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G E Chandler

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PubMed2000

Teaching using interactive video: creating connections.

This article addresses the two essential elements of distance learning: the technology and the pedagogy. Both areas are discussed through the four components--information, support, resources, and relationships--of a work effectiveness model. Drawing from recent literature and their experience, the authors offer strategies for making interactive video technology "invisible" while engaging students at a distance. Students experience connections when faculty know how to manage the equipment, plan ahead, and consciously construct strategies for creating relationships across the miles.

Education, Distance↗
PubMed1999

Adolescent resilience.

PURPOSE: To explore what resilience means to adolescents and whether the Resiliency Scale can accurately measure resilience. Researchers have identified that resilience in children and adolescents may lead to psychosocial maladaption and psychopathology in adulthood. Further research is necessary in order to understand what resilience is in adolescence and to identify those at risk for psychosocial problems. DESIGN: A triangulated research design was used to explore the concept of resilience in adolescents. This small pilot study, conducted in 1997, had a purposive sample of 51 10th-grade and 11th-grade volunteers from one inner-city, vocational high school in New England. METHODS: A researcher-developed demographic tool was used to explore the environment of adversities to which students were exposed. Wagnild and Young's Resiliency Scale was used to measure adolescents' perceptions of their resilience. Focus groups, structured and unstructured interviews, and written stories were used to gather phenomenologic data. FINDINGS: Despite the traumatic and violent world in which participants lived, the adolescents ranked themselves as "resilient." These adolescents believed that being resilient was to be (a) disconnected from others because they could not trust, (b) isolated because they had inadequate or no support systems, and (c) insulated because the emotional pain was too much to bear. CONCLUSIONS: This study of resilience in adolescence shows the need for further research; the investigators question whether resilience is really a healthy state, and wonder if similar interventions are necessary for both "resilient" and "vulnerable" adolescents.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1998

Student perceptions of empowerment in their graduate program.

Empowerment is a critical aspect of the education of the Advanced Practice Nurse (APN). This paper reports a study which asked for feedback from APN students about their experience of feelings of empowerment and powerlessness in their graduate program. Learning which was driven by the student's interest, which respected and valued their experience and which guided them in defining and pursuing individual goals was empowering. Powerlessness was experienced when faculty controlled the process, were demeaning about students' abilities and when learning was not connected to their goals. Advanced Practice Nurses (APN) are in great demand for the emerging health care system. It is critical that students graduate well prepared to face the challenge of today's health care environment. An overarching objective of advanced practice is to enable patients to take control and be responsible for their own health needs, to empower them to care for themselves. The connection between the empowerment of APNs and their ability to empower their patients is unclear. The relationship between the way APN students are treated and how they treat their patients when they graduate is also not known. This investigation looked at what elicited feelings of powerlessness and empowerment in students as a first step in understanding the process. This paper describes a pilot study which elicited student experiences in their graduate program which engendered feelings of empowerment or powerlessness. The study was a replication of Chandler's previous work with staff nurses. It is hoped that this information will provide a framework for a knowledge base to develop educational strategies which will empower the APN student.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1976

The evolution of a human services network.

The delivery of human services in most communities is complicated by competition between agencies for money, esteem, and clientele. There is a need for developing a strategy of interagency service coordination. Representatives of human service organizations in a suburban community worked together to establish a network of services emphasizing coordination and the utilization of multiple resources to meet identified program needs. The description of this project includes: (a) a discussion of the community and its special problems; (b) a specification of objectives for service coordination; (c) a presentation of the theoretical framework underlying the development of the network; (d) an analysis of the stages of development; and (e) a summary including evaluations, conclusions, and possible future directions.

Community Health Services↗
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A creative writing program to enhance self-esteem and self-efficacy in adolescents.

PURPOSE: To describe the rationale, content, and results of a group creative writing program to increase adolescent self-esteem and self-efficacy. METHODS: Subjects were low-income, at-risk minority youth (N = 11). Free writing in response to specific exercises, sharing their own stories in their own language, and responding to their peers were used daily for 2 weeks as part of the high school English class. The program was oriented toward health rather than problems, with the content created by the adolescents. FINDINGS: The opportunity to tell their own story, in their own language in a safe, structured setting with positive feedback led to higher self-efficacy and self-esteem. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that a writing intervention focused on building self-in-relation self-esteem and the four aspects of self-efficacy resulted in increased sense of well-being.

Adolescent↗