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Measuring Child Disadvantage: Comparing Multidimensional and Socioeconomic Approaches for Predicting Developmental Outcomes

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Robust measurement of disadvantage is essential to identifying and addressing inequities in children's development. We tested how a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage performed relative to a traditional socioeconomic position (SEP) approach to predict developmental outcomes.
Wei Hong, Fiona Mensah, Elodie O'Connor, Shuaijun Guo, Sharon Goldfeld, Meredith O'Connor, Cindy Pham, Sarah Gray   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecological Behavior as a Research Problem in Domestic and Foreign Psychology

, 2020
Морозова Светлана Витальевна, кандидат психологических наук, заведующий кафедрой общей психологии, психодиагностики и психологического консультирования, Южно-Уральский государственный университет (Челябинск), msv_m@mail.ru; ORCID: 0000-0002-9203-1263 ...
Морозова, С.В., Kozlov, V.V., Козлов, В.В., Morozova, S.V.   +3 more
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agency From a Radical Embodied Standpoint: An Ecological-Enactive Proposal

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Explaining agency is a significant challenge for those who are interested in the sciences of the mind, and non-representationalists are no exception to this.
Miguel Segundo-Ortin
doaj   +1 more source

To What Extent Do Australian Government Metrics Align With Indigenous and Non‐Indigenous Conceptualisations of Wellbeing? A Scoping Review of Wellbeing Frameworks

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indigenous wellbeing theories offer potential to better measure social and cultural determinants. This scoping review aimed to identify the types of metrics used by the Australian government to assess wellbeing and evaluate the alignment of current frameworks against Indigenous and non‐Indigenous conceptualisations of wellbeing.
Sophie Wright‐Pedersen, Edward J. O'Connor, Megan Rebuli, Tiana Thorne, Naomi Kakoschke, Ray Mahoney   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Landscape and health: Connecting psychology, aesthetics and philosophy through the concept of affordance

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
In this paper we address a frontier topic in the humanities, namely how the cultural and natural construction that we call landscape affects well-being and health.
Laura eMenatti, Antonio eCasado da Rocha
doaj   +1 more source

Shifting Child Protection Assessments From a Deficit Focus to Assessments Informed by Strengths and Protective Factors: Translating Research Knowledge to Practice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child protection systems play a critical role in preventing and responding to child maltreatment, yet practices are often predominantly deficit focused. This paper presents a rapid literature review on the strengths, protective factors, and cultural considerations to inform child protection assessment.
Gabrielle R. Hunt, Carmela Bastian, Luke Cantley, Ulrike Marwitz, Daryl J. Higgins   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Designing for diversity: a case study exploring implications of ecological psychology for inclusion

, 2013
The dominant psychological paradigm which underpins institutionalised learning has perpetuated a deficit rationality whereby children outside of normative developmental ranges are understood to be needy of catch-up or compensatory programs.
Finn, Roxanne
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Insights from ecological psychology and dynamical systems theory can underpin a philosophy of coaching

, 2009
The aim of this paper is to show how principles of ecological psychology and dynamical systems theory can underpin a philosophy of coaching practice in a nonlinear pedagogy.
Davids, Keith W., Renshaw, I, Chow, J-Y, Shuttleworth, Richard, Davids, K, Chow, Jia Yi, Shuttleworth, R, Renshaw, Ian   +7 more
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The Emergence of Ur-Intentionality: An Ecological Proposal

Philosophies
Radical enactivism supports radical embodied cognition (REC), which is the idea that basic or fundamental cognition (perception and action) does not need to be understood in representational, contentful terms.
Manuel Heras-Escribano, Daniel Martínez Moreno   +1 more
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