Differing opinions among the disciplines involved in the diagnosis and treatment of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have left parents navigating in a maze of divergent languages, explanations, and treatment recommendations. This quantitative research study addressed the question of whether a parent training program was an effective treatment for families of children with ADHD residing in a rural community. Although this community-based study did not demonstrate statistically significant outcome measures, it did reveal some interesting side effects. The limitations and the clinical significance of the findings of the study are examined for future research purposes. In particular, the implications for social work practice with families of children with ADHD residing in rural communities are explored from an ecological perspective.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Western Australia, 2006.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2008. / A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Includes bibliographies.

One of CORD's activities is the welfare programme, which started four years ago. It has two features which make it particularly interesting. First, it has introduced a level of welfare into rural areas which has not been there before. Second, it is based on a broad, developmental and holistic approach to welfare — which is what most people agree is needed, but very few actually manage to do. Welfare projects are often well meaning but small in scale, without the ability to help people out of the poverty in which they are trapped. We believe that this welfare programme acts as a catalyst for other development activities — it shows that welfare can be a wedge, a point of entry, for broader community development. It is one model for a more appropriate welfare system for the future. Compared to health, there is very little written material about alternative welfare provision. There have been fewer attempts at model building than there have been in health. And it is possible that some small projects have not been written up for others to learn from. A key aspect of innovative work in the social service and development fields is the training of new kinds of workers. This is almost always based on a recognition that existing professionals (for example, doctors, social workers, irrigation engineers, physiotherapists) •are expensive to train • are difficult to move from city-bases, and • are not necessarily good communicators with the people they are meant to serve. The South African government and the South African Council for Social Work (the body that finally controls professional social welfare) have agreed that there is a need for a new category of welfare worker — an assistant or auxiliary. The rules surrounding their training and supervision are such that, although it is a step in the right direction, it does not go nearly far enough. For example, every two assistants must be supervised by one social worker. In most rural areas there are no social workers, so there can be no assistants. When new categories of workers are trained, they often meet with strong resistance from two sides — existing professionals, and people in communities. In the welfare field, the strongest resistance will probably come from the professionals. We think that this welfare programme shows how the work of the professionals can mesh together with the work of people with less formal training, so that they can help each other to deliver better services to more people. The welfare context The welfare programme needs to be set against the context of existing welfare services in South Africa. The South African welfare system is inappropriate and inadequate — this is recognised by people in government, people working in the private welfare sector, and is certainly recognised at community level. The problems that are very evident are: • welfare spending and social services have been biased in favour of white provision • the system has not been properly planned • there is a heavy bias in favour of urban areas, and a serious neglect of rural welfare • where social work posts do exist in rural areas, they are difficult to fill. • the privatisation of welfare which is being encouraged by government (along with the privatisation of health, education, transport and other social goods) will mean that the well-off people will be able to buy better private services, but poorer people will have less access to even poorer public services. There is an emerging consensus across the country that if the welfare system is to have a contribution to make to the 'new South Africa' it will have to become: • more developmentally oriented • more appropriate to the conditions in which the majority of people live • more concerned with the welfare of the very poor, especially in rural areas • more accessible to people who need the services, and particularly by women and children. These principles are accepted internationally as guidelines for the provision of social services such as heath, welfare and education. In the field of primary health care in South Africa, we have many examples of model schemes which have tried to learn how to provide appropriate, affordable, accessible health services. Many of these have been written about; some indeed are known internationally. All these case studies are vital to the development of better health services in future. In most rural areas, and in the majority of peri-urban informal settlements, we are not talking of a situation where services could be improved by adding more professionals — we have a situation where there is virtually no access to welfare services at all. The interview that follows is presented as a case study of an innovative welfare programme.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-05-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:19:42Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 borin_als_me_fran.pdf: 1777322 bytes, checksum: e84fc45d866515b4c817e66651dce1ef (MD5) / O presente trabalho tem como eixo central a análise da relação capital x trabalho; relação esta que, no caso em análise, se estabelece entre, por um lado, o capital industrial/financeiro encarnado pelo Agronegócio, e, por outro, o trabalhador rural do corte de cana-de-açúcar. Entende-se que, no que tange a esses rurícolas, especificamente aqueles que foram entrevistados e que se percebiam alojados no Distrito Cruz das Posses, em Sertãozinho (SP), sua relação com o capital agroindustrial extrapola a produção capitalista propriamente dita, na medida em que o processo de trabalho no qual se inserem se utiliza de mecanismos não capitalistas para a produção de capital, incrementando a reprodução capitalista do capital, sua reprodução ampliada. Por meio desses mecanismos próprios à acumulação primitiva, como as relações produtivas que empregam trabalho escravo no interior de processos produtivos altamente afinados com tecnologias de ponta, insumos e maquinários totalmente informatizados (dando a impressão de uma alta composição orgânica do capital), a subsunção do trabalho ao capital é redimensionada, pois combina formas de extração de mais-valia absoluta (própria ao momento de subsunção formal do trabalho ao capital) e de mais-valia relativa (própria ao momento de subsunção real do trabalho ao capital). Essa (ir)racionalidade do trabalho é exposta neste trabalho: numa região rica como a de Ribeirão Preto, na qual está situado o município de Sertãozinho, pode-se identificar rurícolas superexplorados, em situação de Escravidão Contemporânea – terminologia que defendemos como a mais coerente para sintetizar as condições degradantes de trabalho e moradia que acometiam a maior parte dos rurícolas... / This present study aims to analyze the relation capital vs. work, which is established between the industrial/financial capital incorporated by the Agribusiness and by the sugarcane rural worker. It deals with the understanding that, concerning the rural workers, specifically those who were interviewed and were accommodated at Distrito Cruz das Posses, in Sertãozinho (SP), their relation with the agro-industrial capital extrapolates the capitalist production itself as the process of work in which they are inserted uses non-capitalist mechanisms to produce capital, fostering the capitalist reproduction of capital, its enlarged reproduction. Through these mechanisms of the primitive accumulation, such as the productive relations that employ slave labor in productive processes which are highly linked to leading edge technologies, raw material and totally computerized machinery (seeming a high organic composition of the capital), the subsumption of the work to the capital is remodeled, because it combines ways of extraction of absolute surplus value (from the moment of formal subsumption of the work to the capital), and relative surplus value (from the moment of real subsumption of the work to the capital). Such (ir)rationality of the work is exposed in this study: in such a rich region as that of Ribeirão Preto, where the city of Sertãozinho is located, I could identify highly explored rural workers in a situation of Contemporaneous Slavery - terminology considered the most coherent to express the degrading work and living conditions that strike the greatest part of those rural workers that were interviewed. Reaching this conclusion, I have analyzed Sociology and the Law Theory regarding the question of the new ways of slavery that strike especially the rural workers. I have drawn a parallel between the... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Orientador: Ubaldo Silveira / Banca: Antonio Thomaz Junior / Banca: Helen Barbosa Raiz Engler / Resumo: O presente trabalho tem como eixo central a análise da relação capital x trabalho; relação esta que, no caso em análise, se estabelece entre, por um lado, o capital industrial/financeiro encarnado pelo Agronegócio, e, por outro, o trabalhador rural do corte de cana-de-açúcar. Entende-se que, no que tange a esses rurícolas, especificamente aqueles que foram entrevistados e que se percebiam alojados no Distrito Cruz das Posses, em Sertãozinho (SP), sua relação com o capital agroindustrial extrapola a produção capitalista propriamente dita, na medida em que o processo de trabalho no qual se inserem se utiliza de mecanismos não capitalistas para a produção de capital, incrementando a reprodução capitalista do capital, sua reprodução ampliada. Por meio desses mecanismos próprios à acumulação primitiva, como as relações produtivas que empregam trabalho escravo no interior de processos produtivos altamente afinados com tecnologias de ponta, insumos e maquinários totalmente informatizados (dando a impressão de uma alta composição orgânica do capital), a subsunção do trabalho ao capital é redimensionada, pois combina formas de extração de mais-valia absoluta (própria ao momento de subsunção formal do trabalho ao capital) e de mais-valia relativa (própria ao momento de subsunção real do trabalho ao capital). Essa (ir)racionalidade do trabalho é exposta neste trabalho: numa região rica como a de Ribeirão Preto, na qual está situado o município de Sertãozinho, pode-se identificar rurícolas superexplorados, em situação de Escravidão Contemporânea - terminologia que defendemos como a mais coerente para sintetizar as condições degradantes de trabalho e moradia que acometiam a maior parte dos rurícolas... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This present study aims to analyze the relation capital vs. work, which is established between the industrial/financial capital incorporated by the Agribusiness and by the sugarcane rural worker. It deals with the understanding that, concerning the rural workers, specifically those who were interviewed and were accommodated at Distrito Cruz das Posses, in Sertãozinho (SP), their relation with the agro-industrial capital extrapolates the capitalist production itself as the process of work in which they are inserted uses non-capitalist mechanisms to produce capital, fostering the capitalist reproduction of capital, its enlarged reproduction. Through these mechanisms of the primitive accumulation, such as the productive relations that employ slave labor in productive processes which are highly linked to leading edge technologies, raw material and totally computerized machinery (seeming a high organic composition of the capital), the subsumption of the work to the capital is remodeled, because it combines ways of extraction of absolute surplus value (from the moment of formal subsumption of the work to the capital), and relative surplus value (from the moment of real subsumption of the work to the capital). Such (ir)rationality of the work is exposed in this study: in such a rich region as that of Ribeirão Preto, where the city of Sertãozinho is located, I could identify highly explored rural workers in a situation of Contemporaneous Slavery - terminology considered the most coherent to express the degrading work and living conditions that strike the greatest part of those rural workers that were interviewed. Reaching this conclusion, I have analyzed Sociology and the Law Theory regarding the question of the new ways of slavery that strike especially the rural workers. I have drawn a parallel between the... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

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[Truncated abstract] As a developing country, Indonesia has been struggling with complex and contentious development issues since Independence in 1945. Despite remarkable economic achievement during the New Order period (1966-1998), poverty has persisted and the benefits of development have been unequally distributed. Social welfare — the system of social security to protect the well-being of the weaker members of society has received little attention in Indonesia, both from the state and from the scholarly community. The historical neglect of social welfare in Indonesia has begun to be addressed recently, with the Social Safety Net (SSN) initiative. SSN is a social welfare program that was launched by the government of Indonesia to mitigate the deleterious impacts of the economic crisis that hit the nation in 1997. This thesis aims to assess how the SSN accommodated the needs and aspirations of poor women, particularly those who live in rural areas. The rural poor deserve attention because poverty in rural areas is widespread and often intractable, and because poverty in rural areas tends to be more invisible than in urban areas. The urban poor are more visible, because they are “in the face” of the powerful every day, and they are more likely to be able to access agencies of power than the rural poor.

Too often, literature on participation in community development is void of the rationale for the participation of teachers; the roles they may play; factors for and against their participation; and strategies for inviting and sustaining their participation. This study examines what could be done to ensure the participation of rural based teachers in community development activities, by exploring these issues. A qualitative design and purposeful sampling are used. The sample consists of information-rich informants from the following five categories: officials of the Rural District Council, non-governmental organisation workers, rural based school teachers, Village Development Committee Chairpersons, and ordinary community members. Interviewing is used as the major instrument of data collection. The study reveals that rural based teachers should participate in community development activities, since they have a wide knowledge base and transferable skills, and they are part of and trusted by the community. It reveals that rural based teachers' participation is deterred by political factors, lack of supportive policies, attitudes, conservativeness, lack of specialized training, and labour issues. Twenty two roles are identified for rural based teachers in community development activities. Strategies for inviting them to participate are: the use of policy, change of attitudes, use of media campaigns, training, and inclusion of community development in tertiary education in general, and teacher education in particular. Strategies for sustaining their participation emerge as: the use of incentives, free time or days off and holding responsible offices. Sixteen recommendations are finally presented. / DEVELOPMENT STUDIES / MA (DEVELOPMENT STUD)