This qualitative study describes teens' perceptions about AD/HD and medications. Roy's Adaptation Model's four modes of adaptation were the framework for this study. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 15 high school teens aged 14-17 with parent reported AD/HD. Findings of inductive analysis for modes: Physiologic (Medication), Medications are a hassle but they work; Role function, I do better in school when I take the meds; Interdependence, With meds things are better with my family and friends don't know I am any different; and Self-concept/group identity, I'm just an everyday teenager, pretty much. The composite main theme was: Meds help me. School nurses can use this knowledge to guide interventions for families and teens with AD/HD, healthcare providers, school teachers and staff, and communities in a multidisciplinary effort toward an adaptive educational experience compatible for teens.

Abstract Intimate partner violence (IPV) is highly prevalent in Pakistan. Social support is associated with a reduced risk for violence and adverse mental health. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between social support and the occurrence of IPV and adverse mental health among Pakistani women exposed to IPV, along with exploring help-seeking behaviour using qualitative interviews. Data from a cross-sectional survey of 759 women, aged 25–60, were analyzed using logistic regression. The results demonstrated that informal social support was associated with fewer occurrences of all forms of IPV and less likelihood of adverse mental health when exposed to psychological violence, whereas formal social support was associated with more occurrences of all forms of IPV and more likelihood of adverse mental health when exposed to psychological violence. The qualitative result showed that fear of social stigma and low autonomy were, among others, obstacles for seeking help. Suggestions for future interventions include strengthening informal social networks and expanding formal resources, as well as raising awareness of IPV in order to address the issue. / This thesis was made possible by a Minor Field Study grant from the Swedish International Developmental Agency (SIDA) distributed by the department of Psychology at Stockholm University and we would like to express our gratitude for assisting us financially. / PhD project by Tazeen Saeed Ali, School of Nursing, Aga Khan University, called, “Living with violence in the home - a normal part of Pakistani women's life or a serious transgression of human rights.”

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New challenges and possibilities for society, traditional attitude, emphasising the importance of factual knowledge, does not fit the developing society and its activity needs. In educational institutions education, orientied to special skills, abilities and the acquisition of theoretical knowledge, exausted its possibilities in attitude of modified requirements of activity system and the needs of society. Developing a social service system for children and families, the subject matter of students’ social favour needs becomes very topical and important while foreseeing the organisation forms, trends, modes and methods of social aid at school. Society and different state institutions, as well as education system, consider the needs of social aid at school to be a certain generally acknowled problem that has eventually to be solved. This problem is undesirable and menaces for the future in Lithuania. This conditioned the introduction of shifts of social educationists. The purpose of those educationists are to help to work productively with children and families which experience social risk, children with special needs, also to take up the activity of the prevention of alcoholism and drug-addiction as waell as healthy way of living and others. School in society is highly respected for developing functional skills, for the preparation for a professional career and forming the nationalism. While solving complicated maturity, social intergration, healthy way of living, social... [to full text]

Šiuolaikinėje visuomenėje vaikų ir paauglių netinkamas elgesys turi palankiausią ekonominę, socialinę, teisinę, kultūrinę terpę progresuoti. Viena iš pagrindinių emocinių ir elgesio sutrikimų – vaikų agresija. Neretai mokykloje susidaro sąlygos reikštis agresyviai elgsenai. Todėl jau pačioje problemos užuomazgoje labai svarbu pradėti darbą su elgesio problemų turinčiais vaikais. Užkirsti kelią šiam procesui ar jį pašalinti galima taikant efektyvius darbo metodus. Pagalbą pedagogams teikia dirbantys socialiniai pedagogai. Tyrimo problema: Kaip pedagogai supranta agresyviai elgtis linkusius paauglius ir galima jų elgsenos kaita ugdymo procese. Tyrimo objektas: Pedagogų požiūrio ypatumai į agresyvios elgsenos paauglius ir elgsenos kaitos galimybės pedagoginiame procese. Tyrimo hipotezė: Remiantis subjektyviu pedagogų agresyviai linkusių elgtis vaikų vertinimu darbe, galima efektyviai spręsti elgsenos kaitos problemas. Tyrime dalyvavo 40 Tauragės rajono pedagogų. Magistro darbe naudoti dviejų tipų metodai: Kiekybiniu metodu, stengtąsi pažvelgti į problemą. Tikslas: Pedagogo požiūrio į vaikų, turinčių elgesio sutrikimų situacijos analizė. Tyrimo duomenys apdoroti SPSS programine įranga, aprašomosios statistikos būdu. Tyrimo rezultatai atskleidė faktą, kad: . ● Elgesio problemos ypatingai išryškėja pradinėse klasėse. ● Elgesio problemų turintys mokiniai turi ypatingą poveikį jaunesnio amžiaus pedagogų darbingumui. ● Pedagogai teigimu, mokinio nepageidaujamą elgesį galima... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The misbehavior of children/teenagers has got sympathetic economic, social, juristic, cultural situation to progress. Very often the conditions to aggressive behavior form at school. It is very important to start preventive work with children aggression at the very beginning. Effective techniques can help to solve this problem. Research problem: how do teachers understand aggressive teenagers and the changing of their behavior in the teaching process. Research object: teachers’ attitude towards the teenagers aggression and the possibility to change their behavior in the teaching process. 40 educators of Tauragė district took place in the research. Methods which were used in the Master’s work: ● quantitative analysis. The aim: the attitude of teachers towards children who has got the embarrassment of behavior.The information of the research was computerized using SPSS software, in a descriptive statistic way. The facts suggest that: * the problems of behavior display in particular in primary school; * the students having the problems of behavior do special influence on efficiency of young teachers; * in teachers view the objectionable behavior of students can be influenced by pedagogical means; * the teachers work individually with the children having emotional and behavior problem; ● qualitative analysis. The aim: the operationalisation of aggressive behavior as a phenomenon. The possibility of changing the behavior in the teaching process. The facts suggest... [to full text]

Smurto atvejai mokyklose, mokinių patyčios, šiurkštus elgesys – tai dažnos šių laikų problemos, su kuriomis susiduria visuomenė. Smurtiniai atvejai, susiję su vaikų dalyvavimu smurtiniuose veiksmuose, yra tapę kasdienybe. Lietuvos dienraščiuose beveik kasdien galime išvysti publikacijų apie smurtą prieš vaikus ir tarp vaikų. Dažnai iškyla klausimas, kas turėtų rūpintis šiomis problemomis. Kadangi smurtas yra sudėtingas socialinis reiškinys, jam spręsti turi būti pasitelkiamos įvairios priemonės- socialinės, psichologinės ir kt. Be abejo, siekiant sumažinti smurto paplitimą, į šį procesą turėtų aktyviai įsitraukti ir mokykla. Mokyklai priskiriama ne tik akademinė funkcija, bet ir vaikų socialinių kompetencijų ugdymas. Vaiko teisių apsaugos kontrolierė R. Šalaševičiūtė 2006-03–10 LR Seime surengtoje spaudos konferencijoje informavo žurnalistus, kad maždaug apie 10% mokyklinio amžiaus vaikų linkę nusižengti ir nusikalsti, tačiau valstybės institucijos į grėsmingą nepilname��ių nusikalstamumo statistiką nekreipia reikiamo dėmesio. Buvo pabrėžta, kad šiandien vaikas valstybėje nėra prioritetas, o pirmiausia tenkinami kiti poreikiai (žr. http://www.vaikams.lrs.lt/informaciniai2006/spaudos%). Jungtinių Tautų Vaiko teisių deklaracijos (1959 m.) preambulėje teigiama, kad ,,žmonija privalo duoti vaikui visa, ką ji turi geriausio“. 1995 m. Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas patvirtino Jungtinių Tautų 1994 m. gegužės mėnesį 128 valstybių ratifikuotą Vaiko teisių konvenciją, nustatančią vaikų... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Cases of violence at schools, the cases of bullying, cruel behavior is a current problem of our society. And the question is who is in charge of solving these problems. Violence is a serious social phenomenon, that is why to solve it social, phychologiacal and other kind of helping methods should be used. The role of school should also be active in order to minimize the spread of violence. According to Republic of Lithuania Education and Science minister’s decree from the year 2004, each school should have special violence prevention groups. One of the functions of these groups is to prevent the violence. These groups solve the questions of the preventive work and provide a necessary help to pupils, parents and teachers. The specialists of the society should take to consideration the policy s of partnership while preventing the violence. Nowadays in Lithuania, many methods of preventing the violence are based on the teamwork. Very often, the art specialists are involved in the team of educational specialists. With the help of art, it is possible to get a physical and emotional relaxation, to compete in the sphere of artistic self-expression. The object of the research is the attitude of the social-help teachers to the possibilities of a teamwork modeling in order to prevent violence in basic schools. It was hypothetically assumed in the work that in real teamwork of teachers their artistic potential is not used enough while forming the ethic and social behaviour of... [to full text]

Darbo tikslas – ištirti psichosocialinių paslaugų organizavimą slaugos ligoninėje paliatyvių ligonių artimiesiems. Darbo uždaviniai: 1. Ištirti paliatyvių ligonių artimųjų esamų psichosocialinių paslaugų poreikį. 2. Įvertinti psichosocialinių paslaugų poreikio tenkinimą. 3. Išsiaiškinti naujų psichosocialinių paslaugų poreikį. Tyrimo metodika: Tyrimo objektas – psichosocialinių paslaugų organizavimas slaugos ligoninėje paliatyvių ligonių artimiesiems. Tyrimo metodas – anoniminė paliatyvių ligonių artimųjų (n=67) anketinė apklausa. Duomenų analizė atlikta naudojant statistinės duomenų analizės SPSS 13.0 for Windows versiją ir Microsoft Exel programą. Rezultatai. Didžiajai daliai tiriamųjų sąveikos su sveikatos priežiūros darbuotojais (88,4 proc.), ligoniui teikiamos priežiūros ir procedūrų kokybės (89,1 proc.), informacijos ir pagalbos (81,2 proc.) bei psichologinės paramos (68,0 proc.) poreikiai yra svarbūs. Lyčių ir slaugymo patirtį turinčių/neturinčių tiriamųjų poreikių svarba skyrėsi: sąveikos su sveikatos priežiūros darbuotojais ir psichologinės paramos poreikis svarbesnis moterims ir artimąjį slaugiusiems asmenims, o ligoniui teikiamos priežiūros ir procedūrų bei informacijos ir pagalbos poreikis svarbesnis moterims ir artimojo neslaugiusiesiems. Tiriamųjų poreikiai patenkinami nevienodai. Sąveikos su sveikatos priežiūros darbuotojais poreikis patenkinamas (49,7 proc.), tačiau labiau užtikrinamas moterims ir slaugymo patirtį turintiesiems. Priežiūros ir procedūrų... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Aim of the study - to analyse the management of psychosocial services for the relatives of palliative care patients at nursing hospital. Objectives: 1. To determine the demand for existing psychosocial services for the relatives of palliative care patients. 2. To evaluate supply of this demand. 3. To establish the demand for new psychosocial services. Material and methods. The study object – management of psychosocial services for the relatives of palliative care patients at nursing hospital. The survey implied the anonymous questionnaire (n=67) for the relatives of palliative care patients. Statistical data analysis was performed using statistical package „ SPSS 13.0 for Windows“ and „Microsoft Excel“ software. Results. The majority of responders pointed out, that the needs to interact with health care staff (88.4%), to receive high quality of health care and procedures (89.1%), information and aid (81.2%), and psychological support (68.0%) all are relevant. The analysis of demands' perception regarding to gender and prior experience of care (experienced subjects and non-experienced subjects) demonstrated following differences: relevance of interaction with health care staff and of psychological support was higher for women and experienced subjects, while the quality of care and procedures as well as information and aid were more relevant for women and non-experienced subjects. The coverage of demands was different. The needs of interaction with health care staff was... [to full text]

Sportinėje veikloje ypač svarbu sportininkus mokinti saviugdos, nes tuomet atletai atskleidžia prigimtinius gebėjimus, mokosi vertinti savo galimybes, stiprinti pasitikėjimą savimi, prisiimti asmeninę, grupinę ir socialinę atsakomybę, suvokti save kaip grupės, bendruomenės, visuomenės narį ir mokytis dalyvauti visuomenės gyvenime. Šioje veikloje mokomasi atrasti saviraiškos būdų realizuoti savo norus, geriau suprasti ir pažinti savo idėjas, patirti savo asmenybės svarbą ir pripažinimą. Saviugda ypač reikšminga paauglystės metais, kai formuojasi charakteris, valia, dorovinės nuostatos, gyvenimo tikslai, didėja protinės ir fizinės galios. Tyrimo tikslas: ištirti elito tenisininkės fizinės saviugdos edukacinio skatinimo galimybes. Tyrimo uždaviniai: Ištirti fizinės saviugdos kokybę įtakojančius veiksnius. Nustatyti elito tenisininkės savistabos rodiklių pokyčius. Ištirti sportininkės rengimo makrociklo sudarymo, remiantis savistabos rodikliais, tendencijas. Išanalizuoti edukacinio skatinimo metodų taikymo metiniame rengimo procese ypatumus. Darbo metodai. Teorinė analizė ir apibendrinimas. Dokumentų analizės metodas. Anketinė apklausa. Statistinė analizė. Tyrimo dalyviai (n=1). Tyrimo etapai. Pirmajame etape, siekiant išsiaiškinti pagrindines mokymo(si) ir sportavimo dermės sąlygas bei pradines tyrimo pozicijas, buvo studijuota pedagoginė, psichologinė, sportinė literatūra. Antrojo etapo metu suformuluota darbo hipotezė, apibrėžti tyrimo uždaviniai, sukurta tyrimo metodika... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In sportive activity, it is very important to teach sportsmen of self-help, as then athletes reveal their natural abilities, learn to appreciate their possibilities, enhance their self-confidence, assume personal, sectional and social responsibility, perceive themselves as members of a group, community, society and learn to participate in society life. This activity teaches to find the ways of self-expression to realise their own wishes, to perceive and acknowledge better their own ideas, to feel the importance and appreciation of their own personality. The self-help is very important in adolescence, when a character, will, moral attitudes, and aims of life are formed, when mental and physical capacity is increasing. The aim of the research: to investigate possibilities of educational promotion of elite tennis player’s physical self-help. The objectives of the research: to investigate factors influencing quality of physical self-help; to ascertain the alterations of the elite tennis player’s introspection indices; to explore the tendencies of creation of the sportswoman’s training macro-cycle with reference to the indices of introspection; to analyse the possibilities of elite tennis player’s educational promotion. The methods of the research: theoretical analysis and generalization, the method of documents’ analysis, questionnaire, statistical analysis. Participants of the research (n=1). Stages of the research: In the first stage, on purpose to ascertain the main... [to full text]

Over the past fifty years, numerous cultural and structural changes have profoundly altered how heterosexual women and men in North America envision and live out their intimate lives. As key social structures where individuals typically sought guidance about their relationships have lost cultural potency, and insecurities about social and economic structures have grown, people have turned increasingly to alternative sources of advice, of which self-help books are a readily available option. In three interrelated studies, this dissertation considers one of North America’s most popular and lucrative book genres—relationship advice—and its readers. On a textual level, it examines connections between ideological shifts in advice and macro-level changes; with regard to audiences, it asks what generates particular modes of self-help reading. All studies then consider the implications of ideological shifts and modes of reading for the creation or maintenance of social boundaries and attendant inequalities. While prior theoretical and empirical work on relationship advice products and audiences has considered time-limited samples of women’s texts, and research in reception studies has emphasized the importance of gender in generating modes of reading, this dissertation contributes new insight by looking longitudinally at bestselling advice books, offering the first detailed look at books for men, and considering the influence of variables beyond gender in channeling readers toward particular modes of reading. Findings demonstrate strong coupling between ideological trends in advice and broader social changes, and an interlocking effect of readers’ biographical, demographic and psychological factors on modes of reading. Analyses of texts and readers also reveal how the genre reinforces social inequalities. Paper 1 corrects presumptions about advice book content by identifying new ideological trends, Paper 2 develops a conceptual and theoretical vocabulary for understanding constructions of ideal masculinity, namely through identification of a process of “masculinizing” intimacy, and Paper 3 newly identifies two modes of reading—targeted and habitual—and generates theoretical insight broadly applicable to reception studies.

In recent years there has been considerable interest and research examining psychological distress resulting from athletic injuries, as well as coping strategies for an enhanced recovery. The purpose of this study was to examine the psychological effects of sport related concussions and to determine if participation in support groups can reduce these psychological side effects. Participants included concussed male and female varsity or comparable elite level athletes who were placed in either a control or an experimental group. All subjects completed the Profile of Mood States and the Post Concussion Rating Scale. Participants in the experimental group received three support group intervention sessions, while those in the control group received no intervention. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. It was revealed that participants in the experimental group improved their mood state. In addition to the impact of support groups on concussed athletes, factors influencing their moods were also identified including the concussion history of the athletes, the stage of rehabilitation, gender, and number of concussion symptoms.