scholarly journals Blood substitute family as a socio-cultural environment for a child left without care, conditions and features of its professional support

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-178
Author(s):  
Yelena A. Lesina
Keyword(s):  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Blood Substitute ◽  
Professional Support ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Substitute Care ◽  
Specific Category ◽  
Close Relatives

The article discusses the features of the blood substitute family as a socio-cultural environment of the child and the importance of professional support for its effective and successful functioning. The blood substitute family is the most common form of family placement of orphaned children, children left without parental care, throughout the historical period and currently accounts for more than 60% of all existing substitute families. The blood substitute family is a specific category within the substitute care. The peculiarities of its creation and functioning determine the topicality of specific professional support for the family. Psychological and pedagogic support is most often expressed in the official legally approved training of potential foster parents and support for families of this category. At the same time, while there is an objectively urgent need for support and assistance, problems still exist which are associated with the optionality of these services to close relatives who adopted children for family placement, their implementation in the framework of leisure activities, low motivation, fears and distrust of the official professional service. The socio-pedagogic conditions given in the article, which determine the forms and content of professional support for all members of the blood substitute family, determine the effectiveness of the service's specialists in terms of preventing second orphanhood and assistance of providing the prosperity for all its members.

Recruiting and Retaining Foster Carers: Implications of a Professional Service in Fife

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Ramsay
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Recent Survey ◽  
Professional Support ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
The Impact

Since 1990, all foster carers in Fife have been paid a professional fee plus maintenance allowances, and the fostering service has been managed by two specialist teams of social workers. Using findings from a recent survey of foster carers in the region, Donald Ramsay compares the characteristics of the carers with earlier British studies, and assesses the impact on turnover and recruitment of the financial and professional support they receive.

scholarly journals The Attitudes of Primary School Teachers towards Leisure

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Özden Tepeköylü Öztürk ◽  
Mümine Soytürk ◽  
Yeliz Ilgar Doğan
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
General Information ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Significant Difference

This study aims to analyze the attitudes of primary school teachers towards leisure. It also aims to determine whether the attitudes of primary school teachers vary according to their gender and leisure activities they attend. A total of 355 primary school teachers ( age= 45.08±7.91), including 188 females and 167 males, volunteered to participate in this study. “Leisure Attitude Scale" developed by Beard and Ragheb (1982) and adapted into Turkish by Akgül and Gürbüz (2010) and “General Information Form” were utilized to collect data. The findings of this study indicates that the leisure attitudes levels of teachers were quite high ( mean= 4.28±.33). Also according to gender of the participants, a significant difference was found in favor of the female teachers in regards to the attitude of leisure in the cognitive sub-dimension and in total points but not in the affective and behavioral sub-dimensions. In terms of the most preferred leisure activity, there was a significant difference in the behavioral sub-dimension of the leisure attitude scale of teachers, whereas there was no statistically significant difference in the cognitive, affective sub-dimensions and total scores. Accordingly, teachers who preferred physical activities in leisure had higher points than the ones who preferred other activities with regards to the behavioral sub-dimensional. In addition, no significant relationship was found between the ages of the teachers, the years of professional service, the leisure attitude scale sub-dimensions and total score.

scholarly journals Variations of wealth resemblance by family relationship types in modern Chinese families

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (14) ◽  
pp. 6548-6553 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Y. Cyrus Chu ◽  
Kamhon Kan ◽  
Jou Chun Lin
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Genetic Relatedness ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Resemblance ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Close Relatives

For a long time, social scientists have used correlations in social status, measured by such characteristics as schooling, income, or occupation, across family members to capture family resemblance in social status. In this study, we use millions of records from a public registry to estimate the wealth correlations among Taiwanese kinship members, from the closest parent–child pairing to the farthest kinship ties, with only 1/32 genetic relatedness. Based on this wealth correlation, we present a complete picture of economic similarity among kin members. These correlations give us a better grasp of the hitherto obscure Chinese family structure than that of mechanical genetic relatedness. We obtain statistical evidence to support the following hypotheses: Family members’ wealth resemblance to male egos is stronger than to female egos, wealth correlations are larger along patrilineal lines than along matrilineal counterparts, wealthy families have larger correlations within the nuclear family members but smaller correlations outside it, and adopted children have weaker wealth resemblance with close relatives.

scholarly journals Corrective and Preventive Potential of Traditional Game (Experimental Research Planning)

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.B. Teplova ◽  
V.A. Chernushevich
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Work ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Diagnostic Methods ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Early Prevention ◽  
Communicative Development ◽  
Game Practice ◽  
Traditional Game ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The article presents the empirical and theoretical foundations of experimental work to determine the effectiveness of game practice as a remedial and preventive resource in psychological work. A game program composed of traditional (folklore) games is presented. The program is considered as the basis of a lively gaming cultural environment with a high correctional and preventive potential. The goal of the program is early prevention of a tendency toward deviant behavior in preschool children. The main parameters of the level of social and communicative development of a child, on which the tendency to deviant behavior depends, are defined: the ability to follow the rules, the ability to interact, emotional stability, the ability to maintain friendly relationships in the group. The measurement indicators of the adopted parameters are highlighted in the framework of the relevant diagnostic methods. The developed scheme for monitoring the behavior of a child in the game is presented. The content of the original special course "Organization of leisure activities for children and adolescents" for specialists in the prevention of deviant behavior is being worked out.

scholarly journals EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL OF THE UDMURT STATE UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS CLUB IN STUDYING PROCESS OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 430-440
Author(s):  
I.B. Vorozhtsova ◽  
M.S. Kruchinina
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
State University ◽  
Interactive Games ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Educational Potential

The article focuses on the quality assurance issue of international students training in Russian universities at all levels (degree and non-degree). Lots of higher education institutions of the country admit international students, and they face similar hardships there, affecting their studies: lack of information regarding the country, different climate, lifestyle, living conditions, and the new language to acquire. The paper reviews the research on widely accepted organizational and administrative steps, along with pedagogical decisions, developed by the pedagogical community to support international students in social adaptation. We herewith reveal that the pedagogical support in this respect focuses on the educational potential of socio-cultural environment and is aimed to involve international students in a varied range of extra-curricular cognitive, research and leisure activities. Their life and cognitive foreign cultural experience being applied in the course of teaching Russian as a foreign language clears out the possibility of a broader educational context - social organizations activity. The article considers the International Students Club (UdSU social organization) activities through participation of international students. The grounding technologies to involve international students in team work with Russian students are project and play based learning. The article describes a number of projects and interactive games. The educational environment of this kind has the advantage of Russian and international students interacting and is characterized by multilingualism, equality of participants, informal communication, freedom to implement creative ideas, openness to the newcomers, as well as increased productivity. It contributes to the development of new and diverse speech practices in verbal and written communication, whereas their cognitive activity in discovering new socio-cultural environment helps develop professional skills.

Sinusoidal Cells in Bone Marrow Take Up BSA-Au Conjugates in the Presence of an Artificial Blood Substitute

1985 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 700-701
Author(s):  
J.S. Geoffroy ◽  
R.P. Becker
Keyword(s):  
Bone Marrow ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Iliac Artery ◽  
Blood Substitute ◽  
Sprague Dawley ◽  
Coated Pits ◽  
Sinusoidal Cells ◽  
Artificial Blood ◽  
Left Common Iliac Artery

The pattern of BSA-Au uptake in vivo by endothelial cells of the venous sinuses (sinusoidal cells) of rat bone marrow has been described previously. BSA-Au conjugates are taken up exclusively in coated pits and vesicles, enter and pass through an “endosomal” compartment comprised of smooth-membraned tubules and vacuoles and cup-like bodies, and subsequently reside in multivesicular and dense bodies. The process is very rapid, with BSA-Au reaching secondary lysosmes one minute after presentation. (Figure 1)In further investigations of this process an isolated limb perfusion method using an artificial blood substitute, Oxypherol-ET (O-ET; Alpha Therapeutics, Los Angeles, CA) was developed. Under nembutal anesthesia, male Sprague-Dawley rats were laparotomized. The left common iliac artery and vein were ligated and the right iliac artery was cannulated via the aorta with a small vein catheter. Pump tubing, preprimed with oxygenated 0-ET at 37°C, was connected to the cannula.

Perceived Voice Disorders in Older Adults and Impact on Social Interactions

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Connie K. Porcaro ◽  
Clare Singer ◽  
Boris Djokic ◽  
Ali A. Danesh ◽  
Ruth Tappen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Voice Disorders ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Vocal Performance ◽  
Older Individuals ◽  
Cross Sectional

Purpose Many aging individuals, even those who are healthy, report voice changes that can impact their ability to communicate as they once did. While this is commonly reported, most do not seek evaluation or management for this issue. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence and differences in voice disorders in older adults, along with the effect of fatigue on their social interactions. Method This is a cross-sectional investigation of a community-dwelling sample of individuals aged 60 years or older. Participants completed the Questionnaire on Vocal Performance, the Social Engagement Index subset “Engagement in Social or Leisure Activities,” and the Fatigue Severity Scale. Results Results indicated 32.5% of the 332 participants reported symptoms of voice problems with no difference found between male and female respondents. A slight increase in report of voice problems was noted with each year of age. Participants who self-reported voice problems indicated less interaction in social activities involving communication than those who did not. Finally, as severity of self-reported voice problems increased, an increase was reported by the same individuals for signs of fatigue. Conclusions Voice problems and resulting decreased social interaction are commonly experienced by older individuals. Voice symptoms in older adults have been found to benefit from evidence-based treatment strategies. It is critical to provide education to encourage older individuals to seek appropriate evaluation and management for voice issues through a speech-language pathologist or medical professional.

Children's Nonword Repetition Tasks and English Language Learners

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-79
Author(s):  
Sara C. Steele ◽  
Deborah A. Hwa-Froelich
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
English Language ◽  
Nonword Repetition ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Bilingual Speakers ◽  
Internationally Adopted Children ◽  
English Speaking

Nonword repetition performance has been shown to differentiate monolingual English-speaking children with language impairment (LI) from typically developing children. These tasks have been administered to monolingual speakers of different languages and to simultaneous and sequential bilingual English Language Learners (ELLs) with mixed results. This article includes a review of the nonword repetition performance of monolingual and bilingual speakers and of internationally adopted children. Clinical implications for administration and interpretation of nonword repetition task outcomes are included.

Leisure Activities and the Subjective Well-Being of Older Adults in Croatia

GeroPsych ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljiljana Kaliterna Lipovčan ◽  
Tihana Brkljačić ◽  
Zvjezdana Prizmić Larsen ◽  
Andreja Brajša-Žganec ◽  
Renata Franc
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Perceived Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Financial Status

Abstract. Research shows that engagement in leisure activities promotes well-being among older adults. The objective of the current study was to examine the relationship between subjective well-being (flourishing) and leisure activities (total number of different activities in the previous year) in a sample of older adults in Croatia, thereby considering the variables of sex, marital status, financial status, and self-perceived health. The differences in the examined variables between the groups of older adults who reported to be engaged in new activities with those who did not were also examined. The sample of N = 169 older adults aged 60 years and above was drawn from a convenience sample of adult internet users in Croatia. Participants reported their self-perceived health and the number of leisure activities they engaged in over the previous year as well as completing the Flourishing Scale. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that older adults who were engaged in more various leisure activities, who perceived better financial status, and who were married reported higher levels of flourishing. A comparison of the two groups of older adults with and without engagement in leisure activities showed that those engaged in at least one leisure activity were more likely to be women, reported higher levels of flourishing, and perceived their own financial status as better. This study indicated that engaging in leisure activities in later life might provide beneficial effects for the well-being of older adults.

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