, means much more than just analyzing and questioning how anthropologists served this or that colonial ...
  4 weeks ago

• Rewriting Shakespeares view of later life: No longer sans everything

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  In the famous speech given by Jaques in "As You Like It," starting out "All the worlds a stage," Shakespeare summarizes the seven ages of man, the last being old age: "Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, second childishness and mere oblivion; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans ...
  4 weeks ago

• Jon Iwata at the Yale Club last night. Are corporate ideology and cultural integralism back in town?

  
  PR Conversations — Authority: 107
  Last night, at New York’s Yale Club, I participated to the Institute for Public Relations’ Annual Distinguished Lecture and Award event. The lecture was by Jon Iwata , IBM’s Senior Vice President who heads the marketing, communication and citizenship organization departments of that company. A full house, ...
  4 weeks ago

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