A psychological treatment programme for traumatised exmilitary personnel in the UK

A large proportion of homeless people in the UK are former members of the armed services and suffer from a mental illness. In fact, homelessness itself can be considered a symptom or manifestation of other underlying psychological difficulties. For these reasons Community Housing and Therapy (CHT) considers that providing psychological therapies to treat the homeless population is a more effective way of tackling the problem of homelessness, as it addresses the roots of the problem. This approach is one which is beginning to be recognized by leading agencies in the field. At the same time, the provision of psychological therapies for symptoms such as depression and anxiety has become accepted through the Department of Health’s (DoH) Increased Access to Psychological Therapies ( IAPT) initiative. Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder that homeless people suffer and it is well documented that psychological treatments for depression can be extremely effective. As well as approaching homelessness from the angle of psychological therapies, CHT in its work with the ex-service community has become increasingly aware that there are a large number of non statutory homeless that do not get the same attention as rough sleepers.

Spatial Inequalities and Social Utility: Mobility Efforts and Accessibility in Greater Santiago

Emergent phenomena such as urban sprawl, travel intensification and loss of cohesion in contemporary metropolises, impose stronger constraints on its inhabitants. Among them, travel and location capabilities become a fundamental factor of social integration and a multiplier of income inequalities. The simultaneous analysis of housing-travel efforts and accessibility to urban opportunities in Greater Santiago shows that these dimensions are closely related and exert an important influence on spatial mobility and inequalities among its inhabitants. Furthermore, a theoretical model of displacements, considering income and location, confirms the importance of proximity and non-motorized transport in order to optimize daily mobility strategies of households. Overall, the empirical and theoretical results presented show the need to implement coordinated planning strategies between the housing and transport sectors, addressing not only travel acceleration, but mainly the consistency between accommodation and opportu  ties location. The creation of such planning tools could be a more sustainable alternative than current growth trends in Greater Santiago.

Resources for an Intersectorial Management of Public Policies: Mobility and Access

The objective of this paper is to integrate mobility as across component of the management of specific public actions. The case of study concerns the public health services in Argentina, and mother’s mobility conditions in the suburban of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. In terms of methodology, the paper working on the concept of access trying to identify, measure and evaluate the relationship between mobility conditions and maternal health care. Access is weighted according to the realization of health services, and not according to the arrival at the places where they are offers. The result is innovative empirical evidence, useful as an indicator to make more relevant the role of mobility within the public agenda of transport and others specific sectors, asa basic social right behind the access that requires coordinated actions and cross-sectoral approaches.

Entropic system of daily mobility in a Metropolitan Area of Bogota, Colombia.

The fundamental diseconomy in the large metropolitan areas is the significant and sustained increase in travel time incurred by its inhabitants daily. Since a portion of the energy consumed in the daily mobility does not necessarily translate into individual and collective wealth, entropic systems have a feature which, as discussed for the case of Bogotá, does not have metropolitan institutions with the ability to redirect.

Residential Mobility: a Sociological Concern

The aim of this paper is to present a theoretical-conceptual approach to residential mobility, in general, and residential trajectories, in particular. It seeks to understand how from the unequal distribution and appropriation of social resources —both material and symbolic— different trajectories are developed and how socio-territorial structures constrain, shape and enable interactions between families, their members and the various contexts of action towards meeting their housing needs. From sociological contributions of different traditions, we present a scheme that pays attention to articulating the relationship between structural factors, position in social structure and decisions elating to changes of residence. We conclude that mobility patterns are relational patterns that are defined in dialogue with the opportunities and limitations that are set up around the housing stock and new or vacant land, the land market dynamics and housing, the labor market, the provision of nfrastructure services and social facilities, etc.

Importancia de la inducción y tendencias de fuentes de reclutamiento

El área de Recursos humanos administra distintos procesos y controla aspectos en las organizaciones, pero en la actualidad con el nuevo pensamiento y tendencias se ha convertido en la conciencia y mano derecha de la gerencia general. Se preocupa por la atracción de talento, retención del mismo y la fase de desarrollo, entrenamiento y capacitación, además de las otras funciones que desempeña. Los anteriores tres aspectos involucran numerosos procesos detrás, uno de ellos conocido como provisión de personal. El objetivo de éste es tener control del headcount de una compañía teniendo en cuenta sus necesidades y requerimientos del negocio, pero además atraer individuos con potencial de crecimiento que aporten conocimientos y resultados a la organización. Para ello debe pasar por una serie de procesos y procedimientos que le permitirán encontrar a dichas personas con el fin de integrarlas y generar un engagement desde el día de ingreso a la empresa. En cada etapa de la provisión de personal se cumple con tareas necesarias e importantes para dar el siguiente paso, y combinado con el trabajo en equipo con otras áreas y la comunicación efectiva se logran los objetivos en cada uno de ellas. Por eso es vital entender con claridad los procesos dentro de éste, su importancia e interrelación y como cada una de ellas afecta o beneficia a la empresa. Una vez comprendido esto se podrá entender la relevancia de las fuentes de reclutamiento y la inducción, y como las nuevas tendencias globales en el área de recursos humanos y específicamente en las dos anteriores, permitirán brindar oportunidades de mejora para la provisión de personal y generación de valor al cliente interno y la compañía en la Región Andina (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Venezuela).