Ecological Framework

Gitterman, Alex; Germain, Carel B.; Knight, Carolyn

doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.118

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“…An essential objective of the Kusamala+pilot programme is to reduce stigma and discrimination that CWD and their families’ experience. This programme uses the Social Ecological Model, which recognizes the transactions between individuals and their environments (Gitterman & Germain, 2008; Sallis & Owen, 2002). A multi‐disciplinary faculty team from the Midwestern United States and a Zambian organization, CMMB—Zambia, developed this programme.…”

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confidence: 99%

Using community‐based interventions to reduce public stigma of children with disabilities: A feasibility study

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Background Public stigma, or negative community‐held beliefs, about children with disabilities (CWDs) often leads to negative outcomes for CWD and their families. This study considers the effectiveness of four community‐level interventions to reduce public stigma in two Lusaka, Zambia communities. Methods This feasibility study describes four community‐based interventions to provide education to consider whether perceptions of attitudes and stigma towards CWD changed after implementing four educational interventions. Results Results revealed that these interventions were achievable. Preliminary multiple regression analyses indicated a significant impact of attending an event on the attitude scale, while no effect on the stigma scale. Presence at multiple anti‐stigma events exhibited no effect for the stigma scale, while the attitude scale showed significance. Discussion This study builds on the limited research available in low‐income countries to reduce public stigma towards CWD, with the hope of enhance quality of life for CWD and their families.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using community‐based interventions to reduce public stigma of children with disabilities: A feasibility study

Hepperlen

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Mwandileya³

et al. 2021

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“…People and their environment are considered interdependent. They are part of the reciprocal exchange of a complex system operating in a time in which man and the environment as a whole are constantly changing and forming with each other (Kemp et al, 1997;Gitterman & Germain, 2011). At the same time, risk factors of the physical world, moderated, mediated or multiplied by aspects of virtual space, enter into this reciprocal exchange (Durkee et al, 2016).…”

Section: Multiple Risks and Addictive Behaviors In The Virtual World And Physical Ecosystem In The Context Of Psychoactive Substance Usementioning

confidence: 99%

“…We assume that the psychotherapeutic and self-help groups from which the abstainers were obtained generally focused on abstinence. However, for an addicted person to become abstinent, rebuild his life and take an active relationship with his being, he needs to share his inner world through a supportive relationship in the sphere of participation and in the context of a social environment in which one becomes an observer and participant in one's own change (Volpicelli & Szalavitz, 2000;Gitterman & Germain, 2011). Cognition, emotions, behavior take into account three aspects of human life.…”

Section: Multiple Risks and Addictive Behaviors In The Virtual World And Physical Ecosystem In The Context Of Psychoactive Substance Usementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The internet forms its own virtual world, albeit parallel, but difficult to separate from the physical human habitat. The ecological niche incorporates a virtual dimension in which time and space are untied (Gitterman & Germain, 2011). In the general understanding, loneliness is a negative emotional state (Perlman & Peplau, 1982;Weiss, 1985aWeiss, , 1985bWeiss, , 1985cCacioppo & Patrick, 2008), which does not relate exclusively to real physical space.…”

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Loneliness and Predictive Models of Multiple Risk Behavior of Adolescents in the Context of Ecosystem Metatheory and Virtual Internet Space

Kahan

Žiaková

2021

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The metatheoretical ecosystem construct requires integrating the virtual dimension of the internet in the assessment of human living space. Objective: The main goal of the present study is to identify possible relationships between loneliness, risk behavior in the use of psychoactive substances of adolescents, based on the ecosystem meta-frame of living space (which also reflects virtual space), as one of the essential factors in the emergence and development of addiction. Based on this, an effort is made to compile predictive models of multiple risk behaviors concerning the use of psychoactive substances. Methods: Loneliness is determined using the OESL questionnaire (Gierveld & Tilburg, 2021). The RSi questionnaire examines risk behavior (Kahan et al., 2021 in press; Lovašová, 2021). Multiple linear regressions construct predictive models, and subcategories are subjected to correlations and parametric tests. At the same time, data on adolescents' loneliness are compared with data on the loneliness of addicted adult respondents and data on abstainers from another research. File: The representative sample consists of 744 respondents in the second and third years of secondary schools in the Slovak Republic, of which 263 are men and 481 women. The research file of addicted respondents consists of 138 respondents (100 men, 38 women), and the research group of abstainers is 94 (58 men, 36 women). Results: Statistically significant gender differences inexperienced social and emotional loneliness are found in adolescents and addicted respondents. For both male and female adolescents, excessive internet use is a significant predictor of psychoactive substance use. The prediction is more robust if, in adolescents, at least one parent suffers or has suffered from some kind of addiction. Conclusions: Aspects of virtual space act as significant risk factors which, together with loneliness, create multiple risk conditions for risk behavior in the field of psychoactive substance use.

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“…In carrying out the mediating (i.e., liaison) function, Schwartz (1969) emphasized that social workers should not attempt to change people but rather to influence the ways in which people deal with each other and their relevant systems. During the next 40 years, these ideas have been further enveloped by the ecological perspective and the Life Model (Germain, 1973;Gitterman & Germain, 2008a, 2008b, the interactionist perspective (Shulman, 2012), and the empowerment perspective (Gutiérrez & Lewis, 1999;Lee, 2001).…”

Section: Medical Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%