scholarly journals Effective Advocacy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Alice Haddad
Keyword(s):  
Effective Advocacy

Nostalgia and play

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Harris
Keyword(s):  
Structured Interview ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Childhood Play ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Common Technique ◽  
Effective Advocacy

This chapter describes an exploration, through the use of semi-structured interview and nostalgia measures, of older generations’ memories and feelings of nostalgia about their own childhood play experiences and compared these with their ideas about children’s play today. Alongside this, children’s own accounts of playing in the same town in the Welsh Valleys were collected and compared with adult memories and beliefs about contemporary conditions for playing. Invoking memories of childhood play is a common technique used by play advocates. This chapter argues that a deeper appreciation of how memory is intricately entwined with affect, emotion and place allows for a more nuanced approach to using memory as an effective advocacy tool. The study was less concerned with the accuracy of memory and more with what memory does in terms of giving meaning to children’s play experiences today.

The Mouth that Roared: Effective Advocacy in the Nineties and Beyond

1995 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 1148-1149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Barnett ◽  
Michael L. Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Effective Advocacy

Advocacy to improve health

2018 ◽  
pp. 227-229
Author(s):  
Tony Waterston ◽  
Delan Devakumar
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Infant Feeding ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Speaking Out ◽  
Effective Advocacy ◽  
Improve Health

Advocacy is ‘speaking out on behalf of a particular issue, idea, or person’, acting as a catalyst for change. To achieve the targets described in this book requires advocates and champions. It is therefore an essential component of the work of all health professionals to ensure that services work better for the population and for patients. Effective advocacy requires diplomacy, persistence, an understanding of how systems work, and an ability to work with disciplines outside medicine. The targets of advocacy have traditionally been healthcare focused, but considering the wider social determinants of health is essential. An understanding of social and political science is essential when thinking of the best ways to advocate for and improve a situation. In this chapter, we summarise a toolkit for how to advocate to improve health, and provide two real-life case studies on the commercialisation of infant feeding and child abuse in Mumbai.

Publish or perish: why it’s important to publicise how, and if, research activities affect animals

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive R. McMahon ◽  
Mark A. Hindell ◽  
Robert G. Harcourt
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Vital Rates ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Publish Or Perish ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Basic Biology ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Effective Advocacy ◽  
Effective Conservation

Wildlife researchers and conservation biologists are encountering growing research difficulties due to strong and effective advocacy of animal welfare concerns. However, collecting information on the basic biology of animals, which is often essential to effective conservation and management, frequently involves invasive research. The latter is unacceptable to some animal welfare advocates, even if it ultimately leads to better conservation outcomes. For effective biodiversity conservation it is imperative that conservation and wildlife researchers lucidly present the case for their research on individual animals. This requires conservation biologists and the research community in general, to present these arguments in the public domain as well as in peer-reviewed literature. Moreover, it is important to measure how these activities affect animals. Only then can we show that high quality research activities often have little or no effects on animal vital rates and performance.

Counselling Psychology and Under-Represented Groups: A Vision for Advocacy as Mutual Transformation

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 678-684
Author(s):  
Janelle L. Kwee
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Mutual Transformation ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Effective Advocacy ◽  
Counselling Psychology

The discipline of counselling psychology in Canada has aligned consistently with social justice principles. Consistent with this, a working group at the 2018 Canadian Counselling Psychology Conference was assigned to consider the role of Canadian counselling psychology in advocating for the needs of members of under-represented groups. This brief report captures insights from the working group and focuses on two primary themes: a critical reformulation of advocacy as mutual transformation for personal and social change and a need to engage with change processes at multiple levels. The group conceptualized effective advocacy as recentring historically marginalized perspectives while decentring “expert” roles and traditionally dominant perspectives.

Advocacy in Aging: Notes for the Next Generation

2005 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris C. Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Effective Advocacy

Social work advocacy in aging is marked by enduring issues that call for contemporary skills and technology. Economic pressures on our clients and our agencies have resulted in an unbroken focus on access, quality, rights, and vulnerability. Effective advocacy with and on behalf of increasingly diverse elderly clients will require that we understand and confront the systems that shape our practice.

Effective Advocacy in Rural Domains

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (12) ◽  
pp. 2192-2217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melencia Johnson ◽  
Shelly A. McGrath ◽  
Michelle Hughes Miller
Keyword(s):  
Effective Advocacy

The Case for Multiple Advocacy in Making Foreign Policy

1972 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 751-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander L. George
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Harmful Effect ◽  
Role Conflicts ◽  
Personal Power ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Effective Advocacy ◽  
Security Affairs ◽  
Do So

The system of multiple advocacy attempts to convert intraorganizational conflicts over policy into a balanced system of policy analysis and debate. This requires the executive to (1) structure and manage the policy-making system to ensure that there are advocates to cover the range of interesting policy options on a given issue; (2) equalize or compensate for disparities among the actors in the resources needed for effective advocacy; (3) identify and correct possible “malfunctions” in the policy-making process before they can have a harmful effect on the executive's choice of policy. Nine types of malfunctions are identified in this paper via critical diagnosis of U.S. foreign policy making in cases in which the executive had to decide questions of commitment, intervention, or escalation. Responsibility for identifying and correcting such malfunctions and for managing multiple advocacy effectively should be clearly fixed with the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs. However, the Special Assistant should not combine the role of “custodian-manager” of the policy-making system with the additional tasks of (a) policy adviser to the President; (b) public spokesman for existing policies; (c) “watch-dog” of the President's personal power stakes; or (d) implementer of policy decisions already taken. The attempt to do so invites serious role conflicts that can undermine the Special Assistant's performance of the all-important task of custodian.

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