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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Social intervention"”.
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Racial integration : a social intervention on a South African university campus
… more integrated environments, it may be that interventions would be required to facilitate the direct interpersonal contact presupposed in contact theory. This thesis presents data from two sets of longitudinal studies conducted in university dining halls to investigate whether patterns of …
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Suburban Cleansing: An Ecological, Economical and Social Intervention in Tysons Corner Virginia
… it into an ecologically, economically, and socially responsible place. The thesis exploration has three primary concentrations: a master plan, a site study within the master plan, and a proposed building typology. The master plan critiques the Fairfax County Comprehensive Plan for Tysons …
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Religion and social intervention : towards a model for Islamic counselling and psychotherapy
In the field of social and psychological services delivery, counsellors are often confronted with clients whose lifestyles, being and functioning is informed by a particular culture or religious persuasion. Here mainstream theories of intervention may not be appropriate to facilitate maximum client …
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How are Girls' Attitudes Toward Cyberbullying Affected by Drama for Social Intervention?
… experiences of cyberbullying as a contemporary social phenomenon. Participants included 4 Grade 11 and 12 girls from a medium-sized independent school in southwestern Ontario, Canada. The girls participated in 9 extracurricular study sessions from January to April 2013. During the sessions, they …
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Evaluating the health effects of a social intervention in older people using an experimental approach
… is limited research to show that a social intervention such as increasing income improves health, especially as this relates to older people. It is known that poverty is a real problem for many older people in Northern Ireland. One reason for this is that older people often do not …
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Multicultural social intervention and nation-building in South Africa : the role of Islamic counselling and psychotherapy
… in an innovative analysis of post-Apartheid social reconstruction. Culture, counselling, politics and religion converge and embrace areas of enquiry like Islam, diversity and identity studies, religio-cultural healing, gender studies, democracy, and human and social transformation.
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Sex-talk: Uncovering the rhetorical strategies of abstinence and comprehensive sex education campaigns in the United States
… William R. Brown's model, the Rhetoric of Social Intervention (RSI). RSI is applied to the Abstinence Clearinghouse (for abstinence) and the Advocates for Youth: Rights, Respect, Responsibility (for comprehensive) campaigns. A comparison and contrast of the two programs is presented, as …
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Women empowered: The Purkal Project – weaving the fibers of transformation through education and entrepreneurship in rural northern India
… of The Purkal Project, change-makers in social innovation that provide free, world-class education and vocational development in an economically challenged rural community in the Himalayan region of Northern India. In this paper, the researcher explored the history of the conditions of …
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A comparison of video modeling and social stories to decrease inappropriate behaviors
… of this research was to determine which type of social intervention is more efficient when comparing Video Modeling and Social Stories when attempting to decrease inappropriate social behaviors. Two children were chosen because they both displayed inappropriate mouth noises at various points …
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Effectiveness of peer interventions to develop appropriate communication skills in children with autism
… of this research was to determine which type of social intervention is more efficient when comparing Peer Video Modeling and Peer Tutoring when attempting to decrease inappropriate social behaviors. Three children were chosen because they each displayed a lack of eye contact, inappropriate verbal …
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Crossroads: Exploring how micro organizations that leverage design shape urbanism practice
… Broad Community Connections, Design Studio for Social Intervention, Civic Studio, and Hector Design. Each conversation dives into the nuance of each organization’s foundations, process, and vision for the future. In understanding each group’s internal organizational practices, we begin to …
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Architecture as a Transition Space
Architecture as an act of social intervention is the concept of this project. Careful consideration of context and surrounding as well as community needs are the forces behind the creation of a building that is both a place of transition and interaction; a place that both philosophically and …
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DocuStory & Impact Campaigns: Examining the Dynamics of Cocreating Change through Digital Storytelling
… impact campaigns for documentaries with social calls to action, a process sometimes referred to as “impact producing.” This transdisciplinary participatory action research aimed to cocreate a strategic campaign for a DocuStory on liver wellness designed to spread awareness about hepatitis …
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The emergence of social innovation within the social economy: the case of social enterprises in England
Social enterprises (SEs), such as development trusts (DTs) in England, are contributing to solve some of the world´s most entrenched problems, recurring to innovative ideas and proposals that tend to outperform traditional forms of social intervention. This research seeks to unveil the ways in …
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The social construction of professional counselling practice in UK embedded higher education counselling services: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of practitioner perspectives
… unique aspects of practice in this context. A social constructionist research framework is advanced to elucidate how counselling practitioners construct the role and functions of their work in EHECS. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with six student counsellors working across UK …
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The effect of school feeding programmes in addressing food insecurity in the Mutale Municipality of Vhembe District, Limpopo Province in South Africa
… feeding programmes within the wider context of social assistance and a component for securing food for the wellbeing of Mutale rural inhabitants. The major problem identified in this study was the inadequacy of governmental interventions, specifically the social assistance component, to …
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“On the Floor” and “At the Table”: Child Care Work, Advocacy, and the Devaluation of Social Reproduction in Canada’s Non-Profit Sector
… precarious providers of care. Drawing on social reproduction theory, it conceptualizes community-based non-profit work as a critical yet persistently undervalued site of social reproduction. Focusing on child care provision and advocacy in Ontario, the dissertation asks: How do non-profit …
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Understanding performance measurement from a social systems perspective
… to them. Organisations are complex, adaptive, social systems whose distinctive activity is decision-making. They are heterogeneous entities whose capabilities, behaviours, and circumstances are unique, emerging from their histories and previous decisions. Organisational reality is a social …
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The Personal Goals of Elder Community Volunteers
… of older adults' life satisfaction to their social participation is a central issue in social gerontology. By paying attention to the personal goals that individuals consider important to their life satisfaction, a number of new questions regarding the influence of social participation become …
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Rearrangements – Four Urban Experiments Between Soil and Sky
… as an architect-artist in the fields of urban intervention, ontological design and experimental worldbuilding. My projects involve prototyping arrangements in urban space that contain ideas currently excluded from modern colonial urban design. These ideas, both specific and broad, include …
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