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Who are we? Associação Humanidades (AH) , a private non profit organization Where are we? Portugal, Lisbon city area What´s our mission? To promote social inclusion and equal opportunities. How Can we make it possible?
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Who are we? Associação Humanidades (AH), aprivate non profit organization Where are we? Portugal, Lisbon city area What´s our mission? To promote social inclusion and equal opportunities
How Can we make it possible? development of empowerment and learning approaches in order to enlarge self-determination, autonomy and citizenship specific intervention on disadvantadged situations universal prevention perspective With whom? other professionals/organizations Youngsters/families - particulary young pregnant/ mothers and prisoners
How do we do it? Person driven integrated services to face early pregnancy/ motherhood diagnosed needs: Social intervention/ projects that promote youngsters autonomy and self-responsibility in diverse areas: • Personal, social and vocational development centre; • Nursery/crèche • Temporary residence for social emergency situations • Healthy lifestyles; • Educational/vocational qualification • Prisoners' reintegration • … … …
How do we do it? Young resident pregnant/mothers and their babies
What are the preliminary results? Empowerment Skills Balance Scale: 1 – Very low to 5 – Very high
What are the preliminary results? Learned Helplessness Snapshot Scale: 1 – Very low to 10 - Very high
WHAT ARE THE PRELIMINARY RESULTS? Learned Helplessness Self-Assessment
Some notes Higher intensity and duration of work with learners improves the outcomes AH methodologies and tools have been giving way to “change enabler conditions” LHSA improvement for a clearer snapshoot of a given moment
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Learned Helplessness Snapshot Inability Personal features Social features Change enabler conditions 4 DIMENSIONS
Learned Helplessness Snapshot INABILITY - feelings and perceptions of not being able When something doesn’t happen as I planned, it’s always my fault I feel that my inability to solve problems is the cause of my lack of success I am incapable of finding solutions for problems No matter how much I try, things will never be as I want them to be I feel that anyone does better than me in most tasks Other people have more control over their lives than I do Even though I spend large amounts of energy in a task, I feel I don’t have any control on the outcomes If I do a task and I achieve success, it is probably because I was lucky
Learned Helplessness Snapshot PERSONAL FEATURES - causes of learned helplessness attributed internally to an individual My health problems prevent me to achieve my life goals I believe age is my barrier to achieving life goals. I consider my self to be a victim of my past. SOCIAL FEATURES - causes of learned helplessness attributed externally to social groups I believe cultural background is an obstacle to success in my life I feel that lack of adequate education prevents me from achieving my life goals I feel I am a victim of society. I believe gender is a barrier to achieving my life goals. When I’m not successful, my failure is due to other people’s stupidity
Learned Helplessness Snapshot CHANGE ENABLER CONDITIONS -conditions to change one’s life direction as a gained from previous failure I avoid situations unless I can predict the outcome I’m willing to take risks to achieve my life goals Failure gives me new opportunities I don’t try to do a new task if in the past I have failed on similar tasks* I don’t accept a task unless I believe that I will be successful* I feel I have support from important people around me in achieving my life goals. * these 2 statements meaning point in opposite direction of the other 3 statements. To ease results interpretation it is possible to invert the content and scale and the of the sentence.
Learned Helplessness Snapshot – PT Average Results I Scale: 1 – Very low to 10 - Very high
Learned Helplessness Snapshot – PT Average Results II Scale: 1 – Very low to 10 - Very high
Learned Helplessness Snapshot – PT Average Results III Scale: 1 – Very low to 10 - Very high
Learned Helplessness Snapshot - PT, SW and SK First Apllication Results