Despite continuous efforts in various economies, amongst others in South-East Asia, the full potential of social entrepreneurship (SE) is difficult to realize (STEPup project comparative study findings). Challenges that need to be addressed include the lack of skilled employees, business understanding among founders, access to funding and infrastructure and a lack of social impact measurement. Higher education institutions (HEI) are often challenged with limited engagement, also in terms of student support of early entrepreneurial activity. This disbalance has also been observed in Thailand and Myanmar, with the Erasmus+ funded project STEPup (2020-2023) seeing an opportunity to create and strengthen innovative social entrepreneurship practices for disruptive business settings in the two participating countries. Research based on the review of scientific articles, the conduct of focus groups (n= 42 from 38 different external stakeholder organizations) and numerous interviews and creative sessions with stakeholders of the social entrepreneurship domain also revealed the necessity to act in a self-organizing and organic SE support system. This paper aims to present recommendations and strategic guidelines to increase access and opportunity for existing social enterprises and social entrepreneurs who are planning to create and sustain an SE ecosystem through the framework, support, expertise and structure of existing higher education institutions. In addition, Higher Education Institutions in Myanmar and Thailand would serve as a good practice case on how to design and develop resource hubs for social enterprise practitioners and engage stakeholders from all sectors to tackle social issues and promote awareness of the social enterprise sector’s potential.
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Background: An adaptation of multisystemic therapy (MST) was piloted to find out whether it would yield better outcomes than standard MST in families where the adolescent not only shows antisocial or delinquent behaviour, but also has an intellectual disability. Method: To establish the comparative effectiveness of MST‐ID (n = 55) versus standard MST (n = 73), treatment outcomes were compared at the end of treatment and at 6‐month follow‐up. Pre‐treatment differences were controlled for using the propensity score method. Results: Multisystemic therapy‐ID resulted in reduced police contact and reduced rule breaking behaviour that lasted up to 6 months post‐treatment. Compared to standard MST, MST‐ID more frequently resulted in improvements in parenting skills, family relations, social support, involvement with pro‐social peers and sustained positive behavioural changes. At follow‐up, more adolescents who had received MST‐ID were still living at home. Conclusions: These results support further development of and research into the MST‐ID adaptation.
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De maatschappij is in een hoog tempo aan het digitaliseren. Dit blijkt ook uit een toenemend gebruik van slimme technische oplossingen voor gemeenten, oftewel smart city-systemen.Het gebruik ervan heeft ook een keerzijde.
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Multiple studies have shown that Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is, at group level, an effective treatment for adolescents showing serious externalizing problem behavior. The current study expands previous research on MST by, first, examining whether subgroups of participants who respond differently to treatment could be identified. Second, we investigated if the different trajectories of change during MST could be predicted by individual (hostile attributions) and contextual (parental sense of parenting competence and deviant and prosocial peer involvement) pre-treatment factors. Participants were 147 adolescents (mean age = 15.91 years, 104 (71%) boys) and their parents who received MST. Pre-treatment assessment of the predictors and 5 monthly assessments of externalizing behavior during treatment took place using both adolescent and parents’ self-reports. Six distinct subgroups, showing different trajectories of change in externalizing problem behavior during MST, were identified. Two of the 6 trajectories of change showed a poor treatment response, as one class did not change in externalizing problem behavior and the other class even increased. The remaining 4 trajectories displayed a positive effect of MST, by showing a decrease in externalizing behavior. Most of these trajectories could be predicted by parental sense of parenting competence. Additionally, lower involvement with prosocial peers was a predictor of the group that appeared to be resistant to MST. Adolescents do respond differently to MST, which indicates the importance of personalizing treatment. Protective factors, such as parental sense of parenting competence and prosocial peers, seem to require additional attention in the first phase of MST.
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Het doel van deze richtlijn is om hulpverleners handvatten te geven om jongeren met agressief gedrag effectiever te begeleiden. Het doel is dat patiënten meer inzicht krijgen in, en controle krijgen over hun agressieve gedrag. Dat draagt bij aan een gezonde psychosociale ontwikkeling van de jongere, aan een veiliger behandelklimaat binnen de behandelsetting en een prettiger werkklimaat voor hulpverleners Deel 1: Theoretische onderbouwing en aanbevelingen, die van belang zijn om goed met het interventiepakket te kunnen werken.
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Onderzoek naar de invoering en uitvoering van MDFT bij Spirit in Amsterdam. De onderzoeksvragen hebben betrekking op het implementatieproces (invoeringsstrategieën), de bereikte doelgroep, de uitvoering van MDFT, de ervaringen met het de ondersteuning van de MDFT-therapeuten (borgingsstrategieën) en de beoordeling van de hulp door cliënten (cliënttevredenheid).
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Background: The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is widely used to screen for psychosocial problems among adolescents. As the severity of such problems is known to be related to age and gender, screening could be improved by interpreting SDQ scale scores with age-specific and perhaps gender-specific norms. Up to now, such norms are lacking. The aim of the current study is to present gender-specific and joint normative data per year of age for the Dutch self-reported and parent-reported SDQ versions for use among 12- to 17-year-old adolescents. Methods: The norm groups for the self-reported and parent-reported SDQ versions consisted of 993 adolescents and 736 parents, respectively, from the general Dutch population. Per SDQ version, both gender-specific norms and joint norms (percentiles and cutoffs) per year of age were calculated through regression-based norming (Rigby in J Roy Stat Soc Ser C 54:507, 2005). Additionally, these norms were compared to the widely used British norms that are neither age-specific nor gender-specific. Results: By design, gender-specific ‘abnormal’ cutoffs (i.e., cutoffs aimed at identifying max. 10% of the most extremely scoring males and max. 10% of the most extremely scoring females) resulted in about equal percentages of ‘abnormal’ scoring male and female adolescents per SDQ scale. In contrast, joint ‘abnormal’ cutoffs (i.e., cutoffs aimed at identifying max. 10% of the most extremely scoring adolescents) resulted in relatively more male (7.6 to 13.6%, depending on age) than female (3.3 to 8.9%, depending on age) adolescents as scoring ‘abnormal’ on scales measuring externalizing behavior (self-reported and parent-reported SDQ versions), and relatively more female (3.9 to 14.3%, depending on age) than male (1.8 to 6.9%, depending on age) adolescents as scoring ‘abnormal’ on scales measuring internalizing behavior (self-reported SDQ version). In both types of norms, minor age effects were present. Among Dutch adolescents, the British norms yielded detection rates much lower than the expected 10%. Conclusions: Our findings indicate that detection rates depend on the reference group that is used (British or Dutch general adolescent population; specific gender group or not). The normative data in this paper facilitate the comparison of an adolescent’s scores to different reference groups, and allow for cross-country/cultural comparisons of adolescents’ psychosocial behavior.
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Het lectoraat Kwaliteit en Effectiviteit in de Zorg voor Jeugd onderzoek heeft in het afgelopen jaar onderzoek gedaan naar het ondersteuningsaanbod bij scheidingen voor gezinnen in de jeugdhulpregio’s Haarlemmermeer, Zuid-Kennemerland en IJmond. Het huidige en gewenste hulpaanbod en de samenwerking tussen jeugdhulporganisaties in de regio’s is in kaart gebracht. Door dit onderzoek is meer duidelijkheid over waar professionals, ouders en jongeren behoefte aan hebben op het gebied van scheidingen. In het rapport staan adviezen op welke wijze het hulpaanbod in de praktijk gerealiseerd kan worden.
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Sinds de transitie van het jeugddomein in 2015 zijn we als gemeenten de verantwoordelijkheid aangegaan om alle kinderen, jongeren en gezinnen optimale ontwikkelingskansen te bieden. Wij hebben gewerkt aan nieuwe vormen van samenwerking tussen hulpverleners, onderwijsinstellingen en vrijwilligersorganisaties. Regionale samenwerking is hierin ook ontzettend belangrijk gebleken. We zijn aan de slag gegaan met nieuwe werkwijzen, samenwerkingsverbanden en een andere inzet van bestaande mogelijkheden. Dat was een fikse opgave en er is door alle betrokkenen veel inzet voor geleverd. Nu, ruim twee jaar na de transitie, wordt het resultaat van al die inzet steeds beter zichtbaar. We hebben ervaren welke werkwijzen samenwerkingsverbanden, functies en mogelijkheden goed werken
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