A SOCIAL ANALYSIS OF DRUG ABUSE IN EGYPT "A CASE STUDY ON A SAMPLE OF ABUSERS IN TREATMENT PHASE AT AN EGYPTIAN HOSPITAL. تحلیل اجتماعى لمشکلة تعاطى المخدرات فى مصر "دراسة على عینة من المتعاطین فى مرحلة العلاج بأحد المستشفیات المصریة".

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the actual condition of the students of University of Rajshahi (RU) regarding drug abuse and addiction. Using case study method the research was conducted with four objectives: (a) to find out how respondents began drug abuse; (b) to discover the causes of their drug addiction; (c) to understand the process of their drug abuse; and (d) to find out the economic, social and health effects of drug abuse. Methods: Case study method was used in this research. Through snowball sampling 18 drug- addicted students of RU were selected as respondents. In-depth interview with a schedule was used to collect data from the respondents in January 2019. Results: Findings of the study show that the causes of drug addiction included curiosity, frustration, friends’ request, neglect from family and friends etc. The drugs which they usually abused were Yaba, Phensydyle, Ganja (Weed), Chuani etc. Their average monthly expenditure for collecting drugs was in between Taka 8,000-10,000. They collected those drugs from rickshaw pullers at different points within the campus and from Mizaner Mor, Budhpara slum and other places outside the campus. The respondents opined that drugs were available if sufficient money could be spent. The respondents had senior and junior fellow students and local boys as companions while taking drugs. Most of them faced physical problems after taking drugs, and some of them tried to get rid of this curse of drug addiction. Conclusion: The findings of this research show that the rate of drug addiction among the students of RU was quite alarming. Therefore, all stakeholders including the students, guardians, teachers, university authority, the law makers and law enforcing agencies, researchers, civil society, NGO’s and the state must come forward together to combat this formidable foe.

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Komunikasi Terapeutik Korban Penyalahgunaan Narkoba melalui Tarekat

Ilmu Dakwah Academic Journal for Homiletic Studies ◽

10.15575/idajhs.v11i1.1530 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 195-218

Author(s):

Dadang Muliawan

Keyword(s):

Drug Abuse ◽

Child Development ◽

Therapeutic Strategy ◽

Healing Process ◽

Verbal Communication ◽

Communication Process ◽

Development Communication ◽

Methods And Techniques ◽

Therapeutic Processes

The study aims to describe therapeutic processes, strategies, methods and techniques of drug abuse victims. The method used is case study. The research explains, the process of rehabilitation conducted Inabah II Putri at various stages of rehabilitation, found steps in the healing process, namely the existence of communication process between the coaches with child development, communication is therapeutic. Strategy is done by coaching to the child of bina through interaction verbal communication and nonverbal therapeutic, by giving teachings of Tariqat Qodiriyyah Naqsabandiyyah, that is; Talqin dhikr, bath repentance, prayer, dhikr and khataman. Coaching is done to help reduce the burden of thoughts and their feelings so slowly but surely the child can be recovered, have the awareness to always be on the path that is pleasing Allah SWT.Penelitian bertujuan mendeskribsikan proses, strategi, metode dan teknik komunikasi terapeutik terhadap korban penyalahgunaan narkoba. Metode yang digunakan adalah studi kasus. Penelitian menjelaskan, proses rehabilitasi dilakukan Inabah II Putri pada berbagai tahapan rehabilitasi, ditemukan langkah-langkah dalam proses penyembuhan, yaitu adanya proses komunikasi antara para pembina dengan anak bina, komunikasi tersebut bersifat terapeutik. Strategi dilakukan dengan pembinaan kepada anak bina melalui interaksi komunikasi verbal dan nonverbal terapeutik, dengan memberikan ajaran Thariqat Qodiriyyah Naqsabandiyyah, yaitu; talqin dzikir, mandi taubat, sholat, dzikir dan khataman. Pembinaan dilakukan untuk membantu mengurangi beban fikiran dan perasaan mereka sehingga pelahan-lahan tapi pasti anak bina bisa pulih, mempunyai kesadaran untuk senantiasa berada di jalan yang diridhai Allah SWT.

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Into the Wild, Out of the Woods: A Systematic Case Study on Facilitating Emotional Change

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology ◽

10.1177/0306624x19866977 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 63 (15-16) ◽

pp. 2586-2610

Author(s):

E. Gunst ◽

J. Willemsen ◽

M. Desmet ◽

J. C. Watson ◽

T. Loeys ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Behavioral Treatment ◽

Psychological Symptoms ◽

Treatment Phase ◽

Self Report ◽

Potential Contribution ◽

Process Data ◽

Baseline Phase ◽

Treatment As Usual ◽

Emotional Change

Cognitive and behavioral treatment programs for individuals who have committed sexual offenses (ISOs) have shown significant but small effect sizes. A growing body of research points toward the importance of difficulties in affect regulation (AR) as a risk factor for sexual recidivism. On this basis, it seems important to target difficulties in AR in treatment. The current systematic case study investigates the potential contribution of emotion-focused therapy (EFT) to changing problematic AR in ISOs. Kevin was a high-risk offender with a traumatic history who met the diagnostic criteria of pedophilic and borderline disorders, with serious AR difficulties. Self-report outcome measures, observation measures, and a biomarker were used to track changes in AR, psychological symptoms, and distress during baseline (Phase A); treatment as usual (Phase B); treatment with an EFT component added (Phase C); and follow-up (Phase A). Statistically significant change was found in AR, psychological symptoms, and distress during treatment (Phase B + C); however, it is not possible to attribute these changes causally to EFT. An examination of the qualitative process data provides deeper insights into how the client reacted to specific EFT interventions. Verbatim clinical vignettes are included to clarify key interventions, hindrances, and mechanisms of change. This study provides preliminary support for the role of therapy to facilitate emotional change in ISOs.

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Economics, Race, and the Postwar US Novel: A Quantitative Literary History

American Literary History ◽

10.1093/alh/ajz042 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 31 (4) ◽

pp. 775-804 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Daniel Sinykin ◽

Richard Jean So ◽

Jessica Young

Keyword(s):

Literary History ◽

Academic Discipline ◽

White Men ◽

Social Analysis ◽

Postwar Period ◽

The Us ◽

The Relationship

Abstract How has the language of economics, as codified by economics as a discipline, entered the US novel in the postwar period? Have economists influenced novelists at the level of language, and if so, how and how much? We begin with the belief, inferred from current scholarship on economics and culture, but never before empirically tested, that economic language became more prevalent around 1980, especially among white men—a belief that we strive to complicate and give nuance. Readers may detect an irony in the relationship between our method and case study. No academic discipline has valorized the use of quantification for social analysis more than economics. As a discipline, its language has become saturated with the language of modeling. Cultural and literary critics have long argued that economics has even harmed society by creating false accounts of how humans behave and think. Can we take their tools, however, and make them ours as a way to critique economics itself?

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The Use of Visual Prompts to Increase Kegel Exercise Performance in Pregnant Women: A Case Study

Behaviour Change ◽

10.1017/s081348390000334x ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 231-235

Author(s):

Carole Elliott ◽

Stephen Houghton ◽

Shane Langsford

Keyword(s):

Pregnant Women ◽

Exercise Performance ◽

Repeated Measures ◽

Treatment Phase ◽

Multiple Baseline ◽

Baseline Phase ◽

Kegel Exercises ◽

Repeated Measures Analysis ◽

Visual Prompts

A multiple baseline research design utilising visual prompts was implemented with 7 women in varying stages of pregnancy (24 to 35 weeks) to increase their frequency of Kegel pelvic exercises. Following a baseline phase, in which participants self-recorded their rates of Kegel exercise, an intervention comprising visual prompts was introduced. A return to baseline phase was then implemented where the visual prompts were removed. Data were analysed in two ways. First, a Friedman one-way repeated measures analysis of variance revealed a significant increase in the frequency of Kegel exercises during intervention. When the intervention was removed, the frequency of Kegel exercises decreased, in some cases to a level below that established as the original baseline. Second, data were analysed for each participant using DMITSA 2.0, which revealed that, while all individuals experienced increases in Kegel exercising from baseline to treatment phase, only 3 of the 7 experienced significant increases. Similarly, while 6 of the 7 participants experienced reductions in frequency of exercises when the treatment phase concluded, in only one case was the reduction significant. These findings are also compared to recommended rates of Kegel exercise regimes.

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