<p>There are many children in Sweden today, approximately 200 000, who have parents or a parent that abuses alcohol or other drugs. The aim of this study was to investigate how group leaders in support groups for children with addicted parents relate to this sort of support groups. What are their advantages and disadvantages, according to the group leaders?</p><p>The method used was qualitative and the empirical material was collected through group interviews. We have interviewed eight persons who are social workers and the interviews were carried out at three work places. The analysis of the material takes a survey of previous written literature as the point of departure. The theoretical framework was eclectic, combining a child perspective with a holistic approach to the situation of children with addicted parents. The interview material was interpreted with the help of hermeneutic theory. Furthermore, Antonovsky’s salutogenic theory, system theory and theory on social change have been used in the analysis.</p><p>The analysis shows that the group leaders’ position is that children that have parents or a parent, who abuse alcohol need support groups. The group leaders of support groups bring up that the most important thing for these children is to have other children that they can talk to and trust. However, it was clearly more difficult for the interviewees to discuss possible disadvantages. Drawing upon a holistic perspective, we argue that one disadvantage is how group leaders see children as individuals instead of seeing the family as a whole and the need to deal with the children’s main problem, their parents’ addiction. We also discuss the fact that it seems as if a case worker with overall responsibility rarely monitors the child’s situation. Drawing upon theories on social change we argue that although support groups may empower children to some extent, support groups cannot in themselves be regarded as a way of creating social change.</p>

<p>This descriptive study investigated the utilisation of and perceptions about service delivery by Philippi Trust in the HIV/AIDS support groups in the Helderberg region. A questionnaire and individual interviews were applied to gather the data from the HIV/AIDS support group members and their facilitators. The quantitative data analysis was done, using the Statistical Packaging for Social science (SPSS) aiming to determine the descriptive statistics of the database and variables. The qualitative analysis was conducted using thematic analysis. Anonymity was assured but complete confidentiality was not possible as the investigator had knowledge of the HIV status of the study population, however no names appeared in the research report.</p>

There are many children in Sweden today, approximately 200 000, who have parents or a parent that abuses alcohol or other drugs. The aim of this study was to investigate how group leaders in support groups for children with addicted parents relate to this sort of support groups. What are their advantages and disadvantages, according to the group leaders? The method used was qualitative and the empirical material was collected through group interviews. We have interviewed eight persons who are social workers and the interviews were carried out at three work places. The analysis of the material takes a survey of previous written literature as the point of departure. The theoretical framework was eclectic, combining a child perspective with a holistic approach to the situation of children with addicted parents. The interview material was interpreted with the help of hermeneutic theory. Furthermore, Antonovsky’s salutogenic theory, system theory and theory on social change have been used in the analysis. The analysis shows that the group leaders’ position is that children that have parents or a parent, who abuse alcohol need support groups. The group leaders of support groups bring up that the most important thing for these children is to have other children that they can talk to and trust. However, it was clearly more difficult for the interviewees to discuss possible disadvantages. Drawing upon a holistic perspective, we argue that one disadvantage is how group leaders see children as individuals instead of seeing the family as a whole and the need to deal with the children’s main problem, their parents’ addiction. We also discuss the fact that it seems as if a case worker with overall responsibility rarely monitors the child’s situation. Drawing upon theories on social change we argue that although support groups may empower children to some extent, support groups cannot in themselves be regarded as a way of creating social change.

The aim of this qualitative study was to examine bereaved individuals’ experiences of support from their social networks and participation in support groups. The theoretical framework is based on theories about social support and parts of the attachment theory. Data were collected from four interviews and analysed by the study’s theoretical framework. The results have shown that the interviewed persons found emotional, instrumental and informative support from their own social networks important after their loss. Receiving constructive feedback from the social networks, and or various support groups, were also important factors. The interviewed persons expressed that the perceived and offered support was not satisfying and that they would have appreciated further help. The results also showed that most of the inter-viewed persons found their participation in support groups important as the groups made it possible for them to express their inherent feelings and thoughts. They also found it important to be able to talk with individuals who had experienced similar losses. My findings support earlier research that states the importance of social support and the possibility to express grieving reactions after a loss.

<p>This descriptive study investigated the utilisation of and perceptions about service delivery by Philippi Trust in the HIV/AIDS support groups in the Helderberg region. A questionnaire and individual interviews were applied to gather the data from the HIV/AIDS support group members and their facilitators. The quantitative data analysis was done, using the Statistical Packaging for Social science (SPSS) aiming to determine the descriptive statistics of the database and variables. The qualitative analysis was conducted using thematic analysis. Anonymity was assured but complete confidentiality was not possible as the investigator had knowledge of the HIV status of the study population, however no names appeared in the research report.</p>

O objetivo principal deste trabalho consiste em analisar a construção social do cuidado em um grupo específico de apoio aos portadores do vírus HIV/AIDS. Para tanto, apresentamos uma discussão teórico-conceitual e metodológica desenvolvida em quatro capítulos. Nos dois primeiros refletimos sobre a trajetória, do enfrentamento da epidemia do HIV/Aids no Brasil e o papel das ONGs nessa trajetória, buscando delinear o campo de disputando qual um grupo específico de portadores do vírus HIV/Aids se insere e assume posição contra-hegemônica. Em seguida, no terceiro capítulo, mapeamos o percurso da formação desse grupo, analisando o engendramento das atividades ali desenvolvidas e os reflexos do campo de disputa no interior do grupo. No capítulo seguinte, refletimos sobre a história de vida de uma das participantes do grupo, por meio da qual identificamos quais as possíveis configurações desse sujeito, mediante sua inserção nos espaços sociais. Verificamos que tal inserção amplia sua capacidade de articular saberes no enfrentamento dos seus problemas de saúde. Concluímos que o grupo estabelece modos de fazer que primam pela manutenção do vínculo por onde circulam bens e se efetuam as solidariedades. Além disso, percebemos que as hegemônicas concepções de saúde e doença estão tendo seus poros alargados por este reordenamento social que não somente filtra os valores indesejáveis da visão hegemônica, como também propicia aos sujeitos a redescoberta do seu próprio cuidado. Por fim, constatamos que as representações sobre saúde e doença, decorrentes da que as representações dobre saúde e doença, decorrentes da inserção do sujeito em espaços sociais específicos, como os grupos de apoio, provocam (re)significações importantes: trabalhar, cozinhar, dormir, alimentar-se e também aquelas que estavam somente na ordem do lazer, como passear, ficar em casa com a família, visitar e ser visitado por amigos, dançar e outras, ganham nova dimensão e passam a ser vistas como vetores de saúde. Deste modo, gestos simples e práticas habituais assumem aspectos de táticas que modulam o cuidado dos sujeitos, Estas práticas realizadas no cotidiano, as quais chamamos de cuidado vivo, são também percebidas pelos sujeitos como cuidado. / The main aim of this paper consists in the analysis of social construction care in a specific supports group to the people living with HIV/AIDS. For this purpose, a theoretical conceptual and methodological discussion will be developed in four chapter. The first two ones we reflect on the trajectory of combat in the HIV/Aids epidemic in Brazil and the role of the Non-Governmental Organizations in this trajectory, searching to delineate the field of dispute in where a specific group of people living with HIV/Aids has insertions and tales on counter hegemonic position. In the third chapter we map the process of the groups formation, analyzing the relationship of the activities developed and the consequences of the field of dispute in the interior of the group. In the following chapter, a reflex ion on one components life is put forward, by mean of which we identify the possible configurations of this person, through of its insertion on these social spaces. We verify that such enlarges its capacity to articulate knowledge in the difficulties faced of its healths problems. We concluded that the group establishes ways of to make that prioritizes the maintenance of the bond by where circulate goods and solidarities. Moreover, we notice that the hegemonic conceptions of health and illness have had its pores widened by this social new arrangement that not only filters the values undesirable of this hegemonic vision, as also it propitiates to the persons the rediscovery of its own care. Finally, we evidence that the representations on health and illness derived from the persons insertion in specific social spaces, as the groups of support, provoke outstanding new meaning: to work, to cook, to sleep, to feed himself and those that were only in the order of the leisure as: to walk, to be in home with the family, to visit and to be visited by friends, to dance and others gain a new dimension and become healths vectors. In this way, common gestures and habitual practices are converted in tactics that modulate the care of person. The persons also realize these daily practices, which we call living care as care.

O objetivo principal deste trabalho consiste em analisar a construção social do cuidado em um grupo específico de apoio aos portadores do vírus HIV/AIDS. Para tanto, apresentamos uma discussão teórico-conceitual e metodológica desenvolvida em quatro capítulos. Nos dois primeiros refletimos sobre a trajetória, do enfrentamento da epidemia do HIV/Aids no Brasil e o papel das ONGs nessa trajetória, buscando delinear o campo de disputando qual um grupo específico de portadores do vírus HIV/Aids se insere e assume posição contra-hegemônica. Em seguida, no terceiro capítulo, mapeamos o percurso da formação desse grupo, analisando o engendramento das atividades ali desenvolvidas e os reflexos do campo de disputa no interior do grupo. No capítulo seguinte, refletimos sobre a história de vida de uma das participantes do grupo, por meio da qual identificamos quais as possíveis configurações desse sujeito, mediante sua inserção nos espaços sociais. Verificamos que tal inserção amplia sua capacidade de articular saberes no enfrentamento dos seus problemas de saúde. Concluímos que o grupo estabelece modos de fazer que primam pela manutenção do vínculo por onde circulam bens e se efetuam as solidariedades. Além disso, percebemos que as hegemônicas concepções de saúde e doença estão tendo seus poros alargados por este reordenamento social que não somente filtra os valores indesejáveis da visão hegemônica, como também propicia aos sujeitos a redescoberta do seu próprio cuidado. Por fim, constatamos que as representações sobre saúde e doença, decorrentes da que as representações dobre saúde e doença, decorrentes da inserção do sujeito em espaços sociais específicos, como os grupos de apoio, provocam (re)significações importantes: trabalhar, cozinhar, dormir, alimentar-se e também aquelas que estavam somente na ordem do lazer, como passear, ficar em casa com a família, visitar e ser visitado por amigos, dançar e outras, ganham nova dimensão e passam a ser vistas como vetores de saúde. Deste modo, gestos simples e práticas habituais assumem aspectos de táticas que modulam o cuidado dos sujeitos, Estas práticas realizadas no cotidiano, as quais chamamos de cuidado vivo, são também percebidas pelos sujeitos como cuidado. / The main aim of this paper consists in the analysis of social construction care in a specific supports group to the people living with HIV/AIDS. For this purpose, a theoretical conceptual and methodological discussion will be developed in four chapter. The first two ones we reflect on the trajectory of combat in the HIV/Aids epidemic in Brazil and the role of the Non-Governmental Organizations in this trajectory, searching to delineate the field of dispute in where a specific group of people living with HIV/Aids has insertions and tales on counter hegemonic position. In the third chapter we map the process of the groups formation, analyzing the relationship of the activities developed and the consequences of the field of dispute in the interior of the group. In the following chapter, a reflex ion on one components life is put forward, by mean of which we identify the possible configurations of this person, through of its insertion on these social spaces. We verify that such enlarges its capacity to articulate knowledge in the difficulties faced of its healths problems. We concluded that the group establishes ways of to make that prioritizes the maintenance of the bond by where circulate goods and solidarities. Moreover, we notice that the hegemonic conceptions of health and illness have had its pores widened by this social new arrangement that not only filters the values undesirable of this hegemonic vision, as also it propitiates to the persons the rediscovery of its own care. Finally, we evidence that the representations on health and illness derived from the persons insertion in specific social spaces, as the groups of support, provoke outstanding new meaning: to work, to cook, to sleep, to feed himself and those that were only in the order of the leisure as: to walk, to be in home with the family, to visit and to be visited by friends, to dance and others gain a new dimension and become healths vectors. In this way, common gestures and habitual practices are converted in tactics that modulate the care of person. The persons also realize these daily practices, which we call living care as care.

A presente dissertação procura colaborar na compreensão dos entraves existentes na Fundação Casa quanto à aplicação da medida sócio-educativa - sob a ótica da teoria de René Kaës - no que se refere às produções inconscientes tecidas pelos sujeitos do grupo, tendo os temas da violência e das formações psíquicas intermediárias primazia na discussão. Remeterá ainda o leitor à história das instituições voltadas ao atendimento da infância e juventude, a fim de situar a Fundação Casa em sua dimensão \'transgeracional\'. Para tanto, apresentamos uma investigação sobre os processos históricos de atendimento à infância e juventude assim como o atual panorama da violência em nossa sociedade. Na pesquisa de campo foram utilizados os seguintes instrumentos: entrevistas grupais com a equipe pedagógica, técnica, de segurança e adolescentes de uma unidade de internação; foi feita uma análise qualitativa dos discursos daí surgidos, a partir da teoria psicanalítica, segundo a abordagem de Kaës. A discussão aponta para existência de alianças inconscientes que impedem a ligação de processos psíquicos entre os grupos da instituição e sustenta a violência como mantenedora da estrutura institucional. / The present dissertation intends to understand the obstacles in social and educational measure application by Fundação Casa - under René Kaës\' theory - concerning unconscious productions maintained by the group subjects. In our discussion, we give priority to violence and intermediaries\' psychic formations. It still mentions the history of youth and infancy care institutions, aiming to situate Fundação Casa in its \'transgenerational dimension\'. By this way, we investigated the historical process of youth and infancy attendances as well as the contemporary violence view in our society. Further to the field research we used the following instruments: group interviews with pedagogical, technical and security staff and young internees followed by a qualitative analysis of discourses, by Kaës\' group psychoanalysis theory. The discussion suggests the existence of unconscious alliances that obstructs the link psychic process among institutional groups and sustains the violence as the maintainer of institutional structure

PURPOSE: To describe the need for and perceived outcomes of group meetings for adult cochlear implant recipients (ACIR). METHOD: The research study was conducted in two phases, namely a quantitative descriptive phase where data was collected by means of a questionnaire, and a qualitative deepening phase where data was collected by means of focus group discussions. Thirty-six ACIR completed questionnaires in order to determine the need for and specific requirements for group meetings. The outcomes of phase one contributed to the establishment of group meetings for ACIR. After four consecutive group meetings, focus group discussions were conducted (nine participants) in order to describe the perceived outcomes of group meetings. RESULTS: Participants expressed an evident need to attend group meetings and logistical requirements and preferences were established. After participation in group meetings, benefits in terms of psychological and emotional support, acceptance, understanding and improvement in social skills and confidence were reported. The opportunity to offer and receive support created a sense of empowerment for participants. CONCLUSION: The establishment of much needed group meetings benefited ACIR to a great extent. ACIR reported positive outcomes with regards to improved assertiveness and selfperceived quality of life as a result of their group meeting attendance. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / lk2014 / Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology / MA / Unrestricted

Magister Artium (Human Ecology) - MA(HE) / This descriptive study investigated the utilisation of and perceptions about service delivery by Philippi Trust in the HIV/AIDS support groups in the Helderberg region. A questionnaire and individual interviews were applied to gather the data from the HIV/AIDS support group members and their facilitators. The quantitative data analysis was done, using the Statistical Packaging for Social science (SPSS) aiming to determine the descriptive statistics of the database and variables. The qualitative analysis was conducted using thematic analysis. Anonymity was assured but complete confidentiality was not possible as the investigator had knowledge of the HIV status of the study population, however no names appeared in the research report. / South Africa