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Digitalized Psychosocial Support in Education: Exploring the impact of the Happy Helping Hand app for displaced Syrian adolescents in Lebanon
No full textThe civil war in Syria has resulted in 1.5 million Syrian displaced people living in Lebanon. About 40% are between the ages of five and seventeen, many of which suffer from a wide range of psychosocial problems. This has created a need for initiatives to provide mental health and psychosocial support (PSS). The use of digital technology has created unique opportunities to provide PSS to underserved populations. One such digital PSS initiative is the Happy Helping Hand (HH) intended to provide PSS in the education of displaced Syrian adolescents in Lebanon. The HH is a digital cognitive behavioral-based (CB-based) tool that aims to help adolescents manage their emotions and understand how to problem-solve through a digital game app. Our research has examined how the Happy Helping Hand (HH) contribute as a digital psychosocial support intervention in improving well-being and emotional problem-solving skills in adolescents. We therefore examined how the HH affected the well-being and emotional problem-solving skills of a group of displaced Syrian adolescents in Lebanon. We also explored the adolescents’ and teachers and PSS staff’s experiences of the usefulness and practicability of the HH app. We employed a mixed-method research approach by combining qualitative and quantitative methods for data collection. A statistical analysis was conducted of the adolescents’ well- being both before (pre-test) and after (post-test) the HH intervention, as well as measuring their experiences of the usefulness of the intervention. In addition, three semi-structured interviews were conducted with adolescents (divided by gender), and teachers and PSS staff facilitating the intervention, exploring issues such as emotional coping and problem-solving skills, and their experiences using the HH app. We found that the Happy Helping Hand positively affected Syrian displaced adolescents’ well-being. Our results are in line with research showing that digital PSS interventions can increase emotional problem-solving skills by improving skills in emotional self-management, decision-making, and help-seeking. The Happy Helping Hand was considered to be easy to use, engaging, relevant, crucial, and useful. Nevertheless, digital PSS interventions should maintain cultural sensitivity and adapt itself to the relevant cultural context but should do so without compromising on efficacy nor undermine international rules, norms, and standards. The well-being of the Syrian adolescents is adversely affected by multiple other stressors, such as war trauma, poverty, and tough living conditions. Importantly, more than digital PSS is needed to ensure wellbeing and healthy lives for all refugees
Digitalized Psychosocial Support in Education: Exploring the impact of the Happy Helping Hand app for displaced Syrian adolescents in Lebanon
Full text linkThe civil war in Syria has resulted in 1.5 million Syrian displaced people living in Lebanon. About 40% are between the ages of five and seventeen, many of which suffer from a wide range of psychosocial problems. This has created a need for initiatives to provide mental health and psychosocial support (PSS). The use of digital technology has created unique opportunities to provide PSS to underserved populations. One such digital PSS initiative is the Happy Helping Hand (HH) intended to provide PSS in the education of displaced Syrian adolescents in Lebanon. The HH is a digital cognitive behavioral-based (CB-based) tool that aims to help adolescents manage their emotions and understand how to problem-solve through a digital game app. Our research has examined how the Happy Helping Hand (HH) contribute as a digital psychosocial support intervention in improving well-being and emotional problem-solving skills in adolescents. We therefore examined how the HH affected the well-being and emotional problem-solving skills of a group of displaced Syrian adolescents in Lebanon. We also explored the adolescents’ and teachers and PSS staff’s experiences of the usefulness and practicability of the HH app. We employed a mixed-method research approach by combining qualitative and quantitative methods for data collection. A statistical analysis was conducted of the adolescents’ well- being both before (pre-test) and after (post-test) the HH intervention, as well as measuring their experiences of the usefulness of the intervention. In addition, three semi-structured interviews were conducted with adolescents (divided by gender), and teachers and PSS staff facilitating the intervention, exploring issues such as emotional coping and problem-solving skills, and their experiences using the HH app. We found that the Happy Helping Hand positively affected Syrian displaced adolescents’ well-being. Our results are in line with research showing that digital PSS interventions can increase emotional problem-solving skills by improving skills in emotional self-management, decision-making, and help-seeking. The Happy Helping Hand was considered to be easy to use, engaging, relevant, crucial, and useful. Nevertheless, digital PSS interventions should maintain cultural sensitivity and adapt itself to the relevant cultural context but should do so without compromising on efficacy nor undermine international rules, norms, and standards. The well-being of the Syrian adolescents is adversely affected by multiple other stressors, such as war trauma, poverty, and tough living conditions. Importantly, more than digital PSS is needed to ensure wellbeing and healthy lives for all refugees.publishedVersio
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Hate and Identity - A social philosophical attempt to understand extremism
Full text linkIn the analyses of extremism, the focus has mostly been on ideology and sociological – or so-called vulnerability – factors. While these factors are important the relevance and weight of emotions in the extremisation processes have not received the attention, they deserve. This article is an attempted to filling this gap. The paper explores the importance of emotions, especially strong emotions like hate and ‘ressentiment’, in establishing and reproducing the extremist identity. Methodologically this contribution emphasises a hermeneutic approach and draws on the philosophy of emotions, especially the approach of Robert C. Solomon. Empirically the article draws upon established international research and the author’s research on Islamist extremism in Norway
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