USING FOCUS GROUPS AS AN EDUCATIONAL METHODOLOGY: DECONSTRUCTING STEREOTYPES AND SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE MISCONCEPTIONS CONCERNING AGING AND OLDER ADULTS     

Harriet L. Cohen  Mark H. Sandel  Cecilia L. Thomas  Thomas R. Barton 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(4):329-346

During the coming years the number of older adults will increase dramatically, which will require a corresponding increase in the number of social workers who have accurate knowledge of this population. This article reports the impact focus groups with older adults and with service providers who work with older adults and their families have on baccalaureate social work (BSW) students. We find that BSW students exposed to focus groups have their negative attitudes about older adults and service providers deconstructed and replaced with more positive and accurate information about older adults. When students' misconceptions about older adults are confronted, they become more interested in choosing geriatric social work as a career option.  相似文献   

DEVELOPING MEDIA LITERACY SKILLS TO CHALLENGE TELEVISION'S PORTRAYAL OF OLDER WOMEN     

Harriet L. Cohen 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(7):599-620

To be old in our society is to be devalued. To be old and female is to experience double oppression. This article reports on a study that examined how television both reinforces and resists the prevailing images of older women in Western society. Two randomly selected television rerun episodes of The Golden Girls were selected to use as a trigger event with members of a graduate course in Social Work with older adults at a major southeastern university. The study found that television reflects societal discourse about aging by providing unchallenged images of older women and their lives. Given the power of television, educators and gerontologists must teach students to develop critical thinking and media literacy skills that challenge and deconstruct television's images about older women and to advocate for new programming that reflects more accurate and diverse portrayals of older women.  相似文献   

Teaching Through Radio by William Levenson. Farrar & Rinehart. 465 pp. $3.00     

Philip Cohen 《The Educational forum》2013,77(3)

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What makes a human?     

Cohen P 《New scientist (1971)》1999,162(2192):14

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Tissue report pits privacy against pathology     

Cohen P 《New scientist (1971)》1999,161(2169):18

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The scaling of six topological piagetian groupings,as well as the effect that certain selected variables have on the attainment of these groupings and some of their homologs in the logical domain     

Herbert G. Cohen 《科学教学研究杂志》1978,15(2):115-125

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Validation of a stages of exercise change questionnaire     

Dannecker EA  Hausenblas HA  Connaughton DP  Lovins TR 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》2003,74(3):236-247

The purpose of this study was to examine evidence for the validity of a stages of change measure of the Transtheoretical Model for exercise behavior. Participants were 152 university students (53.3% women, 71.6% Caucasian, M age = 19.18 years) who completed processes of change, self-efficacy, decisional balance, stages of change, and exercise behavior questionnaires as well as a maximal treadmill test. Participants in the action and maintenance stages had the highest strenuous (PC/C/P < A/M) and moderate (PC/C < A/M) self-reported exercise behavior. Those in the maintenance stage had the highest estimated aerobic fitness (PC/P < MA). The differences between the early stages (PC, C, and P) and the later stages (A and M) as described by the first function were primarily due to the behavioral process of change. The differences between the extreme stages (PC and M) and the middle stages (C, P, and A) were due to the experiential processes of change and the pros of decisional balance. The hypothesized patterns of stage differences were partially supported. Failure to obtain full support may have been due to methodological issues or inherent difficulties in detecting evidence for the validity of stages of change measures.  相似文献   

Life after death: New York state moves to keep dead men's sperm in the family     

Cohen P 《New scientist (1971)》1998,157(2126):23

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Hold the champagne: despite the latest breakthroughs, lab-grown organs are still a long way off     

Cohen P 《New scientist (1971)》1998,160(2160):6

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With great power comes great responsibility     

Bernard Gert  Nicholas Evans  Heather Douglas  John Forge 《Metascience》2010,19(1):29-43

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