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Aid: a mixed blessing
No full textDespite a growing emphasis by aid agencies on local participation and consultation, the recipients of aid commonly have mixed, if not hostile, responses to relief assistance. Agencies need to acknowledge the inequalities that are inherent in an aid relationship, and be more judicious in determining their proper role. The author calls for aid providers and recipients to accept our innate human equality and our circumstantial inequality in order to establish relationships of mutual respect and contemporaneous enjoyment of each other.This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.</p
Cannabis use, resilience and mental health in adolescents
Get PDFCannabis remains the most commonly used illicit substance during adolescence, yet little is understood about the influences on changes in use patterns. There has been more focus on risk as compared to resilience in assessments of cannabis and psychopathology. This thesis aimed to assess self-reported factors influencing changes in patterns of cannabis use in adolescents, and to integrate resilience in the assessment of cannabis use, alcohol use, and psychopathology.
A 6-month prospective design involving a sample of 288 adolescents recruited from schools and from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services was utilised. Participants completed the Cannabis and Young People Questionnaire, Resilience Scale for Adolescents, Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences, and Depression Anxiety Stress Scales.
Multiple factors influenced changes in cannabis use, with an overarching influence of peers. Cannabis use was not related to psychopathology, nor did it moderate the relationship between psychopathology and resilience. However personal competence emerged as a negative predictor of psychopathology. Level of social resources was the strongest negative predictor of alcohol use, and alcohol users had higher levels of depression. Therefore, there may be potential for utility of resilience factors, notably personal competence, and social resources in prevention and early intervention for mental health in adolescents
Resilience-Based Interventions to Street Childhood Among Street Children in Zimbabwe
No full textThe chapter explores the efficacy of resilience-based intervention strategies that are aimed at tackling street childhood in Zimbabwe. Resilience-based interventions are those interventions that make use of the inherent capacity and agency of the concerned children. While street childhood is a significant challenge in Zimbabwe and Africa, there are little debates on and use of resilience-based interventions for street children. Zimbabwe is devoid of innovative and well-researched interventions to tackle street childhood. In recent years, resilience has been deployed to explain both the aetiology and interventions to street childhood. Indeed, resilience is explained to influence the decision of getting to the streets by the street children as they attempt to handle family adversity at home. In the same vein, interventions that are based on resilience are suggested in the current study. Analysis of secondary data was conducted for the study. The results reveal that the resilience-based interventions may include religious networks, peer support groups, schooling, use of expressive arts, family and parenting clubs for their parents and guardians, contextual psychosocial support and counselling, vocational training, drug rehabilitation and psychosocial support and counselling
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