BACKGROUND: Traditional research and practices focused on an investigation of risk factors to handle psychosocial problems street children faced while surviving on the street. However, more recently, attention has been given to how knowledge can be developed in the area to devise interventions that reflect the promotion of resilience as a means of achieving positive outcomes for the children. The purpose of this study was to explore the psychosocial conditions and resilience status of street children in Jimma Town.METHODS: Explanatory sequential research design was employed. Out of 246 teenager street children, 137 were selected using simple random sampling. Questionnaire, interview guide and FGD probes were used in data collection. Mean and standard deviation, multiple regression analysis and Man Whitney U T-test were used to analyze quantitative data; while discourse analysis was used to analyze qualitative data.RESULTS: The result of multiple regression analysis indicated that anxiety significantly predicted resilience status, b=.623, t (109)=8.418, p˂.001. Anxiety also explained a significant proportion of the variance in resilience status, R2=.388, F (112) = 70.86, p ˂.001. Further, the result revealed that street children had slow growing resilience status in which boys were more resilient than girls.CONCLUSION: Street children in Jimma Town faced various psychosocial challenges and had low resilience status. Thus, Jimma Town Women and Children Affairs Office ought to work to build resilience status of street children, in collaboration with different stakeholders in and around the town.

Навіть незважаючи на те, що практикум має інтегрувати та використовувати щойно набуті теорії, навички та знання, існує величезна несумірність між типами навичок та знань, наданих освітніми програмами, та реаліями робочої практики. Мета дослідження -вивчити наочні особливості ефективності практикуму та набутої професіональної компетентності студентів-випускників. Методи: було використано кількісний дослідний підхід та описовий дизайн. Усі 169 студентивипускники університету Dilla були обрані за допомогою багатоступінчастої вибірки. Анкети було використано як засіб збору даних. Середнє, стандартне відхилення, особистісна кореляція та однобічний аналіз дисперсії було використано для аналізу даних.

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The main purpose of this study was conducting psychosocial intervention/training to selected schools of South Western Ethiopia. Three school principals, teachers of students with disabilities in the integrated classrooms, parents of the same and selected students with disabilities involved in the training conducted at their respective schools. The intervention study involved ecological perspectives of approaching the individuals’ responsible assisting students with disabilities. Participants were selected purposively from each category where manual of training was employed for three groups: students/children with disabilities, parents and teachers of these children. The manual developed by researcher was evaluated critically by co-trainers and the trainee. The result indicated that the manual is of standard type which has to be organized as a guide or handbook of training in the psycho-social intervention. It incorporated foremost disability areas that had been covered in short-term training with all intervention strategies to be followed by concerned bodies. Finally, it is underlined that the manual has to be organized in more comprehensive way and been given to all stakeholders in the education of students with disabilities in the country.

The notion of counselling and reconciliation is understood differently among different scholars. Avruch and Vejarano (2002) suggested that the term reconciliation is rooted in the Latin word 're-conciliare', which means 'again make friendly'. On the other hand, the term counselling stems from the Latin word 'consilium', meaning 'advice', even though its practice is dated back to the work of Rogers,