Children's Risk, Resilience, and Coping in Extreme Situations

Boyden, Jo; Mann, Gillian

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“…It was found that family, peer groups, education institutions and religion have a unique ability to heal stressed people (Antonovesky, 1979;Moskovitz, 1983;Loughry and Eyber, 2003;Garbarino and Kostelny, 1996;Boyden et al, 2005;Clifford, 1997, Somasundaram, 2007.…”

Section: Re-building the Social Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

War-affected children and psycho-social rehabilitation

Thoradeniya

2017

Sri Lanka J. Soc. Sci.

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Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to examine how the concept of psycho-social and psycho-social programmes emerged and evolved. Further, this paper expects to identify the basic elements in a psycho-social rehabilitation programme, by using global level discourse regarding the effects of war on children and how they can be rehabilitated. According to literature, the impact of war on children was mainly given attention after Second World War and initially more attention was given on negative psychological effects. But later it was found that, due to war children faced another social risk as well and the different viewpoints which exemplified based on research findings on 'war-affected children' caused to restrategize psycho-social interventions. As a result, two main components were identified as important dimensions when conducting a psycho-social rehabilitation process in war context. First is the diagnosis of the impact of war on affected children. Second is analysis on 'social context', which refers to the immediate physical and social setting, including culture, religion, traditions, beliefs, people, structures and institutions. Finally, this study concludes that in order to heal war-affected children in a successful way three main components should be taken into account. As the first component the psycho-social rehabilitation programmes should ensure that they attend to the most vulnerable children who are in need of psycho-social care. The second component is resource adequacy and the third component is selection of suitable rehabilitation approaches and methods.

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Section: Re-building the Social Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

War-affected children and psycho-social rehabilitation

Thoradeniya

2017

Sri Lanka J. Soc. Sci.

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“…Several contemporary researchers who work with children recognize the influence of cultural, socio-economic, and community contexts in relation to the study of resilience (Ungar et al 2007). Initial studies tended to be conducted with middle and upper-class European-descent groups, with an emphasis on academic performance, self-esteem, and family attachment, but were not formulated in relation to how the notion of resilience might apply across diverse ecological zones (Boyden and Mann 2005;Ungar et al 2007). It is important to recall that Masten's (2001) notion of resilience was framed not as static but instead as a dynamic process.…”

Section: Anxiety and The Role Of Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Global Mental Health and Adolescent Anxiety: Kin, Care and Struggle in New Mexico

Jenkins

Stone

2017

Cult Med Psychiatry

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While recent developments within the field of global mental health have illuminated the reality of serious mental health difficulties worldwide, particularly in low-income settings, research that focuses on children and adolescents remains underdeveloped. This is especially the case with respect to ethnographic studies of lived experience of adolescents diagnosed with serious mental health conditions. Drawing from an interdisciplinary study of adolescents in New Mexico who were afflicted with a broad range of disorders according to contemporary research diagnostic criteria, this article focuses on anxiety-related conditions with respect to subjective experience and social-ecological contexts of living with such conditions. We offer preliminary observations regarding the value of linking ethnographic and research diagnostic data to address questions of resilience, endurance, capacity and struggle. These observations are intended as the basis for the formulation of more precise hypotheses about adolescent anxiety, kin, and care under conditions of structural violence marked by psychological, residential, and intergenerational adversity.

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“…However, current perspectives tend not to demarcate street children so radically from other poor children in urban centers or to conceptualize the homeless in isolation from other groups of children facing adversity. Welfare agencies now talk of "urban children at risk," which conceptualizes street children as one of a number of groups most at risk and requiring urgent attention (Boyden & Mann, 2000;Kapadia, 1997).…”

Section: Street Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Education for Street Children in Egypt: The Role of Hope Village Society

Al-Dien

2009

JCIE

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The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the role of Hope Village Society (HVS) in Egypt in the provision of education to street children in order to establish its strengths and weaknesses to serve as lessons for other providers of education to street children. Data were collected using interview schedule and document analysis. Interviews were prepared conducted with eight of the management staff of HVS. The findings of the study reveal that HVS plays a major role in providing education for street children in Egypt. Since the establishment of HVS's education programs in1995, it has recorded fluctuating enrolment rates. The participation of government organizations (GOs), non-government organizations (NGOs) and community at HVS' education programs is less than expected. Like any other educational enterprise, HVS's education programs are faced with quite a number of problems. The study recommends that the Egyptian government should offer more financial contributions to organizations that provide education to street children. There is also an immediate need to engage other possible partners of HVS's education programs. Moreover, more research should be carried out in the area of pedagogy of street children.

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Children's Risk, Resilience, and Coping in Extreme Situations

Cited by 175 publications

References 40 publications

War-affected children and psycho-social rehabilitation

War-affected children and psycho-social rehabilitation

Global Mental Health and Adolescent Anxiety: Kin, Care and Struggle in New Mexico

Education for Street Children in Egypt: The Role of Hope Village Society

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