Information literacy is an overarching concept that incorporates many of the diverse literacy areas important for adolescent mental health. Adolescents are in a sensitive stage in their development, where they are susceptible to the possible emotional and cognitive adverse effects of the huge amount of information they have to deal with. For them, the ability to access the most useful information, critically evaluate it, reflect on it and being able to use it for the benefit of oneself and others is vital. As adolescents in developing countries are being rapidly exposed to information and ways of living that require the abilities described in information literacy, looking at teaching these skills in formal and informal ways is important.
School counselling has been implemented in all Singapore public schools for more than a decade. This study sought the perceptions of Singapore adolescents on the roles and characteristics of school counsellors. A survey was administered to 135 students from Nanyang Polytechnic. This research was largely descriptive in nature with one open-ended question. The results showed that adolescents had some misconceptions on the roles of school counsellors. An unanticipated finding revealed that adolescents who had not experienced the counselling process had better perceptions of the characteristics of a school counsellor. These results imply that school counsellors need to take on a more proactive role in reaching out to students, in terms of information sharing and creating awareness. Recommendations have been made for enhancing the school counselling landscape.
The prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been on the rise in recent years. However, lack of ASD awareness can lead to delay in diagnosis and treatment as well as stigma towards autistic individuals. Therefore, it is paramount to assess the public’s knowledge and attitude towards ASD. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Klinik Kesihatan Luyang from December 2018 to February 2019 using a self-administered questionnaire that comprised of 3 sections; sociodemographic section, Autism Stigma and Knowledge questionnaire (ASK-Q) and attitude towards ASD. There were 387 respondents who participated in this study and 25.3% of them had never heard of ASD. Among those who had heard of ASD, the mean (SD) score for ASK-Q was 35.0 (3.8) with more than 70% of them had adequate knowledge on diagnosis, aetiology and treatment of ASD. Majority of the respondents did not endorse stigma. The main sources of ASD information were from social media (69.8%) and TV/Radio (52.5%). Generally, respondents showed a high positive attitude towards ASD with a mean (SD) score of 36.0 (5.1). There were positive associations between knowledge on treatment and education level (p=0.02) and household monthly income (p=0.01) as well as knowledge on aetiology and household monthly income (p=0.03). Parenthood was associated with higher knowledge on aetiology (p=0.02) and lesser stigma endorsement (p=0.02). Males demonstrated more positive attitude compared to females (p=0.03). There was weak correlation between knowledge and attitude towards ASD (r=0.145, p=0.014). In conclusion, there is still a need for intervention to improve ASD awareness especially among the lower education and lower income population as well as those who had no parenthood experience, using effective channels of mass media.
Adolescents who have a sibling with developmental disabilities were more likely to have more challenges and unpleasant emotions compared to adolescents who have a sibling without developmental disabilities. Besides, the sibling relationships with developmental disabilities siblings were most likely to be affected negatively due to the deficits in cognitive, language, and social skills. Due to the challenges and unpleasant emotions among adolescents with disability siblings, this study was aimed to identify the coping strategies and sibling relationships of the adolescents with developmental disabilities siblings in Malaysia. Besides, this study also aimed to evaluate the perceptions of the adolescents who have a sibling with developmental disabilities in the family functioning. This study was conducted using qualitative research with phenomenological design on 10 participants. The participants were recruited through purposive sampling methods and data were obtained by conducting semi-structure interviews. Based on the result, the most common coping strategies used by the adolescents who have a brother or sister with developmental disabilities were emotional-focused coping strategies. Half of the adolescents reported positive sibling relationships with their brother or sister with developmental disabilities, another half of the adolescents were not. Besides, most of the adolescents perceived poorer communication, problem-solving, decision making, and less satisfaction of leisure time in the family. Therefore, parental training or counselling should be provided to the family who have a child with developmental disabilities to help the family, included the adolescents to have better coping strategies and sibling relationships to overcome the difficulties.
This study aims to determine the effect of father’s attachment on the resilience of psychology faculty students who are working on their final assignments at Mercu Buana University, Jakarta. A total of 102 respondents were students of facuty of Psychology who was taking the final project course. This study uses a quantitative approach, and the technique used for sampling is Non Probability Sampling. Inventory Parents and Peer Attachment (IPPA) by Armsden & Greenberg (2009) was used to measure student's attachment to father and Resilience Quotient (RQ) by Reivich & Shatte (2002) to measure student resilience. Data processing used a simple regression test to see the effect of father attachment on the resilience of students who was doing their final project in the faculty of psychology of Mercu Buana University. This study found a positive and significant influence between father's attachment to student resilience, which means the closer the student to the father, the higher the student's resilience is.
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