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Disciplinary Process (disciplinary + process)
Selected AbstractsPhysical discipline, escalation, and child abuse potential: psychometric evidence for the Analog Parenting TaskAGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR, Issue 4 2010Mary Bower Russa Abstract Data from three studies provide new evidence to support the validity of the Analog Parenting Task (APT) as an instrument to assess risk for harsh, physically aggressive parenting. In this series of studies, there was a strong association between APT scores of expected use and escalation of discipline strategies and self-reported disciplinary attitudes. APT scores were also associated with physical abuse potential as assessed by both a well-established measure of child abuse potential (Child Abuse Potential Inventory) and another instrument designed specifically for use in pre-parent populations (e.g., Adult,Adolescent Parenting Inventory-2). This study provides new psychometric evidence to support the use of the APT to assess harsh parenting. Additionally, these data highlight the connection between acceptance and use of physical disciplinary strategies, propensity for disciplinary escalation, and risk for abuse perpetration. The findings are discussed in the context of Milner's Social Information Processing model [Milner, 2003] of abuse, which suggests that parental selection of disciplinary responding and the monitoring of disciplinary responding are key events in the disciplinary process. The APT may prove a useful adjunct to more commonly used self-report measures to allow for multimethod assessment of risk for punitive parenting. Aggr. Behav. 36:251,260, 2010. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] Problematizing special observation in psychiatry: Foucault, archaeology, genealogy, discourse and power/knowledgeJOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC & MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, Issue 6 2006C. STEVENSON rmn ba(hons) msc phd Special observation by mental health professionals is the recommended approach for those people deemed as at risk or risky. Recent research and academic writing have challenged the benefits of observing people/patients who are defined as ,at risk', and a more human engagement process is being recommended. Despite this assault, practice has not changed substantively, suggesting a need for a thorough exploration and questioning of the practices and process. The paper outlines three Foucaultian approaches to historical analysis. It applies aspects of Foucault's archaeology/genealogy, discourse and power/knowledge to explore the practices of special observation as a means of controlling risk, especially suicide risk. We identify the regulatory function of the ,gaze', professional codes and government policy in relation to restricting professional practices. We argue that observation can be related to moral therapy, wherein the person relinquishes madness for responsibility through a disciplinary process and, in governing risk, a ,professional industry' is created. The regulation of statements about people with mental health issues are exposed and related to what can be said and done by professionals. Finally, we look at productive power in relation to observation, and how it is intimately related to resistance. We conclude with ,soft' recommendations for practice discursively produced through the writing of the paper. [source] Police Complaints and Criminal ProsecutionsTHE MODERN LAW REVIEW, Issue 3 2001Graham Smith The police complaints process is the sole means by which criminal proceedings are initiated against police officers after allegations by members of the public that they were the victim of an offence committed by officers when in the execution or purported execution of their duty. Yet this state of the law has hardly figured in recent debate, which has seen the complaints process examined almost exclusively as the preliminary stage of the disciplinary process. This paper considers police complaints, the criminal liability of the officer and the implications for reform of the process after incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights. [source] Some implications for nurses and managers of recent changes to the processing and hearing of medical negligence claimsJOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT, Issue 3 2000DIPLAW, Fletcher BA, MPHIL Aim This paper considers some possible implications for individual nurses and their managers of moves to delegate tasks formerly undertaken by medical practitioners to nurses, in the light of recent changes in the legal process, relating to the funding and the hearing of cases of medical negligence. Background It is suggested that the introduction of a system of conditional fees, under which lawyers will only recover their costs if they win cases, may lead to a more specialist approach to negligence claims and to greater scrutiny of medical evidence. The implications of the recent ,Bolitho' judgement, when judges for the first time subjected expert medical testimony to their own independent analysis, are also explored. Findings It is suggested that in the light of the disparities in the training of medical and nursing personnel and in their disciplinary processes, and in view of the lack of consensus about what training is necessary for those who will substitute for junior doctors, or represent themselves as ,practitioners', ,specialists', or ,consultants', that nurses may in the future find themselves more directly involved in civil proceedings. [source] "Health Courts" and Accountability for Patient SafetyTHE MILBANK QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2006MICHELLE M. MELLO Proposals that medical malpractice claims be removed from the tort system and processed in an alternative system, known as administrative compensation or ,health courts,' attract considerable policy interest during malpractice ,crises,' including the current one. This article describes current proposals for the design of a health court system and the system's advantages for improving patient safety. Among these advantages are the cultivation of a culture of transparency regarding medical errors and the creation of mechanisms to gather and analyze data on medical injuries. The article discusses the experiences of foreign countries with administrative compensation systems for medical injury, including their use of claims data for research on patient safety; choices regarding the compensation system's relationship to physician disciplinary processes; and the proposed system's possible limitations. [source] | ||||||||||