From the Inside: Personal Challenges for Teens Reentering Society

2008 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Challenges

Study-work-life balance of international students in the context of temporal boundaries

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-79
Author(s):  
Megan O'Mahony ◽  
Debora Jeske
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Social Withdrawal ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Boundary Management ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Time Zone ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Personal Challenges

The goal of this qualitative study was to examine the experience of study-work-life balance among international students who were separated from their family both geographically and temporally. Using 10 semi-structured interviews with postgraduate students and thematic analysis, several themes were identified. These included boundary management shifts due to study/work demands and time zone differences. In addition, students reported social and personal challenges (in terms of family’s expectations, relationships maintenance, socialization in host country). Temporal boundaries contributed to social withdrawal and isolation among students, many of which were heavily reliant on their own family network for support. The findings strengthen the argument that time difference impacts the boundary management and social experience of international students.

Educational Experiences: Voices of Incarcerated Male Youth & School-to-Prison Pipeline

2021 ◽  
pp. 54-72
Author(s):  
Everett Singleton
Keyword(s):  
School Violence ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Academic Failure ◽  
Incarcerated Youth ◽  
Male Youth ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Parental Neglect ◽  
Indirect Impact ◽  
Complex Events ◽  
Personal Challenges

Youth who experience academic failure are at a greater risk for involvement in delinquency. While studies have revealed a myriad of factors for such failure, the perceptions of these youth regarding their educational experiences have proven to be one of the most valuable resources regarding the systematic barriers to academic achievement. The purpose of this study was to understand how incarcerated male youth perceive their educational experiences. Results indicated that some incarcerated youth make meaning of their educational experiences through a series of complex events, changes, and circumstances occurring in their school and personal lives. Some of these were positive, while others often exposed them to unhealthy environments, substance abuse, and criminal elements. Although their experiences varied, it was clear that failure was an ongoing occurrence throughout their academic journey. Their stories were also rife with suspensions, expulsion, truancy, retention, academic failure, school violence, poverty, and parental neglect; furthermore, youth revealed personal challenges that had a direct or indirect impact on their academic journey, including feeling of inferiority due to their academic shortcomings.

Understanding the impact of personal challenges and advisor support on stem persistence among graduate women of color.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerrie G. Wilkins-Yel ◽  
Jennifer Bekki ◽  
Amanda Arnold ◽  
Bianca Bernstein ◽  
C. Okwu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Color ◽  
Personal Challenges ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Stem Persistence

Silver linings of COVID

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 217-217
Author(s):  
Rhys Sycamore
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Practice ◽  
Personal Challenges

Through personal challenges experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic as an underpriveleged student paramedic, Rhys Sycamore shares his ‘silver linings’ from an unconventional placement to a bolstered drive to advocate for a more inclusive practice.

Emotional Labor of Instruction Librarians

2021 ◽  
pp. 104-119
Author(s):  
Lorraine Evans ◽  
Karen Sobel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
Student Support ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
Industrial Psychology ◽  
Academic Faculty ◽  
Teaching Faculty ◽  
Personal Challenges

This chapter consolidates aspects of emotional labor that apply to the work of academic faculty and staff. Perspectives will focus on the instructional work librarians do, in the classroom and through research support, and be applied to teaching faculty and support staff in higher education. The collaborative nature of the work, along with the environment and structural components that both enhance and challenge that work, are examined. The chapter describes risk factors that are common and unique to librarianship, such as academic culture, administrative demands, communication, and student support, applying these concepts more broadly in higher education. Pulling from the research on emotional labor, industrial psychology, and the authors' experience in libraries, strategies are presented that can be used or adapted by individuals and departments. Finally, the chapter discusses tensions inherent in the work of those who choose to perform emotional labor: the love of supporting students and faculty through academic and personal challenges versus the exhaustion that sometimes results.

Influence of ICTs on the Information Behavior of the Elderly in Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
Oluyinka Titilope Afolayan
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Literature Search ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Information Behavior ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Information Behaviour ◽  
Personal Challenges

The uptake of ICTs by the elderly to fulfil their diverse information needs is ridden with unavoidable challenges militating against their full exploitation of these technologies. In view of this, this paper examined the influence of ICTs on the information behaviour of the elderly in Nigeria. The methodology adopted for this research work was purely documentary and literature search in determining the extent of the influence of ICTs on the information behaviour of the elderly in Nigeria. Specifically, the research objectives for this paper addressed the Information needs of the elderly; sources of Information frequently consulted by the elderly; types of ICTs often used by the elderly; factors challenging the elderly in meeting their information needs, seeking and use using ICTs. Findings revealed that the information needs of the elderly are diverse, differ from person to person. The elderly was equally faced with personal challenges such as old age syndromes covering anxieties, disabilities, nervousness, and lack of good eyesight that affected their ICT usage.

scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 on Canadian medical oncologists and cancer care: Canadian Association of Medical Oncologists survey report

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Gill ◽  
D. Hao ◽  
H. Hirte ◽  
A. Campbell ◽  
B. Colwell
Keyword(s):  
National Survey ◽  
Health Care Access ◽  
Cancer Care ◽  
English Language ◽  
Treatment Decision ◽  
Cancer Prognosis ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
Medical Oncologists ◽  
Personal Challenges ◽  
The Impact

  Background  The covid-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented professional and personal challenges for the oncology community. Under the auspices of the Canadian Association of Medical Oncologists, we conducted an online national survey to better understand the impact of the pandemic on the medical oncology community in Canada. Methods  An English-language multiple-choice survey, including questions about demographics, covid-19 risk, use of personal protective equipment (ppe), personal challenges, and chemotherapy management was distributed to Canadian medical oncologists. The survey was open from 30 March to 4 April 2020, and attracted 159 responses. Results  More than 70% of medical oncologists expressed moderate-to-extreme concern about personally contracting covid-19 and about family members or patients (or both) contracting covid-19 from them. Despite that high level of concern, considerable variability in the use of ppe in direct cancer care was reported at the time of this survey, with 33% of respondents indicating no routine ppe use at their institutions and 69% indicating uncertainty about access to adequate ppe. Of the respondents, 54% were experiencing feelings of nervousness or anxiety on most days, and 52% were having feelings of depression or hopelessness on at least some days. Concern about aging parents or family and individual wellness represented the top personal challenges identified. The management of cancer patients has been affected, with adoption of telemedicine reported by 82% of respondents, and cessation of clinical trial accrual reported by 54%. The 3 factors deemed most important for treatment decision-making were cancer prognosis and anticipated benefit from treatment, risk of treatment toxicity during scarce health care access, and patient risk of contracting covid-19. Conclusions This report describes the results of the first national survey assessing the impact of the covid-19 on Canadian medical oncologists and how they deliver systemic anticancer therapies. We hope that these data will provide a framework to address the challenges identified.

scholarly journals From Midwife-Dominated to Midwifery-Led Antenatal Care: A Meta-Ethnography

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (23) ◽  
pp. 8946
Author(s):  
Bente Dahl ◽  
Kristiina Heinonen ◽  
Terese Elisabet Bondas
Keyword(s):  
Antenatal Care ◽  
Transition To Parenthood ◽  
Evidence Synthesis ◽  
Routine Care ◽  
Risk Identification ◽  
Qualitative Evidence Synthesis ◽  
Model Of Care ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
Personal Challenges

Provision of antenatal care includes risk identification, prevention and management of pregnancy-related diseases, but also health education, health promotion, support and guidance to smooth the transition to parenthood. To ensure good perinatal health, high-quality, free and easily accessed antenatal care is essential. The aim of this study was to identify, integrate and synthesize knowledge of midwives’ experiences of providing antenatal care, attending to clients’ individual needs whilst facing multiple challenges. We conducted a meta-ethnography, which is a seven-step grounded, comparative and interpretative methodology for qualitative evidence synthesis. A lines-of-argument synthesis based on two metaphors was developed, based on refutational themes emerging from an analogous translation of findings in the included 14 papers. The model reflects midwives’ wished-for transition from a midwife-dominated caring model toward a midwifery-led model of antenatal care. Structural, societal and personal challenges seemingly influenced midwives’ provision of antenatal care. However, it emerged that midwives had the willingness to change rigid systems that maintain routine care. The midwifery-led model of care should be firmly based in midwifery science and evidence-based antenatal care that emphasize reflective practices and listening to each woman and her family. The change from traditional models of antenatal care towards increased use of digitalization no longer seems to be a choice, but a necessity given the ongoing 2020 pandemic.

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