Multilayered outcomes were found in the results of a follow-up study for an action research project conducted in East Greenland. The project was based on a community psychology approach that stresses the interdependent relations of change, structure, people, and community and emphasized the fundamental issue of grounding an intervention in local utilization. The project focused on mobilizing the resilience of vulnerable schoolchildren by advocating the students’ perspectives in a collaborative intervention process with the teachers of a local school. The research question for the follow-up study was: What were the outcomes of the intervention project conducted with teachers of vulnerable students? In the intervention process, ideas for developing and changing practice were devised and articulated by the teachers themselves; however, implementation and change in practice did not happen linear to this process. The follow- up result of multilayered outcomes was analyzed in three main directional levels of implementation: a constructive externalization and implementation level, a generalized in-between level named forgetting-but-not-denying, and a resistance/rejection level (where no implementation occurred). The community psychology analysis and discussion of the results is supplemented with a cultural-historical theoretical dimension (primary from Jaan Valsiner) that focuses on individual processes of internalization and externalization and the different levels of integrating new knowledge. The paper summarizes crucial issues to consider in psychosocial intervention practice in order to implement change.
Den høje voldsrate i Kalaallit Nunaat (Grønland) forklares ofte ud fra alkoholmisbrug og affektive handlinger. I denne artikel vises det gennem en kvantitativ og kvalitativ undersøgelse, at den episodiske vold må forstås som symptomer på strukturel vold. Den strukturelle vold er en kontekst, der fremmer følelser af magtesløshed, social isolation, undgåelse af konflikter og undertrykkelse af følelser – indtil de eksploderer i konkret vold. Den strukturelle vold både legitimerer og forstår den konkrete vold, men den åbner også for interventioner, der kan ændre netop den strukturelle vold. Den strukturelle vold er skadelig for unge, da den fremmer og legitimerer vold. Community mobiliseringsprojektet Paamiut Asasara har vist gode resultater med at sænke antallet af husspektakler samt med at styrke ikke-voldelig konfliktløsning. Dette bidrager til at ændre opvækstvilkårene og livsvilkår for de unge.
Objective: This study undertakes a mapping review of mainly concerning children and youth in Greenland in the period 1976–2016 and reflects on how the research has been conducted and knowledge thereby created about children and youth in Greenland, as well as how the research has been developed over time.Design: 16 online databases; five journals; publication lists originating from seven organisations and ten prominent researchers; and local network and references were used in the search and subsequently screened through the scoping criteria. 342 publications were included, encompassing knowledge based on empirical research on children and youth in Greenland within the broader field of psychology.Results: The majority of studies, 71%, were conducted through quantitative methods. The qualitative research is represented in 22% of the studies and participatory and action-orientated research is represented in 7% of the studies. The most prominent themes in research concerning children and youth in Greenland were physical problems, which were found in 38% of the studies.Conclusions: The result reflects a consistent objectivity and quantitative methodology in health research in Greenland since 1991.The health research thus represents a united research community with a shared methodological research approach, while the local participatory action research projects all appear differentiated. While health research covers a spectrum of psychology related objectives, the methodology traditions reveal a specific kind of knowledge, which has come to determine how the mental health of the Greenlandic children is perceived. We believe that more qualitative and locally grounded approaches need to be organised in order to produce a more nuanced knowledge of the Greenlandic children and youth.
Dette review indeholder en samling af 43 empiriske psykologisk-,sundheds- og samfundsrelaterede studier omkring børnog unge i Østgrønland, publiceret i perioden 1976-2016. Studierneer indsamlet via en systematisk søgning i forskellige databaser,tidsskrifter og publiceringslister samt en gråzonesøgningvia blandt andet lokale netvaerk i Østgrønland. Reviewetinkluderer studier fra nationale forskningsprojekter, hvor østgrønlandskeforhold er inddraget og brugt til sammenligningmed vestlige forhold samt mere isoleret østgrønlandsk forskning.Reviewet viser, hvordan den nationale forskning overvejendefokuserer på problematiserende forhold via kvantitativebeskrivende forskningsmetoder, mens den lokale forskningfortrinsvis indbefatter kvalitative studier, der dels indeholderforslag til, hvad man kan gøre lokalt for at komme problemernetil livs, og dels inddrager et syn på styrker og ressourcer i Østgrønland.Det vurderes i artiklen, at hvis forskningen har tilhensigt at bane vejen for forebyggende sociale indsatser, børforskerne inkludere en vurdering omkring, hvorvidt selve forskningspraksissen diskursivt er med til at skabe problemorienterendeidentifikation af østgrønlandske forhold og mennesker.
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