Time, Change and Continuity in Family Life

1994 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy Jerrome
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Time Change ◽  
Dyadic Relationships ◽  
Individual Change ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sensitive Issues ◽  
Different Levels

ABSTRACTPersonal development through the lifespan takes place in the context of the family, which is itself changing over time. Change occurs at three different levels – the institution of the family, dyadic relationships within it, the developing individual. Change at different levels and affecting different individuals is sometimes coordinated but often unsynchronised, with consequences for family members' sense of control and well-being. Using autobiographical material from the Mass-Observation Archive it is possible to examine a range of subjective experience, some of it illuminating themes in the literature of social gerontology, some of it prompting new lines of enquiry. The use of autobiographical material is justified by its richness and capacity to illustrate the uniqueness of experience. The case study method is appropriate for the study of sensitive issues, ambiguous concepts and uncharted areas of experience.

Bilingual Families: Using Therapist-Facilitated Interpretation in Psychotherapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-149
Author(s):  
Roxanne Ruiz-Adams
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Therapy ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Cognitive Effort ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
The Family ◽  
Different Levels

Families initiate psychotherapy with a narrative that identifies a mythological explanation for their suffering. Through narrative therapy, a therapist is able to reframe this mythological narrative into a theoretically grounded narrative that is able to provide healing. The process in which a narrative becomes reframed involves the use of language which can be hindered if no common language is available within the family. Without a common language, narratives are influenced by incomplete subjective experiences which are dulled by the cognitive effort it takes to speak and understand in a second learned language. This article discusses the challenges in working with a bilingual family containing different levels of language proficiencies among its members. I will use this case study to discuss therapist-assisted interpretation which provides each member the opportunity to influence the new narrative with an authentic subjective experience that would otherwise be absent without the therapist’s ability to interpret.

Coping Strategies in Mothers of School-Aged Children with Intellectual Disabilities

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-170
Author(s):  
Iva Strnadová ◽  
David Evans
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
The Family

The role of the family in providing a quality education program is important for all students. For students with special educational needs, however, the role of the family is particularly critical. In such families, there can be an increased amount of stress and, at the same time, a range of coping strategies evolving. Research into the ways that families cope with stress uses various life quality indicators (e.g., emotional, physical and material well-being, interpersonal relations, personal development, self-determination or social inclusion) to evaluate the effectiveness of these coping mechanisms. The role of the family (with specific focus on its links with schools) is often overlooked, yet is crucial to attaining long-term benefits for the student.

Bequests as an Instrument for Accommodating Inheritance Rules: Israel as a Case Study

1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 282-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aharon Layish
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The Family ◽  
Economic Well Being

AbstractFreedom of civil testation available, since 1965, to Israeli Muslims within some of the sharīʿa courts, has replaced the family waqf as an instrument for circumventing the compulsory rules of inheritance (ʿilm al-farāʾid). This marks in many respects the victory of custom over the sharīʿa. On the basis of an analysis of bequests probated in the sharīʿa courts, I conclude that the bequest is being used as a means to prevent fragmentation of the patrimony and to preserve it in the hands of the testator's sons or, in their absence, other male agnates, in units as complete and economically sound as possible. While excluding his wife and daughters from the estate, the testator secures their economic well-being by allocating them subsistence allowances and residential rights, that is, customary maintenance out of the estate. At the same time, the making of bequests demonstrates the capacity of women to dispose of property. The concern for orphaned grandchildren is another incentive for making a will.

scholarly journals Do vody bez obav

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-221
Author(s):  
Viktor Pacholík
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Power And Energy ◽  
The Impact

This list deals with the impact of the Halliwick Swimming Concept on subjective experience and psychical states of people with physical impairment. By means of the Halliwick Swimming Concept, that consisted of 10 swimming lessons, we observed the psychical response of the tested persons to individual lessons as well as to the whole programme within a frame of a case study. The acquired data indicate a positive impact of the swimming programme in the field of elimination of negative psychical state in water environment such as anxiety, discomfort and despondency and gradual increase of psychical well-being, activity and feelings of power and energy connected with positive expectations. Most of these changes proved not only in individual lessons, but also from the point of view of the whole programme evaluation. This paper has been written within a project OP VK CZ.1.07/2.4.00/17.0037 „Development of Pedagogical and Research Activities within the Department of Social Sciences in Sport at the FSpS MU“.

scholarly journals PARENTS OF PREMATURE CHILDREN PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
N. Goncharova
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Support ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
The Family ◽  
Psychological Assistance ◽  
Adaptive Resource

The article focuses on the problem of psychological support of parents whose children were born prematurely. Theoretical approaches to psychological assistance to such parents, psycho-emotional support of families are analyzed. The idea of the relationship between the harmonious development of the child and well-being in the family, a sense of security, support and security is considered. Ways of medical and psychological support, increase of psychological adaptive resource of parents are analyzed. The necessity of psychological support of parents and development of new ways of intrafamily interaction is discussed. It is analyzed that timely family care can not only effectively optimize the personal development of the child, but also help to eliminate psychological problems in adults. Along with experimental research programs, some schemes and approaches to psychological counseling of such families are also being developed. In this context, the work of a psychologist plays an extremely important role, helping parents to overcome despair and fear, promotes the creative search for new ways and opportunities for child development, the formation of new life goals in her parents. In the article notes that the psychological support of parents of premature babies may have the following features: family research, which includes studying the functioning of the family and its hidden resources, obtaining information about its social and financial situation, analysis of the primary needs of parents and children; establishing contact, motivating to cooperate; assessment of possible specific ways of psychological and pedagogical assistance; choice of directions of work depending on results of diagnostics; work of specialists aimed at psychological and pedagogical assistance to the family, to activate the social position of parents, to find their own family rehabilitation resources and opportunities.

scholarly journals Estudio de la percepción del profesorado sobre el bienestar - Felicidad

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 463-486
Author(s):  
Manuel López- Sánchez ◽  
Manuel Gabriel Jiménez-Torres ◽  
Daniel Guerrero- Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Positive Perspective ◽  
Analysis Of Results ◽  
Permanent Formation ◽  
Formación Permanente

Resumen:Los estudios sobre felicidad o bienestar y sus posibilidades de mejora en el contexto educativo han suscitado un gran interés en la comunidad científica. Sin embargo, habitualmente los diferentes estudios suelen ignorar las opiniones del profesorado, obviando así las aportaciones del llamado paradigma del “pensamiento del profesor”. En el presente estudio, a través de una metodología cualitativa de estudio de casos, se han planteado dos objetivos: 1) conocer la percepción del profesorado en ejercicio sobre la felicidad, y 2) valorar la necesidad de incorporación de competencias en los nuevos temas de formación permanente sobre el desarrollo personal desde una perspectiva positiva. El análisis de resultados evidencia un conocimiento del profesorado sesgado y parcial del concepto de felicidad según los postulados del desarrollo positivo. Se pone así de manifiesto la necesidad de profundizar en este ámbito, ampliando el conocimiento del concepto de felicidad del profesorado a través de la formación permanente y el asesoramiento psicopedagógico. Con esto se pretende redireccionar la acción educativa de cara a su mejora.Abstract:Studies on happiness or well-being and their possibilities for improvement in the educational context have aroused great interest in the scientific community. However, the different studies usually ignore the opinions of teachers, thus neglecting the contributions of the so-called "teacher's thinking" paradigm. In the present study, through a qualitative methodology of case study, two objectives have been proposed: 1) to know the perception of teachers in exercise on happiness, and 2) to assess the need to incorporate competencies in the new themes of Personal development from a positive perspective. The analysis of results shows a biased and partial knowledge of the concept of happiness according to the postulates of positive development. The need to deepen in this area, thus increasing the knowledge of the concept of happiness of the teaching staff through the permanent formation and the psico-pedagogic advice, becomes evident. This is intended to redirect educational action in order to improve it.

scholarly journals Developing Emotional Intelligence in the Clinical Learning Environment: A Case Study in Cultural Transformation

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 692-698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Cohen-Katz ◽  
Jeffrey L. Sternlieb ◽  
Susan E. Hansen ◽  
Julie A. Dostal
Keyword(s):  
Family Medicine ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Clinical Learning Environment ◽  
Mixed Methods Case Study ◽  
The Family ◽  
Resident Wellness

ABSTRACT Background  Burnout continues to erode the physician workforce, and there are few effective intervention studies to guide educators. Objective  We explored residents' experience in a model environment emphasizing resident wellness, safety, and interpersonal skills. Methods  As 1 of 14 participants in the national Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice (P4) project, the family medicine residency at Lehigh Valley Health Network implemented a series of curricular changes designed to transform the culture of education. This mixed-methods case study utilizes the results from 3 quantitative self-report instruments for well-being, along with content analysis of transcripts from 20 focus groups and 33 resident advising sessions to describe experiences of the residents enrolled between July 2007 and June 2012. Results  In the intervention, we found no statistically significant quantitative differences in the well-being of residents compared with the family medicine faculty and staff. Deductive (a priori and template) analysis and inductive thematic analysis of the residents' articulations of their experiences revealed 6 recurrent themes: naming/articulation of emotions, relationships, attitudes about self-care, self-reflection, delivery of learning experiences, and availability of resources. Conclusions  Quantitative measures of well-being did not capture the experiential value of the curricular innovations implemented by the residency program, while qualitative analysis highlighted themes important to residents. While not all residents in the intervention expressed support for the changes, repeated references to the nurturing educational environment indicate recognition of, and favorable responses to, the creation of an emotionally intelligent learning community.

scholarly journals The Impact of Invisibility on the Health of Migrant Farmworkers in the Southeastern United States: A Case Study from Georgia

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kari M. Bail ◽  
Jennifer Foster ◽  
Safiya George Dalmida ◽  
Ursula Kelly ◽  
Maeve Howett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Migrant Farmworkers ◽  
The Impact

Migrant farmworkers represent one of the most marginalized and underserved populations in the United States. Acculturation theory cannot be easily mapped onto the transnational experience of migrant farmworkers, who navigate multiple physical and cultural spaces yearly, and who are not recognized by the state they constitute, “the Citizen’s Other” (Kerber, 2009). This paper utilizes narrative analysis of a case study to illustrate, through the relationship of the narrator to migrant farmworkers and years of participant observation by the coauthors, how isolation from family and community, as well as invisibility within institutions, affect the health and well-being of migrant farmworkers in southeastern Georgia. Invisibility of farmworkers within institutions, such as health care, the educational system, social services, domestic violence shelters, and churches contribute to illness among farmworkers. The dominant American discourse surrounding immigration policy addresses the strain immigrants put on the social systems, educational system, and the health care system. Nurses who work with farmworkers are well positioned to bring the subjective experience of farmworkers to light, especially for those engaged with socially just policies. Those who contribute to the abundant agricultural produce that feeds Americans deserve the recognition upon which social integration depends.

scholarly journals The Family Business as a Driver of the Social Economy: The Case of a Tourist Cooperative in Sinaloa, Mexico

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Borrego A. ◽  
Ibarra-Michel J. P. ◽  
Soto-Karass J. G.
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Cooperative Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Working Together

The family business in the field of social economy represents the actions and commitments it has with its members and the community, according to the philosophy and principles of the cooperative as a business organization; it also helps to strengthen its social capital and promote family integration.The objective of the study was to analyze the family business as a boost to the social economy from the organizational figure of the cooperative, taking as a case study a tourist cooperative in northern Sinaloa, Mexico. This business has more than 30 years’ operating as a cooperative society and is in its third generation, is made up of 15 members, members of the same family who in turn hold the main positions at the general assembly. The research was conducted as a case studywith a qualitative methodology approach, collecting data through observation, review of documents and semi-structured interviews to key family members.The results indicate that the family and cooperative business, share decision-making and collective well-being, promoting the social economy by working together and distributing goods fairly; allowing the continuity of the company for the next generation.

scholarly journals High school students’ ideas about future time perspective with the focus on different levels of personal maturity

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 55-73
Author(s):  
Anna Borisovna Uglova ◽  
◽  
Irina Markovna Bogdanovskaya ◽  
Natalya Nikolaevna Koroleva ◽  
Anastasiya Vladimirovna Miklyaeva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Future Time ◽  
School Students ◽  
Different Levels

Introduction. The authors investigate the problem of high school students’ ideas about future time perspective, which reflect the level of their personal development and the ability to solve life and professional problems independently and creatively. The purpose of the study is to identify the structural and content features of high school students’ ideas about future life perspective taking into account different levels of personal maturity. Materials and Methods. Ideas about future time perspective were considered based on the concepts of the event-situational approach and the personal-time arrangement of future time perspective. The following biographical and psychodiagnostic methods were used to collect empirical data: E. Korzhova’s ‘Psychological autobiography’; The Twenty Statements Test (TST) by M.Kuhn and T. McPartland; A. Miklyaeva’s ‘Scale of personal maturity self-assessment’. Methods of mathematical statistics were used to analyze the quantitative results of the research. Results. The authors summarize the findings of the theoretical and experimental study of high school students’ ideas about their future time perspective. The structural components of the ideas have been clarified, their functions in building future time perspective and regulating social activities of high school students have been determined. The study reveals the distinctive features of students’ ideas about future taking into account different levels of personal maturity in such aspects as event-richness and extensity of life perspective, its emotional coloring, concretization, and relationship with various aspects of personal maturity. The key content characteristics of the students’ ideas about future reflect their experience of self-identity and awareness of changes. Their important function is to regulate high school students’ activities, aimed at the implementation of life plans. The level of personal maturity affects structure and content of adolescent ideas about future time perspective. Conclusions. The structure of high school students’ ideas about future time perspective includes a number of components that determine future well-being, socialization, and self-fulfillment. The principles and ideas, which have been developed as a result of the research, can be transferred to teachers' and psychologists' work with problems of life and professional self-determination of high school students. Keywords Level of personal development; Personal maturity; Ideas about future time perspective, High school students’ professional activities; Regulation of social activity.

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