...Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Scoping study into approaches to student wellbeing Literature Review PRN 18219 July 2008 Erebus International Australian Catholic University Table of Contents Appendix 1: Literature Review 1 Table of Contents 2 Executive Summary 4 Section 1: Project Overview 4 Section 2: What is Student Wellbeing? 5 Section 3: The Outcomes of Student Wellbeing and its Pathways 6 1. Physical and Emotional Safety 6 2. Pro-social values 7 3. A supportive and caring school community 7 4. Social and Emotional Learning 7 5. A Strengths-based Approach 8 6. A sense of Meaning and Purpose 8 7. A Healthy Lifestyle 9 Section 4: International Focus on Student Wellbeing 9 Section 5: Student Wellbeing in the Australian Educational Context 9 5.1: Australian Government National Frameworks in Education 9 5.2 Report on the of the Responses of State and territory and non-government education authorities to the Concept of a National Student Wellbeing Framework 11 5.3 Student Wellbeing in State and Territory Curriculum and Policy Documents 11 Section 6: Whole School Approaches to Student Wellbeing: Issues of School Leadership, Implementation and Sustainability of Student Wellbeing Initiatives 12 Section 1: Project Overview 13 1.1 Introduction 13 1.2 Project Objectives 13 1.3 Methodology 14 Section 2: Student Wellbeing and its Pathways 16 2.1 What is Student Wellbeing? 16 The Definition of Student Wellbeing Used in...
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...2nd Assignment Explain the importance of education and training and health to the indigenous community of Australia. What is the evidence on closing the gap in these areas with the non indigenous community? Assess the implications of your results for employment, income and hence the standard of living? Introduction It is very important to provide better education training and health facilities to the indigenous community of Australia for the prosperous economy of the country. These are the fundamental elements to get higher productivity, to create more employment opportunity following by the higher income level with higher HDI of the country. It is important to share in the prosperity of the nation. Providing Indigenous Australians with...
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...outcomes in Australia. Select one priority direction from the list: Improving the social and emotion wellbeing of young Australians. Written By Danielle Jones Student ID: 210609 Unit Code: 530 Unit Name: Bachelor of Health Unit Coordinator: Lindsay Smith Due Date: 16th April 2014 Improving the social and emotional wellbeing of young Australians. Children and young people’s wellbeing has become a somewhat ubiquitous, complex and politically imbued field (Ereaut & Whiting, 2008; Fattore, Mason & Watson, 2007; Noble, 2008; Rose & Rowland, 2010), with social and emotional wellbeing variously described in terms of mental health, resilience, psychosocial competence and the like. While the discourse of wellbeing is now widely appropriated as a way of capturing our aspirations for children and young people, the term itself is poorly defined and under-theorised (Griffiths & Cooper, 2005; Hamilton & Redmond, 2010; McAuley & Rose, 2010; Noble, 2008). There is a significant instability and ambiguity around the term ‘wellbeing’ both in public policy and popular discourse. Ereaut and Whiting (2008) contend that signals a shifting set of meanings, that is, it represents what is collectively agreed by a group or number of groups constituting the Aristotelian notion of ‘the good life’. In similar vein, Ryan and Deci (2001, p.141) propose that wellbeing is a complex construct that concerns optimal experience and functioning, which will of course be somewhat...
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...country. Per capita income is a good indicator of economic wellbeing, but it is not an accurate measure. Per capita income ignores many important factors which play very important role in the wellbeing of the individuals as well as the country. First factor which should be considered along with GDP to know the exact wellbeing of individuals and company is, social indicators. Social indicators concentrates on observable outcomes in health, education, poverty. Per capita high income does not ensure that there is equity. Majority of the citizens may be poor and wealth may be concentrated in few hands leading even though per capita income is high. Obviously in that case kit can not be said that average people are well off. There are four social indicators which tell about wellbeing of people: Self sufficiency, Equity, Health and Social cohesion. (Giovannini, Hall & Marco) These social indicators furnish information about several dimensions that per capita GDP does not cover. Other factor to be considered is inflation. The wellbeing of the people and country depends on purchasing power. If a country has high per capita income and high inflation, actual purchasing power would be low. In the calculation of GDP, the goods and services ;produced are valued at current market price, which ignores inflation. The real GDP is GDP adjusted for inflation. Per capita income calculated on Real GDP gives more realistic picture of the wellbeing of the country. Another factor which should be included...
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...Unit 17 J/650/2684: Health and Wellbeing in Adult Care Understand the importance of promoting individuals’ health and wellbeing. 2.1 Explain a range of factors that may influence an individual’s health and wellbeing. Factors: Factors affecting health and wellbeing will be different for different people. Learners should show consideration for environmental, physical, social, and psychological factors. A range of factors can influence an individual's health and wellbeing, and these factors can vary greatly from person to person. Some of the key factors to consider include: Environmental Factors: Access to green spaces and natural environments: Access to green spaces and natural environments is essential for individuals' health and wellbeing....
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...affects how people thinks, behaves and cooperate with other people (Government of Western Australia Mental Health Commission, 2010). The word poverty means not be able to have basic needs such as food, health care, clothing, and education. Aboriginal community is suffering from different types of issues such as lack of medical and disability services, litter education, high rate of unemployment, broken families and high crime rates due to all this issues the individual lead to mental illness. According to Scaraceno (1997), stated that poverty is one of the main risk factors of progressing mental health illness among Aboriginal community. In Aboriginal community, economic poverty is not the main issue that public are going through however, spiritual, emotional, behaves poverty pass through generation-to-generation, which affects whole community. The outcomes of spiritual, emotional, economic poverty plenty of people develops mental illness which lead them for suicide case (Bowers, 2013). Lack of education on social and health wellbeing cause depression and stress, which becomes worsen when time pass and lead to metal health issues. 2. Identifies and explains tools, techniques and skills used to promote mental health and wellbeing. There are few techniques, skills and tools that are mentioned in the deadly thinking documentary, which is self-help techniques, seeking help, problem solving skill and good listening skills. Those tools, techniques and...
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...Picture 9: Mental Health Mental health has been described as the most pressing public health issue of our time with the mental health of youths becoming an increasingly important issue to address (Abraham, n.d.). A 2013-14 national survey conducted on the mental health and wellbeing of Australian children and adolescents showed that one in seven young Australians aged 4-17 were assessed as having a mental disorder in the past 12 months. Children under 17 are more likely to suffer from ADHD and anxiety disorders (7.4% and 6.9% being affected respectively) and the most debilitating disorder for this age group was found to be major depressive disorder, affecting 2.8%. Schools play a major role in providing education and support regarding mental...
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...They are working in and personal services around 4.66% are working and among of them, 8.94% children suffer from injuries and diseases. The percentage of children working in agriculture, fisheries, and forestry is 74.72, manufacturing includes 10.56, construction includes 2.03, hotels, wholesale trades, the restaurant includes 7.27 4.4 Level of Education: The educational level of workers in Pakistan is not as high as it should be. Education and OHS have a direct relationship with each other, if a person is educated he will how to protect himself from injuries and diseases and how to gain profit but an uneducated one not even know his own protective measures. In Pakistan the literacy rate increased from 49.63% to 50.65% Occupational health and safety are defined as the "exploration of the foresight, acknowledgment, assessment, and control of risks emerging in or from the work environment that could debilitate the wellbeing and prosperity of specialists" while considering the conceivable effect on the encompassing groups furthermore, the general...
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...An Alternative Measure: Subjective Wellbeing Wellbeing is about looking at ‘GDP and beyond’, which includes headline indicators in areas such as health, relationships, education and skills, our finances, the economy, the environment and individuals' assessment of their own wellbeing. Knowing how money is earned will give us some insights about the employment condition and other income elements. Also, household expenditure can give us a better understanding in the expenditure structure. To be more specific, we can use the Engel's Coefficient as an example, which as a tool for assessing household expenditure can reflect the living standard. It suggests that a lower proportion of income spent on food indicates a higher standard of living, which is important for wellbeing assessment. Moreover, a thorough investigation into the household expenditure structure also helps us to better analyze people’s behaviors and preferences. However, measurement in income and expenditure is only about people’s financial condition. It only demonstrates people’s material wellbeing. For instance, the monetary numbers do not tell us that people in Beijing is suffering from air pollution. Looking solely at household income and expenditure does not give us any information about people’s living environment, life satisfaction, etc. Household wellbeing is not a simple add up of all the family members’ wellbeing. Like chemicals, the household wellbeing as a whole involves more subtlety. Thus, focusing...
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...Guidance on writing Job Descriptions & Person Specifications These notes are designed to assist you when completing the Job Description & Person Specification templates. Before you start The job description and person specification should be completed by someone who has a good knowledge and understanding of the role and is able to identify the appropriate criteria to select the best candidate. If it‟s helpful, your HR Advisor can work with you to ensure all the key areas are captured. Tips to help you create a good Job Description & Person Specification o Create a Business Case This is essential when creating a new role or changing an existing role as it is needed as part of the Vacancy Control Procedure, and allows you to focus on what you want the role to actually achieve. o Don‟t focus on grade at this stage This is likely to detract from thorough consideration of the actual job. o Create a Structure Chart This shows where the job sits in the team and how it relates to other roles, clearly showing reporting relationships etc. Again try not to focus on grades. This is also an essential part of the Vacancy Control Procedure. o Write in plain English Use clear and plain English and think carefully about how you describe the job. Formatting & Layout (See Example Later) The design and layout of the Job Description & Person Specification template has been specifically set and agreed. Therefore sections, boxes and key headings should not be removed or added. The font...
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...Unit 4: development through life stages Task 1 P4: Explain two theories of ageing Social Disengagement Theory The social disengagement theory is a theory that was discovered in 1961 by William Henry and Elaine Cumming and it claims the beliefs that as people get older and become more fragile (elderly), they would naturally tend to withdraw themselves from social involvement, being less active and restricting themselves from interacting with others. http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-the-disengagement-theory.htm (Pearson education limited, 2010, pg170). However this is not the case for all ageing individuals as reasons for their disengagement may not be the result of the theory. For example, ill health of an individual may be the reason they become less sociable as it may prevent/restrict them from doing things and interacting with people how they would’ve before. In the case study we learn of Martha and Catherine, two elderly individuals of 80 who out of choice live in sheltered housing due to physical disabilities and as looking after their own home is too stressful, who have taken to the theory in different ways. The social disengagement theory hasn’t yet affected Martha fully or her look on life as she enjoys interacting with others in the home she lives – ‘there are always people to talk to and sometimes we get together to play cards’. Martha says ‘I like to get out and walk in the park as much as possible in order to stay fit’, while however she said she ‘couldn’t cope...
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...Organization (WHO), wellbeing advancement of the procedure to empower individuals to expand, and to enhance, their wellbeing. So what impact would this have on a minority group, say, the Asian Americans? At the point when people, families and groups have the instructive and support apparatuses they have to develop and expand upon the establishment of individual wellbeing mindfulness, but also been empowered of knowing and defining promotion of health, yet help characterize wellbeing advancement. Compared to the national average, Asian Americans’ leading causes of death were cancer, heart disease, stroke, accidents, and diabetes. The rates of deaths these diseases cause are lower than most other races and ethnicities. The average life span for Asian American women is in fact the longest as well. Also, another thing to consider, in 2006–2008, they had the greatest percentage of peoples residing in counties whose air quality did not meet EPA standards for particulate matter and ozone compared with other racial and ethnic populations. Some even feared medical treatment due to deportation issues, and language barriers. But on the plus side, and even with all of these things working against them, they are less likely to live in poverty and are more likely to be college graduates or hold some form of college degree and hold positions in the fields of science or other reputable areas of interest, and even hold interest in business management. The idea of wellbeing advancement has advanced...
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...Approaches to health education Health promotion is the process and method of raising awareness on health related issues by making the public more aware on a particular subject or showing negative consequences which help change or alter a person’s behaviour or thinking. This is done so that these specific campaign or advertisements almost have a control over anindividual’s future and present choices based around their health and wellbeing. Though these promotions are specifically designed to target and be personalised to each individual but aims to cover a wide target audience at the same time. This can be conveyed through advertisements such as: television advertisements, radio adverts, leaflets, posters, website advertisements, social media and many more, though these are the most significant uses of advertisement used to target a large scale of the public. There have been several reputable landmarks that have been successful in raising awareness of health promotion to the world, ensuring that they have provided a substantial amount of knowledge and attentiveness so that each target audience acknowledges if not corresponds to the information provided by these landmarks. One of these landmarks being the Ottawa charter which enables people to take control and responsibility over their own health to empower an improvement on each individuals life’s to make a positive different to their wellbeing. Through reaching this level of complete wellbeing, will develop people to achieve...
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...|BHMA ESSAY 2013 | |The importance of holism in medical care today | |and ways this can be promoted | | | |Kundan Iqbal | |Newcastle University | |“…every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar, personal, novel, complicated disease…’TOLSTOY | The importance of holism The term ‘holism’ was coined by philosopher Jan Smuts in 1926, derived from the Greek hólos, meaning ‘whole’[1]. Aristotle captured the essence of holism in his Metaphysics when he stated ‘the whole is more than the sum of its parts’. Applied to healthcare, holism is the art and science of caring for a person in a way which considers all aspects of their body, mind, spirituality and emotional state in relation to “[other] individuals, the environment, or populations...
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...COM/156 –University Composition and Communication II Benefits of a Higher Education In a report published by the U.S. Census Bureau titled The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings, an average adult with a high school degree could expect to earn about $1.2 million, someone with a bachelor’s degree could earn about $2.1 million, and a person with a master’s degree might expect around $2.5 million. The average salary of a high school dropout is about $21,000 a year which equates to $840,000 over a 40 year period. By most standards, there is a substantial difference in the lifetime earnings presented in the data which will undoubtedly have impact on any one person’s life and those who depend on that person to provide for them. An education is the single most important tool a person can acquire. Well educated individuals not only earn more money throughout their lifetimes, but they also live longer, healthier, and more comfortable lives. Every aspect of peoples’ lives is affected by the level of education or lack of education that they have. The type of career, salary, health, social environment, and community are all factors associated with academic prowess. Also more important, the post professional quality of lives of individuals with higher education credentials is greatly improved over the lives of non-educated retirees. Pursuing higher education empowers individuals to take control of their future by providing more employment...
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