As a typical phenomenon of the proliferation of human services in the welfare area, there is a long-term care insurance services office by the birth of long-term care insurance. Long-term care support specialists will need care management is engaged in the human services profession. And aid workers said to be more interpersonal easy to burn out due to occupational stress, even if the care manager, said in a working environment tends to encounter a stressful situation and feel. In this study, the Long-term care support specialists, to clarify in case of a stress-coping behavior and emotional time for the injured and their families who use the word, that aims to study its effectiveness. Regarding the relationship between Long-term care support specialists and principal support system should function as a care manager for the mental stress when challenged, to understand the current situation. In addition, the working environment for support measures to reduce the psychological stress of the Long-term care support specialists - Designated in-home long-term care support business, we examined the current situation and challenges. The result, "the stress of Long-term care support specialists addressed the situation" and "support system for the Long-term care support specialists" about 17 sub-categories were found, which were combined into six categories. According to the study, Long-term chief care support specialists has business experience psychological stress, there is a reality that can overcome the power of others to rent it for moral support for the Long-term chief care support specialists is Will not it be necessary to reconsider the principal business of Community general support center. And, as became clear in this study, for Mental stress support system of the Long-term chief care support specialists-Designated in-home Long-term care support business, and it has not taken any organization as an institution, it is critical to positive I have not considered the situation.

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Living as humans, we need to establish relationships with others, and it is not considered extraordinary that emotions and feeling of love would be caused in such relationships. Viewed in this light, we are required to recognize that the elderly has various ways of representing their emotions, and to secure their free expression of emotions in the elder assistance. Accordingly, care staff needs to understand emotions expressed by the elderly in an institution are caused by inner working of minds of persons concerned, and to consider the fact that their feeling of love gives various influence over the mind and reactions of the staff is the result of free self-expression of the elderly. Therefore, working out the assistance regarding the feeling of love mentioned above will enable us to avoid relationships with others which are apt to be unilateral in the institutional care, and will secure free self-expression of the elderly.

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In recent years, attention has been focused on support for persons with Asperger's Syndrome (AS). This report discusses materials prepared from studies of the culture of Comic Market (Comiket) which is one of the Otaku culture to help in preparing special support education environments for AS persons who have lost their sense of presence. Document research has shown that the system of the Comiket that is one of the Otaku culture may function as a place that AS sufferers who have problems related to theory of mind can easily rely on. In addition, it is thought that a series of circle activities may provide hints on how AS sufferers can regain a sense of presence. The author thinks that AS research into Otaku culture is very significant towards each individual AS sufferer regaining a sense of presence, participating in society and building human relations.

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The 17^<th> Japanese Association of Human Relations was held at Bunkyo University, Saitama, on 3^<rd> and 4^<th> of October 2009. Our main focus was to question whether or not we have forgotten or left behind something very important for human relations in our modern society, where we experience the abundance of material goods, the overload of information, and the conflicting views and advice. We collected our data from questionnaires filled in by participants at the Association. The participants were asked: "What are the things that may have been forgotten or overlooked in human relations?" This paper deals with the analysis of data from a) the everyday point of view b) the commercial point of view c) the clinical point of view c) the educational point of view, and d) the general point of view.

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