高职困难家庭学生择业心理的调查与思考

随着高校的扩招,社会对人才的要求越来越高,大学生就业面临前所未有的压力。贫困生作为大学生中的特殊群体,是否能充分就业对于高校持续科学发展有着重要的现实意义。为了能够准确客观地了解我院困难家庭学生的择业心理状况,有效地提高我校贫困生的就业率,我在目前已有的就业心理相关理论研究的基础上,提出相应的对策与建议。     

高校贫困生资助效益研究

贫困大学生群体一直以来备受关注,高校贫困生资助体系作为社会对于贫困生群体关注的制度设置,近年来在理论和实践方面得到了飞速的发展。然而贫困生资助的效益如何却是一个亟待研究的领域。本文试从学生的角度对高校贫困生资助的效益进行评估,结果是从个人、家庭和社会三个层面来看．贫困生资助在保障学生学业、影响学生价值观、减轻经济困难家庭的经济和精神负担及培养有责任感和奉献意识的人才方面都具有积极影响。因而,我们认为目前的贫困生资助效益是非常显著的。     

试析贫困大学生心理健康教育

随着我国高等教育的不断深入和发展,特别是高校扩招政策的实施,高校贫困生的数量呈明显上升趋势。为了使贫困大学生顺利完成学业,各级政府及有关部门、金融机构和高校密切配合,加大了对贫困生的助学资助工作,贫困大学生的经济困难问题得到了一定程度的解决。但是,云南大学马加爵杀人等事件的发生,反映出了个别贫困大学生心理不良问题的严重性。因此,关注贫困大学生的心理健康状况,研究影响贫困大学生心理健康的因素,探索行之有效的方法,有针对性地开展心理健康教育,对帮助贫困大学生建立健全的人格、提高心理健康水平有十分重要的意义。     

贫困生助学金工作中的问题及对策

随着高等教育体制改革的不断深化，高等院校学生的交费逐渐实现了自费，而家庭经济比较困难的大学生便成了改革后的一个特殊群体，高校中的贫困生人数不断在增加，贫困生是否能顺利完成学业的问题，成为社会关注的问题。本文在探讨贫困生助学金工作问题的基础上，针对存在的问题提出了有针对性的解决对策，以期让高等院校的贫困生助学金管理工作能再上一个新台阶。     

贫困大学生思想政治教育存在的问题及对策

当前，高校贫困生问题已成为社会和学校共同关注的问题。作为高校中的特殊群体，贫困生时常会面临学习、经济、思想、心理等问题。对贫困大学生思想政治教育问题展开研究，不但有利于掌握贫困生的思想和心理特点，便于教育工作者有针对性地开展思想政治教育活动，而且有利于实现贫困生的全面发展。     

高校贫困学生群体心理问题教育刍议

解决高校贫困学生群体面临的许多问题是高校迫在眉睫的重要任务，如何从心理上帮助贫困生增强心理调适能力、优化个性心理品质，是扶贫解困、帮助他们健康成长实现成人、成才、成功的关键。一、贫困生群体心理问题的主要表现及后果1．对自己缺乏自信心一是一些贫困学生由于家庭生活的困难，常年为自己的学费、生活费的来源问题揪心不已，在生活上常常捉襟见肘，在生活富裕的学生看来他们花钱不大方，显得过于小气。     

高校贫困生心理贫困现象探寻

高校贫困生是一个特殊的群体,不仅生活困难,而且心理上有着很大的压力感和挫折感,从而产生“心理贫困”现象.了解掌握贫困生的心理贫困状况,分析贫困心理现象的表现、产生原因,并研究调适对策,有针对性地做好相关工作,是我们提高人才培养质量的一项重要工作.     

廊坊高校特困大学生心理健康状况调查与探究

教育体制的改革给了家庭经济困难的学生接受高等教育的机会,但同时困难学生尤其是特困生的心理状况令人担忧。怎样在经济助困的同时帮助他们减轻经济压力,解除心理贫困,是目前做好贫困生尤其是特困生思想政治工作的关键,也是高校思想政治工作者的责任。     

高校贫困生认定方法探讨

高校贫困生是近年来高校出现的一个新群体,他们大多数是学习成绩优秀,但是家境困难的学生,仅仅靠其家庭收入,难以维持大学学习生活,因此,国家每年都在大学投入大量的资金来资助这部分家庭经济困难的学生,以帮助他们完成学业,但是贫困生的认定工作却是困难重重,本文分析了目前贫困生认定的一些程序,提出了改进大学贫困生认定办法。     

浅析贫困生的思想政治教育工作

贫困生的思想政治教育工作,成为当今高校辅导员重要工作之一。不仅要从经济上给予帮助,更要在思想和心理上进行关怀和帮助。本文提出了高校贫困生心理和思想上存在的问题,从而针对这些问题给出一些切实可行的对策,包括加强对贫困生的心理疏导和思想教育;培养贫困生的爱国情操和政治素养;组织贫困学生参加社会实践活动;教育贫困生常怀感恩之心和辅导员自身的专业培训几个方面展开,希望能够促进贫困生思想政治教育工作的顺利进行。     

在美国乐当“飞佣”

目前在美国最流行的是亚洲一些国家的父母乘飞机来美国,给自己的女儿或儿媳去做免费保姆,被曰”飞佣”（意思是飞来的佣人）,以中国来的最多。当然,善做家务的老妈比老爷子更受欢迎。绝大多数“飞佣”都无怨无悔地帮助子女做家务,无微不至地照顾孙辈。那么去美国探亲的中国老人是如何逐渐适应新环境,享受天伦之乐的？看到这些老人带孙子乐融融的情景,老美的感受又如何呢？     

Stepping Down and Stepping In: Youth's Perspectives on Making the Transition from Residential Treatment to Treatment Foster Care

Older youth preparing to emancipate from the foster care system are often served in residential treatment settings where they have limited opportunities to practice skills for independent living in a community setting. Stepping these youth down to less restrictive environments such as treatment foster care is a growing trend, especially for youth with mental health issues. Yet, few studies have explored the youth's perspective on making this transition. This study utilized qualitative interviews with youths who were participating in a treatment foster care intervention study (n = 8) to gain their perspectives on the process of transitioning from residential care. Youths were interviewed right before they exited residential care and two months after placement in the new foster home. Youths reported hopes for gaining family in the new home as well as fears of placement disruption. Findings point to the need to enlist youths in discussion and problem solving about difficulties they anticipate in the new home and expectations for their relationship with the new foster parents. In addition, the struggles described after two months in the home point to the need for youths to build specific skills to better manage ongoing relationships with foster parents and for foster parent training on how to help build these skills.     

The Need for Web-Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy Among University Students

ABSTRACT

This study investigates students' need for a web-based cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) intervention program for preventing depression, the mental health status of those who felt a need for such a program, and underlying factors of the intention to use web-based self-help. A conceptual model for explaining intention to use web-based self-help is proposed. Nearly half of the participants reported a need for help with psychological problems, but only a third of these actually sought help from traditional mental health services. In conclusion, there is a need for web-based self-help, and web-based CBT has the potential to attract a group of students who, so far, have not been reached by traditional mental health services.     

Mental Health Difficulties and the Support Needs of Social Work Students: Dilemmas,Tensions and Contradictions

There are a growing number of students in higher education who experience mental health difficulties and have support needs. The behaviour of small numbers of students on social work programmes indicates also a need to examine the mental health difficulties and needs of social work students. There is only limited factual information on this topic. It is rarely discussed or written about. There is a danger of discriminating against those experiencing such difficulties, especially black or female students. Yet, at the same time, undertaking a social work programme is a demanding experience, as is doing social work itself. Furthermore, on courses leading to a professional qualification, such as social work, there is an obligation to protect the rights of, and assess possible risks to users, as well as to support students. Programmes should give particular attention both to the mental health difficulties and support needs of social work students at selection, during the programme itself and upon conclusion of the programme at a wide range of levels, both within the higher education system and outside that system.     

The university as developmental space – a case for thinking differently?

Abstract

In recent years, there has been a sizeable increase in young people approaching University Counselling and Well-being Services for support in managing mental health difficulties with one research project suggesting an increase of demand upwards of 33%. Support is necessarily often targeted at those who present most ‘at risk’, but this ignores the potential positive impact that universities can have on promoting mental health for future generations, not least given that nearly half of all young people in the UK participate in Higher Education. Drawing on a case study of one UK undergraduate student, this paper will explore themes common to university students such as difficulties in transitioning from home, defensive-bonding in relationships and low self-esteem. The paper argues the need for universities and colleges to provide ongoing support for students who are ‘just about managing’ in order to enable them to flourish, both emotionally and academically.     

Responding to student mental health concerns in social work education: reflective questions for social work educators

In this paper, we explore ways in which social work educators might respond to students who report that mental health issues underlie their difficulty in meeting core competencies, or otherwise use the language of mental health to describe their struggles to succeed in social work programs. We discuss various trends in policy responses in Canada, the US, the UK, and Ireland. While there are general policy trends, it is clear that responding to these kinds of issues requires the development of highly flexible and situated policy processes that can respond to student realities, concern for students’ rights and privacy, and an awareness of potential discrimination against students. These processes also need to meet the specificities of practicums, particular institutional policies, the mandates of relevant professional bodies, and the precise local legislative framework that shapes these situations. Given these varying contexts, in this conceptual paper, we used a framework on disability that is informed by critical theory to engage existing school policies and propose a set of reflective questions that can guide schools of social work to create an overall responsive environment. These reflective questions are designed to help social work educators balance the rights and needs of students with the professional and institutional demands that students meet core competencies in their education.     

Who is willing to come back? College students' willingness to seek help after using campus mental health services

Objective: To examine characteristics of college students who have previously received mental health (MH) services on campus and are willing to seek help again in the future. Participants: Spring 2015 ACHA-NCHA II (N = 12,501) undergraduate respondents who had previously used MH services on their current campus. Methods: Binary logistic regression with willingness to seek MH services in the future as the dependent variable. Results: Among students who had already utilized campus MH services, significant predictors for future help-seeking were: female, white, gay/lesbian, those not working for pay, having the college/university health insurance plan, and not currently/previously serving in the military (p < .05). Conclusions: The predictors for willingness to use services in the future were consistent with the existing literature related to initial use. Colleges and universities need to consider factors that influence openness to MH services after a previous experience in addition to initiating care. Implications for college MH professionals are provided.     

Intercultural education in everyday practice

While there is substantive work in intercultural education, especially that which proposes intellectual or conceptual road maps for pedagogic interculturalism and, more specifically for the classroom, there is a need to surface the complexity of everyday intercultural classroom practices. This article reflects on some Singapore students’ responses to materials designed to help them engage critically with intercultural issues. These responses can be categorized into three types of tajectories: reifying, critical and conflicted. Reifying practices basically mean that students essentialize individuals, communities and countries despite (and perhaps because of) the intercultural approach to the teaching of communication. Critical trajectories, on the other hand, showcase students’ ability to identify stereotypes and provide much more nuanced characterizations of individuals and countries. Conflicted trajectories, however, seem to be the most dominant classroom practice: these are attempts of students to be critical but, in practice, their criticality is enmeshed in reifying tendencies. In other words, ‘criticality’ as it is envisioned is always incomplete on the ground. Thus, we need micro-lenses in interculturalism and intercultural education to help us critically reflect on and surface essentialisms, tensions and struggles in everyday classroom practice.     

Putting Principles Into Practice: Addressing Historical Trauma,Mistrust, and Apprehension in Research Methods Courses

The social work profession has articulated commitments to acknowledging and affirming how diversity and culture shape the human experience and to developing social workers who can competently engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research. However, there remains a need in social work education for more widespread use of culturally relevant pedagogies that can help achieve these goals. Informed by historical trauma theory and the Black perspective, this article presents a model we used for teaching research to master’s-level social work students at a historically Black university. The article describes assignments and classroom exercises that were used and discusses the implications of this model for culturally informed research curricula that promotes antioppressive research in diverse classroom settings.     

Professional development laboratory: center for literacy and community services

We developed three Professional Development Laboratories: Centers for Literacy and Community Services that addressed four pressing needs in the current urban school crisis: the preparation of in-service teachers to be literacy specialists, the dire need for qualified teachers in urban settings, the professional development of uncertified urban teachers, and the literacy needs of the children and families these teachers serve. These centers were housed in three inner-city schools rather than at the university and thus were able to serve larger numbers of children. Since many of the teachers in these schools are novice or uncertified teachers, we offered on-site in-service courses in order to enhance their ability to help their students. By housing the Centers for Literacy and Community Services on site in the schools, we sought to reach students and families who might otherwise not be able to avail themselves of these services. Unique to this project was that our graduate literacy education students tutored students on site in schools, the university faculty worked alongside the graduate students, and both students and faculty provided services to enhance the professional development of teachers and administrators in the area of literacy. Additionally, this project was distinguished by the inclusion of a component designed to provide literacy education services to the families and caregivers of the children.