The purpose of this research is to examine the barriers to food security for single adults with mental illness and/or problematic substance use living in supported housing on Vancouver Island. The objectives are: (a) to examine the difference in the level of food security for tenants of supported housing neighbourhoods located in urban versus a rural community; (b) to examine the barriers to food access experienced by the tenants; and (c) to examine which barriers have the greatest effect on the tenants. Using an explanatory case study design, I employ a community-based research method with a social justice perspective as the framework. I have used an explanatory matrix to illustrate the tenant identified barriers to food security and the social structures that affect these barriers. As well, I have made recommendations for integrating food security services and programs into supported housing projects. I have argued that food security is a matter of public health and an integrative approach is needed. I am suggesting a shift on a larger policy scale, to promote the health and well-being of tenants in supported housing. An adequate holistic perspective with an integrated, long-term strategy linking all the determinants of health would result in health-in-all policies. This strategy could reduce the existing health inequities that the tenants in supported housing experience. / Graduate / judy@nahs.ca

Obesity, a common health condition in adolescence leading to severe medical complications, is assumed to be influenced by temperament factors. This paper investigates associations between reactive and regulative temperament, problematic eating behaviours, and excess weight. Several self-report instruments were completed by 130 adolescents (mean age 14.13 ± 0.61 years), including 27 overweight and obese individuals (20.8%). Bootstrap analysis revealed a mediating effect of restrained eating on the relation between reactive temperament and body mass index percentile, which differed according to gender: Restrained eating, which predicted weight gain, was more present in girls having a higher sensitivity to reward and in boys showing a higher sensitivity to punishment. No effect of regulative temperament was found. These results have important implications for weight management programs, as they suggest that reducing restrained eating by working on temperament may help to control weight.

ill this study the interpersonal relationships and especially problematic communication within the family context is of paramount concern. The focus on communication, specifically in the family system, with a view to Biblically restoring communication in problematic interpersonal relationships gives the present study validity and value; this is especially true in the context of family systems in SOllth Africa. The family system in South Africa is under pressure and the. pastoral care giver is, subsequently, also under pressure to provide accurate counselling and intercession when needed to the family as a whole. This study aims to satisfY that need in focusing on restoring communication in problematic interpersonal relationships in the family system from a Bible-centred (Christian) perspective. The areas that the researcher investigated centred on communication in problematic interpersonal family relationships and the way in which communication problems in a particular family system may contribute to the potential problems that the family as a unit may have to cope with. The researcher worked with the hypothesis that problematic communiCation in interfamilial relationships may severely impede the family system in functioning as an allied unit against the pressures of life (for instance fmancial challenges, work stress). If family communication patterns were healthy or at least functional, the hypothesis is that all other problems that a family might face could be handled more easily by a family as an allied unit. The research question of this study is: How can families, with problematic interpersonal familial relationships, be counselled from a Biblical perspective with the primary objective of restoring communication in the family system? Can effective Bible-centred counselling guidelines be set down and developed from a study of family systems as depicted in Scripture, the human sciences and an empirical study in order to restore communication in problematic interpersonal relationships in the family system? This study shows that problematic communication in interfamilial relationships does impede the family system from functioning effectively. Interpersonal relationships in the family system is often complex and communication is only one element present in those relationships which can have a detrimental effect on good family relationships if communication is strained. The overarching research aim of the study was to obtain, develop and put forth Bible-centered praxis-theoretical guidelines on restoring communication in family systems caught up in problematic interpersonal relationships. The conclusion of this study is that families with problematic interpersonal familial relationships can be effectively counselled from a Biblical perspective with the aid of material from the human sciences with the primary objective of restoring communication in the family system. / Thesis (M.A. (Pastoral))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010

This study examines the impact of issues of loss on adolescents. It was hypothesized that adolescents who experienced incidents of loss which were not adequately supported or processed to the point of resolution are much more likely to exhibit more angry and defiant behaviors than those who did not have such life experiences. Three instruments were used to identify loss and related impact. The first is the Interview Process, designed to identify issues of loss and screen for problematic behavior. This tool is used to qualify the participant for the study, and to designate which study group the participant will be assigned. The Family Constellation Exercise is an experiential assessment tool that exemplifies how emotionally close or distant the participant feels in relation to his or her nuclear family members. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Assessment - Adolescent version (MMPI-A) is used to identify behaviors and thought patterns associated with anger and defiance.The study was able to conclude that there is a strong potential for unresolved loss to negatively impact an adolescent. The study also discovered that many teenagers who do not exhibit angry or defiant behaviors have also experienced loss, yet do not act out anger. Suggestions are made as to why this is so, and implications for future research are made.

This thesis is focused on the formation of problematic and critical situations during physical education lessons at primary schools. Its task is to examine how teachers progress in their solution making and how they draw recommendations for practice from it. The theoretical part defines the concepts and theoretical basis og the area of discipline, safety and physical education for children. The research was conducted by questionnaire form which was sent to 22 primary schools. 72 filled forms were sent back for evaluation. Then I conducted additional individual interviews with two teachers from the elementary school Kunratice. The practical part analyzes the results of a survey and interviews with teachers. The results of this work show that problematic and critical situations within physical education classes occur. Keyswords Physical education, problematic situations, critical situations, teaching, primary schools

Cette recherche se situe dans le champ de la formation professionnelle aux métiers de la relation éducative. A l'origine, un constat portant sur les difficultés et les pièges rencontrés par ces professionnels en situation a motivé un questionnement sur les conditions de préparation à de tels métiers. Dès lors que la formation professionnelle associe deux visées contraires d'instruction et d'émancipation dans son projet, elle tente de faire problématiser les apprenants à partir des situations éducatives rencontrées pour construire les problèmes et produire des avancées. Or, dans une société où la résolution de problème domine, former à la problématisation ne va pas toujours de soi. Certains formés se heurtent à des entraves au cours de leur trajet de formation. Elles peuvent même donner lieu à des paradoxes. L'identification des entraves montre que tout formé navigue entre deux pôles contraires et qu'il est important que chacun effectue pour lui-même un travail d'auto-évaluation en formation afin de travailler ses implications et ainsi d'éviter les dérives de logique et la création de paradoxes. / This research concerns the training of professionals in education-related fields. At the outset, a report dealing with the difficulties and hurdles encountered by these professionals in the work-place led to an investigation into training methods for such occupations. Since professional training combines two opposing objectives , namely instruction and independence of expression of ideas, the aim of this research is to present students with problem situations encountered in real life in order to dissect the issues and find solutions. In a society where resolving problems prevails, training in the analysis of problems is not always evident. During their course, some trainees are faced with obstacles which may lead to paradoxes. Identification of these obstacles shows that each trainee navigates between two opposing poles, and as part of training it is important that each trainee carries out self-evaluation to understand the implication of their actions and thus avoid lapses in logic and the creation of paradoxes.

The diploma thesis engages in rehabilitation of families with inexperienced mothers, who are immature to handle the role of mother. Thesis is divided into six chapters, where five chapters are theoretical and one is practical. Theoretical part is focused on the term inexperienced mother in raising a child, family rehabilitation, types of threats for child, communication techniques used in rehabilitation of families and options of assistance. Practical part is based on findings from theoretical part and is accomplished in form of qualitative research, using the method of interviews with social workers from OSPOD. In this part the main research question and two minor research questions are formulated. Research is then analyzed a displayed in graphs. Next comes summary of results, discussion and conclusion. Key words Family rehabilitation, immature mother, problematic family, endangered child

Studien undersökte hur de tre demografiska variablerna kön, ålder och civilstatus samt de fem grundläggande personlighetsdimensionerna extraversion, vänlighet, samvetsgrannhet, neuroticism och öppenhet  relaterar till spel om pengar samt att börja spela i tidig ålder. Detta gjordes utifrån fem frågeställningar. 163 personer besvarade en enkät. Materialet undersöktes genom att utföra Pearson korrelationskofficienter samt t-test. Slutsatserna som drogs i studien var att män spelar mer samt börjar spela tidigare än kvinnor. Personligheten har ej någon påverkan på spel om pengar. Däremot fungerar samvetsgrannhet som en skyddsfaktor mot att börja spela om pengar i tidig ålder. Det noterades även att spel om pengar i tidig ålder är en riskfaktor för att utveckla ett problematiskt spelande. Studien påvisade en skillnad i personlighetsdimensionerna, där kvinnor har högre grad av neuroticism än män.  Slutligen noterades det att 7% av respondenterna i studien har ett problematiska spelande, vilket är i linje med tidigare forskning.

Sobre as fronteiras e territórios do design e do marketing pesam a influência de fatores endógenos, provenientes de novidades e controvérsias inerentes aos campos, e exógenos, advindos da atual conjuntura socioeconômica, cultural e ambiental. Isto, além impactar o contexto do mundo globalizado, representa novos desafios práticos e teóricos que, sugerem um novo nível de atuação das áreas, bem como mudanças no futuro deste relacionamento, que ainda hoje é tratado de forma hierarquizada. Posto isso, questiona-se: quais as consequências práticas e epistemológicas advindas do relacionamento entre o design e o marketing sobre os respectivos campos e a conjuntura atual, considerando-se os interesses, as características e a inevitável coexistência das áreas no complexo ambiente globalizado? Com efeito, analisando-se a questão central, tendo como base, os panoramas passado, atual e futuro deste relacionamento, decidiu-se pelo uso de duas técnicas de coletas de dados. Esta pesquisa baseou-se em métodos qualitativos, por isso, primeiramente, optou-se pelo uso de uma abordagem teórica, à luz da revisão bibliográfica, com o intuito de situar o problema e apresentar os principais eventos e conceitos relacionados ao tema. Em segundo lugar, optou-se pelo uso de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com respondentes da área de design, em busca de dados pertinentes e relevantes sobre o panorama da interação entre o design e o marketing e suas consequências. A presente pesquisa tem caráter exploratório, não exaustivo e pretende colaborar com o campo do design, como subsídio para a reflexão de outros pesquisadores. Por este motivo, optou-se pela pesquisa qualitativa, que propicia, dentre outras coisas, a reflexão mediante a correlação entre a teoria e prática. Posto isso, conclui-se que há uma expressiva relação entre a interação dos campos do design e do marketing que projeta novos cenários e novas perspectivas futuras. / On the borders and territories of design and marketing, weigh the influence of endogenous factors, from novelties and controversies inherent areas, and exogenous, caused by the current conjuncture socioeconomic, cultural and environmental. This, in addition to impacting the context of a globalized world, poses new practical and theoretical challenges the suggest a new level of performance areas, as well as changes in the future of this relationship, today is still is treated in a hierachical way. That said the question is: What are the practical and epistemological consequences arising from the relationship between design and marketing on their respective areas and current situation, considering the interests, characteristics and inevitable coexistence of areas in the complex globalized environment? This research was based on qualitative methods, so first, we opted for the light of the literature review, in order to situate the problem and the present the main concepts and events related to the theme. Secondly, we chose to use semi- structured interviews with respondents from the design area, looking for pertinent and relevants data panorama of the interaction between design and marketing and it consequences. This research is exploratory, not exhaustive and intends to collaborate with the design area , as a subsidy for the reflection other stakeholders. For this reason, we chose to qualitative research, which provides, among other things, a reflection upon the correlation between theory and practice. That said, it is concluded that there is a significant relationship between the interaction of the fields of design and marketing designing new scenarios and new prospects.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T14:20:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elaine Miranda.pdf: 515108 bytes, checksum: 7124c1661726fa3ecae1b968df5451d1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-10-06 / The main intention of this present work was to investigate the behavior of a person diagnosticated with chronic squizophrenia and mental retard in a psychiatric context, in a private unit partners with SUS. Due to this work principles of the Behavior Analyses Applied were used. The participant was a female person, 57 years old, single, semi-illiterate, who came from a low economic family and who had already been admitted to many institutions specialized in psychiatric treatments, since 18 years old. The participant s choice was a result of many marked facts in her life, since her adolescence. Direct observations of the participant s behaviors and interviews with the nursery staff and doctors allowed important information. Through these information, it was possible to collect subsidies which collaborated on identifying the problematic-behaviors which were registered in Observations Formularies and Registration Sheets. Seven problematic-behaviors classes were selected to suffer intervention as, an example, maintain eye contact, remain isolated and sat on a bench in the patio, participate in events from the institution etc. To control the procedures the Reversion Delineation type ABAB, followed by Follow-up was used. The delineation was started with the collection of information from the Base line I. The followings were sections in Interventions´ stages I and II. In the interventions procedures of positive reinforcement, modeling and extinction were used. The results demonstrate that the procedures from the Behavior Analyses Applied were effective to control the problematic-behavior from the participant. The results were discussed in terms of applied methodology, from the effects reached and the linking from information and theory. After concluding the research part, the behavior modifications from the participant were considerable, and are results of the procedures from which she was submitted. / O objetivo do presente estudo foi investigar o comportamento de uma pessoa diagnosticada como esquizofrênica crônica e retardo mental no contexto psiquiátrico, em uma unidade particular conveniada com o SUS. Para essa finalidade foram utilizados os princípios da Análise Aplicada do Comportamento. A participante foi uma pessoa do sexo feminino, com 57 anos, solteira, semi-analfabeta, descendente de família de parcos recursos econômicos e que houvera sido internada em várias instituições especializadas para tratamentos psiquiátricos, desde os 18 anos de idade. A escolha da participante foi resultante de vários fatos marcantes de sua vida, desde a sua adolescência. Observações diretas dos comportamentos da participante e entrevistas com a equipe de enfermagem e médicos permitiram informações importantes. Por meio dessas informações, foi possível a coleta de subsídios que colaboraram para a identificação de comportamentos-problema que foram registrados em Formulários de Observações e Folhas de Registro. Foram selecionadas sete classes de comportamentos-problema para sofrerem intervenção como, por exemplo, manter contato olho a olho, permanecer isolada sentada num banco do pátio, participar dos eventos da instituição, etc. Para o controle dos procedimentos foi utilizado o Delineamento de Reversão do tipo ABAB, seguido por Follow-up. O delineamento foi iniciado com a coleta de dados de Linha de Base I. A seguir foram realizadas as sessões nas fases de Intervenções I e II. Nas intervenções foram utilizados procedimentos de reforçamento positivo, modelagem e extinção. Os resultados demonstraram que os procedimentos da Análise Aplicada do Comportamento foram efetivos para controlar os comportamentos-problema apresentados pela participante. Os resultados foram discutidos em termos da metodologia aplicada, dos efeitos alcançados e da corroboração dos dados com a teoria. Concluída a fase de pesquisa, pôde-se afirmar que as modificações comportamentais apresentadas pela participante foram de certa forma, consideráveis, e constituem resultantes dos procedimentos que a mesma foi submetida.