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How the Psychology of Education Contributes to Research With a Social Impact on the Education of Students With Special Needs: The Case of Successful …
2020
One current challenge in the psychology of education is identifying the teaching strategies and learning contexts that best contribute to the learning of all students, especially those whose individual characteristics make their learning process more difficult, as is the case for students with special needs. One main theory in the psychology of education is the sociocultural approach to learning, which highlights the key role of interaction in children's learning. In the case of students with disabilities, this interactive understanding of learning is aligned with a social model of disability, which looks beyond individual students' limitations or potentialities and focuses on contextual as…
Proceso migratorio, condiciones laborales y salud en trabajadores inmigrantes en España (proyecto ITSAL)
2009
Objetivo: Describir el proceso migratorio (razones para emigrar, tiempo de residencia), la situación legal y las características personales, laborales y de salud de los inmigrantes con experiencia de trabajo en España. Métodos: Estudio transversal sobre una muestra estratificada por país de origen (Colombia, Ecuador, Marruecos y Rumanía), situación legal y sexo. Entrevista a 2434 trabajadores (57,4% varones). Se analiza la información sobre el proceso migratorio, las condiciones laborales, la situación de salud y las expectativas de vida y trabajo. Comparación de frecuencias por país de origen. Resultados: El 90% eran <45 años, principalmente con formación secundaria (51%). La mayoría emigr…
Dying With Dementia
2013
Advanced dementia is increasingly being regarded as a terminal disease (1, 2). Studies in English-speaking countries have led to the conclusion that the palliative care of patients with dementia at the end of their lives is now inadequately adapted to their special needs, not only for those dying at home, but also for those dying in hospitals and nursing homes (3, 4). Insufficient symptom control, failure to recognize that the patient is dying, and unnecessary and stressful interventions such as artificial nutrition or physical restraints are common (5, 6). Most of the pertinent studies in Germany have looked only at the symptom burden of persons dying of cancer in palliative care facilitie…
Physical activity promotion in public health nursing practice with children
2007
Background: Physical activity has become a major public health concern even in early childhood. This article exemplifies physical activity promotion in practice as described by public health nurses from Finnish primary health care. Method: We gathered the data by purposive sampling in five regional focus groups with 24 informants working in child health clinics provided for all families with children below school age. Statements associated with physical activity promotion were extracted out of verbatim transcripts. Frequency counting complemented qualitative analysis of the content of statements. Findings: Child-centred evaluation provided by public health nurses focused on motor developmen…
Diagnostic and clinical procedures of a patient with oral-facial-digital type II syndrome: a case report
2011
The oral-facial-digital syndromes (OFD) are part of a great number of genetic disorders. They are classified in categories based on characteristic abnormalities, including OFD type I (Papillon-Leage and Psaume syndrome) and OFD type II (Mohr syndrome). The aim of this article is to describe a clinical case of a patient with oral- facial-digital type II syndrome or Mohr syndrome, who underwent surgery for supernumerary teeth removal under endovenous sedation. Moreover, it is intended to discuss the importance of diagnostic and clinical procedures, with proper and concise indications about the limitations of patients with special needs treatment. Due to their clinical and physiological limita…
Consumer Satisfaction with Outpatient Mental Health Care: Impact of an Organizational Change in Mental Health Center Function from Hospital District …
1996
In Finland the administrative responsibility for outpatient psychiatric care has in part been reorganized from specialized psychiatric treatment organizations to health centers. This change has been encouraged by economic pressures, but data about its impact on the quality of treatment and patient satisfaction are limited. We carried out a follow-up study by using the UKU Consumer Satisfaction Rating Scale (UKU-CONSAT) and qualitative interviews to estimate consumer satisfaction with the psychiatric outpatient care just before and 1 year after such a change. The results suggest that dissatisfaction may emerge if too little attention is paid to the longevity of the treatment relationships an…
Multisensorās stratēģijas skolēnu ar speciālajām vajadzībām iesaistīšanai angļu valodas stundās pamatskolā
2015
Skolotāja pieredzes mapes autore ir angļu valodas skolotāja un speciālais pedagogs vidusskolā. Skolēnu ar speciālajām vajadzībām iekļaušana vispārizglītojošajā skolā ir izraisījusi skolotāju diskusijas par to, kā sekmēt visu skolēnu iesaistīšanos vienas stundas laikā, ņemot vērā, ka viņu spējas un vajadzības ir tik dažādas. Autore ir mēģinājusi atrast visefektīvāko veidu darbā ar skolēniem ar speciālajām vajadzībām; kā risinājums ir rasts multisensoro stratēģiju izmantošana. Lai dalītos profesionālajā pieredzē, kā noslēguma darba forma tika izvēlēta skolotāja pieredzes mape. Darba mērķis ir noskaidrot, kuras multisensorās stratēģijas sekmē skolēnu ar speciālajām vajadzībām iesaistīšanos ang…
Conflict between truthfulness and tact in parent–teacher conferences
2009
The purpose of this article is to explore how teachers’ and parents’ conversations are affected by their notions about truthfulness. The study is qualitative and draws on data from observations of parent–teacher conferences about pupils with special needs in a Norwegian lower secondary school and from interviews with participants. The findings show that teachers’ and parents’ conversations are constrained by positive talk, decency and silence and, especially when the pupil participates, they choose a careful point of view, gloss over it, and talk about what is OK and not unpleasant. Furthermore, teachers act communicatively in a strategic way. It is concluded that teachers and parents often…
Assistive Technology and Affective Mediation
2006
The lack of attention towards affective communication in assistive technology and disability research can be potentially overcome thanks to the development of affective computing and affective mediation areas. This document describes the main impairments and disorders that may involve affective communication deficits. We also present several affective mediation technologies that are being applied or may be integrated in assistive technologies in order to improve affective communication for a range of disabilities. Finally, we describe our experience with Gestele, an application that incorporates multimodal elements of affective mediation for people with mobility impairments, as well as the …
Risk Factors for Parental Burnout among Finnish Parents: The Role of Socially Prescribed Perfectionism
2019
Abstract Objectives Although parental burnout can have detrimental consequences to families, the investigation of the syndrome is still in its infancy. The present study investigated what are the key family background variables that contribute to parental burnout among Finnish parents. Moreover, we investigated how self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism uniquely and interactively relate to parental burnout over and above the impacts of background variables. Methods Questionnaire-based data was collected from 1725 parents (91% mothers) and analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). Results The results showed that when several family- and child-related background variable…