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Die Mitgliederversammlung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Supervision und Coaching e. V. (DGSv) stand 2020 äußerlich im Zeichen von Covid-19 und damit Social Distancing, inhaltlich im Zeichen der konsequenten Fortführung begonnener Strategie- und Modernisierungsprozesse des Berufs- und Fachverbandes. Gleichzeitig aktualisierten diese Prozesse die Identitätsfrage des Verbandes.

»Digital(isiert)e« Beratung verspricht neben Innovation auch Flexibilität, Ubiquität, Globalität, Geschwindigkeit und Legitimität durch evidenzbasierte Wirksamkeit. Für eine sozialwissenschaftlich fundierte arbeitsweltliche Beratung wie Coaching und Supervision ist danach zu fragen, welches Menschen- und Weltbild sich hinter der Digitalisierung verbirgt und welche Anliegen sie transportiert. Dazu wird mit den Theorien Michel Foucaults der gegenwärtige Diskurs auf Steuerungslogiken und Machtverhältnisse hin kritisch analysiert. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die Digitalisierung das »Zeitalter der Gouvernementalität« (Foucault) festigt: Humanistisch geprägte Werte und Ziele wie Reflexion, Anerkennung und Selbsterkenntnis treten in den Hintergrund, während die Nutzbarmachung und Optimierung des Selbst sowie des Beratungsprozesses wichtiger werden: Beratung will und muss effizienzgetrieben ihre Wirksamkeit evidenzbasiert legitimieren, und Digitalisierung erleichtert dies.

Background: This study examined the extent to which regulatory problems in infants at 4 and 6 months influence childhood development at 12 months. The second aim of the study was to examine the influence maternal distress has on 4-month-old children’s subsequent development as well as gender differences with regard to regulatory problems and development. Methods: 153 mother-child dyads enrolled in the family support research project “Nobody slips through the net” constituted the comparison group. These families faced psychosocial risks (e.g. poverty, excessive demands on the mother, and mental health disorders of the mother, measured with the risk screening instrument Heidelberger Belastungsskala - HBS) and maternal stress, determined with the Parental Stress Index (PSI-SF). The children’s developmental levels and possible early regulatory problems were evaluated by means of the Ages and Stages Questionnaires (ASQ) and a German questionnaire assessing problems of excessive crying along with sleeping and feeding difficulties (SFS). Results: A statistically significant but only low, inverse association between excessive crying, whining and sleep problems at 4 and 6 months and the social development of one-year-olds (accounting for 5% and 8% of the variance respectively) was found. Feeding problems had no effect on development. Although regulatory problems in infants were accompanied by increased maternal stress level, these did not serve as a predictor of the child’s social development at 12 months. One-year-old girls reached a higher level of development in social and fine motor skills. No gender differences were found with regard to regulatory problems, nor any moderating effect of gender on the relation between regulatory problems and level of development. Conclusions: Our results reinforce existing knowledge pertaining to the transactional association between regulatory problems in infants, maternal distress and dysfunctionality of mother-child interactions. They also provide evidence of a slight but distinct negative influence of crying and sleeping problems on children’s subsequent social development. Easily accessible support services provided by family health visitors (particularly to the so-called “at-risk families”) are strongly recommended to help prevent the broadening of children’s early regulatory problems into other areas of behavior.

BACKGROUND: Safety climate research suggests that a corresponding climate in work units is crucial for patient safety. Intensive care units are usually co-led by a nurse and a physician, who are responsible for aligning an interprofessional workforce and warrant a high level of safety. Yet, little is known about whether and how these interprofessional co-leaders jointly affect their unit's safety climate. PURPOSE: This empirical study aims to explain differences in the units' safety climate as an outcome of the nurse and physician leaders' degree of shared goals. Specifically, we examine whether the degree to which co-leaders share goals in general fosters a safety climate by pronouncing norms of interprofessional cooperation as a behavioral standard for the team members' interactions. METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: A cross-sectional design was used to gather data from 70 neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in Germany. Survey data for our variables were collected from the unit's leading nurse and the leading physician, as well as from the unit's nursing and physician team members. Hypotheses testing at unit level was conducted using multivariate linear regression. RESULTS: Our analyses show that the extent to which nurse-physician co-leaders share goals covaries with safety climate in NICUs. This relationship is partially mediated by norms of interprofessional cooperation among NICU team members. Our final model accounts for 54% of the variability in safety climate of NICUs. CONCLUSION: Increasing the extent to which co-leaders share goals is an effective lever to strengthen interprofessional cooperation and foster a safety climate among nursing and physician team members of hospital units.

In der philosophischen Ethik wird unterschieden zwischen deskriptiver Ethik, normativer Ethik und Metaethik. In diesem Beitrag steht die normative Ethik im Mittelpunkt. Es soll die Frage erörtert werden, welche ethischen Kriterien für die Praxis von Beratung gelten sollten. Zu diesem Zweck werden zunächst beratungskritische Traditionen angeführt und im Anschluss professionsethische Überlegungen mit Rückgriff auf Impulse aus Foucaults Philosophie angestellt.