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- Promoting reflective assessing practices through narratives: An action research project in early childhoodPublication . Cardoso, Ana Paula; Amaral, Maria João; Oliveira, NatérciaThis project aims at describing the use of Action Research in the development of more structured assessment practices in Early Childhood Portuguese contexts. The teacher had always observed young learners’ activities and progress, and registered them in the form of “critical incidents”. This reflective process structured through this type of narratives helps “tune” the Class Curriculum firstly designed without much knowledge about the kids and so, difficultly responding to their specific needs and interests. The results achieved suggest kids become better prepared to face further education and life. Being early childhood assessment felt by most Portuguese kindergarten teachers as an innovative procedure, the project was seen as the launching of roots for “new” practices.
- Strengthening Families For Middle/Late ChildhoodPublication . Kumpfer, Karol; Magalhães, Cátia; Whiteside, Henry; Xie, Jing
- Prevention as Treatment: Enhancing Resilience in High- Risk ChildrenPublication . Kumpfer, Karol; Magalhães, CátiaThis chapter reviews the application of treatment methods in prevention, with an emphasis on familybased substance abuse, delinquency, and child maltreatment. The goal of prevention is to increase resilience in high-risk children. Considerable overlap exists between evidence-based prevention and treatment interventions, including their etiological and intervention theories, cognitive behavioral change methods and outcome objectives. Also included is the Institute of Medicinespectrum of treatment disorders, a review of prevention and treatment intervention theories, and methods used to design effective family interventions, with an emphasis on family systems, social ecology and resilience theories including the author’s Transactional Framework of Resilience model and the Strengthening Families Program. Lastly, this chapter covers the applications of clinical techniques to improve resilience characteristics and processes and places evidence-based prevention programs methods within this framework and details their similarity to treatment. Digital technology (e.g., DVDs, Web, smart phones, television, etc.) is recommended to reduce intervention costs and “go-to-scale” to have a greater public health impact in promoting resilience in children.
- Impact of Family Structure, Functioning, Culture, and Family-Based Interventions on Children´s HealthPublication . Kumpfer, Karol; Magalhães, Cátia; Kanse, SheetalBehavioral health problems in children and adolescents are increasing in the USA and worldwide. This chapter will begin by covering the history and possible causes of changes in the traditional two-parent family structure and its negative impact on children’s development and health. These structural family changes resulted in changes in family functioning with the loss of fathers, resulting in increased family poverty and reduced parental involvement. Solutions including broader implementation of the family interventions proven to increase family nurturing and improve children’s behavioral health outcomes will be reviewed including their effectiveness results. These family evidencebased interventions also reduce differential generational acculturation and family conflict prevalent when families from one traditional culture move into a less traditional Western culture. The need for cultural adaptation to increase acceptability and dissemination capacity of health promotion programs is stressed. Despite 20 years of randomized control trial research on evidencebased family interventions, there is a research to practice gap depriving families of the best family services and increasing social and health-care costs. Hence, this chapter ends with policy recommendations to have a broader public health impact including using computer information technology to reduce the cost and increase dissemination of effective health promotion and family interventions.
- Cultural and Gender Adaptations of Evidence Based Family InterventionsPublication . Kumpfer, Karol; Magalhães, Cátia; Xie, JingThis chapter will review culturally and gender-adapted evidence-based family prevention and intervention programs. The growing ethnic populations in the USA and other Western countries have created the need for the development and evaluation of culturally adapted programs. The rapid spread worldwide of Western youth culture has also made effective parenting more critical to youth outcomes in non-Western cultures, requiring an extension of the evidence base for family programs to include populations in Europe, Asia, and Africa
- Strengthening Families ProgramPublication . Kumpfer, Karol; Magalhães, Cátia; Greene, Jeanie Ahearn
- Remotivation TherapyPublication . Araújo, Lia; Ribeiro, OscarRemotivation refers to a variety of group therapy techniques used with chronically mentally ill patients in inpatient settings to stimulate their communication, vocational, and social skills and interest in their environment (Keane and O’Toole 2003). The National Remotivation Therapy Organization (NRTO) defines remotivation ther- apy (RT) as a small-group therapeutic modality, designed to help clients by promoting self- esteem, awareness, and socialization (National Remotivation Therapy Organization 2003). As the concept itself suggests, remotivation relates to the creation of interest in life, i.e., in a person’s daily activities, talents, hobbies, and social rela- tionships with family and friends.
- Oporto Centenarian StudyPublication . Ribeiro, Oscar; Araújo, Lia; Teixeira, Laetitia; Brandão, Daniela; Duarte, Natália; Paúl, ConstançaThis entry presents the first population-based study conducted in Portugal, the Oporto Cente- narian Study (PT100). It starts by providing an overview of the centenarian population in Portu- gal and then describes PT100’s methodological approach (sampling, procedures, and measures) and synthesizes its main findings on three core dimensions considered to be determinants of qual- ity of life in extreme old age (Serra et al. 2011): cognitive and physical functioning, social resources (social relationships and social activi- ties), and personal attitude toward life (valuation of life). An outlook of current satellite projects of the PT100 is presented at the end.
- Defining “success”. In exceptional longevityPublication . Ribeiro, Oscar; Araújo, LiaThis chapter focuses on the conceptualizations of successful in exceptional longevity, and provides a scope review on how the concept has been approached in centenarian studies. Using “successful ageing” AND “centenarians” in a search across PUBMED and ISI Web of Knowledge 125 articles were identified. This analysis focused on 12 studies that have explicitly presented a successful ageing definition or appointed its potential components, highlighting the breadth of definitions and operationalization that have been considered. Main findings demonstrate an emergent interest in understanding successful adaptations to extreme longevity within both well-established conceptual frameworks (e.g., Rowe and Kahn’s model) and through the development of comprehensive alternative models (e.g., Developmental Adaptation Model; Multidimensional models). Several studies, on the other hand, have tried to explore characteristics and factors associated with successful ageing that are not based in any defined model but rather in wide-ranging psychological constructs as resilience. Regardless of the used approach for defining and/or assessing “success” in centenarians, findings highlight its incontrovertible subjectivity (rather than reaching the age of 100 as per se, like it is often appointed in several studies) and the need for more constructs that recognise the role of psychological aspects of adaptation to extreme longevity.
- Envelhecimento positivo e longevidade avançada: contributos para a intervençãoPublication . Araújo, Lia; Ribeiro, Oscar