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The role of the client in social work interventions has not been extensively explored in the professional literature. However, the client role varies significantly in different models of care and carries vast differences in the ex...
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The role of the client in social work interventions has not been extensively explored in the professional literature. However, the client role varies significantly in different models of care and carries vast differences in the expectations and behaviors required of clients in the process. Clients’ individual characteristics, preferences, and expectations make them better suited to some approaches than others. This paper explores the change in perspectives on consumers emerging in the field and analyzes client role factors in four intervention models. It will also discuss the “fit” between the client and the particular approach as well as implications for outcomes and evidence-based practice.
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Aim: Veterinary practice websites have the ability to attract and retain clients. They also have the potential to influence clients' perceptions of the veterinary team. This paper investigated 'Meet the Team' pages on UK practice ...
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Aim: Veterinary practice websites have the ability to attract and retain clients. They also have the potential to influence clients' perceptions of the veterinary team. This paper investigated 'Meet the Team' pages on UK practice websites to identifythe current portrayal of veterinary professions and occupations. Method: One hundred random practices, treating any species, were selected from the RCVS' list of practices. Information on the team was collected.Results: Meet the Team pages existed on 82 websites. All Meet the Team pages included veterinary surgeons (VSs). Veterinary nurses (VNs) were included on 82.9% of pages. Of the 14 pages that did not include veterinary nurses, six pages belonged to practices which did employ veterinary nurses. 'Other' occupations (such as receptionists and administrators) were included on 90.2% of pages. Of the eight pages that did not include other groups, four belonged to practices which did employ other groups. According to their biographies, 76% of VNs are RVNs, 13% are qualified, while 11% had no indication of qualification. There was no significant difference between the proportions of individuals per profession who had photographs within their biographies, or between the focus of photographs per profession. VS's biographies were significantly longer than VN's. Conclusion: The analysis was largely reassuring. The majority of practices included all groups which make up their team. However, some do not, or put moreemphasis on certain groups, which may influence clients' understanding and value for other members of the veterinary team. Some suggestions for Meet the Team pages are made.
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The studies in this issue reflect the operation of the Ryan White CARE Act's holistic model of health and support services for people living with HIV in the USA. Ancillary services available through the CARE Act are responsive to ...
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The studies in this issue reflect the operation of the Ryan White CARE Act's holistic model of health and support services for people living with HIV in the USA. Ancillary services available through the CARE Act are responsive to predisposing factors, enabling factors, and system characteristics that pose barriers to clients' receipt of primary medical care. That nearly all of the studies use cross-sectional rather than longitudinal data makes it difficult to draw causal inferences. Taken as a whole, however, the studies suggest that receipt of ancillary services such as case management, mental health and substance abuse treatment, transportation, and housing assistance is associated with primary care entry and retention among CARE Act clients. The studies and the literature out of which they arise suggest that there is a need to refine further our understanding of care systems so that we can refine the care systems themselves. Among the concepts proposed for the study of care systems are comprehensiveness, capacity, coordination, integration, cultural competence, and client-centredness.
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In this study, we have explained and elaborated the client's factor and interaction during software development project through model diagrams. This research presents the composite structure of client by analyzing the role it play...
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In this study, we have explained and elaborated the client's factor and interaction during software development project through model diagrams. This research presents the composite structure of client by analyzing the role it plays during software projects. Role of client is presented from both technical and nontechnical aspects. Key roles in a software team are identified and both intra-team interactions and client-team interactions are explained through an interaction overview model. A cross case analysis of real projects is performed to verify and validate the findings. Both client's composite structure and interaction overview model provide a deep understanding of clients and interaction strategies to the researchers and industry practitioners. The research predicts that future process models and framework would be purely based on client factor instead of heavy weight processes and standards.
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The accommodation of client expectations in a construction project is challenging. This is, in part, because a client is rarely a single individual and their expectations are rarely static. This paper uses the actor-network theory...
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The accommodation of client expectations in a construction project is challenging. This is, in part, because a client is rarely a single individual and their expectations are rarely static. This paper uses the actor-network theory (ANT) concepts of problematization, enrolment and durability to explore client engagement. The contribution of ANT lies in its (ontological) model of distributed agency, fluid heterogeneous networks and associated effects. A pilot study of a single building project provides an opportunity to theorize the different ways that clients engage in the development of a building. Client engagement differs with the direct versus mediated presence of different client actors, with the devices used to mediate negotiations and with the relative materiality of the network. The findings move the discussion of client engagement beyond the usual calls for better integration to an awareness of the mechanisms by which clients engage. Some decisions are fixed in material objects, while others remain open to ongoing negotiation. There is a need for explicit and continuous interaction and better awareness of when and how decisions are fixed. This would help all participants to deal with the complex and dynamic landscape of people, organizations and interests usually labelled as 'client'.
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Financial derivatives are widely recommended by financial advisors and brokers to hedge the investment position of their clients. But due to the heterogeneity existed between retail investor groups they are not in a position to of...
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Financial derivatives are widely recommended by financial advisors and brokers to hedge the investment position of their clients. But due to the heterogeneity existed between retail investor groups they are not in a position to offer more customized service to their clients. The present study is developed on the basis of a survey conducted among 200 experts working in various broking firms. The opinions, so collected from experts were evaluated using different statistical measures in order to select some suitable strategies. Statistical tools like MANOVA, Chi-square, paired sample 't' test, etc. were used to analyze the viability of the expert recommendations. Based on this empirical analysis some strategies were identified for derivative trading and a theoretical model was formulated for dealing with diversified group of retail investors.
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Aim: The aim of this study was to explore and describe what public health nurses (PHNs) understand by client supervision and how they perform it. Background: The main principles of the health promotion discourse initiated by the W...
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Aim: The aim of this study was to explore and describe what public health nurses (PHNs) understand by client supervision and how they perform it. Background: The main principles of the health promotion discourse initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) over the last 20-30 years are client participation and the view of the client as expert. Supervision is one relevant intervention strategy in the empowerment process, in which these principles play a central role. There is a lack of research pertaining to the intervention models employed by PHNs. Methods: Twenty-three transcribed audiotaped dialogues between PHNs and their clients were analysed by means of qualitative content analysis. Findings: What the PHNs understand by supervision and how they perform it can be described by three themes: continuity in relationships and reflexivity in the supervision approach, communicating with the client about his/her needs, problems and worries; and the organization of client supervision. Conclusions: The PHNs in this study understand client supervision as communication and relationships with clients on the subject of a healthy lifestyle, child development and coping with everyday life. The PHNs' approach to client supervision seemed to include aspects of empowerment by means of client participation and the view of the client as expert. However, the PHNs themselves had an expert role.
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Feedback plays an important role in valuation behaviour and judgement accuracy. In mortgage-lending related assignments, client feedback can blur the assignment objective and independent nature of valuation judgements. This study ...
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Feedback plays an important role in valuation behaviour and judgement accuracy. In mortgage-lending related assignments, client feedback can blur the assignment objective and independent nature of valuation judgements. This study investigates the importance of client feedback in relationship to the assignment objective. A survey revealed that 33% of sampled Nigerian estate surveyors and valuers had perceived role perceptions as price validators. However, this perceived role perception was not found to be statistically associated with feedback pressures that clients may apply.
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The heat shock protein Hsp90 plays a key, but poorly understood role in the folding, assembly and activation of a large number of signal transduction molecules, in particular kinases and steroid hormone receptors. In carrying out ...
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The heat shock protein Hsp90 plays a key, but poorly understood role in the folding, assembly and activation of a large number of signal transduction molecules, in particular kinases and steroid hormone receptors. In carrying out these functions Hsp90 hydrolyses ATP as it cycles between ADP- and ATP-bound forms, and this ATPase activity is regulated by the transient association with a variety of co-chaperones. Cdc37 is one such co-chaperone protein that also has a role in client protein recognition, in that it is required for Hsp90-dependent folding and activation of a particular group of protein kinases. These include the cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdk) 4/6 and Cdk9, Raf-1, Akt and many others. Here, the biochemical details of the interaction of human Hsp90beta and Cdc37 have been characterised. Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) was then used to study the solution structure of Hsp90 and its complexes with Cdc37. The results suggest a model for the interaction of Cdc37 with Hsp90, whereby a Cdc37 dimer binds the two N-terminal domain/linker regions in an Hsp90 dimer, fixing them in a single conformation that is presumably suitable for client protein recognition.
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We examine temporary workers' differential extra-role behaviors (ERBs) towards their client and employer; if this varied with the motivation of the worker for being temporary, whether these ERBs are affected by firms' relationship...
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We examine temporary workers' differential extra-role behaviors (ERBs) towards their client and employer; if this varied with the motivation of the worker for being temporary, whether these ERBs are affected by firms' relationship management practices; and whether the ERBs aimed at the client and the employer impact subsequent outcomes. Results showed that temporary workers' motivations are differentially related to agency and client directed ERBs. Agency ERBs were related to longer tenure with the agency, while client ERBs were associated with faster wage growth and more hours worked per week. Organizational relationship management practices elicit different client and agency directed ERBs.
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