Syftet var att undersöka förskollärares tolkning av begreppet mobbning samt undersöka hur de arbetar för att förebygga mobbning bland barnen i förskolan och i förskoleklassen.                                                                                     I läroplanerna, Lpo94 och Lpfö98, nämns vikten av att arbeta för att barnen och eleverna ska känna trygghet i skolan. Detta är ett viktigt ämne som är ständigt aktuellt.                                                                                                          Valde att undersöka förskollärarnas uppfattningar genom en enkätstudie. Delade ut 50 enkäter till förskollärare fördelade på 11 förskolor och 5 förskoleklasser. Bortfallet blev 18 stycken.                                                                   Resultatet visar att de arbetar kring frågor som rör mobbning bland barnen på varierande sätt. Endast ett fåtal nämnde likabehandlingsplanen som ett redskap i detta arbete.                                                                                           Nästan hälften av de förskollärare som svarade på enkäten upplever att de inte har den kunskap/utbildning som behövs för att de ska kunna arbeta med att förebygga mobbning på ett för dem tillfredsställande sätt. Resultatet av denna studie visar även att de åtta program som presenteras i boken ”På tal om mobbning – och det som görs” som gavs ut av Skolverket under 2009 är okända för förskollärarna i stor utsträckning. / The purpose was to investigate preschool teachers interpretation of the concept of bullying and examining how they work to prevent bullying among children in kindergarten and preschool classes. The curriculum, Lpo94 and Lpfö98, mentions the importance of working for children and students to feel safe at school. This is an important topic that is constantly up to date. Chose to investigate preschool teachers perceptions through a survey study. Handed out 50 questionnaires distributed to school teachers in 11 kindergartens and 5 preschool classes. The loss was 18 pieces. The result shows that they are working on issues related to bullying among children in different ways. Only a few mentioned the treatment plan as a tool in this work. Almost half of the preschool teacher respondents feel they do not have the skills / education needed for them to work to prevent bullying satisfactorily for them. The results of this study also shows that the eight programs outlined in the book “På tal om mobbning – och det som görs” which was issued by the School Board in 2009 is unknown to the preschool teachers to a great extent.

Management of Public Health The prevalence of use of psychotropic agents among school pupils of Šiauliai region and the ways to its primary prevention Dalia Miniauskiene Supervisor prof. habil. dr. Žilvinas Padaiga, Faculty of Public Health, Kaunas University of Medicine. – Kaunas, 2005. – P.73 Aim of the study. The aim of the study is to determine the prevalence of use of psychotropic agents among school pupils and to establish the model of drugs usage prevention. Objectives: 1) to view the effective prevention programs; 2) to establish out what kinds of psychotropic agents are used in Šiauliai region among school pupils; 3) to establish the link between the use of psychotropic agents and the main sociodemographic indicators; 4) to find out the motives of drugs use. Methods. In the year of 2003 the survey was carried out in Šiauliai region. Pupils of 5-11 forms participated (n=5513). 34 pupils (0,6%) to some of the given questions did not give their answers. The survey was carried out by asking respondents if they have ever used psychotropic agents, if so, how many times it has happened and if they use psychotropic agents systematically. The respondents were also asked how old they were when they had tried psychotropic agents for the first time, if they started using them constantly and what were the motives for doing that. The evaluation of statistic data was carried out using SPSS/W 10 which is applied in statistics. The dispersive analysis (ANOVA) was applied while... [to full text]

Submitted by Alison Vanceto (alison-vanceto@hotmail.com) on 2017-08-30T12:00:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DissNPP.pdf: 1061175 bytes, checksum: 62d8ab20e0bc6e21dd4f127d69635289 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2017-09-06T18:09:33Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissNPP.pdf: 1061175 bytes, checksum: 62d8ab20e0bc6e21dd4f127d69635289 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2017-09-06T18:09:48Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissNPP.pdf: 1061175 bytes, checksum: 62d8ab20e0bc6e21dd4f127d69635289 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-06T18:14:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissNPP.pdf: 1061175 bytes, checksum: 62d8ab20e0bc6e21dd4f127d69635289 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-20 / Não recebi financiamento / This dissertation naimed to analyze the discourses about violence in the programs of the State Department of Education of São Paulo - SEESP - who se purpose is to avoid violence in school settings. Two questions guide dour research: Why are there so many programs created to avoid violence? In which way these programs understand violence and what are their conceptions of school, youth and society? We conducted a documentary research on the different material sand official texts for each program. The analysis of the discourses was based on the archaeological and genealogical method of Michel Foucault. We verified that the different discourses, with their statements, presented common conceptions about violence, youth and society, contradicting our initial hypothesis. However, despite the unity of the discourse on violence, the different programs did not dialogue among themselves. Were alized that statements presented the school as a victim external violence, and actions aimed at prevention are also located outside school, especially in partnerships with institutions of the Secretariat of Public Security and with the Judiciary Branch. In this way, educational activities to avoid and control violence are rarely discussed. The discourses of social vulnerability and risk are constantly being used to characterize young people who need measures of prevention, assimilation and control to avoid violence. The discourses do not address society, but rather the community that must be integrated into the school as a form of violence prevention. We did not observe in the discourses solutions aimed at the democratic management of conflicts and violence, although in the discourses democracy and citizenship are always tooken as an ideal that are desirable and that violence can avoid. We also verify that, progressively, SEESP is abandoning the discourse of prevention and violence combat in favor of discourses of conflict mediation. / Esta dissertação teve por objetivo analisar os discursos sobre a violência presente nos programas da Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo -SEESP- destinados a prevenção da violência em meio escolar. Duas indagações orientaram a nossa investigação: Por que tantos programas destinados a prevenção da violência? O que estes programas entendem por violência e quais são as suas concepções de escola, juventude e sociedade? Como hipótese de pesquisa, acreditávamos que encontraríamos visões muito diferentes de sociedade, juventude e escola em cada programa. Fizemos uma pesquisa documental nos diferentes materiais e textos oficiais destinados a cada programa. A análise dos discursos foi fundamentada no método arqueológico e genealógico de Michel Foucault. Verificamos que os diferentes discursos, com seus enunciados, apresentavam concepções comuns sobre violência, juventude e sociedade, contrariando assim a nossa hipótese inicial. Todavia, apesar da unidade do discurso sobre a violência, os diferentes programas não dialogavam entre si. Observamos que enunciados constroem a escola como vítima da violência externa, e as ações destinadas à prevenção também estão localizadas fora da escola, especialmente nas parcerias constante com órgãos da Secretaria da Segurança Pública e com o poder judiciário. Dessa maneira, as atividades educativas para prevenção e controle da violência são pouco discutidas. Os discursos da vulnerabilidade social e do risco são constantemente acionados para caracterizar a condição dos jovens que precisam de medidas de prevenção, assimilação e de controle para não desenvolverem atos violentos. A comunidade que deve integrada à escola como uma forma de prevenção a violência. Não observamos nos discursos soluções voltadas para a gestão democrática dos conflitos e da violência, embora nos discursos a democracia e a cidadania são sempre apontadas como um ideal que se quer conquistar e que a violência pode impedir. Verificamos também que, progressivamente, a SEESP está abandonando o discurso da prevenção e de “combate” a violência em favor dos discursos da mediação dos conflitos.

abstract: Dating violence in ethnic minority populations is an understudied phenomenon and little attention has been paid to the experiences of Mexican American youth; less research has been done on how those experiences alter perceptions and acceptance of participation in prevention programs. This study advances knowledge on how Mexican American adolescents view dating violence prevention programs and how cultural beliefs and values may hinder or encourage effective participation. Focus groups (N = 9) were form with Mexican American youth aged 15-17 years separated by gender and acculturation status (Mexican Oriented/Bicultural/Anglo Oriented), as determined previously by acculturation scores measured by the Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans (ARMSA; 0 or below = Mexican Oriented, 0-1 = Bicultural, 1 or above = Anglo Oriented). Several themes emerged throughout the focus group discussions that were derived from culturally-based needs. Mexican American adolescents made recommendations for program development (e.g., a broad curriculum beyond the topic of dating violence) and delivery (e.g., barriers to participation, the implications of peer involvement) within the context of their cultural values and needs. Low acculturated and bicultural teens identified specific cultural needs and their relevance within a dating violence prevention program. However, across all groups, adolescents felt that the needs of Mexican American youth were similar to other youth in regards to dating violence prevention programs. Implications for how social work can best design and implement prevention programs for Mexican American adolescents are discussed. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S.W. Social Work 2011

While individuals of Mexican origin are the largest immigrant group living in the U.S., this population is also the highest uninsured. Health disparities related to access to health care, among other social determinants, continue to be a challenge for this population. The government of Mexico, in an effort to address these disparities and improve the quality of life of citizens living abroad, has partnered with governmental and non-governmental health-care organizations in the U.S. by developing and implementing an initiative known as Ventanillas de Salud-Health Windows-(VDS). The VDS is located throughout the Mexican Consular network and aim to increase access to health care and health literacy, provide health screenings, and promote healthy lifestyle choices among low-income and immigrant Mexican populations in the U.S.

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Adolescent dating violence occurs in high schools at an alarming rate. To educate adolescents about dating violence, some public high schools have incorporated prevention programs into their curriculum. These programs, which are predicated upon empiricism and behavioral theories, tend to produce limited results. In order to improve prevention programs, it has been suggested that schools should play a larger role in their development and implementation. However, dating violence studies have yet to examine how much school personnel know about adolescent dating violence and prevention strategies. The current study surveyed administrators and instructors at six public high schools in Orange County, Florida about their perceptions of dating violence and attitudes toward dating violence prevention programs. The results indicate that administrators and instructors are fairly knowledgeable about adolescent dating violence, approve of school-based dating violence prevention programs, and are willing to participate in prevention efforts. The results also indicate that administrators' and instructors' sociodemographics have the potential to affect how they feel about dating violence and prevention strategies. Implications of these findings for prevention program development and implementation as well as future research are discussed.

Troup County, Georgia has been afflicted with elevated teen pregnancy and subsequent teen pregnancy rates. As a result, Circle of Care was developed to reduce the subsequent teen pregnancy rate within Troup County. Circle of Care works with pregnant and parenting teens and their families to enhance their quality of life. A case manager provides information, education and support to enable the teens to stay in school, prevent subsequent teen pregnancies, and prevent child abuse and neglect. This study evaluates the effectiveness of Circle of Care by determining if intensity and duration of program participation have an impact on achieving the desired outcomes for program participants. The results of this research suggest that Circle of Care is reducing subsequent teen pregnancies, increasing educational attainment and decreasing child abuse and neglect among program participants.

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The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which online credit recovery is effective at allowing students to regain lost credits and to determine any differences that may exist in credit recovery based on a student's gender, socio-economic status, race/ethnicity, and course taken. This study analyzed these differences in respect to core and elective online credit recovery courses. Every school year, over 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the United States (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2001). One in four African American students and nearly one in five Hispanic students attend high schools where graduating is not the norm (United States Department of Education, 2013). Poor students (bottom 20 percent of all family incomes) are five times more likely to drop out of high school than high-income students (top 20 percent of all family incomes) (Chapman, Laird, Ifill, and KewalRamani, 2011). On average, 72 percent of male students earn a diploma compared with 78 percent of female students, a gender gap of 6 percentage points that has remained virtually unchanged for years (Education Week, 2013). Research has shown that students who miss or fail academic courses are at greater risk of dropping out of school than their peers. To re-engage these students researchers recommend that schools provide extra academic support (Dynarski, Clarke, Cobb, Finn, Rumberger, and Smink, 2008). Extra academic support has most recently come in the form of online credit recovery. The results of this study showed that online credit recovery is an effective instructional method for students in need of recovering lost core and elective credits. The results showed that females outperformed male students, and more affluent students recorded a higher pass rate than less fortunate students. Hispanic and Black students received a passing grade at a rate comparable to White students. Results varied depending on the course a student took. Instructional leaders, who are dedicated to the promotion of student learning and the quality of instruction, should consider it a priority to recognize the emerging trends in dropout prevention and to assess the effectiveness of online credit recovery programs. / Ed. D.