The system of care for persons suffering from mental retardation is in a state of upheaval. Considering the mentally handicapped as holistic beings, this study explored and assessed the needs of those residing in the community of District 22 (sub-district 222), KwaZulu-Natal, thus facilitating the planning of care and care facilities for these individuals to enable them to function optimally in the community. To accomplish this purpose, specific objectives were formulated. A quantitative, exploratory and descriptive study based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory was carried out, using 167 respondents. The study revealed that despite being mentally retarded, they were still regarded as valuable members of the community, their needs did not differ from the needs of others in the rest of the world and that mental retardation is still rated low in the prioritization of health problems, hence the lack of resources and support needed for the rehabilitation of such persons. / Health Studies / M.A. (Health Studies)

Non-monetary deprivation indicators are now widely used for studying and measuring poverty in Europe. However, despite their prevalence, the empirical performance of existing deprivation scales has rarely been examined. This thesis i) identifies possible conceptual problems of existing deprivation scales such as indexing, missing dimensions and threshold; ii) empirically assesses the extent of possible error in measurement related to these conceptual problems; and iii) offer an alternative way for constructing deprivation measures to mitigate the identified conceptual problems. The thesis consists of four stand-alone papers, accompanied by an overarching introduction and conclusion. The first three papers provide empirical evidence on the empirical consequences of the missing dimensions and threshold problems for the measurement and analysis of poverty, while the fourth paper exemplifies a concept-led multidimensional design that can reduce the error introduced by these conceptual problems. The analysis is generally held for 25 EU countries using European Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC); only in the second paper, the analysis is done for the UK using British Household Panel Survey (BHPS).

Caregivers in children’s homes are the front-end workers who care for looked-after children daily. Looked-after children in children’s homes constitute a particularly vulnerable group, who are known to reveal mental health problems, which complicate the care-giving role. In conjunction with the lack of training and support, caregivers experience great challenges. This research study explores and describes the training and holistic care-giving needs of caregivers, by applying qualitative needs assessment design, where the responses of 12caregivers are explored and described. Data from the literature and semi-structured interviews and questionnaires was categorised into themes. Overarching findings include altruistic needs, the need for support and to be valued, with the researcher making recommendations and providing a convincing argument for immediate therapeutic support for caregivers. / Social Work / M.Diac. (Play Therapy)

The system of care for persons suffering from schizophrenia is in a state of upheaval and the community in general is visibly frightened of an illness it knows little about except for the information acquired often from media reporting. Considering persons suffering from schizophrenia as holistic beings, this study explored and assessed the needs of these persons residing in the Mogoto Village, Zebediela District in the Northern Province. The primary purpose of the study was to explore and describe the holistic needs of persons suffering from schizophrenia thus facilitating the planning of care and care facilities for these individuals to enable them to function optimally in the community. To accomplish this purpose, specific objectives were formulated. A quantitative, exploratory and descriptive study based on the Nursing Theory for the Whole Person was carried out. Through purposive sampling 60 respondents were selected. A questionnaire was administered to the respondents. Data from questionnaires revealed that despite the diagnosis of schizophrenia, the respondents were still regarded as valuable members of the community by those who cared for them. There was also an indication that the needs of persons suffering from schizophrenia in the Mogoto Village did not differ from the needs of other persons in the rest of the world. Like any unique person they have specific needs. There was also an indication that mental illness is still rated low in the prioritisation of health problems, hence the lack of resources and support needed for the rehabilitation of persons suffering from schizophrenia, especially in the rural areas. / Advanced Nursing Sciences / M.A.(Nursing Science)

Magistro darbe analizuojamas vaikų dienos centrų vaidmuo tenkinant mokinių specialiuosius ugdymosi poreikius. Tyrime dalyvavo 109 dalyviai: 60 Šiaulių miesto bendrojo lavinimo mokyklų pedagogų, 40 Lietuvoje veikiančių vaikų dienos centrų darbuotojų, 5 Šiauliuose įsikūrusio dienos centro ugdytiniai, 3 minėto dienos centro ugdytinių tėvai (globėjai) ir specialioji pedagogė. Anketinės apklausos metodu siekta išsiaiškinti, bendrojo lavinimo mokyklų atstovų žinių pobūdį apie vaikų dienos centrus ir požiūrį į juose vykdomą veiklą bei galimą bendradarbiavimą. Taip pat, tirta Lietuvje veikiančių dienos centrų darbuotojų nuomonė, apie jų įstaigų veiklą, siūlomas paslaugas, pagalbos pobūdį. Siekta įvertinti vaikų dienos centrų teikiamų paslaugų įvairovę ir kryptingumą mokyklinio amžiaus vaikams ir jų tėvams. Užsibrėžta išsiaiškinti, kiek vaikų dienos centrus lankančių mokinių turi specialiųjų ugdymosi poreikių. Interviu apklausa tirta specialiųjų ugdymosi poreikių turinčių mokinių bei jų tėvų nuomonė apie dienos centrus ir juose teikiamas paslaugas. Taip pat, siekta atskleisti vaikų dienos centro, kaip papildomo resurso, tenkinant specialiųjų ugdymo(si) poreikių turinčių mokinių poreikius galimybę. Tyrimu nustatyta, kad didelė dalis mokyklų pedagogų mažai domisi vaikų užimtumu po pamokų, nežino, ar jų klasės ugdytiniai lanko dienos centrą. Pripažįstamas informacijos apie vaikų dienos centrus trūkumas. Labiau pabrėžiamas teigiamas vaikų dienos centrų vaidmuo mokinių užimtumo ir ugdymo... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The Master‘s thesis analyses the role of day care centers in meeting needs of pupils with special educational needs. To reach the result, was used questinnaire method. 109 people were involved in researc: 60 school pedagogues from Siauliai, 40 day care center specialists from all over Lithuania, 5 pupils from the day care center of Siauliai, 3 patents and a special needs educator who works in the same day care center. The main task of the questinnaire method was to find out the schools of general education knowledge of the nature of the child day care centers, and they approach to their current activities and possible cooperation. Also to find out the day care center specialist opinion about their institutions, the services offered and the nature of assistance. The objective was to assess the children's day care centers for the various services provided and the orientation of school-age children and their parents. Aims to determine the number of children attending day care centers to students with special educational needs. Interview Survey were studied the special needs students and their parents' views on a day care center and its services. It also aimed to reveal the child day care center as an additional resource to meet the needs of special education (learning) needs of students with access needs. The study found that a large part of the school teachers have little interest in children's after-school jobs, do not know whether the class of learners attending day care... [to full text]

This diploma thesis deals with the problem of satisfying needs of preschool age children in preschool facilities. The theoretical part of this work provides an insight into the curricular reform in the Czech Republic and a view of perception of children needs by the society. Furthermore there is has been research into the contemporary trend of coordinating a family life with an employment. This was one of the reasons for founding of business kindergartners. A summarization of current legal conditions of establishing of business kindergartners is included as well. Furthermore, the theoretical part includes a relation of curricula documents and satisfying children needs in the kindergarten. Important sections of this work are summaries of various models of needs and list of means of satisfying the needs in the kindergarten. The aim of the practical part of this thesis is to do a qualitative survey in differences between business and state kindergartens in satisfying needs of children. The result of the survey show that are differences in surroundings created in order to satisfy children needs while approaches for the satisfying of children needs were similar.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:23:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Harrison Parizotto da Paixao.pdf: 1704488 bytes, checksum: 84c3ae673fbd8a0a91a11b5fd90f3a4f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-03 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The aim of this paper is a reflection upon both the importance and the possible academic contributions that needs analysis may bring to high school Portuguese classes in technical studies in informatics, based on evaluations reported by students, (HUTCHINSON and WATERS, 1987; BERWICK, 1989; BRINDLEY, 1989; DUDLEY-EVANS and ST. JOHN, 1998; RAMOS, 2004; PRAXEDES, 2006; CINTRA, 2009); as well as identifying the needs presented by these students. Students needs are raised through interviews and classroom observation and interpreted based on studies that discuss the relationship between language teaching and students reality and daily practices, proposing mother tongue teaching practice to distance from a pure grammatical linguistic study that does not shimmer students needs, lacks and wants concerning language (BERWICK, 1989; SOUZA and SILVA, 1990; MARQUESI, 1996; BRASIL, 2000; DAVIES, 2004; ROJO, 2005; PRAXEDES, 2006; AZEVEDO and ROWELL, 2009). Designed around Applied Linguistics (MOITA LOPES, 1996; BRUMFIT, 1997; CELANI, 1998; 2000) this research finds itself under a methodology guided by the qualitative paradigm (MINAYO, 1994/2010), and is characterized as a case study (CHIZZOTTI, 2006; YIN, 2010). Data analysis is based on an interpretation that considers students manifestations on the interviews and classroom participation (ERICKSON, 1986). This data emphasizes students dissatisfaction towards Portuguese classes focused on grammatical aspects; furthermore, according to previous experiences, students present the importance between classes content and practical activities as part of technical studies. Therefore, this research craves for contributing on rethinking the Portuguese teaching-learning process for students in technical studies in informatics along with regular high school / Este trabalho propõe-se a refletir a importância e as possíveis contribuições acadêmicas que a análise de necessidades (HUTCHINSON e WATERS, 1987; BERWICK, 1989; BRINDLEY, 1989; DUDLEY-EVANS e ST. JOHN, 1998; RAMOS, 2004; PRAXEDES, 2006; CINTRA, 2009), a partir das avaliações relatadas por estudantes, pode trazer às aulas de Português, em uma turma de Ensino Médio de um curso técnico de Informática; bem como identificar as necessidades apresentadas pelos mesmos estudante. Identificadas por meio de entrevistas e observação de aulas, as necessidades são interpretadas à luz de estudos que discutem a relação do ensino de língua com a realidade e as práticas cotidianas dos alunos, visando a um ensino de língua materna que se afaste de um estudo linguístico puramente gramatical e que não vislumbre as necessidades, lacunas e desejos dos estudantes sobre a língua (BERWICK, 1989; SOUZA e SILVA, 1990; MARQUESI, 1996; BRASIL, 2000; DAVIES, 2004; ROJO, 2005; PRAXEDES, 2006; AZEVEDO e ROWELL, 2009). Configurada à luz da Linguística Aplicada (MOITA LOPES, 1996; BRUMFIT, 1997; CELANI, 1998; 2000), esta pesquisa é metodologicamente orientada pelo paradigma qualitativo (MINAYO, 1994/2010), caracterizando-se como um estudo de caso (CHIZZOTTI, 2006; YIN, 2010). A análise de dados está pautada em uma interpretação que leva em conta as declarações dos alunos nas entrevistas e sua participação em aulas (ERICKSON, 1986). Tais dados evidenciam a insatisfação dos estudantes perante aulas de Português que tenham como foco os aspectos gramaticais; além disso, os estudantes, a partir de suas experiências, expõem a importância da relação entre os conteúdos das aulas e suas atividades práticas como aprendizes em um curso técnico. Nessa direção, esta pesquisa deseja contribuir com o repensar do processo de ensino-aprendizagem de Português para estudantes de um curso técnico de Informática, concomitante ao Ensino Médio regular

Children belong to one of the most vulnerable population groups to crime. Child victims of crime have to overcome the difficulties emerging from their victimization as well as those resulting from their participation in the adversarial criminal justice process. Child victims are typically treated by legal systems as either mere witnesses -- prosecutorial instruments -- or as objects of protection. Children's human rights and their needs beyond immediate protection are typically ignored. ¶ This thesis combines an examination of children's human rights (articulated largely in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child) with a review of psycho-social literature on children's needs. It integrates the two disciplines thus creating a `needs-rights' model regarding child victims. This model is then used to evaluate the criminal justice process and its successes (and failures) in meeting the needs and rights of child victims. Such an integrated needs-rights evaluation identifies not only the difficulties associated with testifying in court and being interviewed multiple times. It goes beyond these topical issues, and uncovers other shortcomings of the current legal system such as the lack of true participation of child victims in the decision-making process, the neglect of rehabilitative and developmental interests of victimized children, and the inherent inability of the adversarial process to seek proactively the best interests of child victims. ¶ The thesis further explores an alternative to the criminal justice process -- that of restorative justice -- and examines its applicability to child victims. Unlike the criminal justice paradigm, restorative justice fosters the equal participation of the stakeholders (in particular victims, offenders and their communities), and focuses on their emotional and social rehabilitation while respecting their human rights. To explore the suitability of restorative justice for child victims, five restorative justice schemes from New Zealand, Australia and Canada and their evaluation studies are reviewed. Each of these schemes has included child victims, and most of them have dealt with either sexual assaults of children or family violence and abuse. Yet each of the evaluated schemes illuminates different concerns and proposes varying strategies for meeting the needs-rights of child victims. ¶ While these schemes demonstrate the significant potential of restorative justice to better address the full scope of the needs and rights of child victims, they uncover emerging concerns as well. Therefore, in the last part of the thesis, the needs-rights model is used once again to derive subsidiary principles for action, to maximize the benefits of restorative justice for child victims and minimize the related risks. A complex set of needs and rights is managed by a method of grouping them into needs-rights clusters and deriving from them simple heuristics for practitioners to follow. This clustering method of needs-rights-heuristics is a methodological contribution of the research to the psychology of law.

The main purpose of the study was to investigate the library needs and library usage of external students in remote areas. The study emphasised external students' perception of their own library needs. Four distinct areas of research evolved from the purpose of the study: to identify the library service needs of external students; to identify library use by external students; to identify external students' perceptions of library needs; and to identify student status in relation to library use. Information was collected by an interview with former external students, a questionnaire to the libraries involved in the study and by Nominal Group Technique (NGT) sessions with external students. The primary instrument was a questionnaire to the external students in the population under investigation requesting information of their library usage and needs. The population under investigation were external students enrolledin the South Australian College of Advanced Education (SACAE) and resident in Whyalla, South Australia. It was decided to survey the total population rather than a sample because of the small numbers involved. Thirty-five responses were received out of a population of 52, representing a response rate of 69 percent. The results of the survey were analysed using a Statview SE statistical package and a spreadsheet and graphics package, Excel. Frequency distributions were computed to determine the number of respondents who selected each option. The study found that the external students who used libraries tended to use a variety of libraries. Students used not only their own institution's library, but the a range of libraries accessible to them in Whyalla. The study concludes by identifying issues, recommending possible solutions, and identifying areas for further research.

自從二次世界大戰以後，人力資源發展的重要性已受到許多專家學者的肯定，隨著人力管理哲學的改變，組織常會投資大量的人力資源與金錢來從事人力資源發展的工作，例如教育、訓練計畫的推行。雖然教育、訓練工作已日漸受到組織的重視，但是卻常因未以系統性的方法來辦理訓練，而導致訓練的成果不如預期，徒然花費許多不必要的人力與金錢。為了使各種訓練方案能確實有效地執行，並符合原先的預期目標，組織在進行訓練工作方案時，必須以系統性的方法來辦理；其中訓練需求評估則處於系統性訓練過程的第一階段。行政機關常受限於行政程序、資源、財務等因素而與一般企業組織進行訓練需求評估的方式有所差異；再加上例行性的訓練計畫容易因缺乏定期的評估而導致設計出不合時宜的訓練方案，所以訓練單位應以整體系的前瞻眼光，配合外在環境的變遷與組織內部人員的需求，才能設計出符合組織與個人需求的訓練活動，不僅培養員工應有的知識與技能，更進而提升組織效能。一般而言，需求評估可從三方面進行分析，分別是組織分析、工作分析、以及人員分析，找出組織問題所在，並就可經由訓練方案來改進的部分，進行更深層的分析，以確知那一部門的那些人必須接受何種內容的學習活動。由於社會型態的變遷與服務型組織需求的增加，當今的行政組織不應只以滿足民眾目前需求為服務目標，而更應採行策略性分析的途徑，進行訓練需求評估，以求能探知現有需求，並預測未來需求樣態，使訓練的進行能掌握時代環境的脈動。本文旨在研究訓練需求評估與組織效能間的關係，並以中央銀行暨所屬中央印製、造幣廠作為本文個案分析的研究對象。