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A substantial number of older women are adversely affected by mild to severe levels of depression. In this study the Social Health Outreach Program (SHOP), an educational intervention originally developed for middle-aged women, was modified and implemented with depressed and non-depressed older women. Through an educative process, participants learned ways to strengthen personal social networks as a means of augmenting social identity and overcoming depression. The purposes of the study were: 1) to measure the impact of SHOP on older women's levels of depression and demoralization, and on their social networks; 2) to determine factors either within or outside of SHOP that helped or hindered their progress during the program; and 3) to describe and analyze their experience of depression. A total of 15 women, aged 58 to 76, participated in a 20 session version of SHOP over a ten week period. Measures of depression and demoralization were obtained before, after and three months following the program; social networks measures were also obtained at three month follow-up. Participants' perceptions about their experience of depression, and about program factors and other concurrent aspects of life that helped or hindered their progress during the program, were obtained in post-program interviews. Outcomes validated SHOP'S approach and demonstrated that with slight modification the program is as effective with older women as it is with mid-life women. Participants who were depressed at pre-test showed a significant decline in depression scores; on measures of demoralization, changes were in the direction expected, although non-significant. Participants reported significant gains to their social networks in terms of people and groups added. Content analysis of interview data yielded 205 helping incidents and 130 hindering incidents that occurred during the program period; from these, 20 categories of factors that advanced participants' progress during the program, and 19 categories of factors that impeded their progress, were determined. This study supported the view that for many older women depression originates in their social environment. The findings validated SHOP'S educational program as a means of increasing social participation, re-constructing social identity and overcoming depression. / Education, Faculty of / Graduate

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East Tennessee State University has a diverse student population of approximately 12,500 students. Recent statistics have indicated that the student body is bypassing the physical library building, including reference services, and connecting to online sources from off campus. With only six public service librarians whose duties include interlibrary loan, instruction, and other key library functions, librarians are limited in their ability to provide outreach to those students who might never enter the library. In this article, the authors describe the decision process in developing outreach librarian positions for the graduate programs librarian and the undergraduate student services librarian and discuss the specific services that these librarians provide to students.

Introduktion: Under den tionde terminen av tandläkarprogrammet på Malmö högskola genomgår studenterna verksamhetsförlagd utbildning (VFU) sedan 2004. Detta sker i samarbete med Folktandvården Skåne och under 15 veckor arbetar studenterna en dag i veckan under handledning på folktandvårdens kliniker i närliggande område.Syfte: Att utvärdera erfarenheter efter genomgången VFU ur deltagarnas perspektiv.Metod: Alla tandläkarstudenter och handledare som genomgått VFU 2006 och 2015 tillfrågades om att besvara en utvärderingsenkät med numerisk bedömningsskala och utrymme för tillhörande kommentarer. Sex studenter och fem handledare som genomgått VFU år 2015 intervjuades även med en semistrukturerad intervjumetodik som sammanfördes genom en tematiserad innehållsanalys. Resultat: Enkät: Poängsättningen var genomgående hög för både 2006 och 2015. Studenterna poängsatte påstående 6 ”Det nuvarande upplägget med 15 veckor och en dags tjänstgöring i veckan är tillfredställande.” signifikant högre 2015 än 2006. Påstående 8 ”Det finns en samsyn avseende metoder och behandlingsval mellan skola och folktandvård.” poängsatte studenterna signifikant lägre än handledarna 2015. 2006 poängsatte studenterna påstående tre ”Sammansättningen av patienter var bra.” signifikant lägre än vad handledarna gjorde. Intervju: Studenter och handledare ansåg att VFU är fördelaktigt i utbildningssyfte och ger studenterna självsäkerhet och trygghet i ansvarstagande. Förslag på förbättringar förekom även under intervjuerna.Slutsats: Verksamhetsförlagd utbildning ger fördelaktigheter både för studenter och deras handledare. Studenter och handledare uttrycker uppskattning och är generellt nöjda efter VFU. / Introduction: The tenth semester of the dentistry program at Malmö university students undergoes an outreach program (internship) since 2004 and this is in collaboration with Folktandvården Skåne. During 15 weeks the students work at their assigned clinics one day a week under supervision from their tutors.Objective: To evaluate experiences after placement from the participants' perspective.Method: All dental students and tutors who have completed internship in 2006 and 2015 were asked to answer an evaluation questionnaire with numeric rating scale and scope for comments. Six students and five mentors who have completed internship in 2015 were interviewed with a semi-structured interview methodology, later analysed by content analysis method.Results: Questionnaire: rating was consistently high for both 2006 and 2015. The students scored significantly higher on question six “The set-up of one day of clinical work over 15 weeks were satisfying.” 2015 than in 2006. Students scored question eight“There is a consensus regarding methods and treatment options between the dental school and Folktandvården Skåne” significantly lower than their supervisors in 2015. In 2006 students scored question three “The composition of patients was good” significantly lower than the supervisors did. Interview: Students and tutors felt that the internship had been beneficial for training purposes, giving the students more self-esteem and confidence in taking responsibility. Improvements for the outreach program where proposed. Conclusion: The clinical training program is favourable, both for the students and their tutors. In general terms, the students and the supervisors were satisfied with the cooperation.

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Background: Injection drug use is a popular and concurrently a very hazardous manner of application. In the Czech Republic there are approximately 45 thousand of problem drug users from which 43 thousand are injection users (Mravčík et al., 2014). There are known and mostly in detail described addictive substances which are mostly preferred by these users and it is also described how these substances work in human organism. However, it is a question how they affect the particular behaviour of the user within the injection application. In 2013 in the Czech Republic there were distributed 6,2 million syringes (Mravčík et al., 2014). Aim: The main goal was to ascertain the frequency of the injection application of drugs in case of the problem users and to estimate the general (annual) consumption of the injection material (according to the prevalence estimate for the given area) depending on the typology of the users (type of used drugs, pattern of usage). Sample: The research bracket was formed by 117 respondents form Prague field programme and low-threshold contact centre. Methods: The chosen method of the data collection was the questionnaire which was developed for the purpose of the thesis and which was realized with the administration of the researcher. Data were processed by descriptive...

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-16T15:23:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 3330829 bytes, checksum: e8bdfc976ee29d71bdc347cb0c990d30 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-14 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / In recent decades, globalization has changed the business environment, significantly influencing the management of business, a factor that contributes to the incorporation of social responsibility in institutions. In this regard, the social question has become more evident, showing even more social problems of nations. Because being the university a multidimensional space, the study of social responsibility in the context of traffic makes it possible to include the citizenship issue in higher education, providing for discussions about the strengthening of social and individual rights, equality and justice as supreme values of a democratic society. This survey found the University Social Responsibility from the perspective of the extent the actions of Black Outreach Program Initiatives: sharing experiences from the perspective of Course IN (2011), its coverage nationwide and its impacts in the region of Cariri. In order to achieve the outlined purposes an exploratory study was conducted. The field and the research population were fellows of the Third Course IN (2011) and the participants in the Cariri. The following data collection techniques used were: Application forms of scholarship recipients, questionnaires and field diary, which are instruments of support needed for data collection. The collected data were categorized into two major groups: those that evaluate the impacts of black outreach program initiatives through courses in Event III (2011), at the national level, those that evaluate the impact of that program from the participants' perceptions from the region of Cariri. Data analysis was based on a comprehensive approach, which values the qualitative data analysis. For the interpretation of qualitative data from this study we used the method of interpretation of meanings. The analysis shows the impacts of Course IN (2011). These impacts caused by this action denoted the social responsibility of the University Extension Program Initiatives Black: exchanging experiences. / Nas últimas décadas, a globalização mudou o ambiente empresarial, influenciando significativamente o gerenciamento dos negócios, fator que contribui para a incorporação da responsabilidade social nas instituições. Nesse contexto, as questões sociais tornaram-se mais visíveis, evidenciando ainda mais as problemáticas sociais das nações. Por ser a universidade um espaço multidimensional, o estudo da responsabilidade social no contexto torna possível a inclusão da temática cidadania no ensino superior, proporcionando discussões para o fortalecimento acerca dos direitos sociais e individuais. A pesquisa verificou a Responsabilidade Social Universitária sob a ótica da extensão nas ações do Programa de Extensão Iniciativas Negras: trocando experiências, na perspectiva do III Curso IN (2011), sua abrangência em nível nacional e seus impactos na região do cariri. De modo a atingir os propósitos traçados, foi realizado um estudo exploratório. O campo e população da pesquisa foram os bolsistas do III Curso IN (2011) e os participantes dos minicursos e oficinas da região do Cariri que fazem parte de projetos/movimentos sociais. As técnicas de coleta de dados utilizadas foram: formulários de inscrição dos bolsistas selecionados, questionários e diário de campo, os quais são instrumentos de suporte necessários para coleta de dados. Os dados coletados foram categorizados em dois grandes conjuntos: os que avaliam a abrangência do programa de extensão iniciativas negras, através do evento III Curso IN (2011), em nível nacional e; os que avaliam o impacto do referido programa a partir da percepção dos participantes oriundos da região do Cariri. A análise dos dados foi fundamentada em uma abordagem compreensiva, que preza a análise qualitativa dos dados. Para a interpretação dos dados qualitativos, utilizou-se o Método de Interpretação de Sentidos. As análises realizadas evidenciaram a abrangência do referido Curso em nível nacional e os impactos sociais em nível local. Os impactos provocados por essa ação denotaram a responsabilidade social universitária do Programa de Extensão Iniciativas Negras: trocando experiências.

Current research studies on the success of peer-based outreach programs for adolescent suicide prevention are inconclusive (Mann et al. 2005; Gould et al. 2003). Fewer still have measured the feelings and experiences of the peers who are responsible for reaching out to suicidal friends within such a program. This exploratory research study examines the experiences and perspectives of past participants of an adolescent peer-based outreach program, Hope4Utah. Findings from this mixed-method study of Hope4Utah support that peer-outreach suicide prevention programs have far-reaching benefits, on both the participants and their surrounding communities, which extend into adulthood. Themes that emerged from analysis of interviews are consistent with literature on school communities, adolescent alienation, stigma reduction, compassion fatigue, and formation of social roles and mental health beliefs through the social interactionist framework. Finally, this paper explores promising avenues for future research.

Empirical data have indicated that a considerable amount of the world's population, 45.3 million in the United States, live in deplorable conditions, some of which are created by social exclusion. Social exclusion is a disenfranchisement experienced by individuals and families living in poverty conditions created by circumstances such as lack of education, lack of economic sustenance, unemployment, poor health, and other social ills. Mentoring is a multidimensional skills-development opportunity for disadvantaged youth, aspiring new professionals, employed individuals being promoted, and instructor-student relationships. There is the possibility that mentoring could be useful for other societal groups as well, particularly social excluded adults. The purpose of this phenomenological research was to examine and gain an understanding of mentoring as experienced by social excluded adults in a small Midwest city. The theoretical framework included the theory of mentoring as postulated by Kram, Bandura's social cognitive theory, the social exclusion theory by Bourdieu, and the social capital theory by Muddiman. Social excluded adults between 25 and 50 years of age were interviewed regarding their mentoring experience. Ten research participants were interviewed. A NVivo assessment was used to analyze data. The study revealed that mentor and protégé relationships among social excluded adults yielded similar positive results as in other mentored groups. The significant social change provided by this study is that outcomes of the mentoring experiences will provide policy makers and nonprofit services providers with important data to create programs that more adequately meet the needs of social excluded adults.