The present report is submitted in response to General Assembly resolution 61/106, by which the Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto. As requested by the Assembly, a brief overview of the status of the Convention as at 3 August 2007 is presented. The report also contains a brief description of technical arrangements on staff and facilities made necessary for the effective performance of the functions of the Conference of States Parties and the Committee under the Convention and the Optional Protocol, and a description on the progressive implementation of standards and guidelines for the accessibility of facilities and services of the United Nations system. Recent efforts of the United Nations and agencies to disseminate information on the Convention and the Optional Protocol are also described.

わかりやすい障害者の権利条約 : 知的障害のある人の権利のために = Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities

Underpowered studies persist in the psychological literature. This article examines reasons for their persistence and the effects on efforts to create a cumulative science. The "curse of multiplicities" plays a central role in the presentation. Most psychologists realize that testing multiple hypotheses in a single study affects the Type I error rate, but corresponding implications for power have largely been ignored. The presence of multiple hypothesis tests leads to 3 different conceptualizations of power. Implications of these 3 conceptualizations are discussed from the perspective of the individual researcher and from the perspective of developing a coherent literature. Supplementing significance tests with effect size measures and confidence intervals is shown to address some but not necessarily all problems associated with multiple testing.

The Persistence of Underpowered Studies in Psychological Research: Causes, Consequences, and Remedies.

Theoretical foundations of health education and health promotion , Theoretical foundations of health education and health promotion , کتابخانه مرکزی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تهران

Theoretical Foundations of Health Education and Health Promotion

This article presents the initial development of one Indigenous research paradigm. The article begins with an overview of worldviews and Indigenous knowledge before addressing how these perspectives have been blinded by Eurocentric thought and practices. These sections set the background for the focus of the article, namely the development of an Indigenous research paradigm. This paradigm is based upon the framework shared by Wilson (2001), who suggested that a research paradigm consists of an ontology, epistemology, methodology, and axiology. By presenting Indigenous perspectives on each of the framework components, an Indigenous research paradigm that was used for research with Indigenous Elders and Indigenous social workers who are based within Indigenous worldviews and ways of being is presented.

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Indigenous Worldviews, Knowledge, and Research: The Development of an Indigenous Research Paradigm

Defining social inclusion of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities: An ecological model of social networks and community participation

The Consumer-Directed Theory of Empowerment.

In this study, the authors evaluated the impact of 4 career development curricular strategies and emotional/instrumental support in preparing rural adolescents to make successful post-high school transitions. Curriculum strategies and perceived support helped 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-grade students attain critical aspects of career development, enhanced student satisfaction that their education was better preparing them to achieve future educational and career goals, and increased student intentions to enter post-high school settings that required greater levels of education and training. Girls reported earning higher grades and participating in more work-based learning activities and intended to enter post–high school training settings that required more education than did boys.

Preparing Rural Adolescents for Post‐High School Transitions

Head injury affects not only the individual who sustains the injury, but the entire family system (Williams & Kay, 1991). In fact, Brooks (1991) has suggested the impact of head injury is at least as great for families, and often family members are more distressed than the injured person. Family difficulties following head injury frequently include increased burden, psychological distress, and social isolation associated with negative changes in their family member's cognitive functioning, personality, and behavior (Florian, Katz, & Lahav, 1989). A growing body of literature provides firm evidence that head injury hurts families socially, emotionally, and financially. A study by Kozloff (1987) marked an important step in understanding the social impact of head injury on the family. She found that as time went by the size of the injured person's social network decreased and its density increased. As a result, the number of multiplex relationships increased (i.e., family members served more and more functions as nonrelatives dropped out of the picture). The ultimate consequence of these changes was the social isolation of families. Jacobs (1988) reported families who participated in the Los Angeles Head Injury Survey had a recurring worry of chronic financial strain due to costs associated with the injury and loss of income if a family member gave up work to supervise the injured person. Further, McMordie and Barker (1988) surveyed 150 families of persons with head injuries to identify the full costs of medical care, legal fees, and other expenses. They concluded that financial costs to the family are staggering with costs for doctors' bills ranging from $100 to $1,000,000, medications ranging from $100 to $120,000, and legal expenses from $100 to $750,000. The financial trauma of head injury on the family is evident. A series of studies by researchers at the University of Glasgow perhaps best describe the emotional impact of head injury on family members. Thirty-eight of 55 families participating in a study by McKinlay, Brooks, and Bond (1981) reported medium to high levels of stress at 3 months after injury. In a later study, Livingston, Brooks, and Bond (1985) followed families at 3, 6, and 12 months and found increased levels of anxiety and burden at both 6 months and one year post-injury. A 5-year follow-up of the families in the former study found a significant increase (24% to 56%) in families reporting high levels of burden (Brooks, Campsie, Symington, Beattie, & McKinlay, 1986). Further, in a 7-year follow-up of these same families, the percentage of families in the high burden group remained high at 47 percent. Findings also included increasing incidence of marital dysfunction and global psychological adjustment problems in family members (Brooks, Campsie, Symington, Beattie, & McKinlay, 1987). Thus, the overall pattern in the Glasgow studies has been deterioration in relatives' psychological functioning up to 7 years after injury. In most of the services that deal with the head injury population, the perception of the family is that of a resource for helping in the rehabilitation of the person with the head injury. However, the conclusions of the research literature on the coping of families indicate that the family members themselves are a high risk group for emotional and social difficulties. Family members require help in their own right and not only as a by-product of the rehabilitation process with the member with the head injury (Florian, Katz, & Lahav, 1989). Further, while earlier rehabilitation literature emphasized the family as a potential resource in the provision of rehabilitation services (Cook & Ferritor, 1985), writers have more recently emphasized the need for rehabilitation professionals to attend to family needs. Dew, Phillips, and Reiss (1989) stressed the importance of family involvement in the rehabilitation process in order to achieve more successful outcomes and recommended a family systems approach for understanding family identity and problem-solving style. …

A Theoretical Framework for Family Adaptation to Head Injury

This investigation tested the hypothesized structural model of the consumer-directed theory of empowerment (CDTE). Participants were 159 consumers with disabilities who were receiving services at a...

John F. Kosciulek

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Defining social inclusion of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities: An ecological model of social networks and community participation

The Consumer-Directed Theory of Empowerment.

Preparing Rural Adolescents for Post‐High School Transitions

A Theoretical Framework for Family Adaptation to Head Injury

Structural Analysis of the Consumer-Directed Theory of Empowerment