Voices of Resilience

Voices of Resilience
Author: Pam O’Connor
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2011-10-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9460914365

This book presents the results of a study that examined the multiple layers of stigma and discrimination experienced by women infected and affected by HIV/AIDS in a low socio-economic area of Mumbai, India. Using exploratory qualitative methods and underpinned by the psychosocial framework and gendered perspectives the study attempts to represent the voicesof affected and infected women. The book first focuses on a global overview of HIV,presents data on the Indian context and provides a synthesis of HIV in relation to stigma, discrimination and gender. The second part of the book probes the depth of impact on women’s lives using the lenses of gender, economic status, the environment and physical health. The framework was further modified and extended to include threats revealed by and strengths indentified in infected and affected women. The analysis revealed that strategies to address stigma and discrimination need to address the social, cultural, religious and systemic barriers to changing attitudes. The book portrays the resilience of each woman’s spirit and the unique capacity of the women to cope, to find strength, to pursue life and to maintain hope when their dreams and the dreams of their children have been shattered through HIV/AIDS.

Urgent Injury and Violence-Related Public Health Threats: The Role of Social Determinants in Cross-Cutting Injury and Violence across the Lifespan

Urgent Injury and Violence-Related Public Health Threats: The Role of Social Determinants in Cross-Cutting Injury and Violence across the Lifespan
Author: Ursula Ann Kelly
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2024-11-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 2832553583

Injury and violence, including gun violence, drug overdose, suicide, intimate partner violence, and sexual violence, are prevalent public health problems, with numerous health and social adverse consequences for individuals, families, communities, and society. Injury and violence cause significant morbidity and mortality across the lifespan. Children who experience violence, directly or indirectly, are more likely to experience abuse and poor health, developmental, and social outcomes, which can persist into adulthood and include further violence victimization and/or perpetration. Adults exposed to injury and violence are at risk for exacerbated or new physical and mental health problems that can be short-term or long-lasting. Moreover, society bears an enormous economic burden caused by medical and legal costs, low productivity, or absenteeism related to injury and violence.

A Qualitative Assessment of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Two Zimbabwean Districts

A Qualitative Assessment of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Two Zimbabwean Districts
Author: Shungu Munyati
Publisher: HSRC Press
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2006
Genre: AIDS (Disease) in children
ISBN: 9780796921444

The Human Sciences Research Council was commissioned by the WK Kellogg Foundation to develop and implement a five-year intervention project focusing on orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in southern Africa. In collaboration with several partner organisations, the project currently focuses on how children, families, and communities in Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe are coping with the impact of HIV/AIDS. The aim of the project is to develop models of best practise so as to enhance and improve support structures for OVC in the southern African region as a whole.

The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in HIV Prevention and Care in Central America

The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in HIV Prevention and Care in Central America
Author: Kathryn Pitkin Derose
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2010-05-28
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0833049844

Describes the involvement of churches and other faith-based organizations (FBOs) in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. The authors describe the range of FBO activities and discuss the advantages and challenges to such involvement and possible ways that FBOs can enhance their efforts, both independently and in collaboration with other organizations, such as government ministries of health.

A Faith-based Response to HIV in Southern Africa

A Faith-based Response to HIV in Southern Africa
Author: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2006
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

While there is a general acknowledgement within the church itself that the Church was initially slow to respond to the magnitude of the problem of HIV and AIDS, during the recent past, as the effects of HIV and AIDS within the congregations and communities of the church have become progressively more evident, the Catholic Church has emerged as an increasingly central role-player in a range of initiatives to combat the pandemic. This publication describes the work of the 'Choose to Care' initiative and the way it has been successfully scaled-up through the diocesan and parish network so that programmes are formed by local needs but work with common guidelines and can draw on central support.

Handbook of DSM-5 Disorders in Children and Adolescents

Handbook of DSM-5 Disorders in Children and Adolescents
Author: Sam Goldstein
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 659
Release: 2017-11-05
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3319571966

This handbook synthesizes and integrates the science of internalizing and externalizing childhood disorders with the diagnostic structure of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual – 5th Edition (DSM-5) of the American Psychiatric Association. It offers a comprehensive overview of DSM-5 disorders in childhood, covering etiology, symptom presentation, assessment methods, diagnostic criteria, and psychotherapeutic and pharmacological approaches to treatment, prognosis, and outcomes. Clinical vignettes and empirical insights illustrate key concepts and diagnostic and treatment issues such as developmental, cultural, gender, and other considerations that may influence diagnosis and case formulation. In addition, chapters on psychosocial therapies offer robust guidelines for working with children and adolescents with DSM-5 disorders. The Handbook also addresses the shift from categorical to dimensional, diagnostic, and treatment systems, particularly focusing on the current shift in funded research in childhood disorders. Topics featured in this Handbook include: Intellectual disabilities and global developmental delay. Depressive disorders in youth. Posttraumatic and acute stress disorders in childhood and adolescence. Autism spectrum and social pragmatic language disorders. Alcohol-related disorders and other substance abuse disorders. Parent-child and sibling relationships. Cognitive-behavioral interventions and their role in improving social skills. The Handbook of DSM-5 Disorders in Children and Adolescents is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, professionals, and scientist-practitioners in clinical child and school psychology, pediatrics, social work, and educational psychology.