Recognising and Evolving Local-lateral
Links
Between Various Support Processes
Written 2009. Last update, April, 2014.
The following
material draws upon ideas and frameworks from Professor Protacio-De Castro and
others’ book ‘Integrated Child Centred Approaches in Children’s Work’ (Protacio-De Castro, E.; Balanon,
F.A.G.; Zenaida, A; Camaco, V.; Ong, M.G.; Verba, A. A.; Yacat, J.A., 2000.).
This page may be usefully read in association with the
following pages:
Rapid Assessing of Local Wellness
Psycho-Social Resources & Resilience Following Disasters
Interfacing Alternative and
Complementary Wellbeing Ways For Local Wellness
Government and Facilitating Grassroots
Action
The following table from
Protacio-De Castro et al (2000) sets out differences between three differing
paradigms used by Aid Organisations and other entities in the East Asia Oceania
Australasia Region. It may be used as a guide to action
research in interfacing between complementary Wellbeing Ways for Local
Wellness.
SUPPORT PARADIGMS
|
BIO-MEDICAL |
SOCIAL WELFARE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT |
PSYCHOSOCIAL ENABLING OF SELF-HELP
& MUTUAL-HELP NETWORKING |
APPROACH
|
Biomedical Service Delivery Physical Attend to
damaged part Diagnose and
Prescribe |
Social work Community
Development Service Delivery Physical
& social Help whole Diagnose and
Prescribe |
Living
System Wellness Self Help and Mutual Help Psycho-social
emotional physical Living well
with family and community in our place - wellness Enabling
whole system to help itself Sensing the
multi-causal whole-of-it and being guided by context on how to use or adapt
healing ways that have worked in other contexts |
META–ACTION
|
Intervening |
Intervening |
Enabling |
PERSPECTIVES
|
Doctor’s perspective |
Social
Workers & Community
Developer’s Perspective |
Sensing through Local
Perspectives: o
Child’s o
Adolescents o
Older People’s Perspective o
Living System wellness perspective o
Rights perspective |
VIEW OF THE CHILD ADOLESCENTS
AND OLDER PEOPLE
|
As vulnerable The problem to be cured |
As vulnerable The problem
needing: o
Relief o
Protection o
Rehabilitation |
As the solution As personally and
communally having:
who may use our enabling
support if they want it |
INTENTION
|
Curative - Physical or
mental injury or disease causing damage needing cure and/or repair |
Curative
& Preventative |
Local people focused
enabling of whole community wellness and wellbeing |
BENEFITS
|
Disease and physical
injuries attended |
Immediately
addresses needs for
relief and rehabilitation |
Immediately supports and
helps strengthen local folk’s’ resilience and psychosocial resources and the
wellness of the children and their families and community |
BACKGROUND
LINKS:
Other
RAD Links:
·
Rapid Assessing
of Local Wellness, Psycho-Social Resources & Resilience Following Disasters
(RAD)
·
Regaining Balance through Mutual-Help -
A Story from Life
·
Action
Researching RAD in the Field
·
Outline Of A RAD Project Proposal
·
RAD Experiential Learning Gatherings
·
Self Care of the RAD Rapid
Deployment Team
·
Possible Terms of Reference for RAD Assessment of
Local Psychosocial Resources and Wellness
·
Responsibility for
Distributing RAD Reports
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