scholarly journals The Importance of Taking Risks: A Report on the Conference

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-105
Author(s):  
I.A. Kotliar ◽  
M.V. Sokolova ◽  
E.G. Sheina
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Prevention Programmes ◽  
Western Theory ◽  
Pedagogical Analysis

The paper gives an overview of the 14th interdisciplinary conference The Importance of Taking Risks held by the Welsh branch of the International Play Association. The meeting focused on various aspects of supporting children’s play and on the role of risk in child development. The conference had a clear multidis- ciplinary character and brought together specialists from a variety of fields: psychologists, teachers, social workers, experts in risk assessment, and health care professionals. The paper outlines how risk is understood in modern western theory and practice and distinguishes between risk and danger. A child must be taught to assess situations as safe or dangerous. However, modern developmental environment tends to reduce the possibility of risks for the child, which deprives him/her of the natural means of learning about the world and reduces creativity and independence and holds back the child’s self-regulation, prolonging compelled dependence and making children more infantile. The conference also involved discussions concerning tech- niques for risk assessment and a number of prevention programmes and practices. This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Humanities (project No 15-06-10627 “Psychological and pedagogical analysis of children’s play environment of the modern city”).

The Role of Play in the Life of the Child

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Cattanach
Keyword(s):  
Real Situation ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Situational Constraints ◽  
The Way

Pellegrini and Smith (1998) have provided a challenging review of the forms and possible functions of play during childhood, and Blatchford's (1998) paper on children's play reports a programme of research about the nature of play at school breaktimes that seems to be the sort of research that Pellegrini and Smith recommend in their conclusion, calling for more descriptive studies of children's play. When considering the nature and possible functioning of play during childhood Pellegrini and Smith explore general definitional issues. They suggest that play theorists such as Piaget and Vygotsky considered that play was the way that children learnt skills necessary for successful functioning in adulthood. Perhaps this is a simple way to express, for example, Vygotsky's (1978) descriptions of play in ‘The Role of Play in Development’ in Mind in society. Vygotsky states that in play a child creates an imaginary situation; that play is the place where a child spontaneously makes use of his ability to separate meaning from an object without knowing he is doing it. The creation of an imaginary situation is the first manifestation of the child's emancipation from situational constraints and the primary paradox of play is that the child operates with an alienated meaning in a real situation. Vygotsky may be describing an important skill for successful functioning in adulthood, but it is also an important function in childhood.

scholarly journals Healing the Feelings and Feeling the Healing: Hypnotic Approaches in Cancer and Palliative Care

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvain Néron ◽  
Daniel Handel
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Symptom Relief ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Video Clip ◽  
Medical Procedures ◽  
The Face ◽  
Clinical Hypnosis

This workshop will focus on clinical demonstrations of hypnotic suggestion through metaphors for self-regulation improvements, pain relief, palliation of symptoms, and amelioration of hope in the face of advanced or progressive illness. These materials were designed (Néron and Handel, In Press) for health care professionals who use – or may decide to use – clinical hypnosis in their professional work with patients. The role of adjunctive hypnotic therapy in cancer care is to help manage distressing symptoms and to give the sufferer a sense of control via mind-body regulation. Physicians and health care professionals can integrate personalized hypnotic approaches in order to help patients regulate physiological functions, alleviate pain, enhance the release of tension, reframe hope, facilitate new levels of personal adjustments, and promote or restore healing spiritual experiences.The workshop will include case-based, video clip demonstrations to cover the following topic areas: a) addressing patients’ misconceptions about hypnosis, b) establishing appropriate clinical goals, c) using hypnotic techniques in different medical settings, d) developing quick ways of reaching a hypnotic state, e) teaching self-hypnosis, f) preparing for medical procedures, g) reframing hope, and h) promoting healing spiritual experiences.Objectives: Participants will be introduced to ways of: a) Integrating guided clinical hypnosis procedures at bedside and in several medical contexts. b) Empowering the sufferer by teaching him or her how to use self-hypnosis for symptom relief and for addressing their existential issues.ReferenceNéron, S., and Handel, D. Hypnotic Approaches in Cancer and Palliative Care. Quebec: Presses de l’Université du Québec, In Press.

scholarly journals The Inter-Jurisdictional Language of Quality Assurance: Comparing Theory and Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Daniel Lang
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Boundary Line ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Ranking Performance ◽  
Versus System ◽  
Quality In Higher Education

This is a comparative study of two reports on the assurance of quality in higher education that appeared contemporaneously in two similar and closely connected jurisdictions. Using NVivo summative content analysis software, documentary analysis, archival records, WTO submissions, and focus groups and interviews the paper identifies and compares several recurring areas in which nomenclature is at least nominally mutual, such as: the boundary line between academic support services and student services, balancing commonality and diversity, the institution versus the basic academic unit as the focus and scope of assurance, self-regulation versus system regulation, the assurance of quality versus the enhancement of quality, the role of league ranking, performance indicators, and benchmarking, aggregation. Seen in terms of theory-driven evaluation, the study suggests that finding a trans-jurisdictional common ground for quality assurance is more advanced in theory than in practice.

Parents’ and children’s violent gameplay: role of co-playing

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 623-632
Author(s):  
Doug Walker ◽  
E. Deanne Brocato ◽  
Les Carlson ◽  
Russell N. Laczniak
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Game Play ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Video Game Play ◽  
Violent Video Game ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Parent Child

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the role of co-playing as a moderator of the relation between parents’ and children’s play of violent video games. Design/methodology/approach The study uses dyadic parent/child survey data to estimate the conditional effects in the model, both direct and indirect. Findings The positive effect of parents’ violent video game play of children’s playing behaviors is attenuated by parent/child co-playing. Parents’ knowledge of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) ratings leads to higher levels of co-playing, thereby indirectly attenuating violent video game play in children as driven by parents’ play. Research limitations/implications The paper extends the literature on consumer socialization and the impact of co-playing and identifies an antecedent for co-playing in this context. Practical implications The paper reveals that knowledge of the self-regulatory ESRB rules plays a valuable (indirect) role in mitigating violent video game play by children through an increase in co-playing, which attenuates the positive effect of parents’ play on children’s play. Originality/value The study incorporates data from both parents and children to investigate the relationship between parents and children’s violent video game play while empirically investigating the uncertainty in the literature concerning the moderating impact of co-playing.

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