China
Africa
Explore chapters and articles related to this topic
Set Recovery Goals
Published in Sandra Rasmussen, Developing Competencies for Recovery, 2023
Helping others who have a substance-related or addictive problem supports the helper’s recovery. Often this “helping” is through personal or online participation in recovery-based mutual self-help groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA); SMART Recovery, Women for Sobriety, and LifeRing Secular Recovery, to name a few. Mutual self-help groups provide a forum and opportunity for individuals in recovery to connect with others who have similar experiences and goals, allowing them to build relationships within an addiction-free support network. The groups are usually free, anonymous, and easily accessible. Helping often begins by sharing one’s experience, strength, and hope at a meeting. Helping others in recovery greatly benefits the helper. Helping is a way of saying thank you for recovery and the help received from peers and practitioners.
How the Coronavirus Could Change Urban Planning
Published in Abbas Rajabifard, Greg Foliente, Daniel Paez, COVID-19 Pandemic, Geospatial Information, and Community Resilience, 2021
Some European cities have already opened online participation portals, and the number of users is likely to increase significantly during corona times (see www.stuttgart-meine-stadt.de). In order to prevent a Hamburg resident from voting on planning processes in Stuttgart, registration is required that is tied to his or her place of residence. Inappropriate comments will be deleted immediately by an online editorial team.
A Case Study in Online Classroom Interaction to Enhance Graduate Instruction in English Literature
Published in Cleborne D. Maddux, D. LaMont Johnson, The Web in Higher Education: Assessing the Impact and Fulfilling the Potential, 2021
Lucio Teles, Mary Ann Gillies, Stacy Ashton
Furthermore, it should have been made clearer at the beginning of the course that class members were expected to respond to postings in both a timely fashion-thereby lessening the sense of anxiety experienced by some when no one responded to their posting for several days- and in an intellectually engaged way. Had students who raised substantive issues been answered in kind by all members of the class, it is possible that more discussion would have ensued. Also, had their comments been answered quickly (within a day at most), the anxiety surrounding the sending of a message into the great void might well have been diminished. The online component of the course accounted for 25% of the course grade; perhaps by increasing the percentage of grade given for online participation, and by more explicitly linking frequent and intellectual content of postings to the allocation of the grade, we might have been able to increase participation.
“They just say how stupid I was for being conned”. Cyberscams and acquired brain injury: A qualitative exploration of the lived experience of survivors and close others
Published in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 2023
Kate R. Gould, Jao-Yue J. Carminati, Jennie L. Ponsford
This was the first study to our knowledge which explored the lived experience of people with ABI who have been scammed online, and the perspectives of COs in identifying and assisting with cyberscam recovery. With the prevalence of cyberscams rising every year alongside the rapid development of technology (Clough, 2010), further research is urgently required to understand this phenomenon within the ABI population. Increasing awareness and targeted scam education will be critical in improving cybersafety and reducing the shame and stigma associated with cybercrime. Development of resources for COs is needed to mitigate conflict and increase support levels for people with ABI. The development of a tailored, evidence-based intervention may be needed to promote safe and independent online participation for those with ABI.
Identifying, organizing and prioritizing ideas on how to enhance ADL ability
Published in Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2019
Kristina Tomra Nielsen, Louise Klokker, Susanne Guidetti, Eva Ejlersen Wæhrens
The number of participants included in a GCM study may vary depending on the question in focus (i.e. focus prompt) and the data collection method [24]. In the present study, the intention was to gain broad perspectives from both persons living with chronic conditions and occupational therapists and to apply a combination of face-to-face sessions and online participation. Thus, planning to recruit approximately 20 persons living with chronic conditions and 20 occupational therapists. To the extent possible, the participants were sampled in a way that ensured heterogeneity in terms of in gender, age, primary client group, years of experience working with persons with chronic conditions (occupational therapists) or years living with a chronic condition (persons with chronic conditions) using the first and last authors professional network.
Hidden concerns of sharing research data by low/middle-income country scientists
Published in Global Bioethics, 2018
Louise Bezuidenhout, Ereck Chakauya
A key element of discussions about Open Data in Africa has been the existence and perpetuation of a “digital divide” – the perceived absence of ICTs, Internet provision or computer skills necessary for effective online participation (Bezuidenhout, Leonelli, et al., 2017). While issues of access, of course, remain important considerations, recent ethnographic research revealed hidden complexities (Bezuidenhout, Kelly, et al., 2017). Challenges such as the age of the hard- and software being used, the frequency of power-cuts interrupting Internet provision and poor personal Internet connection were all cited as key factors shaping researchers’ ability to work online. The ability to work online is therefore better understood in terms of a “continuum of access” rather than as a binary switch from nothing to online productivity (Bezuidenhout, Kelly, et al., 2017).