COLLECTIVES OF CARE IN THE RELATIONS SURROUNDING PEOPLE WITH ‘HEAD TROUBLES’: FAMILY, COMMUNITY AND GENDER IN A WORKING-CLASS NEIGHBOURHOOD OF SOUTHERN BRAZIL

Abstract In this article, we reflect on the care practices and relationships that contribute to the well-being of people with intellectual disabilities, living in a poor neighbourhood of Porto Alegre (Brazil), in a context of incipient public policies for this population. Through the ethnographic description of the experience of three women from who are responsible for adult relatives with what they call ‘head troubles’, we aim to illustrate the gender, generation, class and ethnicity peculiarities of their trajectories. We consider that taking stock of the various dynamics at play in situations of care, as well as the interaction of the family, neighbourhood, and public resources available to deal with such challenges, is a fundamental step for forging efficient policies adjusted to the complexities of the contemporary context.

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Educational and Ethical Views of Attar Neishabouri

Review of European Studies ◽

10.5539/res.v8n1p267 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 267

Author(s):

Reza Yazdani

Keyword(s):

Well Being ◽

Health Issues ◽

Mental Images ◽

Divine Attributes ◽

Age And Gender ◽

Stages Of Growth ◽

Self Confidence ◽

The Family ◽

The Face ◽

And Gender

Attar believes that some health standards and different hygienic methods should be taught to children. Although teaching the methods of healthcare and well-being is among the necessities of life, child’s understanding and intelligence should not be ignored. There is no doubt that religious give great importance to health issues and even emphasize that they should be taught to children. Dealing with appearance causes that their truth-seeking spirit is misled. Accordingly, Sufism recommends people to abandon appearance and deal with the interior. In the stages of growth, child’s mental images are related to sensory issues. He gradually understands lighting, heating and other things that are exposed to his senses and realizes their differences. Formation of mental images and attention to their differences are related to the growth and complexity of the child’s nerves and experience. Affection and kindness to children is desirable. But parents and educators should know that going to extremes in this case is harmful. Attar believes that loving the children excessively causes that he is brought up as a weak and powerless person and loses his self-confidence. So, he shows weakness in the face of problems. But if he is educated with moderation, he will act accordingly. Too much attention to children makes them timid. Treating the children with justice and fairness is one of the Divine attributes. According to Attar, parents should not discriminate between their children and should deal with them justly in all aspects just as you like to be treated with justice in all situations. In many educational books, it is said that the apparent treatment of parents with children may vary according to their age and gender and this is difference rather than discrimination. Attar states that we should act carefully and accurately. These differences should not make parents not act fairly in loving children, but they should justify the children that if they were in such a situation, they would receive the same treatment. Discrimination and injustice in the family, whether tangible or intangible, cause that children feel contempt and become alienated from their family and education.

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Women Mental Health and Well-being: A New Paradigm

International Journal of Indian Psychology ◽

10.25215/0402.102 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Mrs. Ashwini. R ◽

Dr. Vijay Prasad. B

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Well Being ◽

New Paradigm ◽

The Family ◽

Stigma Of Mental Illness ◽

Gender Perspectives ◽

And Gender ◽

The Impact ◽

Health And Well Being

This paper reviews literature on the determinants of women’s mental health through a stigma of mental illness and gender perspectives. This approach stresses that women’s particular health needs have been neglected in a male-centred models of health, and argues for the importance of addressing these needs in a way that views women and their lives holistically. A woman in social context is seen as parents and their roles have been demonstrated from their life within the family and society as well. This article draws attention to the women and physical health instead of looking at mental illness alone. The impact of violence against women, in particular, the effects of childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence and rape has been illustrated in western and Indian perspectives. In recommendations initiatives in mental health services especially, for women mental health has been emphasized broadly.

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First record of Cithaeron reimoseri (Araneae: Cithaeronidae) from the New World and first record of the family from southern Brazil

Check List ◽

10.15560/9.6.1594 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 9 (6) ◽

pp. 1594 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ricardo Ott ◽

Antonio Domingos Brescovit

Keyword(s):

New World ◽

Rio Grande ◽

First Record ◽

Southern Brazil ◽

Rio Grande Do Sul ◽

Porto Alegre ◽

Worldwide Distribution ◽

The Family ◽

First Time ◽

Median Eyes

The African spider Cithaeron reimoseri Platnick, 1991 is registered for the first time in the New World, based in two females collected at Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Until now C. reimoseri was known only by the holotype from Eritrea. The species C. praedonius O. P.-Cambridge, 1872 was, until now, the only known species of the family with worldwide distribution and is considered prone to introduction in anthropic environments. Cithaeronidae are considered lower gnaphosoids being identifiable by the depressed posterior median eyes and the pseudosegmented tarsi.

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Changes in the self-rated well-being of people who move from congregated settings to personalized arrangements and group home placements

Journal of Intellectual Disabilities ◽

10.1177/1744629516674086 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 49-60 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Roy McConkey ◽

Fiona Keogh ◽

Brendan Bunting ◽

Edurne Garcia Iriarte

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Intellectual Disability ◽

Mental Health Problems ◽

Group Home ◽

Well Being ◽

Health Problems ◽

The Self ◽

Support Needs ◽

The Family ◽

People With Intellectual Disabilities

A natural experiment contrasted the self-rated well-being of people with intellectual disabilities ( n = 75) and those with enduring mental health problems ( n = 44) after they moved to new accommodation and support options, while others remained in congregated settings or living in the family home. Most support staff also provided well-being ratings. In personalized arrangements, personal well-being was significantly higher than in congregated settings; particularly for people with intellectual disability who had higher support needs compared to people with mental health problems. Moving to a group home also brought some improvement in the well-being ratings of people with intellectual disability but only for those with higher support needs. Such moves seemed to lead to a decline in well-being for those with mental health problems. There were marked discrepancies between ratings given by the person with those of staff. The well-being measure shows promise for use in further comparative and longitudinal studies.

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GENDER RELATIONS AND SUBJECTIVE FAMILY WELL-BEING AMONG FARMER FAMILIES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN UPLANDS AND LOWLANDS AREAS IN WEST JAVA PROVINCE, INDONESIA

Journal of Family Sciences ◽

10.29244/jfs.3.1.53-72 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 53

Author(s):

Herien Puspitawati ◽

Paula Faulkner ◽

Ma'mun Sarma ◽

Tin Herawati

Keyword(s):

Gender Roles ◽

Gender Relations ◽

Well Being ◽

External Support ◽

Economic Pressure ◽

West Java ◽

The Family ◽

Poor Farmer ◽

And Gender ◽

Husband And Wife

The objectives of this study are described as follows: (1) To examine the conditions of social, economic and demographic characteristics of poor farmer families who live at uplands and lowlands areas, (2) to describe the social-cultural and agroecosystem conditions of poor farmer families who live at uplands and lowlands areas, (3) To explain type of gender relations of poor farmer families who live at uplands and lowlands areas, and (4) to analyze factors that influenced subjective family well-being of poor farmer families who live at uplands and lowlands areas. The chosen research sites were Nanggung Sub-district, Bogor District as an upland area, and West Teluk Jambe Sub-district, Karawang District, West Java Province as a lowland area. The total of 189 farmer families was used for this study (n= 90 in uplands district areas, and n= 99 in lowlands district areas). It was found that the conditions of social-cultural and agroecosystem differ between upland and lowland areas. In general, both upland and lowland areas gender roles on farming activities, in terms of access and control to agricultural resources, were dominated by men. Family well-being was directly influenced by higher education of husband and wife, indirectly influenced by less economic pressure of the family, directly influenced by higher gender relations between husband and wife, and directly influenced by less or higher external support. Thus, wealthy farmer families were the family that had educated husband and wife, less economic pressures, equal gender relations and partnerships, and less or more receive external supports. It is recommended that the next study should add variables of family coping strategies related to family economic pressure and gender roles between husband and wife.

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The well-being of families in Canada’s future

Canadian Studies in Population ◽

10.25336/csp29376 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 45 (1-2) ◽

pp. 24

Author(s):

Benoît Laplante

Keyword(s):

Personal Development ◽

Labour Force ◽

Environmental Issues ◽

Labour Force Participation ◽

Well Being ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Central Position ◽

Public Resources ◽

The Family ◽

Société Canadienne

The author argues that the well-being of families in Canada’s future is uncertain because families are losing the central position that was traditionally theirs. Most of the changes that occurred in and around families over the last third of the 20th century came from changes in values (from survival to personal development, from collectivity-oriented to individual-oriented), in gender relations (rising education, labour force participation, and economic independence of women), and in the legal framework that deals with family life. Such changes are still having an impact on families and this impact will likely not diminish. But more than anything else, Canadian society is moving towards a model in which immigration rather than reproduction is the main source of population growth, thus reducing the importance of the family for the development of policies. This, and the increasing political importance given to environmental issues, might further displace the family as a priority for policymaking and the allocation of public resources, and thus impair the future well-being of families.L’auteur soutient que le bien-être des familles canadiennes des familles est loin d’être assuré à long terme parce que la famille, en tant qu’institution, perd aujourd’hui la position centrale qui était traditionnellement la sienne. La plupart des changements survenus dans et autour des familles au cours du dernier tiers du XX e siècle ont été la conséquence de changements dans les valeurs (de la primauté de la survie à celle du développement personnel, de la collectivité à l’individu), dans les rapports entre les sexes (l’éducation des femmes, leur activité et leur indépendance économique) et dans l’encadrement juridique de la vie familiale. Ces transformations se poursuivent et leur impact sur les familles ne diminuera probablement pas. À ceci s’ajoute le fait que la société canadienne a adopté un modèle où l’immigration remplace la reproduction comme source principale de la croissance démographique, réduisant encore plus l’importance de la famille pour l’élaboration des politiques. Ce changement, et l’importance croissante accordée aux questions environnementales, pourrait encore réduire la place de la famille en tant que priorité pour l’élaboration des politiques et l’allocation des ressources publiques, et ainsi compromettre le bien-être futur des familles.

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The Family Environment and Its Relation to Health and Well-Being Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth

Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health ◽

10.1891/lgbtq-2020-0040 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 220-233

Author(s):

Taylor L. Rathus ◽

Ryan J. Watson

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Parent Education ◽

Family Environment ◽

Well Being ◽

Immigrant Parents ◽

The Family ◽

Sexual And Gender Minority ◽

And Gender ◽

College Educated ◽

Health And Well Being

We examined youth-reported family environments using multiple indicators (parent education, participants' first language spoken, and parent immigration status) to consider the family environment and its links to youth health and well-being. To do so, we utilized cluster analysis methodology to identify potential groupings of family environments among a national sample of 14,578 sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth from the LGBTQ National Teen Survey, collected in 2017. Three distinct clusters of SGM youth emerged, labeled “College-educated, U.S.-born parents,” “High school-educated, U.S.-born parents,” and “College-educated, immigrant parents.” “A series of one-way between-subjects ANCOVAs revealed each cluster significantly differed from each other on health and family outcomes, indicating that parent immigration status, parent education, and youth first spoken language are uniquely and collectively imperative for SGM youths' health and well-being.” Of note, despite reporting parents with the highest level of post-high school education, SGM youth in the “College-educated, immigrant parents” cluster reported the lowest levels of parental acceptance and the lowest levels of outness in comparison to the youth in the other two clusters. In light of these results, we review the importance of the need for more nuanced ways of defining the family context among vulnerable youth—in particular for SGM youth. Given that much of the research to date defines the family environment by single indicators (e.g., parent education), we review the importance of broadening our conceptualization and measurement of the “family environment.”

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Descriptive Study of Transgender Youth Receiving Health Care in the Gender Identity Program in Southern Brazil

Frontiers in Psychiatry ◽

10.3389/fpsyt.2021.627661 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Bianca Machado Borba Soll ◽

Anna Martha Fontanari ◽

Angelo Brandelli Costa ◽

Ítala Chinazzo ◽

Dhiordan Cardoso Silva ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Gender Identity ◽

Gender Dysphoria ◽

Care Service ◽

Health Care Service ◽

Well Being ◽

Southern Brazil ◽

Transgender Youth ◽

Gender Affirmation ◽

And Gender

Since 2014, the Gender Identity Program (PROTIG) of Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) has been assisting transgender youth seeking gender-affirmative treatment offered at a public health-care service specializing in gender in southern Brazil. This article aims to analyze sociodemographic and clinical data regarding the diagnoses of gender dysphoria and gender incongruence, psychiatric comorbidities, and clinical aspects of a sample of transgender youths seeking health care in the gender identity program. The research protocol consisted of a survey of the data collected in the global psychological evaluation performed at the health-care service for youths diagnosed with gender incongruence and their caretakers. Participating in this research were 24 transgender youths between 8 and 16 years old with diagnostic overlap of gender dysphoria [Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5)] and gender incongruence [International Classification of Diseases, 11th Revision (ICD-11)] and 34 of their caregivers. Of the young people, 45.8% were positive for some psychiatric comorbidity throughout their lives, with almost half (45.4%) having two or more psychiatric comorbidities in addition to gender dysphoria. The mental health professionals comprising affirmation care teams face the challenge of adapting the care protocols to the uniqueness of each demand by developing individualized forms to promote healthy development. This can be done by focusing not only on medical and physical interventions for gender affirmation but also on the promotion of mental health and general emotional well-being. Thus, the gender affirmation model, which advocates for global assessment and personalized guidance, proved to be adequate. Nevertheless, access to multidisciplinary health services specializing in gender is essential for promoting the general well-being of the population of transgender youth.

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The personal belief in a just world and domain-specific beliefs about justice at school and in the family: A longitudinal study with adolescents

International Journal of Behavioral Development ◽

10.1177/0165025406063638 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 200-207 ◽

Cited By ~ 87

Author(s):

Claudia Dalbert ◽

Joachim Stoeber

Keyword(s):

Depressive Symptoms ◽

School Climate ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Just World ◽

Family Climate ◽

Domain Specific ◽

Personal Belief ◽

The Family ◽

And Gender

This article investigates the relationship between the personal belief in a just world (BJW) and domain-specific beliefs about justice and examines how justice cognitions impact on adolescents' development, particularly on their achievement at school and their subjective well-being. A longitudinal questionnaire study with German adolescents aged 14–19 years was conducted over a period of five to eight months. The pattern of results revealed that evaluations of the school climate and of the family climate as being just were two distinct phenomena, both of which impacted on the personal BJW, which in turn affected the domain-specific beliefs about justice. However, the domain-specific beliefs about justice did not impact on each other directly. Moreover, an evaluation of the family climate (but not of the school climate) as being just reduced depressive symptoms, whereas depressive symptoms did not weaken the evaluation of one's family as being just. The evaluation of the school climate as being just improved the grades received in the next school report, whereas the grades received did not affect the justice evaluation of the school climate. Finally, all relationships persisted when controlling for age and gender. In sum, the pattern of findings supports the notion that justice cognitions impact on development during adolescence.

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Personality's Correlates of Adult Development and Aging

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027//1016-9040.8.3.131 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 131-147 ◽

Cited By ~ 43

Author(s):

Gian Vittorio Caprara ◽

Mariagiovanna Caprara ◽

Patrizia Steca

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Adult Development ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Age Groups ◽

Well Being ◽

Efficacy Beliefs ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Education And Health ◽

Development And Aging ◽

And Gender

Three cross-sectional studies examined stability and change in personality over the course of life by measuring the relations linking age to personality traits, self-efficacy beliefs, values, and well-being in large samples of Italian male and female participants. In each study, relations between personality and age were examined across several age groups ranging from young adulthood to old age. In each study, personality constructs were first examined in terms of mean group differences accrued by age and gender and then in terms of their correlations with age across gender and age groups. Furthermore, personality-age correlations were also calculated, controlling for the demographic effects accrued by marital status, education, and health. Findings strongly indicated that personality functioning does not necessarily decline in the later years of life, and that decline is more pronounced in males than it is in females across several personality dimensions ranging from personality traits, such as emotional stability, to self-efficacy beliefs, such as efficacy in dealing with negative affect. Findings are discussed in terms of their implications for personality theory and social policy.

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