This paper examines professional socialization within a metropolitan police academy in the USA. S... more This paper examines professional socialization within a metropolitan police academy in the USA. Specifically, the research documents how the normative orders of the occupational culture come to function as a framework used to either stigmatize or idealize fellow recruits. A series of narratives regarding and reactions to particular events in the training serve as examples that detail the manner by which recruits internalize the occupational culture as they evolve through the training. The paper also discusses how recruits are eventually able to utilize their burgeoning understanding of normative orders to discredit police administrators and the training structure itself.
Aids Care-psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of Aids/hiv, 2009
Psychosocial counselors have a vital and challenging role in supporting persons living with HIV/A... more Psychosocial counselors have a vital and challenging role in supporting persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH/A) to better manage their disease. However, gaps in training, education, and skills limit the effectiveness of counselors’ efforts. We propose that the use of a decision-support tool for counselors at the point of care can support them in their work as well as help alleviate many training and practice gaps. Decision-support tools aimed at reducing knowledge and practice gaps are used extensively to assist clinical providers at the point of care; however, there is a need for decision-support tools designed specifically for HIV/AIDS counselors. To identify requirements for such a tool, we conducted a needs assessment through interviews of 19 HIV/AIDS clinic counselors who provide 20 or more hours per week of psychosocial support to PLWH/A. The assessment explored their education and training backgrounds, the extent to which evidence-based practices are implemented, and how a decision-support tool can support counselor work practices. Qualitative analysis was organized around seven main categories: counselor characteristics, patient characteristics, barriers, definitions of key concepts, use of guidelines, client assessments, and resources. The resulting coding schemes revealed knowledge and practice gaps among the interviewees, as well as barriers and challenges of counseling. Education and training background of the counseling staff varied widely. When asked to define five key concepts related to HIV counseling, 26–47% of respondents were unable to articulate an adequate definition. Less than half of the interviewees recalled sources of guidelines used in their work and specific models of care introduced during trainings. Interviews identified environmental barriers, language and literacy, patient education, and patient communication as the most prominent challenges to counseling work. The results from this study inform the need for and development of a decision-support tool to support the training and practices of HIV/AIDS counselors.
... 44 Michael Cowling (joint with Alessio Martini) A sharp multiplier theorem for the Kohn Lapla... more ... 44 Michael Cowling (joint with Alessio Martini) A sharp multiplier theorem for the Kohn Laplacian on forms of the sphere in Cn ..... 46 Sundaram Thangavelu Higher order Riesz transforms on Heisenberg groups ..... 48 ...
This report describes preliminary results of a research project to determine the effects of basal... more This report describes preliminary results of a research project to determine the effects of basal readers on productive and responsive (P/R) language. The research population consisted of 25 kindergarten and first-grade children, average age 6 years 4 months. Each child met with the interviewer three times: (1) to elicit a natural language sample, (2) to elicit (P/R) language following oral reading of a basal text, and (3) to elicit (P/R) language following oral reading of a story whose language matched, in complexity and length, their natural language sample. Results indicated that after children read a basal text, P/R language was significantly lower than their natural language. After children read a story whose language matched their natural language, P/R language was not significantly different from their natural language sample. The study implies that basal readers' language structures have a deleterious effect on (P/R) language of readers in their oral reactions to text.
This article examines the relationship between the adoption of healthcare information technology ... more This article examines the relationship between the adoption of healthcare information technology (HIT) and a hospital's operational performance. Combining primary survey data from Florida hospitals and secondary data from two government agencies responsible for hospital certification and licensing, the authors find differential performance effects for different clusters of HIT: administrative, clinical, and strategic. Only clinical HIT investments were found to have a statistically significant positive effect on operational performance.
This paper examines professional socialization within a metropolitan police academy in the USA. S... more This paper examines professional socialization within a metropolitan police academy in the USA. Specifically, the research documents how the normative orders of the occupational culture come to function as a framework used to either stigmatize or idealize fellow recruits. A series of narratives regarding and reactions to particular events in the training serve as examples that detail the manner by which recruits internalize the occupational culture as they evolve through the training. The paper also discusses how recruits are eventually able to utilize their burgeoning understanding of normative orders to discredit police administrators and the training structure itself.
Aids Care-psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of Aids/hiv, 2009
Psychosocial counselors have a vital and challenging role in supporting persons living with HIV/A... more Psychosocial counselors have a vital and challenging role in supporting persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH/A) to better manage their disease. However, gaps in training, education, and skills limit the effectiveness of counselors’ efforts. We propose that the use of a decision-support tool for counselors at the point of care can support them in their work as well as help alleviate many training and practice gaps. Decision-support tools aimed at reducing knowledge and practice gaps are used extensively to assist clinical providers at the point of care; however, there is a need for decision-support tools designed specifically for HIV/AIDS counselors. To identify requirements for such a tool, we conducted a needs assessment through interviews of 19 HIV/AIDS clinic counselors who provide 20 or more hours per week of psychosocial support to PLWH/A. The assessment explored their education and training backgrounds, the extent to which evidence-based practices are implemented, and how a decision-support tool can support counselor work practices. Qualitative analysis was organized around seven main categories: counselor characteristics, patient characteristics, barriers, definitions of key concepts, use of guidelines, client assessments, and resources. The resulting coding schemes revealed knowledge and practice gaps among the interviewees, as well as barriers and challenges of counseling. Education and training background of the counseling staff varied widely. When asked to define five key concepts related to HIV counseling, 26–47% of respondents were unable to articulate an adequate definition. Less than half of the interviewees recalled sources of guidelines used in their work and specific models of care introduced during trainings. Interviews identified environmental barriers, language and literacy, patient education, and patient communication as the most prominent challenges to counseling work. The results from this study inform the need for and development of a decision-support tool to support the training and practices of HIV/AIDS counselors.
... 44 Michael Cowling (joint with Alessio Martini) A sharp multiplier theorem for the Kohn Lapla... more ... 44 Michael Cowling (joint with Alessio Martini) A sharp multiplier theorem for the Kohn Laplacian on forms of the sphere in Cn ..... 46 Sundaram Thangavelu Higher order Riesz transforms on Heisenberg groups ..... 48 ...
This report describes preliminary results of a research project to determine the effects of basal... more This report describes preliminary results of a research project to determine the effects of basal readers on productive and responsive (P/R) language. The research population consisted of 25 kindergarten and first-grade children, average age 6 years 4 months. Each child met with the interviewer three times: (1) to elicit a natural language sample, (2) to elicit (P/R) language following oral reading of a basal text, and (3) to elicit (P/R) language following oral reading of a story whose language matched, in complexity and length, their natural language sample. Results indicated that after children read a basal text, P/R language was significantly lower than their natural language. After children read a story whose language matched their natural language, P/R language was not significantly different from their natural language sample. The study implies that basal readers' language structures have a deleterious effect on (P/R) language of readers in their oral reactions to text.
This article examines the relationship between the adoption of healthcare information technology ... more This article examines the relationship between the adoption of healthcare information technology (HIT) and a hospital's operational performance. Combining primary survey data from Florida hospitals and secondary data from two government agencies responsible for hospital certification and licensing, the authors find differential performance effects for different clusters of HIT: administrative, clinical, and strategic. Only clinical HIT investments were found to have a statistically significant positive effect on operational performance.
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