The Impact of Death Education on Fear of Death and Death Anxiety Among Human Services Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Searles McClatchey ◽  
Steve King
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Death Education ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Human Services Students ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Human Services Professionals ◽  
Do So

Human services professionals will undoubtedly work with the dying and bereaved populations at one time or other. Yet, they are poorly prepared to do so since death education, that is, lessons about the human and emotional aspects of death, its implications, and subsequent bereavement issues, is often not part of their curriculum. This nonequivalent comparison group study ( N = 86) examined death fear and death anxiety among human services students before and after receiving death education using the Multidimensional Fear of Death Scale. The results showed a statistically significant decrease in death anxiety among the group of students who participated in death education compared to those who did not.

scholarly journals Value Added Tax & Export: the Case of Selected Countries around the World

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 298-305
Author(s):  
Ahmad Jafari Samimi
Keyword(s):  
Value Added ◽  
Statistical Test ◽  
Annual Growth ◽  
Value Added Tax ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Do So

The purpose of the present paper is to compare the impact of implementing Value Added Tax on Export of goods and services in selected countries. In this paper, we used four different indices for export; export of goods and services, export of goods and services (BOP), export of goods and services (annual % growth), export of goods and services (% of GDP) to investigate the sensitivity to different definitions .To do so, study concentrated on a sample of 140 countries that have applied Value Added Tax in their tax system from 1990 to 2008. Findings of the study based on Mean Difference Statistical Test in a two threeyear periods before and after introduction of VAT. In general, the results show that, in different indices, the impact of VAT on export is positive. Therefore, it is suggested that other countries have not yet introduced the VAT to reform their tax system by introducing the VAT.

The Impact of Education and Death-Related Experiences on Rehabilitation Counselor Attitudes Toward Death and Dying

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Traci Haas-Thompson ◽  
Paul P. Alston ◽  
Don Holbert
Keyword(s):  
Death And Dying ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Death Education ◽  
Master's Degrees ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselor ◽  
Counselor Attitudes ◽  
The North ◽  
The Impact

This study examined whether rehabilitation counselor exposure to death education and personal death-related experiences were related to attitudes toward their own death and the dying of others. One hundred forty-eight rehabilitation counselors employed by the North Carolina Division of Vocational Rehabilitation completed the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale (FDS), and Death Depression Scale-Revised (DDS-R). The number of personal death experiences and exposure to death education were significantly related to less fear of death among participating counselors. Rehabilitation counselors with master's degrees also expressed less fear of death than those with bachelor degrees, perhaps related to grief and loss issues typically taught in the psychosocial aspects of disability classes.

Death Anxiety before and after Death Education: Negative Results

1980 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 513-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tricia McClam
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
Death Education ◽  
Negative Results ◽  
Before And After

A death education program did not lower death anxiety in 76 females and 15 males (aged 19 to 66 yr.) in health-care and helping professions over a 2-day workshop or 4 wk. later. Perhaps the program was not sufficiently experiential.

Attitudes Toward Aging and Death Anxiety: Aging and Death Class

1999 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Davis-Berman
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Course Development ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes Toward Aging ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Aging Class

Attitudes toward aging and fear of death were examined and compared before and after completion of a course on aging or a course on death and dying. Dramatic decreases in fear of death were observed in both classes at post-test. Despite the reduction in fear, the death class maintained negative attitudes toward aging. The aging class, however, managed to maintain positive attitudes toward older adults, while at the same time reducing death anxiety. Contradictions with the existing literature are discussed, and implications are presented for course development and implementation.

Back to schools: Human services workers increasing opportunities for early intervention and social inclusion from the school base

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Winkworth ◽  
Morag McArthur
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Outreach Workers ◽  
Vulnerable Families ◽  
Multiple Domains ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Human Services Professionals

This paper argues that Australia is lagging behind in recognising the important role social workers and other human services workers can play in schools to improve social and educational outcomes for students. It reports on a small, school-based, human services program, the Schools as Communities program, located in the Australian Capital Territory, and outlines key themes that emerged in interviews with principals and other school staff about the program's effectiveness. The program's outreach workers, who were mostly social workers, had a dual role working with individual families and facilitating community development initiatives of benefit to the school community. Case studies demonstrate how their presence contributed to earlier involvement and support of vulnerable families. They also illustrate that the school setting enabled social workers to work more effectively to build social inclusion in local communities. The paper argues the case for using a wider range of human services professionals from the school base and calls upon education and human services systems to create more effective governance arrangements to make this possible. An expansion of the traditional disciplinary base of education to incorporate social workers and other human services professionals who are skilled at working across multiple domains is essential if schools are to maximise the impact of early intervention and prevention in working towards a more socially inclusive society.

scholarly journals Resilience against the pandemic: The impact of COVID-19 on migration and household welfare in Tajikistan

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. e0257469
Author(s):  
Satoshi Shimizutani ◽  
Eiji Yamada
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Economic Outcomes ◽  
Household Welfare ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Sharp Decline ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Transitory Effect ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Do So

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have adverse effects on the economy through damage to migration and remittances. We use a unique monthly household panel dataset that covers the period both before and after the outbreak to examine the impacts of COVID-19 on a variety of household welfare outcomes in Tajikistan, where remittance inflows in recent years have exceeded a quarter of annual GDP. We provide several findings. First, after April 2020, the adverse effects of the pandemic on household welfare were significantly observed and were particularly pronounced in the second quarter of 2020. Second, in contrast to expectation, the pandemic had a sharp but only transitory effect on the stock of migrants working abroad in the spring. Some expected migrants were forced to remain in their home country during the border closures, while some incumbent migrants expecting to return were unable to do so and remained employed in their destination countries. Both departures and returns started to increase again from summer. Employment and remittances of the migrants quickly recovered to levels seen in previous years after a sharp decline in April and May. Third, regression analyses reveal that both migration and remittances have helped to mitigate the adverse economic outcomes at home during the “with-COVID-19” period, suggesting that they served as a form of insurance. Overall, the unfavorable effects of the COVID-19 pandemic were severe and temporary right after the outbreak, but households with migrants were more resilient against the pandemic.

scholarly journals Enhancing strategic planning through strategy instruction: the effect of two types of strategy instruction on learners’ oral planned performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
André Luís Specht ◽  
Raquel Carolina Souza Ferraz D'Ely
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Strategy Instruction ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Oral Performance ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
English Classes ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Speech Performance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Do So

This study aimed at investigating the impact of two types of strategy instruction on Brazilian learners’ planned speech performance at the level of complexity, accuracy, fluency, and adequacy. In order to do so, three groups participated in the present study: (1) the integrated group received strategy instruction during their regular English classes; (2) the isolated group received strategy instruction in a separate course; and (3) the control group received no strategy instruction. The groups also performed two narrative tasks before and after treatment, preceded by 10 minutes of strategic planning. Learners’ oral performance was analyzed and the statistical results showed that (i) the groups that received treatment outperformed the control group; and (ii) the isolated group produced more adequate and accurate speech, while the integrated groups improved their performance in terms of adequacy solely. In conclusion, one can claim that, in spite of the type of treatment, strategic planning can be enhanced by strategy instruction, shedding light on both Language Pedagogy and strategic planning research.

Strategic Role of Zakat in Multidimensional Quality of Life in Sijunjung, Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Herlin Hamimi ◽  
Abdul Ghafar Ismail ◽  
Muhammad Hasbi Zaenal
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Wealth Distribution ◽  
Absolute Poverty ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Status ◽  
Being There ◽  
The Impact

Zakat is one of the five pillars of Islam which has a function of faith, social and economic functions. Muslims who can pay zakat are required to give at least 2.5 per cent of their wealth. The problem of poverty prevalent in disadvantaged regions because of the difficulty of access to information and communication led to a gap that is so high in wealth and resources. The instrument of zakat provides a paradigm in the achievement of equitable wealth distribution and healthy circulation. Zakat potentially offers a better life and improves the quality of human being. There is a human quality improvement not only in economic terms but also in spiritual terms such as improving religiousity. This study aims to examine the role of zakat to alleviate humanitarian issues in disadvantaged regions such as Sijunjung, one of zakat beneficiaries and impoverished areas in Indonesia. The researcher attempted a Cibest method to capture the impact of zakat beneficiaries before and after becoming a member of Zakat Community Development (ZCD) Program in material and spiritual value. The overall analysis shows that zakat has a positive impact on disadvantaged regions development and enhance the quality of life of the community. There is an improvement in the average of mustahik household incomes after becoming a member of ZCD Program. Cibest model demonstrates that material, spiritual, and absolute poverty index decreased by 10, 5, and 6 per cent. Meanwhile, the welfare index is increased by 21 per cent. These findings have significant implications for developing the quality of life in disadvantaged regions in Sijunjung. Therefore, zakat is one of the instruments to change the status of disadvantaged areas to be equivalent to other areas.

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