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Purpose

This paper aims to discuss current work and further steps of the psychological hotline launched by the National Psychological Association of Ukraine (NPA), along with a call for action to mental health professionals worldwide.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper describes the training and support of the NPA’s hotline staff as well as reflections on the hotline’s work from June 2022 to April 2023.

Findings

With broad international support, the NPA’s psychological hotline currently operates in 21 countries providing psychological assistance and referrals to other service providers within Ukraine and abroad. The authors propose further steps of its work, including international collaboration.

Originality/value

Providing citizens of Ukraine with broad public access to evidence-based remote psychological support through NPA’s hotlines is a high priority considering the war’s negative impact on mental health diverse and the limited capacity of the state mental health system.

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Mental Health and Social Inclusion, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2042-8308

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Publication date: 1 April 1986

Faouzi F. Rassi

L'industrie de la restauration connait dans son ensemble, au Québec, un certain nombre de difficultés. Les raisons sont diverses dont l'absence ou l'insuffisance d'une analyse de…

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L'industrie de la restauration connait dans son ensemble, au Québec, un certain nombre de difficultés. Les raisons sont diverses dont l'absence ou l'insuffisance d'une analyse de marché, la faiblesse de la conception, de la planification, de l'exécution et du contrôle des activités des entreprises de ce secteur. Mais il y a aussi et surtout le déséquilibre financier qui caractérise la majorité des restaurants que ce soit en raison d'une capitalisation insuffisante en début d'activité ou à cause d'une gestion loin d'être satisfaisante. Des facteurs institutionnels défavorisent aussi l'activité de la restauration au Québec depuis 1980, et parfois même avant cette période, auxquels s'ajoute une conjoncture très difficile en 1981–83 dont les conséquences continuent à se faire sentir jusqu'aujourd'hui. L'année 1985 a enregistré près de 2700 changements de propriétaires de restaurants au Québec tandis qu'approximativement 450 ont disparus pendant cette même année. L'ensemble des transferts de propriétés — dus à des difficultés financières et à des liquidations à bas prix dans la plupart des cas — et des liquidations et fermetures définitives de restaurants constituent près du quart du nombre total (soit 12'400) de restaurants opérant au Québec en 1985. Les pertes enregistrées par une évolution si défavorable sont substantielles et indiquent combien une partie non négligeable de l'industrie de la restauration gaspille des ressources. Il faudra établir, dans la mesure du possible, car les statistiques officielles sont fort limitées, les causes et les facteurs explicatifs des difficultés considérables vécues par les entreprises de la restauration. Il faudra ensuite tenter de dégager les grandes lignes des mesures susceptibles de redresser leur situation financière essentiellement par une amélioration de la gestion et par une réglementation et une législation fiscale plus adéquates. Plusieurs recommandations sont formulées afin de rétablir la rentabilité des restaurants dans un environnement très concurrentiel.

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The Tourist Review, vol. 41 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0251-3102

Article
Publication date: 21 November 2023

Ana C. González L., Yeny E. Rodríguez and Carol Sánchez

This study examines how women and men in family firms respond differently when asked about perceptions of financial performance. The study poses three research questions around…

Abstract

Purpose

This study examines how women and men in family firms respond differently when asked about perceptions of financial performance. The study poses three research questions around this topic: Are there differences among female and male responses, do those perceptions change if men and women are leaders of the family business and does the family's socioemotional wealth (SEW) influence such responses.

Design/methodology/approach

This study uses a quantitative research design to determine if financial performance perceptions of family firms differ based on the gender of the respondents and their leadership position, and second, if SEW's dimensions influence those perceptions, using data from the Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices (STEP) survey in 2015.

Findings

The findings indicate that due to the lack of theory regarding gender as a social construct, empirical data collected for family business studies should take under consideration if respondents are women, men, leaders and the family influence in the family business when collecting data from surveys and asking for perceptions of financial performance. Results show that women in family businesses tend to have more positive perceptions of financial performance than men, but if women are leaders, those perceptions not only decrease but become negative. In addition, the family's socioemotional wealth (SEW) exacerbates those tendencies.

Originality/value

This study contributes to the literature by helping to understand the potential limitations of subjective measures of financial performance, as women increasingly become family business leaders. It also contributes to gender studies by demonstrating that there is a lack of gender theoretical perspectives specifically, gender roles, suggesting that differences in self-promotion and self-evaluation between men and women leaders of their family firms. Finally, this study adds to the study of SEW as a multidimensional construct by showing the different effects, or lack of them by each dimension and showing the strong effect of family continuity on the perception of financial performance.

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International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, vol. 15 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1756-6266

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Article
Publication date: 1 April 1971

Alberto Sessa

L'expression «politique touristique» est de plus en plus utilisée depuis ces dernières années par les gouvernements, les hommes politiques, les entrepreneurs économiques et…

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L'expression «politique touristique» est de plus en plus utilisée depuis ces dernières années par les gouvernements, les hommes politiques, les entrepreneurs économiques et touristiques du monde entier qui souvent lui donnent une signification différente.

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The Tourist Review, vol. 26 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0251-3102

Article
Publication date: 1 March 1985

R.A. Ellis

The direct comparison of similar polymers was achieved by a technique of differential GPC which, according to Runyon provided a simple yet sensitive technique that was relatively…

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The direct comparison of similar polymers was achieved by a technique of differential GPC which, according to Runyon provided a simple yet sensitive technique that was relatively insensitive to operational variables. In this procedure the ‘standard’ polymer was dissolved in THF or an alternative suitable solvent, and the solution was used as the eluent in the GPC.

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Pigment & Resin Technology, vol. 14 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0369-9420

Article
Publication date: 1 March 1984

James P. Neelankavil

Changing remuneration practices and methods are issues that advertising agencies are facing. Fixed commission of around 15 per cent was the traditional practice but fee or…

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Changing remuneration practices and methods are issues that advertising agencies are facing. Fixed commission of around 15 per cent was the traditional practice but fee or cost‐based methods are becoming more common. The article investigates the prevalent advertising agency remuneration patterns in various countries; the frequency of their use, the initiators of policy change (wherever it has occurred) including the role of governments, and finally, trends in agency compensation.

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Management Research News, vol. 7 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0140-9174

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Publication date: 1 March 1973

R.A. Ellis

The analysis and characterisation of resinous binder materials used in paint formulation has been facilitated during the last decade by the availability of such instrumental…

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The analysis and characterisation of resinous binder materials used in paint formulation has been facilitated during the last decade by the availability of such instrumental techniques as infra‐red spectroscopy, gas‐liquid chromatography and, more recently, gel permeation chromatography (G.P.C). The first two techniques mentioned are eminently suitable for the analysis of resins according to their chemical nature. Most of the binder resins used in modern paints are polymers and, therefore, such parameters as molecular weight and degree of polymerisation are important in determining the suitability of a resin for a given application. The G.P.C. technique readily provides the necessary information about these polymer parameters.

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Pigment & Resin Technology, vol. 2 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0369-9420

Article
Publication date: 1 April 1973

R.A. Ellis

Pedersen and Lyngaae‐Jorgensen have reported the fractionation of five P.V.C. samples by G.P.C., and have produced curves which fitted the data obtained independently by osmometry…

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Pedersen and Lyngaae‐Jorgensen have reported the fractionation of five P.V.C. samples by G.P.C., and have produced curves which fitted the data obtained independently by osmometry and light scattering. These authors used G.P.C. to monitor the fractionation of P.V.C. samples. In one experiment P.V.C. samples were extracted with a range of solvents and, in another case, the acetone extract was dissolved in T.H.F. and fractionated by precipitation using methanol. The G.P.C. analyses were achieved using four columns (3 by 104, 104, 3 by 103 and 1·5 by 103nm porosities) at room temperature with a solvent flow rate of 1ml per minute and a sample concentration of 4·5mg per ml.

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Pigment & Resin Technology, vol. 2 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0369-9420

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Publication date: 30 September 2020

Katherine Eva Maich

Laws geared toward regulating the employment relationship cling to traditional definitions of workplaces, neglecting the domain of the home and those who work there. Domestic…

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Laws geared toward regulating the employment relationship cling to traditional definitions of workplaces, neglecting the domain of the home and those who work there. Domestic workers, a population of largely immigrant women of color, have performed labor inside of New York City's homes for centuries and yet have consistently been denied coverage under labor law protections at both the state and federal level. This article traces out the exclusions of domestic workers historically and then turn to a particular piece of legislation – the 2010 New York Domestic Worker Bill of Rights – which was the first law of its kind to regulate the household as a site of labor, therefore disrupting that long-standing pattern. However, the law falls short in granting basic worker protections to this particular group. Drawing from 52 in-depth interviews and analysis of legislative documents, The author argues that the problematics of the law can be understood by recognizing its embeddedness, or rather the broader political, legal, historical, and social ecology within which the law is embedded, which inhibited in a number of important ways the law's ability to work. This article shows how this plays out through the law obscuring the specificity of where this labor is performed – the home – as well as the demographic makeup of the immigrant women of color – the whom – performing it. Using the case study of domestic workers' recent inclusion into labor law coverage, this article urges a closer scrutiny of and attention to the changing nature of inequality, race, and gender present in employment relationships within the private household as well as found more generally throughout the low-wage sector.

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Rethinking Class and Social Difference
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-83982-020-5

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to describe six recovery-oriented peer support experiences and strategies implemented in different regions of Brazil in the past 12 years, and explore challenges to their development and potential for empowerment and citizenship.

Design/methodology/approach

In this paper, a group of stakeholders in mental health services involving people with lived experience of severe mental illness describe their experiences with services of peer support. These were all conducted in Brazil and in partnership with the International Recovery and Citizenship Collective (IRCC) and The Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health. The authors met monthly to exchange experiences, studies and practices, and six experiences were selected, described, analyzed and compared. A discussion of these experiences, their challenges, impact and potential followed.

Findings

The explored experiences emphasize that peer support, lived experience leadership and advocacy are feasible in the Brazilian mental health system and can help advance the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform.

Research limitations/implications

This paper is limited to the experience of researchers already engaged in peer support work in six cities in Brazil. Although they represent several different regions in Brazil, there are areas it has not reached. Further research should address and provide a broader view of peer support and recovery strategies spreading in the country.

Social implications

These experiences demonstrate the feasibility and acceptability of the recovering citizenship approach to reduce stigma, promote empowerment, autonomy, activism and advocacy, and increase a sense of belonging for those in recovery and marginalized by society. The Brazilian psychiatric reform can benefit from including peer supporters as mental health treatment providers.

Originality/value

This paper provides a novel view of the state of the art of peer support initiatives in Brazil and can inspire individuals, government and communities as they see and understand the breadth, depth and meanings of these peer support experiences.

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Journal of Public Mental Health, vol. 22 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1746-5729

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