According to the research Lithuanian society is intolerable to mentally ill people. Therefore the main aim of this research was to raise awareness and enhance knowledge about the media ...representations of mentally ill persons in Lithuania. The method used in this research was quantitative content analysis. 144 articles from national newspapers with some reference to mental illness appearing in the selected newspapers over a period of three months in the fall of 2008 were analyzed. The results of the research have shown that Lithuanian media creates quite negative images of mentally ill - most often it is a male, who has committed a crime, is very detailed identified in the article and whose opinion/version of the story is not important for the journalist. Mentally ill person is the source of information quite rarely. More often sources of information are the official persons. In most cases mentally ill person does not have a possibility to express his/hers opinion. There are just a few reportages in the analyzed data. This shows that journalists tend to distance themselves from mental health issues. They do not go out to the field to gather data, do not speak to the mentally ill people - it is safer for journalists to keep the distance by just giving references to events and not reporting about them. Very important actor in mental health area that is missing in the articles - is mental health institutions, even thou they dominate the mental health care system. Politics of mental health is not discussed at all in media in Lithuania.
Pagal atlikto tyrimo duomenis Lietuvos visuomenė yra netolerantiška sutrikusios psichikos asmenų atžvilgiu. Taipogi tyrimu buvo siekiama atkreipti visuomenės dėmesį į egzistuojančią netolerancijos problemą ir tuo pačiu praturtinti žinojimą apie tai, kaip žiniasklaida vaizduoja sutrikusios psichikos asmenis Lietuvoje. Buvo naudota kiekybinė turinio analizė kaip tyrimo metodas. Tyrimo metu buvo išanalizuoti 144 nacionalinės žiniasklaidos straipsniai, kuriuose per pasirinktą trijų mėnesių laikotarpį buvo referuojama į psichikos ligas. Tyrimo rezultatų analizė parodė, kad Lietuvos žiniasklaida pateikia negatyvų sutrikusios psichikos asmenų įvaizdį. Dažniausiai sutrikusios psichikos asmuo yra vyras, padaręs nusikaltimą, aiškiai identifikuotas ir kurio nuomonė nėra pristatoma. Dažniausiai kaip informacijos šaltiniai nurodomi viešojo sektoriaus organizacijų darbuotojai. Labai svarbus veikėjas psichikos sveikatos politikoje – psichikos sveikatos institucijos – nėra pristatomas straipsniuose. Psichikos sveikatos politika nėra aptariama Lietuvos žiniasklaidoje.
The article discusses the issues related to the integration of people with intellectual disabilities and mental disorders in the community after they have relocated to a community group home. The ...ecological mapping approach reveals and compares aspects of the physical and social participation of people with disabilities and other community members.
A recent wave of migration has brought a lot of children to the EU. Children in migration face a stronger risk of becoming victims of violence, physical or sexual abuse, and trafficking. Social ...workers in the receiving countries are usually the ones who most often provide services to them. The study, using focus group methodology and aiming to identify the needs of social workers for training and their training preferences in this context, was carried out in 2018, in 7 EU countries.
The results have shown that the main issue is the absence of specific, systemic training aimed at improving the knowledge and skills needed for work with migrants. The public or governmental institutions did not have an interest in providing such kinds of training, they were organized on an ad-hoc basis by NGOs mainly. Lack of knowledge about legal systems, the difference between the theory and practice, and the lack of practical experience working with migrant minors were named by participants as the main gaps that need improvement.
straipsnis, santrauka, reikšminiai žodžiai lietuvių kalba; santrauka ir reikšminiai žodžiai anglų kalba
Anksčiau atliktų tyrimų rezultatai rodo, kad kochlearinė (klausos) implantacija kartu su ...nuosekliai įgyvendinama klausos lavinimo programa gali užtikrinti sėkmingą kurčių vaikų socialinę integraciją. Kochlearinė implantacija Lietuvoje atliekama nuo 1998 metų. Iki 2017 metų pabaigos šalyje implantuoti 377 asmenys, dauguma iš jų – vaikai. Daugelis šios srities tyrimų yra skirta klinikiniams ar technologiniams kochlearinės implantacijos aspektams nagrinėti, tačiau trūksta darbų, kuriuose būtų nagrinėjami sveikatos politikos ir socialinės integracijos klausimai. Straipsnyje apžvelgiama dabartinė kochlearinės implantacijos sistema, implantacijų paplitimas ir paciento kelias. Tyrime derinami teisės aktų bei kitų dokumentų analizės ir aprašomosios statistikos metodai. Straipsnio autorių žiniomis, tai pirmas tyrimas, skirtas kochlearinės implantacijos sistemos apžvalgai Lietuvoje.
straipsnis, santrauka, reikšminiai žodžiai lietuvių kalba; santrauka ir reikšminiai žodžiai anglų kalba Anksčiau atliktų tyrimų rezultatai rodo, kad kochlearinė (klausos) implantacija kartu su ...nuosekliai įgyvendinama klausos lavinimo programa gali užtikrinti sėkmingą kurčių vaikų socialinę integraciją. Kochlearinė implantacija Lietuvoje atliekama nuo 1998 metų. Iki 2017 metų pabaigos šalyje implantuoti 377 asmenys, dauguma iš jų – vaikai. Daugelis šios srities tyrimų yra skirta klinikiniams ar technologiniams kochlearinės implantacijos aspektams nagrinėti, tačiau trūksta darbų, kuriuose būtų nagrinėjami sveikatos politikos ir socialinės integracijos klausimai. Straipsnyje apžvelgiama dabartinė kochlearinės implantacijos sistema, implantacijų paplitimas ir paciento kelias. Tyrime derinami teisės aktų bei kitų dokumentų analizės ir aprašomosios statistikos metodai. Straipsnio autorių žiniomis, tai pirmas tyrimas, skirtas kochlearinės implantacijos sistemos apžvalgai Lietuvoje.
The deinstitutionalization of social care in Lithuania started in 2012 after the adoption of the strategic guidelines by the Ministry of Social Security and Labour. The goal of this reform was to ...improve the care conditions and introduce new community-based services for persons with disabilities. Almost ten years of the reform resulted in only five percent of persons with disabilities who moved to community settings, mainly group-living homes. The slow-motion of the reform, as well as the tensions in the communities, suggests the need for a thorough analysis of the process of deinstitutionalization and its improvement.
Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory is applied as a conceptual and methodological tool for understanding the roles of deinstitutionalization agents at different levels, including the Ministry of Social Security and Labour, municipalities, non-governmental organizations, social care institutions, and local communities. All of these agents are involved and diversely interact among themselves during the transformation process of the social care system. The ecological theory provides the necessary integrated approach to the analysis of the process of deinstitutionalization of the social care system at the micro-, meso-, exo-, and macro levels.
Deinstitutionalization and the trajectories of its participants reveal resilient connections with different fields of the ecological system and show that different system components not only represent different systems but become microsystems themselves that affect all elements in the ecological system.
The complexity of environmental systems constitutes the basis of ecological systems theory. It serves as a lens to guide the analysis of the transformation of a particular person’s life in the context of deinstitutionalization. Herewith, it is an appropriate tool for understanding the impact of deinstitutionalization on specific local communities.
2022 m. spalio 14 d. Vilniaus universitete vyko II kasmetinė nacionalinė socialinės politikos konferencija „Gyvenimo kelias ir jo krizės: kaip (ar) veikia Lietuvos socialinė politika?“Universiteto g. ...3, Vilniushttps://youtu.be/oBGfbjJijPY
2022 m. spalio 14 d. Vilniaus universitete vyko II kasmetinė nacionalinė socialinės politikos konferencija „Gyvenimo kelias ir jo krizės: kaip (ar) veikia Lietuvos socialinė politika?“ Universiteto ...g. 3, Vilnius https://youtu.be/oBGfbjJijPY
The aim of this article is to reveal stigma manifestations in personal, structural and public levels, its effects on the mental health care system, people with mental disorders, and political ...decisions in this area in Lithuania. Data of three researches (held in 2015–2016) is presented in the article: the analysis of media discourse, the analysis of a subjective attitude of patients towards the treatment they have received, and the analysis of experts’ opinion on the situation of the mental health care system in Lithuania.
The results revealed that at the personal level stigma is linked to learned helplessness and conciliation with lesser possibilities. Perception of stigma stimulates withdrawal behaviour and avoidance to name the disorder. The analysis of the media also highlight¬ed the tendency to depreciate people with mental disorders and limit their possibilities to form this discourse. The analysis of experts’ opinions revealed the effects of stigma on the mental health care system – dominant discourses help to support the effects of stigma at the structural level. Separate levels of stigma are connected by the scheme of non-constructive coping, which is based on the attempts of psychiatrists to keep the power they have, efforts of patients to keep their privacy, and media’s reaction to critics arguing society’s right to knowledge.
The analysis of personal, structural and public stigma highlights different dimensions of stigma, and helps to identify parallels between individual experiences and a pessimistic and stereotypical attitude towards all the system of the mental health care.
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