Trilingual women as language mediators in the family

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 25-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia Rubino
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Language Shift ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Language Abilities ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Communication Breakdown ◽  
Australian Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Everyday Communication

In the process of language shift from the immigrant languages to English, everyday communication within the family can become increasingly problematic due to strong divergences in the linguistic competences of the older and the younger generations. This article explores the process of language mediation between different generations, as it occurs within a Sicilian-Australian family belonging to the last wave of Italian mass immigration to Australia Through a corpus of spontaneous conversations, the study focuses on the role played by a second generation woman as a mediator within her family. The linguistic analysis shows that, in order to overcome communication breakdown, she makes full use of her competence in all three languages: Italian, Sicilian and English, and employs codeswitching extensively as a conversational strategy to accommodate participants with different language abilities. Furthermore, while she maintains Dialect as the language of the most inner family circle, she shifts to Italian as the more ‘learneable’ language that can contribute to cohesion in the extended family.

Cross-Generation Sexual Abuse Within the Extended Family

1970 ◽  
pp. 45-49
Author(s):  
Khawla Abu Baker
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Sexual Education ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
The Way

There are many signs indicating the presence of sexual abuse within a family. Yet, many factors stand in the way of the diagnosis and the prevention of that abuse. Among these factors are: parents’ psychological health, their sexual education, patriarchal authority, and authority of adults over children. Through the following example, namely Salam’s case (a victim of sexual abuse that started when she was three years old and lasted until 14 years of age), we would like to highlight the family’s role in the perpetuation of sexual abuse. In addition, we want to stress the extent to which sexual abuse affects the psychological health of the victim, as well as the necessity of a systematic therapeutic plan which includes individual, family and group therapeutic interventions to secure the rehabilitation of the victim and his/her family, ensures this phenomenon would not recur in the family and would not be transferred to the next generation.

Family influence on career decisions: perceptions of Latin American CEOs

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Rita Blanco ◽  
Mariela N. Golik
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Career Decisions ◽  
Family Factors ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Career Literature

PurposeThe career is a space where family and work lives amalgamate. The role of work for the individual, and the meaning of work within the culture, will determine the relevance of family. This study investigates CEOs' perception about conjugal family influence on career decisions, and it examines family factors.Design/methodology/approachThrough a qualitative study, 22 Latin American CEOs who work for multinational firms were interviewed in a semi-structured way.FindingsNot all career decisions were influenced by conjugal family. CEOs varied in the extent to which they considered their families when reflecting on their career decisions. Expatriation, joining or quitting an organization and change of area of work were found as those decisions perceived to be influenced by conjugal family. Family support, family structure and family demands and responsibilities were identified as the family factors involved. In spite of the role salience, family factors influenced some of CEOs' career decisions, in part, due to the cultural characteristics of the Latin American environment. The instrumental support of the extended family, as part of collectivist societies, was also evidenced.Practical implicationsA better understanding of the family influenced decisions and family factors involved may enhance individual career decision-making as well as organizational career management processes and public initiatives.Originality/valueThis study contributes to family and career literature, being the first one to explore the conjugal family influence upon CEOs' career decisions.

It's about Family: The Death of a Close Family Friend

2009 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Beder
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Entire System ◽  
The Family ◽  
Counseling Interventions ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Close Family

When an individual dies, the role of the family member(s) is clearly prescribed by society: support, presence, caring, and remembrance. Traditionally, the definition of “family” has broadened to create the “extended family” or “expanded family” with members defined by deep bonds, relationships, and friendships. Currently, close friends who become the extended/expanded family, can be as central as kin to family structure and stability. Therefore, when one member of an extended family dies, the death resonates throughout the entire system affecting not only the lives of the immediate family members, but also those in the expanded circle of family relationships. This article describes the relationships in one extended family and discusses the struggles and counseling interventions used when one member of an extended family suddenly dies.

scholarly journals A Systematic Approach to Spanish Neuropsychological Evaluation: Case Report with a Mexican Woman in an Outpatient Setting

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 1291-1291
Author(s):  
P Rivera ◽  
K Savage ◽  
A Ball
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
The United States ◽  
Test Construction ◽  
Outpatient Setting ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Neuropsychological Evaluation ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Mexican Woman ◽  
The Family

Abstract Objective The following case will demonstrate a systematic approach to neuropsychological evaluation with Spanish-speaking individuals, which includes creating a suitable test battery, interpreting results with appropriate normative samples, and incorporating personal history. Case Description 61-year-old, right-handed, Mexican female with 2 years of formal education, and with a recent history of subarachnoid hemorrhage with hydrocephalus. She was referred by her social worker and primary care provider to discern whether the reported cognitive complaints were due to a neurocognitive condition or depression. Diagnostic Impressions and Outcomes The evaluation was administered entirely in Spanish and some exams were modified to accommodate her limited literacy skills. She exhibited deficits in executive functioning, verbal fluency, and memory. Emotional testing revealed moderate depression with anxious distress, which she attributed to significant changes in everyday life. Her family informed us that she was the “matriarch of the family” and worked as a farm field truck driver, with significant difficulties/lack of engagement in both of these roles. Therefore, diagnoses of probable major vascular neurocognitive disorder and major depressive disorder with anxious distress were assigned. With this information, her providers were able to connect the family with community resources. Discussion The Hispanic population continues to be the fastest growing demographic in the United States. As more clinicians will work with members of this ethnicity in outpatient settings, it is important that they incorporate culturally-relevant factors in their approach to testing and interpretation of results. Nonetheless, this case demonstrates the current challenges and limitations, including modification of exams, differences in educational system that underlie test construction, and patient’s history. Recommendations for future areas of study and practice will also be discussed.

scholarly journals “Maybe English first and then Balinese and Bahasa Indonesia”: A case of language shift, attrition, and preference

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-99
Author(s):  
Siana Linda Bonafix ◽  
Christine Manara
Keyword(s):  
Family Background ◽  
Language Shift ◽  
Socioeconomic Factor ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Frequency Of Contact ◽  
The Family ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Depth Interviews

This small-scale qualitative study aims to explore the participants’ view of languages acquired, learned, and used in their family in an Indonesian context. The two participants were Indonesians who came from multilingual and mixed-cultural family background. The study explores three research questions: 1) What are the languages acquired (by the participants’ family members), co-existed, and/or shift in the family of the two speakers? 2) What factors affect the dynamicity of these languages? 3) How do the participants perceive their self-identity? The qualitative data were collected using semi-structured and in-depth interviews. The interviews were audio-taped and transcribed to be analyzed using thematic analysis. The study detects local language shift to Indonesian from one generation to the next in the participants’ family. The data also shows several factors for valorizing particular languages than the others. These factors include socioeconomic factor, education, frequency of contact, areas of upbringing (rural or urban) and attitude towards the language. The study also reveals that both participants identify their self-identity based on the place where they were born and grew up instead of their linguistic identity.

scholarly journals EVERYDAY LIFE OF UKRAINIAN NOBILITY IN 2 QUARTER OF 19 CENTURY: M. MARKEVYCH’S LETTER TO P. GALAGAN

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-92
Author(s):  
Maryna Budzar
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Everyday Communication

The publication of the document is devoted to the anniversaries of two well-known representatives of the Ukrainian elite of the 19th century — 200th anniversary of the birth of Hryhorii Pavlovych Galagan and the 215th anniversary of the birth of Mykola Andriiovych Markevych. Published letter depicts the serious events of the family history of Markevyches — the disease and the death of the father of historian Andrii Markevych. The text contains a detailed description of the events leading up to the event and the circumstances of the death of A. Markevych. The author addresses to Pavlo Galagan, who is the husband of his aunt (mother’s sister). He fully trusts this man. This leads to the frankness of the story. The text includes people from the immediate surroundings of related families of Markevyches — Galagans. This allows us to clarify the personal and psychological characteristics of individual representatives of the Markevyches family. We can notice from the text the remarkable details of the everyday life of the middle-income family of the beginning of the 19th century. We see the arrangement of everyday life, the traditions of everyday communication, the level of provision of medical aid, etc. The contents of the document reveals the attitude of the nobility Left Bank Ukraine to the problem of disease and death, to the ethics of family communication, to property and financial problems.

scholarly journals PENDIDIKAN AGAMA ISLAM INDONESIA SEBAGAI SUBSISTEM PENDIDIKAN NASIONAL

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masthu Mastuhu
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Family System ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Her Family ◽  
National Education ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Ideal

It is necessary for Islamic educational institutions to have the power of changing themselves to be able to take part in determining the ideal and success of national education. Precisely, today, Islamic educational sys­tem is perceived weak and powerless in the dynamic of social changes have been occurring in the society. Even, this situation, it is frequently assumed as the burden of national education. Why can it be so? Aren't Islamic educational providers are also referring to the only one Law, that is, Law Number 20 year 2003 regarding National Educational System? What is wrong with Islamic education ? How is the quality of human resources of these providers? This article tries to answer those questions. This article also deals with analogue of Islamic Education as a subsystem of national education with family system in Islam. Fam­ily is a system. Child is a subsystem of the family. The more the child is matured and independent the better his/her family is.

scholarly journals Psychoeducation as an element of psychosocial interventions in a complex system of medic-psychological support for a family, where a patient with endogenous mental disorder lives

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Paranoid Schizophrenia ◽  
Psychosocial Interventions ◽  
Psychological Support ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Family

The biopsychosocial model of therapy for endogenous mental disorders involves a flexible combination of psychopharmacotherapy with psychosocial interventions. Psychoeducation is one of the most important components of psychosocial interventions in a multifaceted system of psychosocial rehabilitation. The primary task of psychoeducation is to provide patients and their family caregivers with realistic knowledge about mental disorder, on the basis of which the patient and his or her family members can get more control over the symptoms of the disease. The aim of our work was from the standpoint of a systematic approach, based on the study of clinical and psychological manifestations and risk factors for the development of pathological functioning in a family, where a patient with endogenous mental disorder lives, to develop, substantiate scientifically and introduce a psychoeducational module as an element of psychosocial interventions in complex system of medical -psychological support. To achieve this goal, according to the principles of bioethics and medical deontology, a comprehensive examination of 243 patients with endogenous mental disorders (168 patients with paranoid schizophrenia, 75 patients with affective disorders) and 243 family caregivers was performed. The work was done in three stages: during the the first stage we examined patients and their family caregivers. During the second stage, an in-depth study of psycho-emotional, individual-psychological, interpersonal-communicative and psychosocial predictors of reducing the adaptive capacity of the family was performed. The third stage included scientific substantiation, development and implementation of an appropriate comprehensive system of medical and psychological support for the families, based on the analysis of data obtained during the previous stages. The proposed system of medical and psychological support has shown its effectiveness in improving the adaptive capacity of the family, where patients with endogenous mental disorders live, and can be recommended for further implementation in appropriate medical institutions.

scholarly journals SUBJECTS OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL SUPPORT IDENTIFICATION OF CHILDREN SEPARATED WITH FAMILY IN UKRAINE

2020 ◽  
pp. 205-210
Author(s):  
А. М. Мамульчик
Keyword(s):  
Parental Care ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Refugee Status ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Additional Protection ◽  
The Status

The relevance of the article is that the granting of special status «child divorced from the family» in the Ukrainian legislation includes three aspects: 1) identification of a person who is a child separated from the family; 2) granting the status of «child deprived of parental care»; 3) it is possible to grant the status of “refugee” or “person in need of additional protection”, as any person recognized as a child divorced from a family is recognized as a child deprived of parental care and can apply for asylum in Ukraine (and receive refugee status or a person in need of additional protection). Each of the identified aspects of the above status is the responsibility of certain public authorities, ie public administration entities, which are endowed with the appropriate powers. The purpose of the article is to identify the subjects of administrative and legal support for the identification of children separated from their families, ie the subjects of public administration, which are empowered to identify such children in Ukraine. It was found that in fact, the identification of a child separated from the family at the present stage in Ukraine does not belong to the responsibilities of public administration, but is the responsibility of the child who was forced to leave the country of origin or residence and arrived in the territory of Ukraine unaccompanied by a family member or persons determined by law/custom who are responsible for such a person, or who were left unaccompanied after arriving on the territory of Ukraine, or its legal representatives. In our opinion, the absence in the legal acts that determine the legal status of public administration entities, whose activities include the identification of children separated from their families, their obligation to identify such children is a shortcoming of administrative and legal support for child status. , separated from her family, in Ukraine. It is determined that the subjects of public administration, which have the authority to identify children separated from their families, include the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, executive authorities, local governments, the National Police of Ukraine, the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine.

scholarly journals Pułapka współuzależnienia w rodzinie z problemem alkoholowym

2016 ◽  
pp. 141-159
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Błaszczuk
Keyword(s):  
Adult Life ◽  
Family Intervention ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Drinking Problem ◽  
Significant Damage ◽  
The Family ◽  
Lack Of Control ◽  
Family Level

A family faced with alcohol de­pendence of its member most often does not take any action to solve the problem. This is mainly due to the lack of knowl­edge about co ­dependency of all people living under one roof with the addict. The spouse/partner as well as children of the addicted individual feel shame as they are blamed by the person abusing alcohol for the situation, and that hin­ders or cripples any attempts to solve the problem. Times of drinking and associat­ed fighting, aggression and violence are interspersed with “honeymoon ­like pe­riods”, so family members are convinced that one day the addiction will end and “things will somehow turn out right”. It is not only the drinking person but also his/her closest relatives who deny there is a problem if the fact is pointed out and confirmed by anyone outside the family. Despite the suffering and damage caused by the lack of the drinking person’s con­cern for his/her family as well as his/her absence and disengagement from the daily routines, the spouse/partner and the children put on “masks” and claim there is no problem. The greatest trag­edy of children living in a family with a drinking problem is the fact that, with­out being aware of it, they continue to play the same roles in their adult life, as ACA. An addicted person may de­cide to stop drinking only if they admit full responsibility for the effects of their own lack of control over drinking which leads to significant damage on a person­al and family level, exposing everyone to suffering and harm. Of great impor­tance in motivating an alcoholic to re­main sober is a short family intervention during a meeting in a group of people significant for the addict. The essence of co ­dependency may be explained using a case study showing the attempts made by a wife trying to justify behaviours of her husband who abuses alcohol.

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