Part 2 – Roots to Grow and Wings to Fly: An Ethnography of Psychosocial Development in Adolescent Performance Sport.

Part 1 of this 2-paper series identified a wide and deep network of context, generative mechanisms and outcomes responsible for psychosocial development in a performance basketball club. In this – part 2 – study, the stakeholder’s programme theories were tested during a full-season ethnography of the same club. The findings confirm the highly individualised nature of each young person’s journey. Methodologically, immersion in the day-to-day environment generated a fine-grain analysis of the processes involved, including: i) sustained attentional focus; ii) structured and unstructured skill building activities; iii) deliberate and incidental support; and iv) feelings indicating personal growth. Personal development in and through sport is thus shown to be conditional, multi-faceted, time-sensitive and idiosyncratic. The findings of this two-part study are considered to propose a model of psychosocial development in and through sport. This heuristic tool is presented to support sport psychologists, coaches, club administrators and parents to deliberately create and optimise developmental environments.

Collaborative Legacy Building to Alleviate Emotional Pain and Suffering in Pediatric Cancer Patients: A Case Review

Childhood cancer patients experience emotional hardship associated with their life-threatening diagnoses. Interdisciplinary team members working in pediatric cancer care can help alleviate physical pain and psychological suffering of children by facilitating collaborative legacy-building activities with patients and families. The contents of this article aim to support legacy building as a medium for emotional healing prior to the end of life. The authors use a case review to contextualize legacy-building projects and provide a comprehensive overview of methods and considerations for these initiatives.

Nations Quest for Peace and Alignment to the New Normal: Any Roles for the Marketing Profession?

Peace is one of the most desirable ingredients required for the existence of every human community, and the need for it has quadrupled as a result of the multiple challenges facing the world today. These challenges have further been exacerbated by the need to adjust to the new normal in our contemporary society which nexuses with business operations. The chances for peaceful societies have been fatally sacrificed at the altar of greed, selfish inclinations and the desires for self-aggrandizement of man; and these have made peace a scare commodity. The absence of peace has been linked with catastrophic effects, including business turbulence; which is the reason why deliberate efforts are constantly made by individuals, governments and religious institutions to foster peace. Sadly, the outcomes of these initiatives have not been much to be desired hence the need for a paradigm shift. This paper examined extant literature on the place of the marketing profession in nations’ quest for peace. Peace like every commodity can be marketed; hence the argument of this paper that the marketing mix variables of product, price, place, promotion, preach, propagate and patronize readily find application in marketing peace. This paper concluded on the note that the clamor for a paradigm shift in the quest for peace in nations is in the right direction. More so, such shift must include the involvement of marketing professionals into the army of global peace seekers. Therefore, this paper recommends that national governments should promote matters that foster unity, develop a common national value and deploy social marketing programs. Furthermore, corporate organisations should consider peace marketing as a worthy cause to embrace, and firms should be willing to finance peace building activities as well as form coalitions of mega corporations for the promotion and protection of global peace.

The Role of Southeast Sulawesi PPPKMI in Strengthening Health Promotion Strategies As a Covid-19 Response Effort

Covid-19 is now one world pandemic and efforts health promotion strategies have a very large role to prevent the spread of Covid-19. PPPKMI is a professional organization of health promotion workers who play an important role in strengthening health promotion strategies in Southeast Sulawesi in efforts to overcome Covid-19 . The purpose of this study was to determine the role of the Southeast Sulawesi PPPKMI professional organization in strengthening health promotion strategies as an effort to overcome Covid-19. This type of study is a qualitative study with a phenomenological approach using data collection techniques through observation and in-depth interviews, tracing documents and processed by content analysis. Research informants are PPPKMI administrators, PPPKMI partners, and health promotion workers under the PPPKMI professional organization. According to the results of the study, it was found that the empowerment activities carried out by PPPKMI consisted of self-efficacy and health literacy. Atmosphere Development, consisting of appraisal support, tangiable support, self-esteem support. Advocacy is carried out by providing recommendations to local governments with various prevention recommendations so that this pandemic does not spread further. Therefore, the conclusion of this study is PPPKMI professional organization in strengthening health promotion strategies as a Covid-19 response effort in Southeast Sulawesi in 2021 is carried out using three ways, namely empowerment activities, atmosphere building activities and advocacy activities. All activities are carried out by PPPKMI According to important tasks and goals of activity according to the established laws.

“We Do the Social”

The ethnographic study was conducted in the unplanned settlement of Adjahui, which is located in Port Bouët municipality of the Abidjan metropolis, Côte d’Ivoire, where, after a short period of self-building activities, rental housing was constructed on a massive scale. We asked about the motivations behind these investments into the lowest price segment of rentals in Abidjan and their property management. Findings from interviews with 12 estate agents revealed that small-scale private investors from the middle class and West African migrant background speculated with low-cost housing under extra-legal conditions to accumulate or maintain their wealth. These entrepreneurial landlords delegated construction of courtyard houses and property management to local non-accredited estate agencies. While the deals between investors and estate agents were driven by profit, the occupational history of the estate agents showed how they randomly moved into this business. Their work was also socially motivated, as they expressed responsibility for their customers, who could not afford other rental housing. The paper will discuss how the investments reduced the quantitative deficit in low-cost rental housing.

Agents, Coercive Learning, and Social Protection Policy Diffusion in Africa

This paper makes theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions to the study of social policy diffusion, drawing on the case of social protection in Africa, and Zambia in particular. We examine a range of tactics deployed by transnational agencies (TAs) to encourage the adoption of cash transfers by African governments, at the intersection between learning and coercion, which we term ‘coercive learning’, to draw attention to the important role played by TA-commissioned policy drafting, evidence generation, advocacy, and capacity-building activities. Next, we argue for making individual agents central in the analysis of policy diffusion, because of their ability to reflect, learn, and interpret policy ideas. We substantiate this claim theoretically by drawing on practice theories, and empirically by telling the story of social protection policy diffusion in Zambia through three individual agents. This is complemented by two instances of self-reflexivity in which the authors draw on their personal engagements in the policy process in Zambia, to refine our conclusions about the interplay of structure and agency.

Reinventing the Capital: The Ideological Use of Monumental Architecture in Michael VIII Palaiologos’ Constantinople (1261–1282)

After the recapture of Constantinople (1261), Michael VIII Palaiologos (1259–82) re-shaped the city through extensive building activities. Though scholars have previously considered the involvement of Emperor Michael in the urban restoration of the capital, no attention has been devoted to the links between the different aspects of this programme of renewal. This paper advocates for the presence of an ambitious and systematic urban plan behind Michael VIII’s commissions focussed on the restoration of the southern shore of Constantinople and related to the political, religious, ideological, and aesthetic policies of this emperor.

Improving Healthcare Worker Resilience and Well-Being During COVID-19 Using a Self-Directed E-Learning Intervention

Introduction: High rates of burnout, depression, anxiety, and insomnia in healthcare workers responding to the COVID-19 pandemic have been reported globally.Methods: Responding to the crisis, the Foundation for Professional Development (FPD) developed an e-learning course to support healthcare worker well-being and resilience. A self-paced, asynchronous learning model was used as the training intervention. Each module included practical, skill-building activities. An outcome evaluation was conducted to determine if completing the course improved healthcare worker knowledge of and confidence in the learning outcomes of the course, their use of resilience-building behaviours, their resilience, and their well-being. A secondary objective was to explore if there were any associations between behaviours, resilience, and well-being. Participants completed pre- and post-course questionnaires to measure knowledge of and confidence in the learning outcomes, y, frequency of self-reported resilience-building behaviours, and levels of resilience (CD-RISC) and well-being (WHO-5). Results were analysed in STATA using paired T-tests, univariate and multivariate linear regression models.Results: Participants (n = 474; 77.6% female; 55.7% primary care) exhibited significant increases in knowledge, confidence, resilience-building behaviour, resilience, and well-being scores. Statistically significant improvements in the frequency of resilience-building behaviours led to significant improvements in resilience (0.25 points; 95% CI: 0.06, 0.43) and well-being (0.21 points; 95% CI: 0.05, 0.36). Increasing changes in well-being scores had a positive effect on change in resilience scores (β = 0.20; 95% CI: 0.11, 0.29), and vice versa (β = 0.28; 95% CI: 0.14, 0.41).Conclusion: A healthcare worker e-learning course can build knowledge and skills that may prompt changes in resilience-building behaviours and improvements in well-being and resilience scores. The findings suggest that e-learning courses may improve more than competency-based outcomes alone but further research is warranted to further explore these relationships.

Family Caregiving Policies: Where We Are Now

This session reviews prospects for advancing family caregiving policy under the Biden Administration, by reporting on the RAISE (Recognize, Assist, Include, Support, and Engage) Family Caregivers Act, enacted in January 2018. The Act directs the Secretary of HHS to develop a national family caregiving strategy, and supports research and consensus-building activities, in collaboration with The John A. Hartford Foundation. It aims to identify actions that communities, providers, government, and others may take to recognize and support family caregivers. To this end, the Administration for Community Living (ACL) has convened an Advisory Council, comprising 15 voting members from various stakeholder groups, to guide the effort; the project also commissioned primary data collection on caregiver priorities and recommendations, using a Request for Information (RFI) in the Federal Register garnering roughly 1600 responses, 12 focus groups with diverse family caregivers, and listening sessions with stakeholder groups. Wendy Fox-Grage, of the National Academy on State Health Policy, which supports RAISE Act activities, will describe the project’s scope of work and activities to date. Pamela Nadash from the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, who leads the data analysis component, will present findings from the commissioned research, while Molly Evans, (MA Executive Office of Elder Affairs) will review the current state of state-level policies aimed at supporting family caregivers. The symposium will conclude with Grace Whiting, CEO of the National Alliance for Caregiving, who will present an advocate’s perspective on the status of family caregiving policy. Eileen Tell, of ET Consultants, will act as discussant.

The Suitability Analysis of Land Use and Building from BIM to Spatial Detail Plan

The development in urban areas will continue to occur, such as the construction of settlements, offices, shops, educational and health facilities, and other supporting facilities. With the development that will always continue to occur in a nation, it will also increase the productivity in its city. The rapid development of urban activities will also followed by high demand for land. This can lead to land conversion. Therefore, it is necessary to use the land to its optimal capacity and manage it wisely in order to produce a quality space that is maintained for its sustainability. Rules and regulations are compiled into a plan in the Guidelines for the Preparation of Detailed Spatial Planning (RDTR). This research conducted in North Gandaria Urban Village because the buildings are divided into three environments, namely densely populated settlements, middle to upper settlements, offices and shops which based on geometrical aspects have various building forms from small to large ratios. Each building has different diverse land and building usages. In this study, land use suitability was identified by manual and digital classification, namely by image interpretation and classifying using the Object Based Image Analysis (OBIA) method on SPOT-7 images which were then superimposed to produce land use maps. In addition, this study utilizes altitude data from LiDAR to complement building spatial data and is processed to BIM. BIM dimensions are made in 3D with Level of Development 100 or equivalent to Level of Details 1 which has a flat roof if converted. From this research resulted suitability of land use and buildings to carry out an analysis related to sustainability and can be used as consideration and input by the policy makers on spatial planning policies. Based on the results of the analysis, it was found that the suitability of land use was 95% classified suitable to spatial detail plan. To determine the suitability of the building in this study, it was seen from the activities of the building and the height of the building. Based on building activities, 9.30% of building activities that are not allowed and another 90.70% are classified as conditionally allowed buildings, allowed, limited alowed and limited and conditional. Meanwhile, based on the height of the building, there are 82.7% of buildings that comply with the spatial detail plan.