Introduction to the Forum on Cluttering: Rays of Hope Shine Around the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1566-1567
Author(s):  
Isabella Reichel
Keyword(s):  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Joint Effort ◽  
Feedback Training ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The World ◽  
Common Thread ◽  
Evidence Based Treatments ◽  
Attention Performance ◽  
Self Help Groups

Purpose In the 10 years since the International Cluttering Association (ICA) was created, this organization has been growing in the scope of its initiatives, and in the variety of resources it makes available for people with cluttering (PWC). However, the awareness of this disorder and of the methods for its intervention remain limited in countries around the world. A celebration of the multinational and multicultural engagements of the ICA's Committee of the International Representatives is a common thread running through all the articles in this forum. The first article is a joint effort among international representatives from five continents and 15 countries, exploring various themes related to cluttering, such as awareness, research, professional preparation, intervention, and self-help groups. The second article, by Elizabeth Gosselin and David Ward, investigates attention performance in PWC. In the third article, Yvonne van Zaalen and Isabella Reichel explain how audiovisual feedback training can improve the monitoring skills of PWC, with both quantitative and qualitative benefits in cognitive, emotional, and social domains of communication. In the final article, Hilda Sønsterud examines whether the working alliance between the client and clinician may predict a successful cluttering therapy outcome. Conclusions Authors of this forum exchanged their expertise, creativity, and passion with the goal of solving the mystery of the disconcerting cluttering disorder with the hope that all PWC around the globe will have access to the most effective evidence-based treatments leading to blissful and successful communication.

Role of Self Help Groups A Study with Specific Reference to Vellore District

GIS Business ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 243-252
Author(s):  
Dr. M.A. Bilal Ahmed ◽  
Dr. S. Thameemul Ansari
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Role ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Self Help Groups

SHG is a movement which came to being in the early 1969. Prof. Muhammed Younus, a great economist of Bangladesh took initiative in setting up Self Help Groups and these SHGs were gradually spread all over the world. This social movement unites the people hailing from poor background. Those who are joining this group feel socially and economically responsible to one another. In India, there are some likeminded bodies and stakeholders of some government organizations play pivotal role towards the formation of SHG In this research article, role of SHGs in Vellore district is studies under the three dimensions of Cognitive role, leadership role and role towards entrepreneurship.

A Decade of Collaboration Among International Representatives of the International Cluttering Association

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1573-1580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella Reichel ◽  
Grace Ademola-Sakoya ◽  
Véronique Aumont Boucand ◽  
Judit Bona ◽  
Jaqueline Carmona ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
Global Engagement ◽  
The World ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
North And South ◽  
Speech Therapists

Purpose This article presents a collaborative initiative of members of the Committee of the International Representatives of the International Cluttering Association (ICA) upon celebrating the 10th anniversary of the ICA. Such collaborative efforts are designed to improve communication skills, enlighten lives of people with cluttering, and serve as models for speech therapists and other health care professionals in countries around the globe. Method This initiative began with a seminar at the Inaugural Joint World Congress in Japan in 2018 and continues with an article for this special issue on cluttering based on the contents of the papers presented at the Congress. Sixteen researchers and speech therapists from 15 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe (East and West), America (North and South), and the Middle East have explored the following themes related to cluttering: cluttering awareness, research, professional preparation, intervention, and self-help groups. Results This article adds to the body of international literature on cluttering and illustrates that, for the past 10 years, hypothesis-testing research in cluttering continues to be conducted across language barriers and national boundaries, and interventions that are implemented in some locales are being tested and taught in other parts of the world; furthermore, new cluttering treatments are being disseminated for professional preparation and clinical practices. Conclusions This article demonstrates how global engagement of the ICA's international representatives has led to the exchange of ideas about awareness of cluttering and professional preparation and the best strategies for the treatment of this communication disorder in countries around the world.

An Analysis of Poverty and Inequality Among the Members of SHGs in West Bengal, India

2019 ◽  
pp. 226-246
Author(s):  
Santanu Bisai ◽  
Debashis Mazumdar
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Poverty Trap ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Distribution Of Income

Economic development in the truest sense remains far from the development targets and millennium development goals in many less developed and developing countries of the world particularly because of the perennial problems of poverty and inequality in the distribution of income and wealth. The trajectory of planned economic development of India has also experienced the said problem. One of the escape routes for the poverty trap particularly in the rural areas of India has been the formation of self-help groups (SHGs) and the provision of microfinance to the SHGs. The present study tries to analyze the intensity of poverty and inequality among the rural households of some of the backward regions of West Bengal. This study indicates that the incidence of poverty remains less among the SHG members in comparison with the non-SHG households in both drought prone and non-drought prone areas of rural West Bengal. Further, the inequalities in the distribution of income and expenditure among the SHG members are also found to be more prominent in non-drought prone areas compared to drought prone areas.

Self-Help Groups and Organizations

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven P. Segal
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
The Self ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Mutual Assistance ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Informal Groups

Self-help groups facilitate mutual assistance. They offer a vehicle for people with a common problem to gain support and recognition, obtain information on, advocate on behalf of, address issues associated with, and take control of the circumstances that bring about, perpetuate, and provide solutions to their shared concern. Self-help groups may be small informal groups, confined to interactive support for their members, or differentiated and structured multiservice agencies. In the latter case, they are recognized in the self-help community as mutual assistance organizations, as distinct from professionally led organizations, when they are directed and staffed by “self-helpers” and when these self-helpers are well represented as board members and have the right to hire and fire professionals in the organization. Self-help groups and organizations empower members through shared example and modeled success. Spread throughout the world they are a major resource to social workers seeking to help their clients to help themselves.

The Internet as a space for Anonymous Alcoholics self-help groups to operate during the Covid-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
Marek Dudkiewicz ◽  
Beata Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Virtual Communication ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The World ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Social Demographic ◽  
Regular Contact

The pandemic situation both in Poland and in the world, caused by SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19), has a serious impact on most social, demographic and economic processes. Lack of social activity, including interpersonal communication, participation in public and professional life is one of the main causes of mental and emotional state deterioration of people in countries affected by the virus infection. The situation may turn out to be particularly acute for people struggling with addictions. During the process of recovery of non-drinking alcoholics, the regular contact with a group and the ability to seek help from each member of a group are essential. Due to the pandemic meetings of Anonymous Alcoholics and other therapeutic groups have been suspended throughout the country until further notice. Virtual communication (using technology solutions) during a pandemic appears to be the only alternative to traditional face-to-face communication, and online self-help groups are the only option of participation. Questions arise: whether and to what extent a group operating online is able to compensate for meetings of groups operating in the real world. The study on the functioning of AA groups during the COVID-19 pandemic (or more precisely - in the first months of the pandemic) was carried out by using the quantitative method on a sample group of 225 respondents. The results are presented in the article below.

scholarly journals Study of Role of Financial Institution in Financial Inclusion

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Ishan Khatri ◽  
Prarthana Fabyani ◽  
Chehak Rajgarhia ◽  
Sejal Murarka
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Financial Institution ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Reserve Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Reserve Bank Of India

India is one of the largest growing economies in the world. Financial inclusion is providing financial services at an affordable rate to all people. It comes into existence in the year 1950 establishment of Reserve Bank of India. There are various incentives which have been undertaken to increase financial inclusion in India. With the nationalization of commercial banks. And the formation of NABARD Self-help Groups and Kisan credit bank. After 2000, the schemes like Swavalamban swabhiman have been launched to increase its role. The schemes by government of India like PMJDY and Startup India schemes. Financial inclusion helps in forming cashless economy and increase capital formation and increase economic growth of the country. It provides business and growth opportunities to the Intermediaries. This system also provides affordable services to the poor and played a vital role in improving country financial services.

Frontiers of Cluttering Across Continents: Research, Clinical Practices, Self-Help, and Professional Preparation

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella K. Reichel ◽  
Grace Ademola-Sokoya ◽  
Mehdi Bakhtiar ◽  
Helen Barrett ◽  
Judit Bona ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
South America ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Cultures

This article features contributions of 15 young and experienced researchers and clinicians from 12 countries from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, South America, and North America. The growing fascination with cluttering continues to spread around the world, in a spirit of being open-minded to the ideas of colleagues from different cultures, languages, and streams of thought. The following topics discussed are believed to be of interest to consumers, practitioners, and researchers: conceptual and theoretical aspects of cluttering, awareness, and understanding of cluttering across countries and continents, professional preparation in cluttering, assessment, treatment, and support groups.

Empowering Women and Families through Self Help Groups

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keitseope Nthomang ◽  
Dorothy Tlagae
Keyword(s):  
Poor People ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
The World ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Empowerment Model ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Competent Self

The situation of women across the world is a concern for governments, donors, academics and development practitioners who have observed on-going disempowerment of women in the process of development. While much is known about women's level of disempowerment, little is known about relevant empowerment models and practical responses to address the challenges they face including feminization of poverty and gender inequalities. Project Concern International-Botswana (PCI) is implementing one empowerment model known as the Grass-Root building Our Wealth (GROW) model. The objective of this chapter is to share the experiences of poor women in Botswana who are currently using the GROW model to transform their lives. The model's vision is to build capacity of the poor into competent self-reliant individuals who will grow in confidence and seek to broaden their horizons. The task of the GROW model is to help poor people realize their potential and to take action by implementing plans that turn their empowerment dreams into reality.

Microfinance

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajib Bhattacharyya
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Integrated Network ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Positive Growth ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban India ◽  
Self Help Groups

In India, microfinance, dominated by Self Help Groups (SHGs), has provided an effective mechanism for providing financial services to the “unreached poor”, and also in strengthening underprivileged and discriminated women in the society and thus significantly contributing to gender equality and women empowerment. The present chapter attempts to analyze the concept of women empowerment and its various indices such as GDI, GEM, and Women's Empowerment Index (WEI) in detail for India. The chapter explores the linkage between the role of microfinance and the empowerment of women in rural and urban India. The study reveals that though micro finance is supposed to provide an effective tool for financial and social upliftment of the poorer sections of the society, particularly women, but its penetration depends on a multifaceted and integrated network and so both the self-help bank model and the MFI model may have achieved some positive growth, but their performances are not quite deterministic when compared with other countries of the world.

scholarly journals Financial inclusion: a tool for socio- economic development

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-238
Author(s):  
Bhushan Singh ◽  
Sandeep Singh
Keyword(s):  
Universal Access ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Bank Account ◽  
Banking Services ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Reserve Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Reserve Bank Of India

Financial inclusion is one of the buzz-words in the development circles lately.It is also one of the major challenges throughout the world today and every government is taking different measures to make this dream come true. Various initiatives were taken up by Reserve Bank of India(RBI)/Government of India(GOI) like nationalization of banks, expansion of bank branch network, establishment & expansion of cooperative and Regional Rural Banks (RRBs), leadbank schemes, formation of Self Help Groups(SHGs), Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs) and Business correspondent model etc.in order to ensure financial inclusion. Besides all these initiativesas per census, 2011, out of 24.67 crore household in the country, only 14.48 crore (58.7%) households had access to organized banking services. To remove this disparity,government launched Pardhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna(PMJDY)with the objective to ensure universal access to banking facility with at least one basic bank account for every household.Government has successfully opened more than 12.5crore bank account throughvarious banks and mobilized more than INR10,000 crore deposits up to January, 2015. In this context, this paper is an attempt to study the current trends in financial inclusion in India with special reference to PMJDY.

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