Classification of Social Problems With Regard to Educational Environments

2022 ◽  
pp. 141-191
Author(s):  
Marija J. Karačić

Educational environments in which the upbringing of children and young people is performed are very important as factors of upbringing. In order to create organizational, personal, material, and professional prerequisites for proper family education, preschool education, and leisure education, it is necessary to have appropriate analysis of this phenomenon. From the research of this problem, it can be concluded that family education does not take place adequately, that in certain situations there is still not enough attention paid by professional institutions to educate parents as educators. A large number of children and young people have difficulties in the process of their socialization and in communication, etc. negatively selected from the educational system. The study of contributing factors is very important and significant both for professionals and other educators.

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-217
Author(s):  
Jennifer Kelly

Childhood cancer is something most GPs think to be rare, yet it is the biggest medical cause of death in children aged between 1 and 14 years. Its incidence is increasing, with just under 4000 children and young people diagnosed with cancer every year in the UK (11 a day). It is important for GPs to know the signs and symptoms suggestive of childhood cancers, in order to help early diagnosis. This, in turn, can save lives and reduce disability in survivors. The number of children surviving cancer is increasing, with over 35 000 survivors now thought to be living in the UK and in need of particular expertise and care. This article aims to provide GPs with the tools and knowledge to diagnose childhood cancer, and a framework to support children with cancer and their families long-term in the community.


2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karleen Gribble ◽  
Rebecca English

<p><span style="color: #131413; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Children who experience maltreatment in their families may be placed in out-of-home care. A large, and increasing, number of children are being raised in these settings in Australia. The history of maltreatment that children in out-of-home care have experienced results in a variety of educational challenges. It is generally believed that schools are best placed to serve the educational needs of these children. However, there is extensive evidence that schools are unable to facilitate learning success for many children in out-of-home care. This paper argues that because home education can provide a low- stress environment and individually tailored learning, it can be an effective method of education for children and young people in out-of-home care. A case study of a home-educated child in out-of-home care is presented.</span></p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 104 (6) ◽  
pp. 292-297
Author(s):  
Sally Hobson ◽  
Max Davie ◽  
Michael Farquhar

Sleep difficulties are common in children and young people presenting with features of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Sleep problems may be both an effect of and a contributor to ADHD symptomatology, as well as having a significant impact on both individual and family functioning and well-being. There are often complex interacting contributing factors. Assessment of children presenting with symptoms suggestive of possible ADHD should include routine enquiry about sleep. Ongoing management of children with diagnosed ADHD should include regular reassessment and review of sleep. When sleep difficulties are present, we discuss how to further assess these, including the role of investigations, and a structured management strategy.


BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. e026967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah L Brand ◽  
Fiona Morgan ◽  
Lorna Stabler ◽  
Alison Lesley Weightman ◽  
Simone Willis ◽  
...  

IntroductionThe increasing number of children and young people entering statutory care in the UK is a significant social, health and educational priority. Development of effective approaches to safely reduce this number remains a complex but critical issue. Despite a proliferation in interventions, evidence summaries are limited. The present protocol outlines a scoping review of research evidence to identify what works in safely reducing the number of children and young people (aged ≤18 years) entering statutory social care. The mapping of evidence gaps, clusters and uncertainties will inform the research programme of the newly funded Department for Education’s What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care.Methods and analysisThe review uses Arksey and O’Malley’s scoping review methodology. Electronic database and website searches will identify studies targeting reduction of care entry, reduction of care re-entry and increase in post-care reunification. Supplementary searching techniques will include international expert consultation. Abstracts and full-text studies will be independently screened by two reviewers. Ten per cent of data abstraction will be independently conducted by two reviewers, with the remainder being extracted and then verified by a second reviewer. Descriptive numerical summaries and a thematic qualitative synthesis will be generated. Evidence will be synthesised according to primary outcome, intervention point (mapped across socioecological domains) and the realist EMMIE categorisation of evidence type (Effectiveness; Mechanisms of change; Moderators; Implementation; Economic evaluation).Ethics and disseminationOutputs will be a conceptual evidence map, a descriptive table quantitatively summarising evidence and a qualitative narrative summary. Results will be disseminated through a peer-reviewed publication, conference presentations, the What Works Centre website, and knowledge translation events with policy-makers and practitioners. Findings will inform the primary research programme of the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care and the subsequent suite of systematic reviews to be conducted by the Centre in this substantive area.


2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Ainsworth ◽  
Patricia Hansen

The media coverage of foster care in Australia is replete with adoration for foster carers who look after disadvantaged and difficult children and youth. As this article is being written, New South Wales is holding a ‘foster care week’ with enhanced media coverage and praise for foster carers, the recruitment of new foster carers and acclaim for the ‘foster carer of the year’. Yet, there is another side to foster care that offers less than ideal circumstances for children in care. There is the worrying issue of multiple placements, the problem with children and young people running away from foster care before they reach the legal age for discharge, and evidence of increased incidence of poor educational attainment and involvement in juvenile offending for young people in foster care. In addition, there are cases of foster children being abused by foster carers. As adults, former foster-care children and youth are over-represented among the homeless, in adult correction centres, the unemployed and the users of mental health services. This article documents these negative outcomes of entering the foster-care system, and asks whether family (or non-relative) foster care can survive this evidence. For too many children and young people, family foster care may not provide better outcomes than less-than-optimal parental care from which the children were removed. An alternative is to reduce the use of family foster care and increase intensive support and parenting education services for birth parents who have limited parenting capacity. The aim should be to limit the number of children being taken into care.


2016 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Coad ◽  
Alex Toft ◽  
Susie Lapwood ◽  
Joseph Manning ◽  
Mark Hunter ◽  
...  

With the growing number of children and young people with complex care needs or life-limiting conditions, alternative routes for nutrition have been established (such as gastrostomy feeding). The conditions of children and young people who require such feeding are diverse but could relate to problems with swallowing (dysphagia), digestive disorders or neurological/muscular disorders. However, the use of a blended diet as an alternative to prescribed formula feeds for children fed via a gastrostomy is a contentious issue for clinicians and researchers. From a rapid review of the literature, we identify that current evidence falls into three categories: (1) those who feel that the use of a blended diet is unsafe and substandard; (2) those who see benefits of such a diet as an alternative in particular circumstances (eg, to reduce constipation) and (3) those who see merit in the blended diet but are cautious to proclaim potential benefits due to the lack of clinical research. There may be some benefits to using blended diets, although concerns around safety, nutrition and practical issues remain.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Stephanie Shen ◽  
Sally Mackay ◽  
Arier Lee ◽  
Cliona Ni Mhurchu ◽  
Ahmed Sherif ◽  
...  

Abstract Objective: To evaluate the impact of the 2017 update to the voluntary Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) Code for Advertising Food on children and young people’s exposure to unhealthy food advertisements on New Zealand television. Design: Audience ratings data were analysed for New Zealand children and young people’s television viewing for eight random days prior to (June to August 2015) and following (October to December 2018) the code update, from 6.00am-midnight (864 hours). Food advertisements were coded using three nutrient profiling models. The number of children and young people watching television each year were compared. Setting: Three free-to-air New Zealand television channels. Participants: New Zealand children aged 5-18 years. Results: Television viewer numbers decreased over the three years (P<0.0001). The mean rate of unhealthy food advertising on weekdays was 10.4 advertisements/hour (2015) and 9.5 advertisements/hour (2018). Corresponding rates for weekend days were 8.1 and 7.3 advertisements/hour, respectively. The percentage of food advertisements which were for unhealthy foods remained high (63.7% on weekdays and 65.9% on weekends) in 2018. The ASA definition of children’s ‘peak viewing time’ (when 25% of the audience are children) did not correspond to any broadcast times across weekdays and weekend days. Conclusions: Between 2015 and 2018, children and young people’s television exposure to unhealthy food advertising decreased. However, almost two-thirds of all food advertisements were still unhealthy, and the updated ASA code excluded the times when the greatest number of children were watching television. Consequently, government regulation and regular monitoring should reflect the evolving food marketing environment.


Author(s):  
Hatice Yurtseven Yılmaz ◽  
Ozan İpek

The social and technological developments experienced have led the 21st century children to digital tools for education, entertainment and communication. The concepts of literacy were also affected by this tendency, and with the spread of extracurricular reading and writing activities, students’ literacy tendencies rapidly began to evolve from paper to screen. The Wattpad is also a text writing and sharing application that children and young people engagedly turn to. In this uncontrolled free platform, thousands of stories written in various forms of expressions on all kinds of subjects are presented to the admiration of children in the developmental age and are quickly consumed by many children and young people who are not yet digitally literate. In this qualitative research, which is designed as a case study, 6 stories that were awarded in 2018 within the scope of the Wattys Awards given by Wattpad each year with user votes were examined within the framework of the concept of violence. The data were obtained through document analysis and they were analyzed with the descriptive analysis method according to Polat’s (2016) classification of “physical violence, sexual violence, emotional violence, economic violence and cyber violence” and analyzed according to the determined codes and categories. The findings show that there are many elements of violence in the stories examined and that these mainly include physical and emotional violence types. The acts of “killing” and “dying” in the physical violence, and the insults aimed at disdaining and ridiculing were the most common forms of emotional violence. The fact that these stories, in which all kinds of violence were encountered, were deemed worthy of awards by the readers, revealed that readers had an interest in violent genres, and Wattpad fed this interest of young readers. For this reason, it is recommended that Wattpad application be used under the family supervision and an editorial application be implemented within Wattpad itself.


Author(s):  
Mervyn Murch

This chapter summarizes some key social and demographic statistics from England and Wales which illustrate the scale of the challenge which faces any governments should they wish to develop strategic preventative social and legal policies to better support children and young people caught up in the critical family transitions following the breakdown of their parents' relationship. It begins with some preliminary observations which may not be immediately apparent from the bold figures. It then discusses fluctuating divorce rates and the increase in cohabitation, and statistical problems concerning the number of children involved in private law litigation involving contact and residence orders.


2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Huxtable

This paper explores the implications of a model that works from the premise that all children may be capable of what is currently considered to be exceptional performance, in one or more areas of skill, talent or endeavour. In this scenario the role of the educator is to develop their pedagogical understanding and practice so that an increasing number of children have the opportunity to give expression to their exceptional ability during their life time. The paper goes on to introduce a framework I have been developing to enable me to reflect on and progress a learning environment which provides the experiences and support that will enable children and young people to develop the attitudes, attributes, understandings and skills of thought full and thoughtful learners, with informed aspirations, and the confidence, competence and understanding of themselves, necessary to realise them, to their own and society's benefit.


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