This article explores the ways in which the DSM-IV Casebook constructs gender and race/ethnicity in depictions of individuals with mental illness. Analyses indicated that the case studies were gendered in accordance with socially sanctioned descriptions of women and men, with women more likely to be described negatively and in terms of physical attractiveness, and that women of color in particular were more likely to be sexualized. We argue that the studies in the Casebook contribute to a gendered and raced conceptualization of mental illness, and that these explicit definitions of pathology reflect implicit definitions of normalcy.
Focuses on employee training, a significant expenditure for most organizations. In the course of learning new skills to improve sales, build effective teams, improve quality or meet other objectives, employees create new organizational cultures: training acts as an agent of change.
Purpose -The purpose of this study is to examine whether the nature of leadership in the early years of the twenty-first century as conceptualized in the research literature is valid among real organizational leaders across four global regions. Design/methodology/approach -A literature review of recent scholarly articles suggested that today's leadership best practices can be sorted into six categories, or zones: Reflection, Society, Diversity, Ingenuity, People, and Business. These six zones became topics for focus groups of organizational leaders that tentatively supported the six-zone structure and provided qualitative data used to create a 42-item measure, the AchieveGlobal Leadership Scale (AGLS). The AGLS was then employed to examine the degree to which 899 leaders in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the USA felt that each zone was important in meeting their organizational challenges. Findings -The data from the 42 items were analyzed using a confirmatory factor analysis, which suggested that the six zones all triangulated on and comprised the larger construct, Leadership in the twenty-first century. Regional differences emerged in the importance that leaders attributed to the zones, in the degree to which leaders effectively demonstrated the zones, and in the order in which leaders ranked their organizations' top business challenges. Originality/value -The six-zone model of leadership and its differences by geographic region hold potential to help leaders examine and improve their own leadership abilities.
We examined our first 390 rotational atherectomy procedures to determine success and complications rates of patients aged 80 or greater (Group I, N equals 35) as compared to those younger (Group II, N equals 355). Procedural success was achieved in 32/35 (91%) of Group I and 42/355 (96%) of Group II patients (p equals NS). Coronary artery bypass graft surgery was required in 2/35 (5.7%) of Group I and 7/355 (2%) of Group II patients. No deaths, Q wave infarctions, or perforations occurred in the elderly patients and only one of each was observed in the younger group. During clinical follow up (26 months, 3-50), 4/25 patients (16%) in the octogenarian group died. Two of the deaths were cardiac (including the only crossover to surgery). One patient who sustained a late non Q myocardial infarction was asymptomatic. Of the remaining 20 patients the anginal class was 0-II in 19 and III in one. Rotational atherectomy can achieve excellent short and long term outcomes in selected octogenarians. (c)2000 by CVRR, Inc.
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