The dilemmas and challenges of teenage motherhood : exploring the barriers in the discovery of the self

The purpose of this study was to examine the barriers that may prevent adolescent mothers from accessing social support. For the purpose of this study, the barriers examined were depression and self-esteem. The sample consisted of 50 adolescent mothers who were participants in several social service agencies located in western Massachusetts. The participants completed the Rosenberg Self Esteem scale, the Brief Symptom inventory scale, and a brief form used to gather basic demographic information. Case workers indicated what kinds of social support services the adolescents were engaged in at their programs. Adolescent mothers who were involved in one formal support were more likely to be involved in other formal supports. Hypotheses for this study were not supported; neither depression nor self-esteem were related to accession of social support in this study. These findings have a direct connection to clinical practice and treatment planning with adolescent mothers. If we assume based on the findings from this study that lack of depression and high self esteem are related to having social supports than it is important for clinicians who work with adolescent mothers and their families to be aware of the ameliorating factor social supports provide to adolescent mothers and their children. Clinicians need to be aware of an adolescent mothers social support network because studies indicate that social support decreases depression and increases self esteem for adolescent mothers

Power, perspective, and privilege: The challenge of translating stakeholder theory from business management to environmental and natural resource management

Stakeholder analysis and engagement is a central tenet for understanding and solving sustainability challenges, and is applied widely in environmental and natural resource management (ENRM). The practice in ENRM follows translation of stakeholder theory from its origins in business management to the sustainability sector. In this analytical essay we explore key concepts in ENRM research and practice to examine complexities that have accompanied this translation to ENRM. In particular, we consider the centrality of stakeholders’ landscape perspectives in defining their stake in ENRM issues, and through this lens examine the limitations that are inherent in the classic ‘hub-and-spoke’ model of stakeholder analysis that is the theoretical underpinning for ENRM stakeholder analysis and engagement practice. We argue that unlike the traditional business context where both power and perspective are centred on the business entity that then defines other stakeholders in reference to itself, in ENRM, stakeholder relations are centred on an ENRM issue, typically a landscape or the implications of policy change on a landscape. As a consequence, decision-making power is decentred onto one of several stakeholders; often a government or other high power entity, implicitly conferring privilege to those powerful stakeholders’ landscape perspectives over those held by low power stakeholders. We conclude with priorities for foregrounding power and explicating landscape perspectives to identify privilege in ENRM. We direct these insights especially to those ENRM actors who have the dual roles of adjudicator and privileged stakeholder such that they do not inadvertently perpetuate power imbalances through the privilege of aligning their decision-making power with their landscape perspectives

Framing climate change for effective communication: a systematic map

Climate change emerged as an issue of science, but its broad ranging impacts and potential mitigation strategies mean it is of significance to all people across sectors, interests, and nations. As a result, the traditional fact-centred way of communicating information about climate change is not necessarily the best strategy for engaging the full breadth of publics. In communication practice and scholarship, framing is an approach that emphasises certain attributes of an issue over others and as a consequence shapes how that issue is understood. This has led to the scholarly exploration of framing as a technique for tailoring climate change communication to engage diverse publics. Over the past two decades, research has examined a range of different frames for the communication of climate change, such as Public health, National security and Economic prosperity/development. With this literature now rapidly expanding, it is crucial to synthesise existing evidence so that future research efforts and climate communication interventions are best informed about the current knowledge-base and research gaps. This article presents this synthesis in the form of a systematic map. We systematically searched scholarly (Scopus and Web of Science) and grey literature databases for English-language climate change framing literature. All articles were screened at the title/abstract and full-text level, with included articles incorporated into a Microsoft (MS) Excel database. The information extracted from the literature included bibliometric, geographical and other data pertaining to study design and the climate change frames examined. Our systematic map includes 274 articles (281 studies). The most common frames appearing in this literature base (making up about 50% of the total) were Scientific, Economic and Environmental. Other frames such as Public health, Disaster and Morality/ethics appear to be gaining more scholarly attention in recent years. Almost half of the collected studies are from the United States but there is a growing trend of studies comparing climate change frames from other countries. Climate change frames are numerous and can have different efficacies depending upon country and social-political context. Research needs to be reflexive in its approach to understand the broader impact of framing in climate change communication and should continue to employ multi-national studies and explore climate change framing effects in under-researched nations to combat bias.NB acknowledges support from an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship and an Australian National University Climate Change Institute PhD Supplementary scholarshi

Blood and blood : anti-retroviral therapy, masculinity, and redemption among adolescent boys in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

Adolescents living with perinatally acquired HIV are among the first generation in South Africa to grow up with anti-retroviral therapy and democratic freedoms. In this article, we explore the biosocial lives of adolescent boys and young men living with HIV in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. We conducted qualitative research with 36 adolescent boys and young men in 2016‒2018, including life history narratives, semi-structured interviews, and analysis of health facility files.Evidence for HIV Prevention in Southern Africa (EHPSA), the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) Innovation scheme for doctoral student funding, the University of Cape Town AIDS and Society Research Unit (ASRU), the South African Social Science and HIV (SASH) Programme, an initiative funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the U.K. Research and Innovation Global Challenges Research Fund Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub, the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health and the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC. Additional Data collection support was provided by the Mzantsi Wakho Study, funded by the Nuffield Foundation; Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V., part of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson; the Regional Inter-Agency Task Team for Children Affected by AIDS– Eastern and Southern Africa (RIATT-ESA); UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Office (UNICEF-ESARO); the International AIDS Society through the CIPHER grant; Claude Leon Foundation; the Leverhulme Trust; the Oak Foundation; [OFIL-20- 057]/GCRF “Accelerating Violence Prevention in Africa”; the University of Oxford's ESRC Impact Acceleration Account; and the John Fell Fund.https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15481387hj2023Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender (CSA&G)Historical and Heritage Studie

The Grizzly, October 16, 1997

Special Homecoming \u2797 Edition • The More Things Change • Extra, Extra! Breaking U.C. News From... • The Brief History of Ursinus • Remember When • Bears Take on The Bullets • Queens of the Past • And the Nominees are... • Famous Alumnihttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1407/thumbnail.jp

Applying an Organizational Psychology Model for Developing Shared Goals in Interdisciplinary Research Teams

Developing solutions to contemporary sustainability challenges requires new integrative forms of knowledge production, such as those embodied by interdisciplinary research approaches. The growing interest and investment toward building successful interdisciplinary collaborations has led to an emergent body of literature focused on understanding how to optimize interdisciplinary research processes. One of the recurrent themes throughout this literature has been the importance of establishing shared goals at the onset of research efforts, which can increase the efficiency and efficacy of both knowledge production processes, and efforts to link that knowledge to decision-making processes. To date, however, there remains little guidance for the most effective methods for establishing shared goals within interdisciplinary research environments. To help address this gap, in this paper and via a case study, we explore the utility of an organizational psychology model, the ASPIRe model, for developing shared goals within sustainability-focused interdisciplinary research teams.viewers who provided helpful and constructive comments on this manuscript. Funding for this work was provided by the Centre for Marine Socioecology at the University of Tasmania, Australia

The Grizzly, February 2, 1998

Ursinus to Receive Grant • New Position Causes Concern • Students Remember Joe Hastings • Who\u27s Who at Ursinus • Volkmer Honored • Opinion: American Democracy Under Siege • Jim Fielder\u27s Return Postponed • Ursinus Contributor Dies • Field Hockey Academic All-Americans Honored • Athletic Honor Roll: Asper Pins Down First Player Profile • Bears Fight For Conference Lead • Flying High with Women\u27s Gymnastics • Disgruntled Swimmers Express Concerns About Pool Closinghttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1412/thumbnail.jp

How environmental values influence trust and beliefs about societal oversight and need for regulation of the Australian cattle industry

© 2021 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd. Livestock grazing covers half of Australia and vast areas of global terrestrial ecosystems. The sustainability of the beef cattle industries are being scrutinised amid ongoing environmental concerns. In response, industry discourse has identified public trust as critical to avoiding reactive environmental regulation. However, public perceptions of the cattle industry's sustainability performance and trust are largely unknown and speculative. We present the first model of public attitudes toward the Australian cattle industry (n = 2913). Our results reveal that societal perceptions of the industry's environmental performance strongly predict trust in the industry. However, trust only weakly predicts a perceived right for societal oversight and has only an indirect relationship on need for environmental regulation. Environmental values influence perceptions of industry performance and the perceived right for societal oversight. We conclude that effective industry governance must be values literate and recognise that strong environmental performance is critical for public trust. Public trust is high but does not translate to support for a relaxed regulatory environment.This research was funded by the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland and CSIRO's Responsible Innovation Future Science Platform. The research was not funded by the Australian cattle industry, although TF has PhD scholarship funding from Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) for an unrelated research project