scholarly journals Leisure and youth clubs’ work with young people of ethnic minority background living in socially deprived housing areas: creating processes of hope and empowerment through social pedagogical work

Author(s):  
Kirsten Elisa Petersen

This article gives an analysis of social pedagogical work in leisure and youth clubs, physically located in so-called socially deprived housing areas in Denmark. The pedagogical work is especially aimed at young boys of ethnic minority background. The article draws on empirical research from a project exploring leisure and youth clubs’ impact on children and young people’s well-being and opportunities for development when growing up in socially deprived housing areas. The social pedagogical work seems very closely related to societal issues moving into the pedagogical everyday life of the leisure and youth clubs. These clubs, besides embracing the children and young people’s active leisure life in communities with other children and young people, are thus also instrumental in helping and supporting the children and young people to cope with an everyday life that features experiences of stigmatising and inequality-shaped living conditions. The social pedagogical work is analysed from the perspectives of the pedagogues and young people, taking their point of view to what seems particularly significant to the well-being and development of the young people based on Scandinavian-German critical psychology. This is integrated with Paulo Freire’s notion of hope and empowerment, which is the analytical framework within the context of social pedagogical work concerned with how the young men develop belief in themselves for them to complete their education, get a job in after-school hours and refrain from involvement in crime and gang-related communities.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiran Thabrew ◽  
Christa Fouché ◽  
Laura Ann Chubb ◽  
Stacey Yates ◽  
Harshali Kumar ◽  
...  

BACKGROUND Hospitalized children and young people can feel disconnected from their peers and families, which can in turn predispose them to psychological problems including anxiety and depression. Immersive Reality Experiences (IRE) technology, recently developed by the New Zealand Patience Project Charitable Trust may help to overcome these issues. IRE technology uses immersive 360-degree live-streaming and a virtual reality (VR) headset to enable hospitalized children and young people to connect with cameras located in either their school or home environment. OBJECTIVE This trial was undertaken to 1) quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of IRE technology in reducing social isolation and improving social connectedness and wellbeing using validated outcome measures and 2) expand qualitative findings from a previous smaller ‘proof of concept’ trial to ascertain the views of hospitalized New Zealand children and young people, their caregivers and teachers regarding IRE technology. METHODS An open trial of IRE technology was conducted between December 2019 and December 2020 and included 19 New Zealand children and young people aged 13-18, who had been hospitalized at Starship Hospital, a specialist pediatric hospital in Auckland, for at least 2-weeks. All participants completed the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS), an abbreviated version of the Social Connectedness Scale (SCS) and the Social Inclusion Scale (SIS) and at baseline. Ten participants used IRE technology as often as they wished over a 6-week period and completed post-intervention measures. Semi-structured interviews with a subset of participants, caregivers and teachers were conducted immediately post-intervention. RESULTS Participants reported improvements in social inclusion (mean change 3.9, SD 2.8, p 0.057), social connectedness (mean change 14.2, SD 10.0, p 0.002) and well-being (mean change 5.7, SD 4.0, p 0.003). Key themes from interviews with participants, caregivers and teachers were: the importance of support for using IRE technology, connecting vs connectedness, choice and connection, and the value of setting it up and getting it right. A number of recommendations for improving connectedness via IRE and related technology were also provided. CONCLUSIONS IRE technology can improve the social inclusion, social connectedness and well-being of hospitalized New Zealand children and young people. With some technological modifications and simplified implementation, IRE technology could become part of standard care and support hospitalized children and young people in New Zealand and elsewhere to sustain family and peer cohesion, experience fewer psychological problems and more easily return to normal life following completion of treatment. CLINICALTRIAL This study has been registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Network Registry: ACTRN12619000252112p


Author(s):  
Hudimova A.Kh.

Social media is an integral part of everyone’s life, meeting the needs of belonging and relaxation. Dur-ing the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for socialization increases, as a result of which the degree of user involvement increases. Thepur-poseoftheresearch was to theoretically substantiate the results of an empirical study of the relationship between the social media use and the psychological well-being of users (N = 516) in everyday life and dur-ing a global pandemic. Methods: standardized valid psychodiagnostic methods, author’s questionnaire, correlation and factor analyzes. Results: The research allowed to establish the following individual charac-teristics of the behavior of young users in social media in different life circumstances. One of the research hypotheses was the assumption that by limiting the ability to communicate and meet with friends and relatives during self-isolation, the share of vir-tual communication will increase. During quarantine, young people, as in everyday life, prefer to watch a vari-ety of videos and read posts, i.e. passive use, rather than communication. Spending time on various social media applications is a kind of coping strategy, which becomes a trigger for the formation of social media dis-order. Due to the uncontrolled social media use during the period of self-isolation, young people face changes in sleep, mostly dysomnia. Excessive involvement in the social media increases during quarantine, leading to insomnia. Paired correlation coefficients of the sub-jects’ complaints about “Negative changes in sleep” have 16 highly reliable relationships in the range from r = .156 to r = .444 or ρ ≤ .015 – .0000. Conclusions:The lack of hygienic and controlled spending time on social media in everyday life and during self-isolation provokes an exacerbation of anxiety, apathy, depressed mood and a sense of isolation from society. The desire of young people to endure forced isolation without negative experiences leads to excessive online involve-ment.Keyw ords:psychological well-being, passive use of social media, social media disorder, COVID-19, behavioral patterns, mental health, isolation. Соціальні мережі є невід’ємною складовою життя кожної людини, забезпечуючи задоволення потреб у приналежності та релаксації. У період прогресування пандемії COVID-19 необхідність у соціалізації зростає, внаслідок чого підвищується ступінь залученості користувачів. Мета: теоретично обґрунтувати отримані результати емпіричного дослідження зв’язку типу використання соцмереж з психологічним благополуччям користувачів (N = 516) у звичайному житті та в умовах всесвітньоїпандемії.Мет оди:стандартизовані валідні психодіагностичні методики, авторська анкета, кореляційний та факторний аналізи. Результати: Проведене дослідження дозволило встановити наступні індивідуальні особливості поведінки юних користувачів у соціальних мережах у різних життєвих обставинах. Однією з дослідницьких гіпотез було припущення, що через обмеження можливості спілкуватися та зустрічатися з друзями та близь-кими у період самоізоляції, збільшиться частка віртуальної комунікації. За час карантину юнаки, як і в звичайному житті, віддають перевагу перегляду різноманітних відео-роликів та читанню постів, тобто пасивному використанню, ніж спілкуванню. Проведення часу за різними додатками соцмереж є своєрідною копінг-стратегією, що стає тригером формування соціально-мережевого розладу. Внас-лідок неконтрольованого використання соцмереж в період самоізоляції юнаки наражаються на зміни сну, переважно дисомнію. Під час карантину надмірна залученість у соцмережі збільшується, призводячи до безсоння. Парні коефіцієнти кореляції скарг досліджуваних на “Негативні зміни сну” мають 16 високо достовірних зв’язків у діапазоні від r = .156 до r = .444 або ρ ≤ .015 – .0000. Висновки:Відсутність гігієнічного та контрольованого проведення часу у соцмережах у звичайному житті та під час самоізоляціїпровокує загострення тривоги, апатії, пригніченого настрою та відчуття відірваності від соціуму. Прагнення юнаків перенести вимушену ізоляцію без негативних переживань призводить до надмірної онлайн-залученості.Ключовіслова:психологічне благополуччя, пасивне використання соцмереж, соцмережевий розлад, психічне здоров’я, ізоляція.


2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Stoddart

The Scottish Parliament’s ‘Children and Young People’ Bill has extended statutory responsibilities for the welfare of children to include their well-being. This article focuses on the ‘named person’ service, arguing that an attenuated understanding of surveillance by politicians and other stakeholders has contributed to a failure to adequately consider the social control dimensions of this new universal provision.


2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH SUCH ◽  
ROBERT WALKER

Rights and responsibilities lie at the heart of New Labour's social policies. Children and young people present a challenge to the social contractual model of responsibility evident in policy spheres. Government is torn between the notion that children are dependent on parents for well-being, and the idea that individuals should take responsibility for their own actions. The article examines the problem of childhood in social policy through an examination of the conflicting messages emerging out of family policy and anti-social behaviour policies. Policy discourses are then critically evaluated with reference to a qualitative study of children's ideas about responsibility. The authors suggest that policies relating to children can learn from children's private experience of responsibility in the home, and from the complex and rich ways in which children understand the moral and relational components of responsibility.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elvira Perez Vallejos ◽  
Liz Dowthwaite ◽  
Helen Creswich ◽  
Virginia Portillo ◽  
Ansgar Koene ◽  
...  

BACKGROUND Algorithms rule the online environments and are essential for performing data processing, filtering, personalisation and other tasks. Research has shown that children and young people make up a significant proportion of Internet users, however little attention has been given to their experiences of algorithmically-mediated online platforms, or the impact of them on their mental health and well-being. The algorithms that govern online platforms are often obfuscated by a lack of transparency in their online Terms and Conditions and user agreements. This lack of transparency speaks to the need for protecting the most vulnerable users from potential online harms. OBJECTIVE To capture young people's experiences when being online and perceived impact on their well-being. METHODS In this paper, we draw on qualitative and quantitative data from a total of 260 children and young people who took part in a ‘Youth Jury’ to bring their opinions to the forefront, elicit discussion of their experiences of using online platforms, and perceived psychosocial impact on users. RESULTS The results of the study revealed the young people’s positive as well as negative experiences of using online platforms. Benefits such as being convenient and providing entertainment and personalised search results were identified. However, the data also reveals participants’ concerns for their privacy, safety and trust when online, which can have a significant impact on their well-being. CONCLUSIONS We conclude by making recommendations that online platforms acknowledge and enact on their responsibility to protect the privacy of their young users, recognising the significant developmental milestones that this group experience during these early years, and the impact that technology may have on them. We argue that governments need to incorporate policies that require technologists and others to embed the safeguarding of users’ well-being within the core of the design of Internet products and services to improve the user experiences and psychological well-being of all, but especially those of children and young people. CLINICALTRIAL N/A


2021 ◽  
pp. 026921632097603
Author(s):  
Anna Roach ◽  
Debbie Braybrook ◽  
Steve Marshall

Background: The importance of actively involving patient and public members throughout the different stages of palliative care and health research projects is widely acknowledged, however patient and public involvement work rarely considers insight from children and young people. Although this is becoming increasingly recognised in other areas of research, there is currently no structured guidance on how to best involve children and young people in palliative care research. Aim: To plan and deliver a Young People’s Advisory Group in palliative care and health research at a secondary school. Findings: Attending an after-school ‘Health and Social Research Methods Club’ for 11 weeks benefitted children and researchers. Children were taught about data collection methods, data analysis and ethics in health research and used these skills to provide valuable feedback which has been implemented in current palliative care research projects. Children took part in considered discussions around palliative care topics and enjoyed attending the group. Conclusion: This project has equipped researchers with skills and provided a structured template for future Young People’s Advisory Groups, ensuring the unique voices of children and young people are considered and valued in future palliative care research.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document