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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"community intervention"”.
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Grief counselling : community intervention practices
… from their loved ones; it also threatens community cohesion and solidarity. In most cultures, the painful road from loss to healing concerns not only the immediate family, but the community at large. In other words, grief is a shared experience. The disposal of the dead and the …
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Barriers to Health: Understanding the Barriers Faced by Community Intervention Projects
… disseminate information to members of the local community and how the input of community members impacted the overall food insecurity campaign. This study was conducted by interviewing five nonprofit directors and conducting three focus groups with clients of the. aforementioned organizations. …
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The women's health project: a community intervention for AIDS risk reduction in women
… among women. The purpose of the current intervention was to test the utility of extending a behavioral social influence/diffusion of innovation approach to a group of heterosexual women. A randomized experimental field design was used to compare a community intervention (AIDS education …
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A mixed-methods evaluation of the ‘Closer to Home’ community intervention programme for preventing frail and elderly hospital admissions in NHS Forth Valley
… the results of a mixed-methods evaluation of a community-based programme called ‘Closer to Home’, aimed at preventing hospital admissions among frail and elderly people living in the NHS Forth Valley health board in Scotland.The evaluation sought to 1) understand the structures and operational …
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An Exploration of Effective Treatments for Domestic Abusers
… the literature of three different batterer intervention programs (BIP) psychoeducational, anger-management and coordinated community intervention. Each model is evaluated for its strengths as well as its limitations. Evidence Based Practice for domestic abusers is discussed as no current …
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Cardiovascular Disease: Prevention and Management
… with statin exposure. The third project is a community intervention to improve health outcomes of recently-discharged heart failure patients, regardless of statin use.
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Le Matuamoepo: competing 'spirits of governing' and the management of New Zealand-based Samoan youth offender cases
… aid officer, Youth Court youth advocate and a community intervention programme worker. The key sites of government examined in this work are those of the family, the Youth Court, the youth justice family group conference and a community intervention programme service. The thesis reveals that to …
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Factors and dynamics influencing the implementation of community interventions: a systems perspective
Community interventions are a recent development in the field of prevention. This study sought to address the current gap in this area, between scientific knowledge and community practice, through an understanding of practitioners’ experiences of implementation. A case study was undertaken to …
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Community healing in BonteLanga : a space for social healing and reconciliation
… rife amongst segments of the coloured and black community. This holds particularly true where resources are as scarce as in the townships of Cape Town's Cape Flats. The 'Community Healing Project' facilitated by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) uses dialogue and debate as main …
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Liberté - The Positivity Coffee Bar: Challenging Perceptions
… (Fraser, 2018; Gov. Wales, 2022). Society and community suffer from preconceived ideas, often based on fear and rumour, labelling women ex-offenders or persons formally in prison (PFiP), and women victims of domestic abuse as troublesome or too much trouble; employing negative public mindset …
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Intervening to Influence Fast-Food Choices: Assessing Response Generalization in Nutrition-Related Behavior
A large-scale intervention, designed to increase healthier fast-food consumption, was evaluated at a national fast-food chain. Participants included fast-food consumers at three separate restaurant locations in southwestern Virginia. Each restaurant received three phases, consisting of fourteen …
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Impact of current sport and recreation policy in South Africa on the provision of sport and recreation opportunities for persons with disabilities in marginalised communities
… exist. Sustainable sport and recreation interventions have the potential to address and eliminate various barriers to physical activity participation for persons with disabilities. Current service provision approaches for persons with disabilities in Tshwane focus on individual treatment …
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Language Endangerment and Maintenance in the Arbresh of Piana Degli Albanesi
… investigate the processes of institutional and community intervention that are targeting the revitalization of Arbresh, and to determine necessary future steps based on its present state. Language endangerment is examined in two main directions: the analysis of the functional scope of Arbresh, …
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"The baby will grow" : a poststructuralist and psychodynamic analysis of a community psychology intervention
… psychologists have recognised the need for community approaches in South Africa which maximise access to psychological intervention and which value politically aware psychological practice. Few extended analyses of such interventions exist in the literature, and community psychology has been …
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An evaluation of the Black Country in Motion: a community led intervention for the engagement of hard to reach, physically inactive communities of the Black Country
… inactivity within such demographic groups, community-led interventions have been used to engage individuals and increase social cohesion and social capital. However the challenges experienced in measuring the efficacy, effectiveness and impact of real world community intervention have been …
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Positive vs. Negative Prompting for Litter Control: A Systematic Field Evaluation of Relative Effectiveness
Attempts by behavior scientists to test interventions designed to promote environmentally-responsible behavior (ERB) have been documented for decades. Numerous behavioral scientists have looked to community-based interventions to decrease environment-destructive behaviors, as well as to increase …
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Watershed - A Transdisciplinary Social Design Process Applied to an Environmental Issue
… and pollution mitigation, involve an entwined community of diverse players, intricate systems, and ever-changing terrain. Because of their pluralistic nature, these problems can seem impossible to solve and even impossible to understand. This requires a collective approach and new ways of …
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A changing dialogue within health communication in New Zealand: a case study of the Waikato screening mammography programme
… past decade, government has provided a number of community-based health interventions. The purpose of such interventions is to provide information and resources that will empower “well” individuals to participate in proactively managing their health, thereby contributing towards both cost and …
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Understanding strengths: Developmental Changes and Effects of Protective Factors in a Community Prevention Trial
… factors to provide evidence for improving community-based prevention. Data come from the Community Youth Development Study, the first randomized-controlled trial of Communities That Care (CTC). CTC is a science-based community prevention system that mobilizes community coalitions to promote …
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Examining a Community Action Planning Process to Mobilize a Coalition to Prevent Youth Violence: A Case Study of the ThrYve Initiative
… cause of death for Black youth. Comprehensive community approaches may address risk factors across socio-ecological levels to prevent youth violence. Community coalitions can serve as a mechanism for implementing a comprehensive community approach. Based on the Framework for Collaborative …
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