BackgroundIn 2013 the legislated National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was launched in Australia to provide funded supports through individual plans. Since its inception, Huntington’s Victoria ...(HV) has provided Support Coordination for community members who have NDIS plans. Initially the benefits of the scheme were self-evident, however as the Scheme has matured, there appears to be inconsistencies in the response time and access requirements.AimTo ascertain if NDIS meets the complex needs of the HD community. Method: A qualitative review of 25 client files identifying whether the level of support accessed through their NDIS plans meet their needs.ResultsThe majority of the clients were identified as low socio-economic status and experiencing issues such as unstable accommodation and employment, interaction with the justice system and child and family services. Whilst the NDIS provide funds for practical supports, it does not recognise the need for ongoing resources in relation to high level support coordination to manage the identified risk factors across the social domains.ConclusionIt is a positive initiative to have a national insurance scheme that provides access to the HD community to funded resources. These resources are identified within a disability recovery framework which precludes the recognition of the needs of a progressive neurological condition. In practical terms this means that day to day services such as personal care are funded however specialised support coordination and advocacy to mitigate the risks of homelessness, and other impacts across the social domains are not resourced.
Conventions play a fundamental, yet contested, role in social reasoning from childhood to adulthood. Conventions about how to eat, dress, speak, or play are often said to be alterable, contingent on ...authorities or consensus, specific to contexts, and–thereby–distinct from moral concerns. This view of conventional norms has faced two puzzles. Children and adults judge that (a) some conventions should not be adopted and (b) some violations of conventions would be wrong even if the conventions were removed. The puzzles derive, in part, from the notion of “pure” conventions: conventions detached from non-conventional concerns. This paper proposes and examines a novel solution to the two puzzles, termed the constraint view. According to the constraint view, children and adults deem conventions as alterable within constraints imposed by non-conventional concerns. The present research focused on constraints imposed by concerns with agents to whom the norms apply and concerns with others affected by the norms. Findings from four studies with preschoolers and adults supported the constraint view. Participants evaluated actions and norms based on concerns with effects on agents and others, deeming conventions to be alterable insofar as the altered norms did not negatively impact agents or others. The constraint view offers a new framework for research on how children and adults integrate conventional and non-conventional concerns when they evaluate norms and acts.
In the book on Re-theorizing Literacy Practices edited by Bloome, Castanheira, Leung & Rowsell (2019) is the following quotation grounded in the work of Brian Street that represents a critical ...definition of literacy practices central to the papers presented in this special issue of Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada/Papers in Applied Linguistics focusing on Researching practices in literacies across languages and social domains: International Perspectives.
We propose and evaluate a contribution to the conceptualization and assessment of personality functioning based on social domains and mentalizing hypotheses. Social domains are distinct social ...contexts, such as with acquaintances and friends, with differentiated expectations regarding participants' behaviours and social attributions. The capacity to organize social participation according to these expectations requires the ability, we suggest, to modulate mentalizing processes domain by domain. Drawing on evidence that social domain organization is impaired in borderline personality disorder (BPD) and that hypermentalizing, a heightened interpretation of others' motives, thoughts or emotions, is elevated in adolescent BPD, we hypothesized that hypermentalizing levels in adolescents will vary by social domain and that elevated BPD features will be associated with impairment of this domain organization of hypermentalizing.
Measures including the borderline personality features scale for children (BPFSC) and the movie for the assessment of social cognition (MASC) were administered to 171 adolescents aged 12-17 recruited from public schools and community organizations in a large metropolitan area in southwestern United States. Mean hypermentalizing scores were computed for adolescent interpretations of sequences in the MASC focusing on the social domains of acquaintance, friends and romantic interactions.
There was a progressive increase in hypermentalizing scores across the acquaintance, friends and romantic interactions (repeated measures ANOVA, p < .001, all pairwise comparisons, p ≤ .02), which was markedly reduced in the presence of elevated BPD features (interaction term, p = .007).
Hypermentalizing is organized according to social domain and this organization is impaired in the presence of elevated BPD features. The findings are consistent with the proposal that personality functioning entails a social domains organization of hypermentalizing, which is impaired in personality dysfunction. Identifying mentalizing processes domain by domain has the potential to create a personalized focus for the treatment of adolescents with personality difficulties.
Franse woorden in het Nederlands Assendelft, Brenda; Rutten, Gijsbert; van der Wal, Marijke
Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche taal- en letterkunde,
08/2023, Volume:
139, Issue:
2/3
Journal Article
We investigated how parental continued attachment was related to college students’ social provision areas during the early phases of college to better understand student persistence factors. Using a ...sample of undergraduate students (N = 419), we applied structural equation modeling and found that mother and father continued attachment affects the social provisions of students in different ways. Mother attachment was related to nurturance and emotional connection, whereas father attachment was related to worth, guidance, alliance, and emotional connection. These relational and social provision areas may serve as influence factors related to college student persistence. Limitations and implications for student persistence, development, researchers, and educators are discussed.
There has been a significant amount of research on correlates of bullying victimization, but most prior studies are descriptive and do not distinguish between different types of bullying. The current ...study used a case-control study design to explore factors related to different types of bullying victimization, including physical, relational, verbal, sexual, property, and poly-bullying victimization. This study was conducted in a southern city in China, including 3054 cases who self-reported being victims of school bullying and 3054 controls who reported not being involved in any school bullying in the past 12 months. Each victim case was matched with a control on gender, school, and grade level. Univariate logistic analyses and multivariate conditional logistic regression analyses were used to identify factors associated with being a victim of school bullying. Results suggest physical bullying victimization was only associated with a family-level characteristic (parenting style) while the other four types of bullying victimization (relational, verbal, sexual, and property bullying) and poly-bullying victimization were associated with multiple social domain variables at individual, family, and school levels. Findings from this study provide evidence of factors for different types of bullying victimization and have implications for potential measures to prevent bullying. Measures from multiple social domains, including individual, family and school (e.g., developing healthy behaviors, improving social skills, positive parent-child interactions, building trust between teachers and peers, and forming strong friendships), should be considered in order to effectively prevent adolescent victimization from bullying.
The lack of accountability is considered to be a major cause of the crisis in health care in India. Physicians as key stakeholders in the health care delivery system have traditionally been ...accountable for health concerns at the doctor-patient interface. Following social and organizational dynamics, the interpretations of accountability have broadened and shifted in the recent literature, expanding accountability to the community, national and global levels and to social domains. The objective of this study is to provide a comprehensive framework of accountability in medical practice that can be used as a vehicle for further contextualized research and policy input. Through literature review, this paper is presented in two parts. First, a description of accountability of a physician inclusive of the social domains is extracted by posing three pertinent questions: who is accountable? accountability to whom? and accountability for what? which addresses the roles, relationships with other stakeholders and domains of accountability. Second, a framework of accountability of a physician is designed and presented to illustrate the professional and social domains. This study revealed a shift from individual physician’s accountability to collective accountability involving multiple stakeholders through complex reciprocal and multi-layered mechanisms inclusive of the social dimensions. We propose a comprehensive framework of accountability of the physician to include the social domains that its multidimensional and integrative of all stakeholders. Furthermore, we discuss the utility of the framework in the Indian health care system and how this can facilitate further research in understanding the social dimensions of all stakeholders.
•This study provides a comprehensive framework of accountability in health care practice that can be used for contextualized research and policy decisions.
Prising Open the Black Box Houston, Stan
Qualitative social work : QSW : research and practice,
03/2010, Volume:
9, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
There is a growing interest in critical realism and its application to social work. This article makes a case for adopting this philosophical position in qualitative social work research. More ...specifically, it suggests that there is a concordance between critical realist premises and action research with its cyclical inquiry and advancement of social change. This combination of philosophy and method, it is argued, promotes anti-oppressive social work research and illuminates the processes shaping outcomes in programme evaluations. Overall, the article underscores the importance of ‘depth’ in qualitative inquiry by conceiving the social world in terms of five interlacing, social domains.
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