scholarly journals Editorial

2019 ◽  
pp. ii
Author(s):  
Sujit Sarkhel
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
The World ◽  
Indian Perspective

The theme for the World Mental Health Day this year is, “Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention”. In keeping with this theme we are bringing out a special issue of our journal on Suicide Prevention. The issue comprises of articles which are of significant relevance to suicide prevention in Indian perspective. We have an article on risk assessment. Subsequent two articles are important from the perspective of our government policy on suicide prevention: One article delves into the need of a National Policy on Suicide Prevention whereas the other one deals with legal aspects of suicide in India. Finally, the concluding article deals with Non-Suicidal Self Injury from an Indian viewpoint. I sincerely hope that the readership would find it useful to broaden their knowledge regarding various aspects of suicide prevention in our country.

scholarly journals Laws and Emerging Technologies

Laws ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Esther Salmerón-Manzano
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
The World ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Way

New technologies and so-called communication and information technologies are transforming our society, the way in which we relate to each other, and the way we understand the world. By a wider extension, they are also influencing the world of law. That is why technologies will have a huge impact on society in the coming years and will bring new challenges and legal challenges to the legal sector worldwide. On the other hand, the new communications era also brings many new legal issues such as those derived from e-commerce and payment services, intellectual property, or the problems derived from the use of new technologies by young people. This will undoubtedly affect the development, evolution, and understanding of law. This Special Issue has become this window into the new challenges of law in relation to new technologies.

scholarly journals Methodological Issues in Macro Comparative Research: An Introduction

2009 ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Kentor
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
World System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
The World

This special issue of JWSR is the offspring of an ASA Political Economy of the World System session that I organized in 2007. My thanks to Andrew Jorgenson, co-editor of JWSR, who moderated the session and proposed that I put together a special issue on this topic. In turn, I asked Timothy Moran to join me as co-editor of this issue. Tim is one of the foremost quantitative macro-comparative sociologists in the country, and was the discussant on the PEWS panel. Tim provides a summary and discussion of the contributions in the conclusion. As it turns out, only two of the panel presentations are included in this issue. The other two were submitted in response to a general call for papers. All four manuscripts were peer reviewed.

Policy in palliative care

2021 ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Connor
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
The Other ◽  
World Health ◽  
Public Health Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Care Policies ◽  
Health Model

This chapter describes all aspects of policy, including definitions, who is it that sets policy, how policy is made, how policy is implemented, the elements of effective policies, the differences between policies and regulations, the policies that are important for palliative care, global versus national policy differences, and barriers to the creation and implementation of palliative care policies. Understanding policy is important, as it is one of the fundamental building blocks of palliative care under the World Health Organization’s public health model. This model underscores the pre-eminence of policy, as it makes possible all the other elements. Palliative care professionals should understand the complexity inherent in policy and embrace it as an important area to master.

Complexity of Digital Media Crowning the Mental Health of Adolescents

2022 ◽  
pp. 100-117
Author(s):  
Disha Sharma ◽  
Sumona Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Other ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
The World ◽  
Basic Purpose ◽  
The Way

Digital media is working as a different planet showing the disparities between the fantasies of what everyone thought about their lives and the reality of how they are actually living. It is important to have hedonic and eudemonic happiness in the life of an adolescent which contributes to overall well-being and to flourish with achievements, but 75% of 12-22 years are on digital media and spend on average two hours a day there, and this issue needs to be addressed. The first section of the chapter deals with the disruptions created with the digital media in order the way adolescents compare their lives with everyone highlighted on media. The other section targets the direct impact of the same on adolescent lives and analyses the various recovery measures and stages required and various techniques the parents and peers can use to deal with such situations. The basic purpose of this is to add value in the world of economy of attention and how to outgrow it without hurting oneself and not turning micro moments into macro moments of digital media.

CDIO Standards and Quality Assurance

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
The World ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
Certification And Accreditation

With Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) approach collaborating institutions and programs in many countries and regions of the world, it is essential that the International CDIO Leadership Council promulgate processes to assure internal and external stakeholders that member institutions and programs are adhering to the 12 CDIO Standards. The Standards are what make CDIO a unique initiative in that they provide a vehicle for realizing the CDIO vision to transform the culture of engineering education. Therefore, the CDIO Council has developed five quality assurance processes that begin with the application to become a CDIO Collaborator and include self-evaluation, certification, and accreditation based on the CDIO Standards. This article discusses the CDIO quality assurance processes and the other articles in this special issue provide case studies and other examples related to the use of the processes by CDIO collaborators.

Praxivist imaginaries of decolonization: Can the psy be decolonized in the world as we know it?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Lee Miller ◽  
Michael J Miller
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Object Of Study

Guided by Denise Ferreira da Silva’s contributions to decolonization through a black feminist poethical mode of intervention, this article overall offers the provocation: Is decolonization possible in this world as we know it? Having been provoked by this question and its implications ourselves, we deem this provocation both necessary and an important contribution to the topic of this special issue. Within this provocation we briefly consider decolonization of the psy-disciplines, decolonization of the psy-curriculum, and decolonization as the end of the world as we know it, particularly through a praxivist imaginary. With this, we furthermore consider the radical potentials of abolition pedagogies that guide us to state that mental health, or the psyche, or the professions that take the psyche as their object of study, cannot be decolonized in the context of the world as we know it.

scholarly journals Chopping the world into bits: Africa, the World Bank, and the good governance norm

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
World Bank ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World

This article explores norms as idealizations, in an attempt to grasp their significance as projects for international organizations. We can think about norms as ‘standards of proper behaviour’. In this sense they are somehow natural, things to be taken for granted, noticed only really when they are absent. We can also think about norms as ‘understandings about what is good and appropriate’. In this sense, norms embody a stronger sense of virtue and an ability to enable progress or improvement. Norms become ideal when they are able to conflate what is good with what is appropriate, standard, or proper. It is when the good becomes ‘natural’ that a norm appears immanent and non-contestable, and so acquires an idealized form.45Along with the other articles in this special issue, I will attempt to challenge some of the complacency surrounding the apparent naturalness and universality of norms employed in international relations.

International approaches to school-based mental health: Intent of the Special Issue

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney L. McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Health It ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
School Based ◽  
The World

This article provides an overview of the special issue on international approaches to school-based mental health. It introduces the significance of the issues associated with mental health across the world and introduces the reader to the four articles highlighting different aspects of school-based mental health. Across these four articles, information about school-based mental health (SBMH) from the United States, Canada, Norway, Liberia, Chile, and Ireland are represented. The special issue concludes with an article introducing new methodology for examining mental health from a global perspective.

Successful and effective schools: Bridging the gap

2020 ◽  
pp. 174114322093258
Author(s):  
Petros Pashiardis ◽  
Olof Johansson
Keyword(s):  
School Improvement ◽  
Effective Schools ◽  
Education System ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Successful Schools ◽  
The Other ◽  
Leadership Framework ◽  
The World ◽  
Holistic Leadership ◽  
The Right

The main purpose of this paper is to examine perspectives of successful and effective leadership as well as successful and effective schools in an effort to uncover the governance interventions which produce one or the other characterization. This examination is undertaken through the utilization of two guiding frameworks: the Pashiardis-Brauckmann Holistic Leadership Framework and the Bredeson and Johansson framework for principals’ functions. Additionally, views on success and effectiveness from around the world are utilized. Following this, in this theoretically focused paper we make the argument that successful schools institutionalize the right processes in order to achieve and sustain the desired results and thus become effective. Then, in an effort to bring context into the equation, we discuss what the context is for each education system and student and if schools can make up for the deficiencies of a student’s individual context. We end our discussion by stressing the fact that researchers, through their work, can inspire teachers and principals with their (often) simple descriptions of complex school improvement processes. These descriptions have a profound effect on the applied pedagogical work in schools, which is sometimes more influential than national policy decisions and educational reforms.

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