scholarly journals Cultivating Empathy and Community for Adults with Disabilities: Germany’s “Die Lebensgemeinschaft e. V.” of Sassen and Richthof

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-31
Author(s):  
Nicolas Gedigk
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Adults With Disabilities ◽  
Mentally Disabled ◽  
Sense Of Purpose ◽  
Personal Community ◽  
Disabled Adults

Sassen, a German rural community, cares for mentally disabled adults with the purpose of providing them with the empathy, freedom, and community that other institutions often fail to provide. Through participant-observation and interviews, this study examines the ways in which this isolated community does not deny disabled individuals of their humanity. Sassen has full-time, live-in caretakers that care for their own surrogate family of disabled residents, creating an empathetic, and personal community. Through its isolation from society and its live-in staff, Sassen goes beyond ensuring their residents’ survival and provides them with the freedom and empathy to engage in romantic relationships, belong to a family, and have a sense of purpose through their jobs that help sustain their community – to live and not just survive.

A Comparative Study on the Understanding and Expression of Pictograms by Mentally Disabled Adults

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
Wha Soo Kim ◽  
Ji Woo Lee ◽  
Ha Neul Kim ◽  
Su Jin Park ◽  
Jung Ok Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Mentally Disabled ◽  
Disabled Adults

scholarly journals El rol de Emiliano como mediador: prácticas organizativas de los campesinos en los proyectos estatales

2018 ◽  
pp. 157-173
Author(s):  
Jimena Ramos Berrondo
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Organizational Practices ◽  
North East ◽  
Productive Activities ◽  
State Agents ◽  
State Projects ◽  
Depth Interviews

  El objetivo de este artículo es analizar en qué consiste el rol del dirigente de la Corriente Campesina Nacional (COCAN) como mediador de las estructuras de poder del Estado y los criollos del Impenetrable (una región localizada en la provincia del Chaco, noreste de Argentina) durante el periodo 2012-2015. Se aplica una metodología cualitativa, que consistió en observación participante y entrevistas en profundidad. Se concluye que la COCAN lleva a cabo múltiples prácticas organizativas para resolver las problemáticas de las poblaciones rurales: implementación y gestión de proyectos estatales, negociaciones con autoridades políticas y promoción de actividades culturales y productivas.  Abstract The aim of this article is to analyze the role of the leader of the “Corriente Campesina Nacional” (COCAN) as a mediator between state agents and the “criollo” population in the “Impenetrable” (a region located in Chaco, north east of Argentina) during the period 2012-2015. A qualitative methodology is applied, using participant observation and in-depth interviews. The article concludes that the COCAN uses diverse organizational practices to solve rural community problems: implementation and management of state projects, negotiations with political authorities and promotion of cultural and productive activities.  

Intimate Relationships of People With Disabilities

Inclusion ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carli Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Internalized Stigma ◽  
Adults With Disabilities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Outcomes ◽  
Self Acceptance

Abstract Despite the difficulties people with disabilities may have garnering intimate relationships, intimate relationships may be particularly beneficial for people with disabilities as they result in greater self-acceptance, less internalized stigma, and more camaraderie. The aim of this study was to explore the intimate relationships of adults with disabilities (n = 1,443) in its many forms (from intimate friendships to romantic relationships). We particularly explored what factors increased the odds of adults with disabilities having intimate relationships, what supports resulted in increased likeliness to have intimate relationships, and what factors resulted in the presence of favorable intimate relationship outcomes. Our analysis revealed service organizations are key to enhancing the social and intimate relationships of adults with disabilities.

How Knowledge of the Golden Jackal (Canis aureus) is Formed: Report from the Danube Delta

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 665-691
Author(s):  
Mihnea Tănăsescu ◽  
tefan Constantinescu
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Wildlife Monitoring ◽  
Golden Jackal ◽  
Danube Delta ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Canis Aureus ◽  
Negative View ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Future Management

This paper analyses the ways in which human knowledge of the golden jackal (Canis aureus) is formed in the case of a rural community of the Romanian Danube Delta. We focus on the territory where humans and jackals overlap and, by using wildlife monitoring alongside interviews and participant observation with humans, we detail how villagers come to have a particularly negative view of this resident canid. Foregrounding the jackal's highly symbolic nature, we trace the development of the community's knowledge of this animal via historical, ecological and geographical factors. Finally, we recommend ways in which our findings could be used in future management plans and draw out the implications for future rewilding practices.

scholarly journals NICU Culture of Care for Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: A Focused Ethnography

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 287-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Marie Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Routine Care ◽  
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Abstinence Syndrome ◽  
Focused Ethnography ◽  
Comfort Care ◽  
Culture Of Care ◽  
Making A Difference

AbstractPurpose: The purpose of this focused ethnography was to describe the culture of care and nonpharmacologic nursing interventions performed by NICU nurses for infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS).Method: Roper and Shapira’s1 framework for the analysis included participant observation, individual interviews, and examination of existing documents.Sample: Twelve full-time nurses were observed and interviewed.Results: Results described the culture of care provided to infants with NAS by NICU nurses as evidenced by six themes: learn the baby (routine care, comfort care, environment, adequate rest and sleep, feeding), core team relationships (support, interpersonal relationships), role satisfaction (nurturer/comforter, becoming an expert), grief, making a difference (wonderful insanity, critical to them), and education and care of the mother.

Ketamine Sedation in Mentally Disabled Adults

1999 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven M. Green ◽  
Steven G. Rothrock ◽  
Rodney Hestdalen ◽  
Matthew Ho ◽  
Elizabeth L. Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Disabled ◽  
Disabled Adults

Treating Disabled Adults as Children

Respect ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 270-288
Author(s):  
Adam Cureton
Keyword(s):  
Decision Makers ◽  
Adults With Disabilities ◽  
Basic Rights ◽  
As If ◽  
Disabled Adults

Adam Cureton points out that the intuitively plausible claim that it is disrespectful to treat mentally competent adults as if they were children gives rise to a puzzle, within a Kantian framework. It seems possible to fulfill basic Kantian duties of respect toward adults with disabilities (respecting their basic rights, for example, and recognizing their intrinsic worth), while still treating them like children. So how is it disrespectful to offer unwanted paternalistic assistance to a disabled person, or to speak to her condescendingly, if one is otherwise treating her as an end in herself? Cureton answers that Kant not only describes duties of respect toward rational beings in general, but also says that specific forms of respectful treatment are appropriate for particular people because of their situation or station. Cureton proposes that treating disabled adults like children typically involves miscategorizing their “station” of being competent adult decision makers.

Nutrient and Carotenoid Intakes and Dietary Habits in Mentally Disabled Adults

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 208
Author(s):  
Mi Yeon Ahn ◽  
Hwang woon Moon ◽  
Hae Yun Chung ◽  
Yoo Kyoung Park
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Mentally Disabled ◽  
Disabled Adults

scholarly journals A Menstruating Taboo is Structuring and Shaping the Human Behavior in the Harvesting of Medicinal Plants in a Semiarid Landscape in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Izaquiel Alves de Siqueira ◽  
Jorge Izaquiel Alves de Siqueira ◽  
Luci de Senna-Valle ◽  
Edna Maria Ferreira Chaves ◽  
Jesus Rodrigues Lemos
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Home Remedies ◽  
The Social

Abstract BackgroundThis article presents, from a biocultural perspective, a menstruating taboo related to the touching, harvesting and preparation of home remedies based on the use of medicinal plants in a rural community located in a semiarid landscape of Cocal municipality, Piauí state, Northeastern Brazil. MethodsMethods used include participant observation and semi-structured interviews performed with 27 local people (21 female and six male) that recognized a taboo regarding the menstruating cycle and the harvesting of medicinal plants in Franco rural community, Cocal, Piauí, Northeastern Brazil. Semi-structured interviews were used to document data regarding the profile of research participants, their perceptions about the taboo documented, as well as the social and biocultural implications of the execution of this traditional practice of prohibition. Participant observation was conducted in order to grasp a better understanding of the social and biocultural implications of the taboo. Additionally, a photographic record was kept during this stage.ResultsIt was verified in Franco rural community that female adolescents and/or women in their menstruating period were prohibited from touching, harvesting and/or preparing home remedies based on the use of medicinal plants. Research participants believed that this can cause the death of medicinal plants, or that they lose their medicinal properties. This taboo has serious social and biocultural implications locally, and can be structured firstly as maladaptive of cultural information at the individual level, as it inhibits the ability of menstruating women to take care of themselves and the health of their families, and secondly as an adaptative strategy at the group level among its users (promotes the transmission of knowledge and cooperation among its users). This traditional practice has serious positive implications for maintaining local bioculturality, sustainability of local medical systems and women's health.ConclusionThis taboo documented within the Franco community is an important informal institution with great influence on human biocultural behavior. The inclusion of these perspectives on taboos in biocultural studies offers opportunities for a greater understanding of biocultural attitudes related to interactions between the human species/biota and the environment in a complex knowledge system.

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