Watering the garden of family wellbeing

This report contains the recommendations and outcomes of the national roundtable Empowering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through the Family Wellbeing program, Adelaide, March 2014. There is an accompanying policy brief. Family Wellbeing (FWB) is an effective social and emotional wellbeing program originally developed and delivered by and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The central objective of FWB is to develop people’s skills and capacity to move from a position of disempowerment to empowerment; to empower people with a way to control and change their lives. In March 2014, the Lowitja Institute convened a national roundtable in Adelaide to consider the impact of FWB and opportunities for future development. Roundtable participants from across community, training and delivery, research and policy sectors, shared their experiences of FWB and focused on finding strategies to support the delivery, research and uptake of the FWB program. Roundtable discussions underlined how the program’s empowerment model builds the evidence base that social and emotional wellbeing programs effectively improve people’s lives and provide a promising and practical way to help bridge the gap between Australia’s First Peoples and the non-Indigenous population

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The Maria da Penha Law and the Media: Understanding the Adoption of Human Rights Norms on Domestic Violence in Brazil

In 2006, Brazil enacted a law on domestic violence in response to an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights decision condemning the country for denying justice to Maria da Penha, after whom the law was named. Twelve years later, in a turbulent political climate, quantitative studies suggest rates of violence against women are higher than ever. Has the law, which directly replicates human rights norms, effected genuine societal changes that protect women? This paper examines 50 online news stories on the Maria da Penha Law and finds that, although the implementation of the law is imperfect, the spread of human rights norms appears to have been significant. Media discourse suggests that the dominant narrative on the law takes protections for women to be necessary, brings attention to issues in its implementation, and attempts to increase rights-consciousness among the public. Lastly, the news stories suggest that Maria da Penha herself, through her unique positionality in relation to the law, plays an important role in making these international standards resonate with Brazilians

Confession, surveillance and subjectivity : a discourse analytic approach to advice columns

Bibliography: leaves 162-180.This dissertation applies the theoretical ideas of Michel Foucault -viz. confession, surveillance and subjectivity - to advice columns from three South African women's magazines. An interpretative analysis effects of discourse, renders salient the relationship between knowledges, discursive practices, power and institutions. Using, as a standing point, Wendy Hollway's work on subject positioning of women in discourses concerning heterosexual relationship practice, the ways in which women are impelled to ""work"" in psychologized and medicalized ways to effect normalization in ""crises"" of ""physical attractiveness"" and ""monogamy"" are examined in advice texts. These technologies and practices produce rewards of power for Subjection, and these powers are critically discussed in terms of (a) ""liberal"" / ""humanist"", ''feminist'' and ""Foucauldian"" strategies of women's empowerment, and (b) the formal dynamics and constraints of advice columns

Re-deploying Parker, post-colonially: review essay

In this paper we review two of Ian Parker’s recent books: Critical discursive psychology and Qualitative psychology: Introducing radical research. Although the books address different audiences (academics versus students) and talk to different problematics (theory versus research), taken together they represent useful resources for those wishing to take a critical stance with regards to the standard fare of psychology, to use critical theory in understanding social and psychological phenomena, and to engage in progressive research. As such, both theory and research methods appear as “tools”, and we suggest reading Parker sideways, shifting his intellectual trajectory into directions that illuminate colonial and post-colonial issues through empirical/textual application to real South African contexts. By way of illustration, we offer a post-colonial reading of Parker’s work on post-modernism. Concluding comments on tactics for a “post-colonial analysis of discourses” are offered

Children’s books are adding to science’s gender problem

Ask young children what they want to be when they grow up and the chances are that scientific jobs such as astronaut and doctor will appear high on the list. But ask them to draw a scientist and they are more than twice as likely to draw a man than a woman. Children can form these kinds of biases from many sources. But perhaps we shouldn’t be too surprised to see such an absence of women scientists in children’s drawings when the illustrations we show them are often just as bad. Our study of imagery in children’s science books reveals that women are significantly underrepresented. In the physical sciences in particular, the pictures frequently fail to communicate women’s technical skills or knowledge. The imagery in these books gives the impression that science is a subject for men, and that careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) are unrewarding for women. Developmental theories explain that children learn gender expectations to help them to respond appropriately within their social environment. This influences their understanding of who they are and encourages them to behave in a way that is conventional for their gender. Pictures of men and women in children’s science books contribute to these expectations by teaching them “rules” about the occupations suited to each gender. This encourages them to conform to prevailing gender career stereotypes. To counter this, female role models need to be visible in books to help develop girls’ interest in science as they get older, and overcome negative perceptions of female scientists

E-cigarettes in pregnancy: reducing or introducing harm?

Electronic cigarettes use has become increasingly prevalent with around 17.6% of population using these products. The serious harm to health caused by cigarette smoke is well publicised, and government advice has promoted the message that e-cigarettes are 95% safer; however e-cigarettes are not risk free. Given the high prevalence of e-cigarette usage, pregnant women are likely to look to midwives for guidance on whether e-cigarettes are safe, however advice to midwives is inconsistent. The current paper therefore explores whether e-cigarettes are suitable for pregnant women who want an alternative to traditional cigarettes. There is a paucity of evidence to confirm the long-term impact of e-cigarettes in pregnancy but research indicates that their expose users to a number of harmful substances. Nicotine and other chemicals including Diacetyl, Acetoin and 2,3-Pentanedione are detrimental to the health of both mother and child. Harm reduction methods aim to improve the health of individuals with an addiction where abstinence is not a feasible goal; this means that in the first instance pregnant women should be advised to quit smoking and avoid products containing nicotine. If women are unable to abstain from smoking, traditional nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) such as gums and patches are likely to be safer than e-cigarettes. E-cigarettes contain a greater number of harmful chemicals and are likely to provide a greater dose of nicotine

The effect of acetohydroxamic acid on stainless steel corrosion in nitric acid

We present the first study of the effect of acetohydroxamic acid (AHA) on the corrosion behaviour of stainless steels. Particularly, studies have been performed using steels and physico-chemical conditions equivalent to those proposed for use in advanced nuclear reprocessing platforms. In these, AHA has been shown to have little effect on either steel passivation or reductive dissolution of both SS304L and SS316L. However, under transpassive dissolution conditions, AHA while in part electrochemically oxidised to acetic acid and nitroxyl/hydroxylamine, also complexes with Fe3 +, inhibiting secondary passivation and driving transpassive dissolution of both steels

The effect of SO3-Ph-BTBP on stainless steel corrosion in nitric acid

SO3-Ph-BTBP is a hydrophilic tetra-N-dentate ligand proposed for An(III)/Ln(III) separation by solvent extraction, and a candidate for use in future advanced reprocessing schemes such as GANEX and SANEX. We present the first study of the effect of SO3-Ph-BTBP on the corrosion behavior of stainless steels. Specifically, studies have been performed using steels and conditions equivalent to those found in relevant nuclear reprocessing flow sheets. SO3-Ph-BTBP has been shown to have little effect on either steel passivation or reductive dissolution. However, if driven cathodically into a region of hydrogen evolution at the electrode surface or conversely anodically into a region of transpassive dissolution, observed currents are reduced in the presence of SO3-Ph-BTBP, suggesting corrosion inhibition of the steel potentially through weak absorption of a SO3-Ph-BTBP layer at the metal-solution interface. The lack of any observed corrosion acceleration via complexation of Fe3+ is surprising and has been suggested to be due to the slow extraction kinetics of SO3-Ph-BTBP as a result of a requirement for a trans- to cis-conformational change before binding

The dosimetry of neutron fields of therapeutic complex based on the U-120 cyclotron

In this work, the characteristics of the treat beam's dosimetry of fast neutrons of the U-120 cyclotron have been analyzed with the help of the ionizing method. The fast neutrons with 6, 3 MeV as medium energy have been obtained in coordination of deuterons with the target made of beryllium and are meant to be used for treating the patients with malignant neoplasms. The capacity of the dose in the beam of fast neutrons has been measured by ionization chambers of different types. The research has been done with the consideration of co-occurring gamma rays. The monitoring indices needed for calculation the duration of therapy session at given therapy dose have also been specified