scholarly journals Teacher-offered Forms of Support for Learners with Low Self-esteem and Suffering from Bullying

Pedagogika ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 120 (4) ◽  
pp. 130-141
Author(s):  
Asta Meškauskienė ◽  
Marijona Barkauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
School Psychologist ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Social Pedagogue

Purpose. The problem of bullying remains one of the major social problems in Lithuanian schools. But the acquired experience of practices in fighting the negative phenomenon enables professionals to improve the measures already taken and to foresee new methods in overcoming the problem. The purpose of the present article is to explore the teacher-offered forms of support for teenagers with low self-esteem and suffering from bullying. Methods and resources. The methods used in the study are research literature analysis and qualitative methods. The sample of the qualitative research comprises 86 teachers from schools of general secondary education, of different subjects, with different professional qualifications and experience, of different age groups. The teachers were asked to respond to half-structured questionnaires. Results. On the basis of the obtained data, it has been established that the most efficient forms of support for teenagers with low self-esteem and suffering from bullying were the ones involving the development of the sense of learner responsibility within school and class community (including the encouragement of empathy and tolerance, raising the awareness of human rights, creating the atmosphere of intolerance towards bullying, and initiating peer-support groups) as well as the enhancement of personal responsibility on the part of every individual who comes into contact with teenagers suffering from bullying (namely, peers, form tutor, social pedagogue, school psychologist, parents and others).

scholarly journals Implementing Ethically-Sound Research on Online Health-Related Support Groups

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Internet Research ◽  
Online Support ◽  
Online Support Groups ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Health Related

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to review the benefits and dilemmas associated with ethically-sound literary research and to provide guidelines for qualitative research within the context of online health-related support groups.Summary of Key Points: The Internet is a significant resource for the acquisition of healthcare information for healthcare consumers. For those seeking assistance with health-related disabilities, online support groups provide opportunities to share information, to share experiences, and to obtain support. Healthcare professionals recognize the text-based communications used by these groups as a rich data source for client-centered qualitative research. This article highlights the possible risks arising from Internet research to the rights and safety of research participants. Potential rewards to be gained from this type of research include improved patient-centered outcomes, improved service delivery models, and improved education programs for clients and professionals. This article presents a summary of Internet research literature and currently accepted research methodology to explain the ethical challenges related to balancing the benefits of listserv research with protection of individual rights. Recommendations for ethically-sound research within the context of online support groups are summarized based on traditional research policy and guidelines, recommendations from interdisciplinary groups, and opinions from experienced online researchers.

scholarly journals Tanssin mahdollisuudet aivoverenkiertohäiröiden kuntoutuksessa: Kirjallisuuskatsaus

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-19
Author(s):  
Camilla Björklund ◽  
Hanna Pohjola
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Stroke Rehabilitation ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
Neurological Rehabilitation ◽  
Physical Treatment ◽  
Dance Pedagogy ◽  
Active Rehabilitation ◽  
Dance Intervention

Abstract Stroke affects one in six people in Finland and is the third most common cause of death. Strokes can cause changes in physical, mental and social functioning. All functional disorders can be affected by rehabilitation: physical treatment is a key part of active rehabilitation after a stroke. In this article, the known effects of dance on stroke are gathered together on the basis of a literature review and discussed in the context of dance pedagogy. The data was systematically retrieved from the PubMed, CINAHL and Arsca databases. Eleven research articles meeting the search criteria were selected. Content analysis was used to analyze the data. The results of the research literature analysis indicated that dance is suitable for stroke rehabilitation: it promotes psychological, cognitive and physical functioning. The results spoke in favour of dance intervention supporting and developing a relationship to one’s own altered body and self-esteem, as well as enabling social relationships. In addition, dance improves one’s mental state. Therefore, these factors suggest that dance could meet the need for a new form of neurological rehabilitation therapy.

Žmonių su psichine negalia gyvenimo kokybė

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigita Kreivinienė ◽  
Jolanta Vaičiulienė
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Reliable Data ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
Control Material ◽  
Research Narrative ◽  
Disability Research

Quality of Life of people suffering from mental disorder was barely analysed in Lithuania. Analysis of quality of life in medicine usually is based on the measuring quantitative parameters in patients. Such measurements allow gather a lot of valuable and statistically reliable data, though scientific studies show [10; 14] that qualitative analysis can reveal unique and especially sensitive aspects. Because of this reason quality of life was analyzed in qualitative way in the article. Aim of the article is to analyse understanding of quality of life in a case of mental disorder. Two groups of respondents were analysed: the subjective understanding of quality of life was built on the interview with 10 people suffering from mental disorder, the objective is interviewing 29 people not having disability. Research methods: literature analysis, qualitative research (narrative). The research results revealed differences in objectively and subjectively understanding quality of life. People suffering from mental disorder understand their quality of life as having close person in life, employment, ab-sence of control, material safety. Though objectively understand-ing quality of life in society is understood as visits in self-support groups, integration, social participation.

Africa - Israel - Africa Return-migration experiences of African labour migrants

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galia Sabar
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Return Migration ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
Economic Assets ◽  
Migration Experiences ◽  
Return Process

This paper analyses homecoming experiences of African labour migrants who lived in Israel and returned home. Using qualitative research methodologies, I discerned what factors - material and non-material - determine the relative success of the return process. Focusing on these factors’ effects, I offer a new understanding of labour migrants’ homecoming experiences: those who are “content,” “readjusting,” or “lost. Following Ulrich Beck's (2006) analysis of cosmopolitanism, I suggest that these categories portray significant new life spaces that are neither what they left nor what they came from, and are dynamic, fragile, and constantly changing. In some cases the influence of economic assets on the returned migrants’ homecoming experience was indeed crucial, in many other cases the challenges of reconnecting oneself with home, family, and existing social norms and customs was much more influential on their homecoming experience including on their sense of well-being. Furthermore, some of the non-material goods such as individualization, personal responsibility, and long-term planning proved useful, others such as trust, particularly in relation to family, were detrimental.

Collective Fieldwork Interviews in the Classroom Without Walls

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-380
Author(s):  
Daniel Makagon
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Experiential Pedagogy ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Learning Focused

This article uses a course that meets from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. as a context to critically examine collective collaborative fieldwork as an experiential pedagogy that helps students better understand and practice qualitative fieldwork interviews. A collective interviewing experience can provide each student with practice and establish a situation for relatively sustained learning-focused dialogue and debate about interviewing ethics. With this context in mind, I critically examine how interviewing participants in a group scenario can help students understand spurned interview requests, the effects on researcher-participant relationships, and the alteration of temporal and spatial scenes in which interviews take shape as well as teach students about the important nuances of translation during interviews. Taken together, these four issues offer important ways to think about team-based fieldwork projects as an alternative to lone-ethnographer models of research practices that are foregrounded in qualitative research literature and in fieldwork-based courses.

Leukemia Support Groups: How Are They Doing?

1997 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 407-412
Author(s):  
Donna Corwin Moss
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Cancer Treatments ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Course Of Illness ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Sources Of Support ◽  
Practical Impact

Background Support groups help their participants to cope with the emotional and practical impact of their illnesses. Methods The effectiveness of the Leukemia Society of America support groups in enhancing the quality of life for their participants is reviewed. The groundwork, purpose, and structure of such groups, as well as alternate sources of support, are presented. Evaluation and future directions for oncology groupwork are discussed. Results Support groups complement the therapies provided by clinical practitioners and scientists by addressing the additional needs of cancer patients over the course of illness and survival. Conclusions New concepts and methods that address the needs of specific age-groups and incorporate the newly generated data on cancer treatments will further enhance the benefits provided by support groups.

scholarly journals Validation of a French Version of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire: Relationships With Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy

2021 ◽  
pp. 089484532110099
Author(s):  
Jérôme Rossier ◽  
Shékina Rochat ◽  
Laurent Sovet ◽  
Jean-Luc Bernaud
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Career Counseling ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Student Sample ◽  
French Version ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this study was to validate the French version of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ) and to assess its measurement invariance across gender, age groups, countries, and student versus career counseling samples. We also examined the sensitivity of this instrument to discriminate a career counseling population from a general student sample. Third, we studied the relationship between career decision-making difficulties, career decision-making self-efficacy, and self-esteem in a sample of 1,748 French and French-speaking Swiss participants. A confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the overall hierarchical structure of the CDDQ. Multigroup analysis indicated that the level of invariance across groups almost always reached configural, metric, and scalar invariance. Differences between countries were very small, whereas differences between the general population and career counseling subsamples were much larger. Both self-esteem and self-efficacy significantly predicted career decision-making difficulties. Moreover, as expected, self-efficacy partially mediated the relationship between self-esteem and career decision-making difficulties.

scholarly journals Diagnosed with a Rare Cancer: Experiences of Adult Sarcoma Survivors with the Healthcare System—Results from the SURVSARC Study

Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 679
Author(s):  
Cas Drabbe ◽  
Dirk J. Grünhagen ◽  
Winan J. Van Houdt ◽  
Pètra M. Braam ◽  
Vicky L. M. N. Soomers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supportive Care ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Satisfaction With Care ◽  
Rare Cancer ◽  
Questionnaire Response ◽  
Care Information ◽  
Diagnostic Intervals

The aim of this study was to explore the experience of rare cancer patients with the healthcare system and examine differences between age groups (adolescents and young adults (AYA, 18–39 years), older adults (OA, 40–69 years) and elderly (≥70 years)). Dutch sarcoma patients, 2–10 years after diagnosis, completed a questionnaire on their experience with the healthcare system, satisfaction with care, information needs, patient and diagnostic intervals (first symptom to first doctor’s visit and first doctor’s visit to diagnosis, respectively) and received supportive care. In total, 1099 patients completed the questionnaire (response rate 58%): 186 AYAs, 748 OAs and 165 elderly. Many survivors experienced insufficient medical and non-medical guidance (32% and 38%), although satisfaction with care was rated good to excellent by 94%. Both patient and diagnostic intervals were >1 month for over half of the participants and information needs were largely met (97%). AYAs had the longest patient and diagnostic intervals, experienced the greatest lack of (non-)medical guidance, had more desire for patient support groups and used supportive care most often. This nationwide study among sarcoma survivors showed that healthcare experiences differ per age group and identified needs related to the rarity of these tumors, such as improvements concerning (non-)medical guidance and diagnostic intervals.

scholarly journals 502 Adapting to COVID19: Can Virtual Burn Camp be as Impactful as Last Year’s In-person Camp?

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S98-S98
Author(s):  
Jessica Banks ◽  
Matt Ferdock ◽  
Jennifer Nagle
Keyword(s):  
Burn Injury ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Summer Program ◽  
Critical Question ◽  
Camp Counselors ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Burn Survivors

Abstract Introduction Skin is not the only casualty following a burn accident. Many children suffer long term, debilitating emotional effects from their burn injury (Abdullah et al. 1994; Kornhaber et al. 2018). Armstrong-James et al. (2018) and Maslow and Lobato (2010) found that summer camps explicitly designed for burn survivor children can positively impact children’s adaptability to stares and comments and improve their sense of self-esteem. Camp Susquehanna has been a summer camp for burn survivors for the past 25+ years. When the COVID19 pandemic closed many businesses, we decided to transition our in-person camp to 100% online. Researchers demonstrated the positive effects of summer camp for burn survivors (Maslow & Lobato, 2010; Bakker et al. 2011). However, the effects of a 100% online camp are not known. Our concern was, are we able to transition and be as impactful as it is face to face at camp? What will the schedule and activities look like in this new format? How will we ensure all children participating will have access to online and the supplies necessary? Methods We opted to select a three-week format with two sessions a day divided into two age groups. We ensured every child had internet access then mailed out a “camp in the box.” It contained all the things needed for each planned activity. The critical question remained, however, will we be as impactful? The current research looks at quantitative and qualitative measures of self-esteem, happiness, and satisfaction following participation in a three-week summer program held in July 2020. We make comparisons to previous years’ results. The authors expected that self-esteem, happiness, and satisfaction levels matched or exceeded last years’ levels. Results We collected data from 42 campers and 22 volunteer camp counselors. Results show that campers were able to receive the support they needed, not only from the staff but also from their peers. Conclusions The delivery method was indeed different this year, but the positive effect on our campers remained the same.

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