Let the children (and young people) play-where, how, why?

This paper reports on current research work with children and young people on the importance of public and private space for good health, wellbeing, social, educational and developmental outcomes. In many urban locations in Australia and elsewhere, public space is under attack from developers and attempts by authorities to control public space (Watson 2006). Private space in the home and garden-backyard is also under attack from development densification and trends towards bigger houses on smaller plots of land where gardens disappear altogether or a postage stamp remains (Gleeson and Sipe 2006). At the same time public policy advocates the benefits of outdoor exercise, set alongside fears about using public space exacerbated by notions of ‘stranger danger’ and control measures such as child and youth ‘curfews’. In this increasingly complex context, it is important to discover what children and young people value and need most in using private (home) and public space. In conjunction with the University of Otago, New Zealand, children and young people are consulted to discover how they use public space in parks and shopping centres and home space and the issues encountered and their proposals for improvement, to better inform policy debate, planning and formulation (ARACY 2009).

Social enterprises and the performance advantages of a Vincentian marketing orientation

This study focuses on the managerial issue of should social enterprises (SEs) become more marketing oriented. It adapts the Kohli et al. (J Mark Res 30:467–477,1993) MARKOR marketing orientation scale to measure the adoption of marketing by SEs. The items capture Vincentian-based values to leverage business in service to the poor as a measure of a Vincentian marketing orientation (VMO). A VMO is an organisational wide value-driven philosophy of management that focuses a SE on meeting its objectives by adopting a more marketing orientated approach to serve the needy and poor in a just and sustainable manner. SEs that exhibit a VMO seek to understand and respond to both the needs of their beneficiaries and stakeholders. They are constantly generating,disseminating, and responding to environmental, beneficiary, and stakeholder information and develop their business propositions to more effectively and efficiently meet the needs of the poor, while guided by a philosophy of leveraging business for social good. This study of SEs in Australia found that a VMO is strongly and positively correlated with social, economic, and environmental performance. These findings suggest that SEs may benefit by leveraging marketing capabilities to better serve their beneificiaries and stakeholders.

The effects of sleep restriction on executive inhibitory control and affect in young adults

Purpose: Young adults regularly experience restricted sleep due to a range of social, educational and vocational commitments. Evidence suggests that extended periods of sleep deprivation negatively impact affective and inhibitory control mechanisms leading to behavioural consequences such as increased emotional reactivity and impulsive behaviour. It is less clear whether acute periods of restricted sleep produce the same behavioural consequences. Methods: Nineteen young adults (m = 8, f = 12) with habitual late bed-time (after 22:30 h) and wake-time (after 06:30 h) completed a range of objective and subjective measures assessing sleepiness (Psychomotor Vigilance Task, Karolinska Sleepiness Scale), inhibitory control (Emotional Go/No-go Task and a Balloon Analog Risk Task) and affect (Positive and Negative Affective Schedule). Testing was counterbalanced across participants, and occurred on two occasions once following restricted sleep and once following habitual sleep one week apart. Results: Compared to habitual sleep, sleep restriction produced significantly slower performance on the Psychomotor Vigilance Task, and higher subjective ratings of sleepiness on the Karolinska Sleepiness Scale. Sleep restriction also caused a significant decrease in positive affect, but no change in negative affect on the Affective Schedule. Inhibitory control efficiency was significantly differentiated, with participants showing an increase in risk taking on the Balloon Analog Risk Task, but there was no evidence of increased reactivity to negative stimuli on the Emotional Go/No-go task. Conclusions: Results suggest that even acute periods of sleep loss may cause deficits in affective experiences and increase impulsive and potentially high risk behaviour in young adults.

Juventude em revolta : o Pró-Sinase e a realidade do Distrito Federal

Trata do Programa de Implementação do Sistema Nacional de Atendimento Socioeducativo (Pró-Sinase) e a realidade no Distrito Federal, assunto relevante para o contexto atual, objetivando analisar a realidade das Unidades Executoras das medidas socioeducativas de internação, internação provisória, e semiliberdade. Pretende verificar, à luz do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente, da Resolução nº 46 do Conselho Nacional dos Direitos da Criança e do Adolescente (Conanda) e das diretrizes do Pró-Sinase, qual o provável distanciamento das condições das Unidades de Atendimento Socioeducativo em relação ao que determinam os instrumentos legais, nos seguintes aspectos: gestão dos programas, parâmetros de gestão pedagógica no atendimento socioeducativo e os parâmetros arquitetônicos para Unidades de Atendimento Socioeducativo.

Da formação e inserção do adolescente no mundo do trabalho: um enfoque sobre as medidas sócio-educativas não privativas de liberdade em pauta: liberdade assistida

Esta dissertação, que se insere na Linha de Pesquisa Produção Social do Conhecimento, objetiva gerar uma reflexão acerca da metodologia de formar e inserir jovens no mundo do trabalho, após a promulgação do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente. Isto é feito a partir da análise ideológica do que está subjacente aos discursos dos que atuam ou estimulam o desenvolvimento desta atividade. Partindo de uma fundamentação em autores que, entre as décadas de 1980 e 1990, realizaram investigações nas áreas de trabalho/educação e de assistência à infância e à juventude, e de uma análise junto ao Projeto Bolsa de Iniciação ao Trabalho, desenvolvido pela UERJ em conjunto com DEGASE e 2 Vara, foram feitas observações e entrevistas com educadores e jovens envolvidos nesta prática. Foi possível, assim, desvelar o significado desses discursos: falas produzidas a partir das distintas e complexas relações sociais vivenciadas pela população brasileira e que, até os dias atuais, interferem no processo de formação e inserção profissional do jovem pobre. Após a análise, verificou-se que esta ideologia é reproduzida por educadores e jovens e, que, apesar das mudanças desta década, a prática instituída é a de adequar o jovem ao trabalho, visando a sua socialização, ocupação do tempo ocioso e renda familiar. Este texto ainda tenta sinalizar para a importância dos programas e da escola formal interagirem, rompendo com o falso paradigma de que a infância pobre está destinada, com raríssimas exceções, ao trabalho instrumental ou à marginalização, o que contribui para sua exclusão da escola e do direito ao lazer. Busca, também, estratégias que auxiliem na construção de um jovem/cidadão crítico e ciente de seus direitos.

To fit in or stand out? The interaction between mortality salience, dissent and self esteem on social projection

Social projection (SP) refers to our tendency to assume that others think the same as we do, but the effect can also be used to detect the extent to which participants want to see themselves as similar to others. Simon et al (1997) found that participants informed that they were deviant increased their SP but those told that they were conformist reduced theirs. This compensatory function supports Brewer’s optimal distinctiveness which states that a balance must be struck between competing desires to feel similar and unique. In line with terror management theory, the effect was particularly apparent under conditions of mortality salience (MS). So far SP has only been examined on measures that target personal identity so this experiment developed a measure to target social identity as well. Participants were provided with either minority or majority dissent feedback, in MS or control conditions, and their SP on items relevant to personal and social identity were recorded. Results showed that group feedback only impacted upon participants SP on social identity measures and interacted with MS and self-esteem; those with high self-esteem had higher SP scores following minority dissent under conditions of mortality salience, indicating an attempt to assert their individuality. On SP measures targeting personal identity, MS and self-esteem interacted; the death prime increased SP scores for those with low self-esteem but decreased it for those with high self-esteem. Findings are interpreted in terms of TMT and optimal distinctiveness theory and their applications.

Predictors of academic achievement and social competence in adolescence : facilitation, inhibition and general cognitive processing /

The relevance of attentional measures to cognitive and social adaptive behaviour was examined in an adolescent sample. Unlike previous research, the influence of both inhibitory and facilitory aspects of attention were studied. In addition, contributions made by these attentional processes were compared with traditional psychometric measures of cognitive functioning. Data were gathered from 36 grade 10 and 1 1 high school students (20 male and 16 female students) with a variety of learning and attentional difficulties. Data collection was conducted in the course of two testing sessions. In the first session, students completed questionnaires regarding their medical history, and everyday behaviours (the Brock Adaptive Functioning Questionnaire), along with non-verbal problem solving tasks and motor speed tasks. In the second session, students performed working memory measures and computer-administered tasks assessing inhibitory and facilitory aspects of attention. Grades and teacher-rated measures of cognitive and social impulsivity were also gathered. Results indicate that attentional control has both cognitive and social/emotional implications. Performance on negative priming and facilitation trials from the Flanker task predicted grades in core courses, social functioning measures, and cognitive and social impulsivity ratings. However, beneficial effects for academic and social functioning associated with inhibition were less prevalent in those demonstrating a greater ability to respond to facilitory cues. There was also some evidence that high levels of facilitation were less beneficial to academic performance, and female students were more likely to exceed optimal levels of facilitory processing. Furthermore, lower negative priming was ''S'K 'i\':y-: -'*' - r " j«v ; ''*.' iij^y Inhibition, Facilitation and Social Competence 3 associated with classroom-rated distraction and hyperactivity, but the relationship between inhibition and social aspects of impulsivity was stronger for adolescents with learning or reading problems, and the relationship between inhibition and cognitive impulsivity was stronger for male students. In most cases, attentional measures were predictive of performance outcomes independent of traditional psychometric measures of cognitive functioning. >,, These findings provide support for neuropsychological models linking inhibition to control of interference and arousal, and emphasize the fundamental role of attention in everyday adolescent activities. The findings also warrant further investigation into the ways which inhibitory and facilitory attentional processes interact, and the contextdependent nature of attentional control.associated with classroom-rated distraction and hyperactivity, but the relationship between inhibition and social aspects of impulsivity was stronger for adolescents with learning or reading problems, and the relationship between inhibition and cognitive impulsivity was stronger for male students. In most cases, attentional measures were predictive of performance outcomes independent of traditional psychometric measures of cognitive functioning. >,, These findings provide support for neuropsychological models linking inhibition to control of interference and arousal, and emphasize the fundamental role of attention in everyday adolescent activities. The findings also warrant further investigation into the ways which inhibitory and facilitory attentional processes interact, and the contextdependent nature of attentional control.

Étude qualitative sur les liens entre l'implication parentale et l'évolution du jeune placé en centre de réadaptation ou en probation dans la communauté

Rapport de stage présenté à la Faculté des arts et sciences en vue de l'obtention du grade de Maîtrise ès sciences (M. Sc.) en criminologie

Effects of a multi-session Cognitive Bias Modification program on interpretative biases and social anxiety symptoms in a sample of Iranian socially-anxious students

This study examines the effects of a multi-session Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) program on interpretative biases and social anxiety in an Iranian sample. Thirty-six volunteers with a high score on social anxiety measures were recruited from a student population and randomly allocated into the experimental and control groups. In the experimental group, participants received 4 sessions of positive CBM for interpretative biases (CBM-I) over 2 weeks in the laboratory. Participants in the control condition completed a neutral task matched the active CBM-I intervention in format and duration but did not encourage positive disambiguation of socially ambiguous scenarios. The results indicated that after training the positive CBM-I group exhibited more positive (and less negative) interpretations of ambiguous scenarios and less social anxiety symptoms relative to the control condition at both 1 week post-test and 7 weeks follow-up. It is suggested that clinical trials are required to establish the clinical efficacy of this intervention for social anxiety.

Entre desvios e normas: infração juvenil feminina na cidade de Natal - RN

This paper presents some reflections on the social world of young female transgression. The context corresponds to those ones that obey social and educational measures in The Padre João Maria Education Centre (CEDUC), in Natal- RN. This behavior, according to the Statute of Children and Young (ECA, 1990), is defined as "conduct described as crime or misdemeanor." Our goal is to discuss aspects of the contexts in which young women are interacting with the universe of total institutional control mechanisms. Through the socio-anthropological analysis of the ethnographic practice in field research, it was necessary to question the concept of misuse engaged in the practice of penalties awarded to young women in the context of private freedom. So was built a frame relating the representations of the relations of gender, generation, the practice of violence and crime from the look on CEDUC/ Padre João Maria Education Centre

Clinical correlates of social adjustment in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

No crime e na medida: uma etnografia do Programa de Medidas Socioeducativas em meio aberto do Salesianos de São Carlos

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

A educação como disfarce e vigilância: análise das estratégias de aplicação de medidas sócio-educativas a jovens infratores

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Adolescentes em conflito com a lei: memórias e trajetórias de vivências na escola

O presente estudo objetiva desvelar, a memória de escola de adolescentes em conflito com a Lei e que cumprem medidas na Fundação da Criança e do Adolescente do Pará, na Unidade Socioeducativa de Internação de Val-de-Cães. A intenção é traçar por meio dos enunciados discursivos destes sujeitos, suas incursões no ambiente educacional e assim identificar o que os fizeram abandonar a escola de forma precoce e/ou apresentarem em seus currículos escolares um alto índice de repetência. As questões que norteiam este estudo são: Que fatores contribuíram para que estes adolescentes abandonassem o ambiente educacional de forma precoce? Até que ponto a escola e a exclusão social foram fatores relevantes para o envolvimento destes adolescentes com a violência e criminalidade? Qual o comprometimento da escola na formação dos adolescentes em conflito com a Lei, levando em consideração o papel da escola na formação do sujeito? Partindo das questões norteadoras o estudo objetiva identificar que Rede de Significados estão envolvidas nestes questionamentos. A amostra contou com a participação de 18 adolescentes na faixa etária de 12 a 17 anos de idade, com escolaridade de 13 série do ensino básico até a 83 série do ensino fundamental, nascidos no Estado do Pará, cumprindo medidas socioeducativas pelo ato infracional que vai do dano ao patrimônio público (Art. 163) a assalto seguido de morte (Art.12l c/c Art. 14). Foi utilizado como instrumentos de coleta de dados a entrevista semi-estruturada e documentos cedidos pela Fundação, como os prontuários, com os dados pessoais e acompanhamento de cada adolescente. O corpus da pesquisa foi analisado por meio dos seguintes eixos-temáticos: Escola; Família; Violência e Criminalidade; Relações Interpessoais e Perspectivas Futuras. O referencial teórico utilizado para análise dos dados segue a concepção de Bakhtin sobre a rede de significados e de autores que discutem aspectos relacionados aos eixos temáticos. Para tal utilizei autores como ROSSETTI e FERRElRA (2004); ARROYO (1997); BOSSA (2002); CORDIÉ (1996); VYGOTSKY (2000); PINTO (2002), entre outros. Nesta perspectiva, o objetivo foi o de encontrar correspondência com os princípios e critérios que pudessem contribuir para a fundamentação desta análise, favorecendo a interação entre as diferentes formas de produção de conhecimento, sobretudo, pelos dados apresentados ao processo de escolarização destes sujeitos, uma vez que contribuiu para reprovações, repetências, defasagens, e não raro, para a evasão escolar.

Representações sociais de adolescentes: ato infracional e projeto de vida

Este estudo tem por objeto as representações sociais das adolescentes autoras de atos infracionais sobre a socioeducação e as implicações nos seus projetos de vida. A problemática se orientou com o foco nas representações sociais anunciadas pelas adolescentes autoras de atos infracionais sobre as medidas socioeducativas de internação e semiliberdade e as implicações nos seus projetos de vida. O lócus da pesquisa foi o Centro Socioeducativo Feminino - CESEF que pertence a Fundação de Atendimento Socioeducativo do Estado do Pará. Os objetivos do estudo foram: a) identificar o perfil das adolescentes custodiadas no CESEF, na faixa etária de 13 a 18 anos incompletos em cumprimento de medida socioeducativa de internação e semiliberdade; b) caracterizar as imagens e sentidos que atribuem às medidas socioeducativas que cumprem; c) destacar as objetivações e as ancoragens que organizam as representações sociais que as adolescentes possuem sobre as medidas que cumprem; d) compreender o projeto de vida das adolescentes; e) correlacionar as representações sociais das adolescentes sobre as medidas com os seus projetos de vida. A metodologia seguiu a abordagem qualitativa e o referencial teórico centrou-se na Teoria das Representações Sociais de Moscovici (1978) e Jodelet (2001). Os aportes teóricos de Nascimento, 2002; 2006 e 2011; e Melucci, 1996 nos auxiliaram nas incursões e articulações sobre a adolescência. Os referenciais de Volpi, 2001; Louro, 1998; Saffioti, 1987; Assis e Constantino, 2001; Zaluar, 1994; Voegeli, 2003 no entendimento de gênero e no envolvimento de mulheres em práticas delitivas. Rizzini e Pilotti, 2011; Marcílio, 1996; 2002; Oliveira e Assis, 1999; sobre o histórico das políticas de atendimento à adolescência autora de ato Infracional no Brasil e no Pará. Os sujeitos de estudo foram seis adolescentes do Centro Socioeducativo Feminino em cumprimento das medidas socioeducativas de internação e semiliberdade. O levantamento de dados constou de: entrevistas com roteiro semi estruturado; observação in loco e diário de campo. Os instrumentos para a análise dos dados utilizamos a análise de conteúdo de acordo com a abordagem proposta por Franco (2003). Os resultados revelam que as representações sociais das adolescentes infratoras sobre a socioeducação e as implicações nos seus projetos de vida se constituem em torno da medida disciplinar. Que por sua vez se consolidou ao longo do processo histórico das medidas socioeducativas. O sentido que as adolescentes produzem sobre estas medidas ancoram na dúvida quanto a sua eficiência. A imagem consensual que elaboram sobre as suas vidas após o cumprimento dessas medias assinalam que pode haver retorno a instituição socioeducativa por infringirem as leis. Assim estas representações sociais comprometem os projetos de vida das adolescentes autoras de atos infracionais.