scholarly journals The Counseling Needs of Girls about to Get Married: A Qualitative Study of Taal of Association in Unayzah

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-67
Author(s):  
Reem Ibrahim Alhussain, Ahmad Bin Abdullah Al-Ajlan

This study aimed at identifying the cognitive and skills needs of young women getting married by monitoring the reality in the rehabilitation program of young women getting married. This study adopted the qualitative approach, which focuses on studying the phenomena, the individuals, communities, and institutions in various fields and describing them to reach a deeper understanding. The study used two methods to collect data and information from the research sample. The Focus group tool, which was used with a purposive sample of (21) young women getting married and who attended the qualification program of young women getting married. The other tool was interviews with the trainers. The researcher had individual interviews with all the seven trainers. The results of this study revealed that the most important knowledge according to trainers is the psychological knowledge and the medical knowledge. The results showed also that the most important skills required in this program from the trainer’s point of view were house management, grooming and personal care, and emotion control. The most important knowledge that has gained the favor of young women getting married in this program are psychological and medical knowledge. The most significant skills that young women getting married need are: the skill if dealing with the husband, the skill of emotion control, the skill of emotions management, the skill of planning, and the skill of problem solving. The study recommended using the rehabilitation programs with couples getting married and making such programs as a condition of the marriage contract. The study also recommended establishing a department in the Ministry of Labor and Social Development, which supervises the providers of pre-marriage counseling courses.

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1399-1405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Christy

Purpose The purpose of this article was to provide a perspective on vestibular rehabilitation for children. Conclusion The developing child with vestibular dysfunction may present with a progressive gross motor delay, sensory disorganization for postural control, gaze instability, and poor perception of motion and verticality. It is important that vestibular-related impairments be identified early in infancy or childhood so that evidence-based interventions can be initiated. A focused and custom vestibular rehabilitation program can improve vestibular-related impairments, enabling participation. Depending on the child's age, diagnosis, severity, and quality of impairments, vestibular rehabilitation programs may consist of gaze stabilization exercises, static and dynamic balance exercises, gross motor practice, and/or habituation exercises. Exercises must be modified for children, done daily at home, and incorporated into the daily life situation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rabab S. Zaghlol ◽  
Sahar S. Khalil ◽  
Ahmed M. Attia ◽  
Ghada A. Dawa

Abstract Background Total knee replacement operation (TKR) is the treatment of choice in severe knee osteoarthritis (OA). Rehabilitation post-TKR is still not well studied. The aim of this study was to compare between the high-intensity (HI) rehabilitation program and the low-intensity (LI) rehabilitation program following TKR. Results At 1 month following the TKR operations, significant improvements were found in the first group compared to the second group in all the measured parameters except for the knee range of motion (ROM). At 3 and 12 months follow-up periods, there were statistically significant differences between both groups in all the evaluated parameters except for the numeric pain rating scale and the knee ROM. Conclusions Both high-intensity and low-intensity rehabilitation programs are effective; however, HI program had superior functional gain and patient-reported outcomes compared to the LI program. Moreover, HI group has a long-term functional gain.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1354067X2110173
Author(s):  
Danilo Silva Guimarães

This article aims to discuss the relationship between personal cultural experience and knowledge construction in psychology, from the perspective of the Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism. The thoughts here presented are, at the same time, from within psychology and about psychology. The researcher is culturally situated and science is a field of production of cultural works that aims to create perspectives of knowledge about the world. Researchers can and must create some detachment from their field of study to be able to understand the course of their own knowledge constructions. This detachment is achieved through a historical–philosophical view on the theoretical–methodological propositions of their field of research. As a case study, we selected for analysis the field’s pioneer productions, from the years 1982 to 2004. The material showed that the rationality that characterizes scientific research is directed, in this field, to creating semiotic resources for further developing reflexivity in psychology, as a recursive and open-ended process. The theoretical–methodological work of the researcher concerns its own personal cultural experience and the tradition of the already constructed knowledge, selected to a dialogue about the ethical implications of human action. Therefore, advances in psychological knowledge construction cannot be addressed from an external, allegedly neutral point of view, focused on the efficacy of the instruments resulting from the said “scientific progress.”


2021 ◽  
pp. 108482232199037
Author(s):  
Duarte Pinto ◽  
Lissa Spencer ◽  
Soraia Pereira ◽  
Paulo Machado ◽  
Paulino Sousa ◽  
...  

To systematize strategies that may support patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease to maintain the effects of pulmonary rehabilitation over time. This systematic literature review was conducted, and the evidence was electronically searched in the Web of Science, Scopus, and EBSCO databases. This review included randomized controlled clinical trials, published until September 2019, that addressed components of an unsupervised home-based pulmonary rehabilitation program, maintenance strategies following outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation programs, as well as data on outcomes for quality of life, exercise performance, and dyspnea. A final sample of 5 articles was obtained from a total of 1693 studies. Data for final synthesis were grouped into 2 categories: components of unsupervised home-based pulmonary rehabilitation programs and maintenance strategies. An unsupervised home-based pulmonary rehabilitation program should consist of an educational component, an endurance training component, and a strength training component. When patients are transferred to the home environment, it is important to include more functional exercises specifically adapted to the patient’s condition, goals, and needs.


Author(s):  
Paweł Rasmus ◽  
Anna Lipert ◽  
Krzysztof Pękala ◽  
Małgorzata Timler ◽  
Elżbieta Kozłowska ◽  
...  

Purpose: To examine (a) the amount of health-related behavior, (b) the level of generalized optimism, (c) the belief about patients’ abilities to cope with difficult situations and obstacles and (d) the subjective sense of social exclusion at baseline and at follow-up among patients with chronic mental health issues participating in a psychosocial rehabilitation program in a community mental health setting. Materials and Methods: This prospective study involved 52 participants aged 18–43 years and diagnosed with mental illness who participated in a 6-month psychosocial rehabilitation program, organized within a special community setting. Different questionnaires were used: the Health-Related Behavior Questionnaire, the Revised Life Orientation Test, the General Self-Efficacy Scale, the Personal Competence Scale and a self-made questionnaire concerning social exclusion problems. Results: Statistical analysis of the questionnaire results taken at the beginning and end of the six-month course, running from November 2015 to May 2016, revealed significant increases in health-related behavior (p = 0.006) and general self-efficacy (p = 0.01). Conclusions: Psychosocial rehabilitation programs offered by community mental health settings might serve as an easy, accessible strategy to deal with different interpersonal and intrapersonal problems and as a potential way to improve health behavior. Further research is required to evaluate other psychosocial rehabilitation programs in different community mental health settings in Lodz Voivodeship, Poland.


Author(s):  
N. B. Gubergrits ◽  
N. V. Byelyayeva ◽  
K. Y. Linevska

For over a thousand years, Hippocrates and Galen have been the Alpha and Omega of medical knowledge. Despite the importance of their contributions to clinical and theoretical medicine, they lacked a true understanding of anatomy and physiology. Hippocrates is commonly associated with proposing the doctrine of «tissue fluids», or humoral pathology, and his book, «On the Nature of Man», promotes this point of view. Galen became inherited the knowledge of Hippocrates. Ultimately, he was recognized as one of the most influential physicians of all time. The number of his works was enormous: he wrote more than a hundred books, which were widely distributed. One of Galen’s main commandments was the rule of harmony: all body systems are balanced; disease is a result of an imbalance. As one might expect, some of his ideas, however, were erroneous. Aristotle considered the pancreas, due to its location in the abdominal cavity, as an organ which only task was to protect the adjacent vessels. In an era when unknown diseases wreaked havoc, the concept of known causes of diseases led to the fascination with the study of food poisons and their antidotes. This was common among aristocracy who felt particularly vulnerable to this kind of threats. According to legend, one of the most famous connoisseurs of poisons was Mithridates VI. Pedanius Dioscorides was a Greek who served in the Roman army during the reign of the emperor Nero. The wandering nature of life led him to study a large number of diseases and medicines. The catalogue of his medicinal herbs and plants became the basis for the study and understanding of the medicinal properties of plants. Liver was considered the source of divine prophecy in many ancient cultures. The anatomy of liver was well known in ancient Babylon: a huge number of clay tablets and objects were left, which testify to the importance of «hepatoscopy» in the Middle East as a form of prediction. Those who used the insides of animals for divination (e.g., haruspices — divine interpreters of the future, using the liver as a prediction tool), could be considered the first official anatomists, since the understanding of the future depended on accurate knowledge and interpretation of certain liver components. After the victory of the Assyrian king Sargon over the forces of Urartu and Zikirti in 718 BC, Sargon wanted to appease the gods by sacrificing animals; in doing so, he studied their livers for predictions. Although the concept of pancreas is rooted in ancient times, as evidenced by the comments of haruspices and priests, knowledge of the organ functions eluded humanity until the works by Danish physiologists Francis Sylvius and Regnier de Graaf. Prior to their studies of pancreatic secretion and the elucidation of the role of pancreas in digestion, described by van Helmont and Albrecht von Haller, most researchers focused on the anatomical description of the organ. If the ancient Assyrians and Mesopotamians did not believe that liver predicts the future, but believed that it was pancreas that did it, then pancreatology may have earlier origins. Maimonides, a Jewish scholar and humanist, was also influential in other fields: he condemned astrology and its attempts to calculate the time of the Messiah’s coming. In the field of medicine, he paid attention to prevention, and was interested in the treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. By the beginning of our era, ideas about digestion, diseases of the digestive tract and their treatment remained very vague. There was a long and difficult way ahead in this area.  


Circulation ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 131 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany F Ho ◽  
Joseph V Gennusa ◽  
Cheryl Anderson ◽  
Arlene Dalcin ◽  
Lawrence J Appel ◽  
...  

Introduction: Institutions that serve on-site meals provide an unrealized opportunity to improve health on a broad scale, especially for underserved populations. Psychiatric rehabilitation programs commonly serve meals to adults with serious mental illness (SMI; schizophrenia and bipolar disorder), a population with a markedly increased prevalence of obesity and high risk of cardiovascular disease mortality. In the context of a behavioral weight-loss trial incorporating weight management counseling for persons with SMI, we delivered an environmental-level intervention, focused on the food environment. Hypothesis: We hypothesized the environmental intervention would reduce the overall calories served at the psychiatric rehabilitation program study sites. Methods: We partnered with kitchen supervisors to reduce calories and improve the nutritional quality of meals served at psychiatric rehabilitation programs. Intervention staff met with kitchen staff at the beginning and followed up quarterly to assess progress and to reinforce key nutritional messages. Environmental interventions included decreasing sugar sweetened beverages, increasing whole grains, and reducing saturated fat in meals. Breakfast and lunch menus were collected at baseline and 18 months after intervention. We calculated mean (SD) total energy and nutrient content of each meal. Results: Ten psychiatric rehabilitation programs participated. Eight sites served breakfast and all sites served lunch. Compared to baseline, average breakfast calories decreased significantly after 18-months from 568.4 to 457.1 (p=0.0048) and average lunch calories decreased from 729.4 to 623.8 (p<0.0001). Saturated fat in breakfast decreased by 1.9g (p=0.015) and 1.8g for lunch (p=0.0061). Total sugars at breakfast decreased from 53.3g to 40.1g (p=0.0008) and at lunch from 38.9g to 33.7g (p=0.004). Sodium was not significantly changed for breakfast (713.5mg to 557.3mg, p=0.148) but decreased by 412.4mg (1527.4mg to 1115.1mg, p=0.0008) for lunch. Conclusions: The environmental intervention implemented at psychiatric rehabilitation programs successfully reduced the amount of calories, saturated fat, sugars, and sodium served. This study suggests that modifying the food environment at psychiatric rehabilitation programs is feasible. Such programs can likely be applied to other institutions that serve on-site meals, and may be especially important in preventing cardiovascular disease in other underserved populations.


2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fikru Negash Gebrekidan

Abstract:This article examines the early history of disability rights activism in Kenya. The transitional years from colonialism to independence were a period of great expectations. For persons with disabilities in particular, decolonization held additional possibilities and potential. National independence promised not just majority rule but also an all-inclusive citizenship and the commitment to social justice. Among the visually impaired of Kenya, such collective aspirations led to the birth of the Kenya Union of the Blind in 1959. In 1964, after years of futile correspondence with government officials, the Union organized a street march to the prime minister's office to attract attention to its grievances. The result was a government panel, the Mwendwa Committee for the Care and Rehabilitation of the Disabled, whose published report became the blueprint for social and rehabilitation programs. The government possessed limited resources, and the reforms that ensued were long overdue. Yet the sociohistorical dynamics behind the march are of particular significance. From the social historian's point of view, they affirm not only the historical agency of persons with disabilities, but also the need to recast and broaden the scope of African social history.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (83) ◽  
pp. 132-149
Author(s):  
Sergii Boltivets

The article reveals the historical conditions, content and consequences of the “Scientific session on the problems of physiological teaching of Academician I.P. Pavlov” June 28 - July 4, 1950, which aimed to establish the leading role of the cerebral cortex with the subordination of all physiological processes reflected in the conditioned reflexes determined by IP Pavlov. But in reality, such a meaning was only the external plot of J.V. Stalin’s script, which consisted in taming scientists by means of harassing one of their groups on another. The roles of whistleblowers and accused of infidelity to the teachings of I.P. Pavlov were determined by J.V. Stalin in advance from among the students of the scientist, and his scientific authority was turned into a means of reproach and accusation. In fact, the main reports, speeches and discussions only seemingly proclaimed their relevance to the purpose of the stated topic – the problems of physiological teaching of Academician I.P. Pavlov. These problems were only a means of accusing a group of scientists, first of all the favorite and closest to I.P. Pavlov of his students in order to discredit them and further repression. The proclamation at the session of June 28 - July 4, 1950 of the actual cult of personality of Pavlov was actually a means of devaluing this doctrine, as it limited the further development of physiological, and with it psychological, genetic, medical knowledge in the former USSR. The psychiatric continuation was realized in a subsequent similar session entitled: “Physiological teachings of Academician I.P. Pavlov in psychiatry and neuropathology”, which lasted from 11 to 15 October of the following year, 1951. Both sessions were preceded by a session of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences named after V.I. Lenin (in the Russian original abbreviation “VASHNIL – All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences named after V.I. Lenin”) July 31 – 1948, which was the destruction of genetics. Thus, the development of genetics, physiology, psychology, and psychiatry was interrupted for several decades. Repressions included the defeat of fiction (Resolution of the Central Committee of the VKP (b) on the magazines “Zvezda” and “Leningrad”, August 1946), the defeat of musical culture (Resolution “On decadent tendencies in Soviet music” on February 10, 1948), the defeat of research history (September 1946, September 1949), the defeat of biology (session “VASHNIL” in 1948), the defeat of physiology (Pavlov’s session, 1950), another defeat of economists’ research (Stalin’s article “Economic problems of socialism in the USSR” ), the defeat of linguistics (Stalin’s article “Marxism and the problems of linguistics” in 1959), the defeat of chemistry (1951), the defeat of medicine (The case of the murderous doctors 1952 – 1953). The contrast of the way of thinking characteristic of the people of Russia is revealed, on the basis of which repressions and an unprecedented conviction in the morality of murder and other forms of violence in the USSR became possible. As a result, the purpose of the scientist and his life purpose is redirected to serve the highest levels of power instead of serving the truth and evaluated from the height of these higher levels, where the criterion of truth is a matter of personal preference of the ruler of the top floor of the pyramid. The ways of using IP Pavlov’s name at the session dedicated to his name, as well as I.P. Pavlov’s position in relation to the authorities and psychologists are given. The opposition of the work of I.P. Pavlov to the works of Z. Freud, T. Morgan and other scientists, which is not justified by the content and scientific spheres in which scientists worked, is revealed. The Ukrainian-Georgian direction of the Pavlov’s session, which was considered peripheral from the point of view of the Moscow speakers appointed by J.V. Stalin, is covered. Based on the principle of action of V.A. Romanets, the main consequences of the aftereffect of seven decades are presented. These include the incompleteness of the aftermath of the Pavlov’s session, which consists not only in the indefinite implementation of its resolution, but also the transmission from generation to generation of scholars of postcolonial countries that emerged after the collapse of the USSR, ways of thinking, organizing relationships and imitative behavior that cannot be explained modern trends in the scientific world of free countries. The mechanisms of the system of organization of scientific activity tested by Pavlovskaya and other sessions, which after the collapse of the USSR replace the dead institutions of control over scientists, are revealed. The conclusions state that Ukraine must free itself from the communist Stalinist legacy, and that Ukrainian psychologists play a leading role in this, as the psychological climate of all Ukrainian science needs to change. It is noted that the creation of conditions for the free scientific search of Ukrainian scientists of all specialties requires the elimination of generalized fear, inherited and actualized by the current apologists of Stalinist academism. This fear must be transformed into the joy of creating previously unknown knowledge for the spiritual and intellectual prosperity of the Ukrainian nation in the community of other nations of the world.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Emily Kathryn James

<p>This research investigates how young Somali women are navigating through the resettlement process while negotiating their own identities in Wellington, New Zealand. It is important as it addresses two main research gaps: 1) it focuses on research with young Somali women at university and 2) it offers a strength-based analysis. The research also addresses important development concerns about how former refugees can better contribute into their host societies. Employing the use of participatory methods within a feminist qualitative methodology, I created a project that enabled the young women to voice their opinions regarding identity construction, cultural maintenance and their goals for the future.  I conducted approximately 150 hours of ethnographic research at organisations that catered to former refugee needs. I found a young female Somali student who worked as my Cultural Advisor and enhanced my credibility and access within the Somali community. I then conducted a focus group and five individual interviews with young Somali women to hear their narratives about their resettlement experience and their advice on how to improve the process for others. I conducted five interviews with key informants at organisations that provide support services for former refugees. The key informants gave the policy perspective on refugee resettlement as well as advice on how support services and the government can approve the transition for former refugees.  The results of this study revealed that the young women did feel tension at times negotiating their Somali culture and that of their host society but found benefits in both. The importance of the family resettling successfully was vital for the young women especially the wellbeing of their mothers and other female elders. The key informants echoed these sentiments and voiced the necessity for more women-focused support services. The young women also will be facing a second resettlement process through their emigration to Australia as they search for more job opportunities and a better Somali cultural connection.</p>


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