dimanche 14 juin 2009
Sex education
www.playinitsafe.co.uk.
This is a website which wants to inform teens about how to have a healthy sex life and how they should ask themselves the right questions....
Go and have a look
Juliet
samedi 2 mai 2009
Swine Flu
Redditch woman among three new cases of swine flu
Apr 29 2009
The Birmingham adult confirmed among three new cases of swine flu is a 41-year-old Redditch woman, it has emerged.
A 12-year-old girl from Paignton in Devon and a 22-year-old man from south London have also contracted the disease.
A Department of Health spokesman said the Redditch woman had been treated at home and was the only case recorded in the West Midlands.
The Health Protection Agency, which treated the woman, said it had given her anti-virals and that she was "getting better”.
Earlier it emerged a family from Walsall had been tested for swine flu after returning from a holiday in Mexico.
Andrew Lutwyche, his partner, daughter and step-daughter were awaiting the result of tests after one of the children came down with a cough and cold following their return home.
Mr Lutwyche was unavailable to comment on his family’s test results but a spokeswoman for Walsall Primary Care Trust said one result it had back was negative. She was unable to confirm whether it was for Mr Lutwyche’s family.
Meanwhile, an expert on air travel at the University of Birmingham said the swine flu outbreak was potentially very serious given how quickly it has been able to spread.
Dr Pat Hanlon from the university's Business School is an expert in transport economics with a specialism in air travel. He said: “The most striking thing is the speed at which it has been transmitted over huge distances. It was only a few days ago it was actually identified as being an outbreak in Mexico.
"Very shortly after that we were hearing of cases in New Zealand, Europe, America and now there are 23 suspected cases in Scotland. Air travel has played a large role in that.
“In previous major pandemics people weren’t flying around quite so readily and it took longer for the flu to take hold.
“The fact it is spreading so quickly means if it does turn out to be serious then it is going to be a huge problem for health authorities to counteract.”
He said it was reassuring to know passengers returning to Birmingham from Mexico were being checked over.
“Measures like this have to be put in place to minimise and mitigate against this wretched disease spreading,” he said.
The UK's first two confirmed patients, Iain and Dawn Askham, of Polmont, near Falkirk, had been on honeymoon in Mexico. The three new cases, who had also recently travelled to Mexico, were displaying mild symptoms. The 12-year-old girl had been on the same flight back to the UK as the Askhams.
At a press conference at the Department of Health in central London, Health Secretary Alan Johnson said the girl's school, Paignton Community College, was closing for seven days.
He said the Health Protection Agency (HPA) in Devon identified that the girl had been in close contact with 50 fellow pupils and others.
Anti-virals have been given to 230 pupils - the whole of her school year - as a precautionary measure. He said the advice was that schools and children's services should continue to operate as normal.
The World Health Organisation alert remains at "phase four", indicating clusters of outbreaks and that the disease is being passed from person to person.
In the event of a pandemic, the alert will be raised to phase six but Mr Johnson said it was "very clear we are not at that stage yet".
"We've been preparing for this situation for the last five years," he said.
Stockpiles of anti-viral drugs, currently enough to cover 33 million people, are being increased to provide for 50 million people.
Mr Johnson said evidence showed the provision of face masks to the public would do nothing to prevent the spread of the disease. But he said NHS frontline staff would be provided with special surgical masks with filters.
"To keep the public informed, a mass public health campaign will begin tomorrow, with print, TV and radio adverts," he said. "The adverts will warn the public about swine flu and remind people to cover their noses and mouths with tissues and then throw the tissue away."
He said the message was to "catch it, bin it, kill it".
An information leaflet will be posted through people's doors on Tuesday.
Mr Johnson said: "Our philosophy has to be to hope for the best but absolutely prepare for the worst."
He said it was "inevitable" there would be more confirmed cases of the disease.
There would be an HPA presence at every airport where aircraft were arriving from the affected countries and every passenger would receive information about the disease, he said.
Airlines will also have to keep flight records of who is on board those flights beyond the usual 24 hours.
Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Liam Donaldson said all cases so far had been "imported" from the main affected areas.
An escalation towards a pandemic would come from a "sustained onward transmission" of the virus.
He said the general prophylactic or precautionary use of anti- viral drugs would not be a sensible policy because it would use up supplies of the drugs.
However he said it was sensible for people to take anti-virals if they were directly at risk, having been in close contact with people who had contracted the disease.
He added: "The scientific advice for face masks is that they are of very little value. First of all because they get moist and that enhances the risk of the virus transmitting, and because the virus is so small they can go through the pores. Even more than that they give a false sense of security."
He said it was more important to abide by basic hygiene measures. And he said the development of a vaccine would depend on understanding more about the profile of the virus.
samedi 25 avril 2009
Interesting film
Morton, now 31, was 16 when she started storyboarding the film. She was living in a hostel for the homeless when she read an article about a young prostitute in Nottingham and realised this was somebody she had known in care. Years later, she read about two other girls she'd known who had also become prostitutes and had been murdered. The reports had a huge impact on her. She wanted to tell their stories, and her own story, and create something fictional, all at the same time. She started to write scripts, but rejected them as rubbish. "I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that." She clicks her fingers.
Eventually, she asked Tony Grisoni, who adapted David Peace's Red Riding trilogy for television, to write the screenplay, and he created a film that is not about murdered prostitutes, and not literally her life story, but is close enough to make her family shudder with recognition.
"There are a lot of similarities between me and Lucy, but my mum and my dad and my eight brothers and sisters can all watch the film and go, 'We know that's not our story, but we get why she's done it.' At the same time I do love them and I do respect them, and I'm not about to exploit them."
Morton was first taken into care as a baby. She never learned why as a child, and remains unsure to this day. Everybody concerned - mother, father, social services - has a different version of the truth. Family life was certainly not helped when her father got the 15-year-old babysitter pregnant (he went on to marry her) and her mother moved in with an alcoholic. There were times when Morton returned to live with her father until she was eight. Then she was made a ward of court, which meant she could never return home - again, something she didn't know at the time. She describes her father as a "brilliant man", a huge influence on her life, so desperate to be a good dad. She has not always felt like this about him.
Did he hit her? "Yes. Yep." Badly? "Yep." The most horrific thing about the violence in The Unloved is its inevitability. However senseless, and however much Lucy's father tries to stop himself, we know just what's coming next. He even provides a tortured running commentary as his willpower fails him. I ask Morton if her father hit her in a similar way. "I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational. It is a criminal offence for you to hit me or me to hit you, but it is not a criminal offence for a parent to hit a child. What gives one person the right to be violent with another person, especially a person who cannot understand? Baby P... My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society."
mercredi 22 avril 2009
Mums Worry
It's the middle of the night, and my five- month-old son is sleeping peacefully in the room next door. I should be asleep too but instead I'm wondering whether to look in on him again. I decide that the quickest way to get back to sleep would be to check just one more time, so I peer around his door and wait for the soft snuffly noises that signal my return to bed.
If there's one thing worse than being up all night with a fretful baby, it's being up when yours is happily asleep. When I finally drift off, I have horrible dreams, and wake up sweaty and scared. Since Owen's birth, I've had lots of nasty thoughts, kept at bay during the day, but which bubble up and swarm my subconscious as I sleep. It's the vague sense that there are people out to get me, but who I gradually realise are after my baby.
I was prepared for many of the changes that come with being a parent - domestic chaos, endless nappy changes and broken nights - but the fear that something might happen to my child is easily the most difficult one I've faced. When I confess to my mother that I've started leaping up every hour to check my baby's respiration rate, she says that I will get used to it. Then she adds, ominously, that once you've had children you never really sleep easy again.
Becoming a mother has made me feel vulnerable. Suddenly the world is filled with fear. Driving, for instance, never bothered me. Now it terrifies me. As soon as my baby is bound into his infant carrier in the backseat, I become an overcautious driver, creeping along the roads. I've also found myself reading up on obscure food bacteria and its potential impact on tiny stomachs, having always been less than scrupulous about kitchen hygiene.
"You've got the fear," says my friend Poppy, breezily. "You have to switch it off, or you'll go insane." A mother of two, she's no stranger to the stress of the early days. But how do I escape it? "It's about letting go," she tells me. "Learning to accept that bad things happen, but they are unlikely. If you obsess over them, you'll ruin what should be a magical time."
According to Dr Neelam Sisodia, a consultant in perinatal psychiatry, some degree of postnatal anxiety is perfectly normal. "Because of the physical and emotional changes that occur at this time, including rapidly changing hormone levels and lack of sleep, your coping mechanisms may be affected and small worries can easily be blown out of proportion," she says. In the early weeks, this is put down to the "baby blues". "Usually some time between the second to 10th day after delivery, eight out of 10 newly delivered mothers experience symptoms such as feelings of anxiety, tearfulness and emotional changeability. By six weeks, hormones will have settled down to pre-pregnancy levels. A few months on, there might be mild anxiety, but it should be more manageable."
If you are still feeling overwhelmed, Sisodia advises talking to someone. "Your health visitor or GP can often help get these worries into perspective and allow you to access more specialised help if necessary".
There are also several basic ways to combat anxiety before seeing the doctor. Experts suggest that eating well, getting out regularly and taking exercise can have a positive impact. "Another sensible plan is to make sure you have someone who you can confide in, someone you can talk to honestly about your worries," says Professor Ann Mortimer, a consultant psychiatrist, responsible for maternal mental health. "Many women feel ashamed that they're having problems, believing that they should be able to glide serenely into motherhood and carry on exactly as before."
According to Justine Roberts, mother of four and co-founder of the parenting website Mumsnet, this kind of fretting is usually the territory of first-time mothers. There's even a term on Mumsnet for precious first borns, or PFBs, with threads about the ridiculous worries that new mothers have. Tales of women phoning NHS Direct when a baby hits itself with a rattle make soothing reading for anyone who imagines they are alone in their anxiety. This also underlines that you will probably look back and laugh. "A process known as habituation tends to help," says Mortimer. "Time passes and nothing awful happens so you realise that things will probably be all right."
However, for the minority of women who are unable to overcome these anxieties, it can become a serious problem. In which case, it should be treated by a specialist for your child's sake as much as your own, according to Dr Ben Priest, a psychiatrist and expert in child mental health. "If a mother is very anxious, she may not be emotionally available for her children. She's not attending to their needs because she's tied up with her own. Getting help is important in order to prevent lasting impact ... the children's emotional development might otherwise be delayed."
The biggest concern is that untreated anxiety will lead to depression. "Although [anxiety] can sometimes be related to OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder), a condition which can have some genetic origins, it is more commonly linked with post-natal depression," says Priest. "The boundary between the two can be indistinct, with one often leading to the other."
Fortunately, the vast majority of mothers simply face short-term worry rather than any kind of long-term mental health condition. In which case, virtual support offered online can be enough to quell fears. When Owen was four months old, I questioned my decision to turf him into his own bedroom sooner than the six months recommended by the World Health Organisation. It was heartening to hear from other women via Mumsnet who had done the same, and made me realise that the number of rules and regulations about caring for your baby has made the worrying worse.
If there's one thing worse than being up all night with a fretful baby, it's being up when yours is happily asleep. When I finally drift off, I have horrible dreams, and wake up sweaty and scared. Since Owen's birth, I've had lots of nasty thoughts, kept at bay during the day, but which bubble up and swarm my subconscious as I sleep. It's the vague sense that there are people out to get me, but who I gradually realise are after my baby.
I was prepared for many of the changes that come with being a parent - domestic chaos, endless nappy changes and broken nights - but the fear that something might happen to my child is easily the most difficult one I've faced. When I confess to my mother that I've started leaping up every hour to check my baby's respiration rate, she says that I will get used to it. Then she adds, ominously, that once you've had children you never really sleep easy again.
Becoming a mother has made me feel vulnerable. Suddenly the world is filled with fear. Driving, for instance, never bothered me. Now it terrifies me. As soon as my baby is bound into his infant carrier in the backseat, I become an overcautious driver, creeping along the roads. I've also found myself reading up on obscure food bacteria and its potential impact on tiny stomachs, having always been less than scrupulous about kitchen hygiene.
"You've got the fear," says my friend Poppy, breezily. "You have to switch it off, or you'll go insane." A mother of two, she's no stranger to the stress of the early days. But how do I escape it? "It's about letting go," she tells me. "Learning to accept that bad things happen, but they are unlikely. If you obsess over them, you'll ruin what should be a magical time."
According to Dr Neelam Sisodia, a consultant in perinatal psychiatry, some degree of postnatal anxiety is perfectly normal. "Because of the physical and emotional changes that occur at this time, including rapidly changing hormone levels and lack of sleep, your coping mechanisms may be affected and small worries can easily be blown out of proportion," she says. In the early weeks, this is put down to the "baby blues". "Usually some time between the second to 10th day after delivery, eight out of 10 newly delivered mothers experience symptoms such as feelings of anxiety, tearfulness and emotional changeability. By six weeks, hormones will have settled down to pre-pregnancy levels. A few months on, there might be mild anxiety, but it should be more manageable."
If you are still feeling overwhelmed, Sisodia advises talking to someone. "Your health visitor or GP can often help get these worries into perspective and allow you to access more specialised help if necessary".
There are also several basic ways to combat anxiety before seeing the doctor. Experts suggest that eating well, getting out regularly and taking exercise can have a positive impact. "Another sensible plan is to make sure you have someone who you can confide in, someone you can talk to honestly about your worries," says Professor Ann Mortimer, a consultant psychiatrist, responsible for maternal mental health. "Many women feel ashamed that they're having problems, believing that they should be able to glide serenely into motherhood and carry on exactly as before."
According to Justine Roberts, mother of four and co-founder of the parenting website Mumsnet, this kind of fretting is usually the territory of first-time mothers. There's even a term on Mumsnet for precious first borns, or PFBs, with threads about the ridiculous worries that new mothers have. Tales of women phoning NHS Direct when a baby hits itself with a rattle make soothing reading for anyone who imagines they are alone in their anxiety. This also underlines that you will probably look back and laugh. "A process known as habituation tends to help," says Mortimer. "Time passes and nothing awful happens so you realise that things will probably be all right."
However, for the minority of women who are unable to overcome these anxieties, it can become a serious problem. In which case, it should be treated by a specialist for your child's sake as much as your own, according to Dr Ben Priest, a psychiatrist and expert in child mental health. "If a mother is very anxious, she may not be emotionally available for her children. She's not attending to their needs because she's tied up with her own. Getting help is important in order to prevent lasting impact ... the children's emotional development might otherwise be delayed."
The biggest concern is that untreated anxiety will lead to depression. "Although [anxiety] can sometimes be related to OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder), a condition which can have some genetic origins, it is more commonly linked with post-natal depression," says Priest. "The boundary between the two can be indistinct, with one often leading to the other."
Fortunately, the vast majority of mothers simply face short-term worry rather than any kind of long-term mental health condition. In which case, virtual support offered online can be enough to quell fears. When Owen was four months old, I questioned my decision to turf him into his own bedroom sooner than the six months recommended by the World Health Organisation. It was heartening to hear from other women via Mumsnet who had done the same, and made me realise that the number of rules and regulations about caring for your baby has made the worrying worse.
lundi 30 mars 2009
Teen Pregnancy bbc
Condoms or family meals?
Post categories: The way we behave
Mark Easton | 14:52 GMT, Thursday, 26 March 2009
What stops teen pregnancies: condoms or family meals?
Is the answer to teenage pregnancies more advice on how to get an abortion? Or pre-watershed TV ads on the wisdom of wearing a condom?
Britain has the highest level of teen conceptions in Europe, but I suspect that the problem is more down to lifestyle than to lack of information.
If the equation were as simple as [more sex education = fewer unwanted pregnancies], why have Britain's rates remained stubbornly high during a decade when advice has never been easier to access?
As far as the availability of abortions is concerned, the latest figures show record numbers opting for a termination. In 2007, more than 20,000 girls under the age of 18 received a legal abortion in England and Wales - a rate of 20/1000, the highest ever recorded.
These figures do not suggest that it is ignorance of the options that sees so many young women give birth.
Allowing pregnancy advisory services to advertise on television is clearly controversial, but is it any more problematic than allowing those same organisations to put up posters on school notice boards? Or on bus shelters? These already happen.
So far as information on contraception is concerned, I doubt that there is a secondary-school-aged child who hasn't had the low-down on condoms. The question is whether they take any notice.
For me, the figures which offer the most likely explanation for the UK's high teen pregnancy rates do not relate to sex education at all. They reflect upon the amount of time young people spend unsupervised with other young people - kids hanging around without adults.
Research published by the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank (IPPR) [55Kb PDF; registration required] in 2007 looked at the lifestyle of teenagers in a number of European countries.
Proportion of 15-year-olds spending time with friends four or more evenings a week, 2001/02Proportion of 15-year-olds spending time with friends four or more evenings a week, 2001/02; source: IPPR
In France, just one in six of 15-year-old boys questioned said that they spent most evenings out with their mates. In Italy and Germany, it was roughly one in four.
But in England, the figure was 45% who spent most nights with their teenage friends. In Scotland, the figure was nearly 60%.
Young people whose parents eat the main meal with them around a table several times a week, 2000Young people whose parents eat the main meal with them around a table several times a week, 2000; source: IPPR
Compared with other European countries, our youngsters don't spend much time with their parents. Just 7% of Italian kids said that they rarely sat down for a meal with their mum and dad. In the UK, the figure was 36%.
If young people are spending a lot of time with other young people, often taking alcohol or drugs and without parental or other adult supervision, it is far more likely that they will end up having sex.
1Proportion of 15-year-olds who have had sexual intercourse, 2001/02Proportion of 15-year-olds who have had sexual intercourse, 2001/02; source: IPPR
And our youngsters do: 38% of our 15-year-olds say they have had sexual intercourse compared to 16% in Spain, 22% in France, 23% in the Netherlands, 24% in Italy and 28% in Germany. I suspect that almost four in ten 15-year-olds having sex is less about ignorance and more about opportunity.
Post categories: The way we behave
Mark Easton | 14:52 GMT, Thursday, 26 March 2009
What stops teen pregnancies: condoms or family meals?
Is the answer to teenage pregnancies more advice on how to get an abortion? Or pre-watershed TV ads on the wisdom of wearing a condom?
Britain has the highest level of teen conceptions in Europe, but I suspect that the problem is more down to lifestyle than to lack of information.
If the equation were as simple as [more sex education = fewer unwanted pregnancies], why have Britain's rates remained stubbornly high during a decade when advice has never been easier to access?
As far as the availability of abortions is concerned, the latest figures show record numbers opting for a termination. In 2007, more than 20,000 girls under the age of 18 received a legal abortion in England and Wales - a rate of 20/1000, the highest ever recorded.
These figures do not suggest that it is ignorance of the options that sees so many young women give birth.
Allowing pregnancy advisory services to advertise on television is clearly controversial, but is it any more problematic than allowing those same organisations to put up posters on school notice boards? Or on bus shelters? These already happen.
So far as information on contraception is concerned, I doubt that there is a secondary-school-aged child who hasn't had the low-down on condoms. The question is whether they take any notice.
For me, the figures which offer the most likely explanation for the UK's high teen pregnancy rates do not relate to sex education at all. They reflect upon the amount of time young people spend unsupervised with other young people - kids hanging around without adults.
Research published by the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank (IPPR) [55Kb PDF; registration required] in 2007 looked at the lifestyle of teenagers in a number of European countries.
Proportion of 15-year-olds spending time with friends four or more evenings a week, 2001/02Proportion of 15-year-olds spending time with friends four or more evenings a week, 2001/02; source: IPPR
In France, just one in six of 15-year-old boys questioned said that they spent most evenings out with their mates. In Italy and Germany, it was roughly one in four.
But in England, the figure was 45% who spent most nights with their teenage friends. In Scotland, the figure was nearly 60%.
Young people whose parents eat the main meal with them around a table several times a week, 2000Young people whose parents eat the main meal with them around a table several times a week, 2000; source: IPPR
Compared with other European countries, our youngsters don't spend much time with their parents. Just 7% of Italian kids said that they rarely sat down for a meal with their mum and dad. In the UK, the figure was 36%.
If young people are spending a lot of time with other young people, often taking alcohol or drugs and without parental or other adult supervision, it is far more likely that they will end up having sex.
1Proportion of 15-year-olds who have had sexual intercourse, 2001/02Proportion of 15-year-olds who have had sexual intercourse, 2001/02; source: IPPR
And our youngsters do: 38% of our 15-year-olds say they have had sexual intercourse compared to 16% in Spain, 22% in France, 23% in the Netherlands, 24% in Italy and 28% in Germany. I suspect that almost four in ten 15-year-olds having sex is less about ignorance and more about opportunity.
vendredi 27 mars 2009
Great Links
BTS ESF LINKS
1. DOCUMENTATION: informations sur le métier
http://www.socialworker.com/home/component/magazine/edition/Fall-2008-Edition/
des articles divers sur des thèmes comme le rire( fall edition), domestic violence ( summer edition)+ « the new social worker » magazine téléchargeable.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos060.htm
nature of the work, training... tout sur le métier de travailleur social
http://www.thesocialworker.com/history.html
brief history of child welfare
http://www.gscc.org.uk/Training+and+learning/Become+a+social+worker/
information on how to become a social worker
2. VIDEOS:
http://www.suas.ie/109.html
an 8mn video about the impact of post election violence in Nairobi ( Kenya)
http://teachingandlearning.qia.org.uk/tlp/shd/resource/usingmultimedia/multimediaresou/library/browseresources/videopages/practitioners/2179_49_SSW2_enjoy_O.html
A student social worker explainswhat she enjoys about her role.
http://teachingandlearning.qia.org.uk/tlp/shd/resource/usingmultimedia/multimediaresou/library/browseresources/videopages/practitioners/2179_49_SSW3_pract_O.html
the same student lists some practitioners she works with.
http://www.ceimh.bham.ac.uk/downloads/GPSWVideo.shtml
toute une série de videos (cases study) en relation avec la dépression chez les personnes âgées, chez les jeunes, dépression et alcoolisme, etc.)/ University of Birmingham.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~bswrun/videoPortal/
where's the money in social work ? Differents points de vue ( videos)
http://www.theu.com/career_videos_view/career_choice_life_passion_vs_money_mandarin_626
life passion vs money : videos/ university of Phoenix
3. LIENS LEXICAUX:
http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/drftp/7988.asp
a glossary of terms and acronyms used in work with children and young people.
http://www.lingoz.com/fr/glossary/social%20work%20in%20canada/c/214/1
glossaire thématique ( ex child labour...) site canadien.
http://www.socialpolicy.ca/glossmain.htm
alphabetical glossary ( words + definitions+ facts+ history)
http://www.ssa.gov/multilanguage/French/EN-FR-GL.pdf ( version PDF)
http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:1d5pwlrrHKkJ:www.ssa.gov/multilanguage/French/EN-FR-GL.pdf+french+english+glossary+social+work&hl=fr&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=fr
( version html)
Lexique Anglais-Français ..... Department of Social Services (or Department of Public Welfare). Département des Services Sociaux
http://www.healthywomen.org/healthtopics
Health topics ( from A to Z): definitions.
4 COMPREHENSION:
Short texts+ voc + short comprehension questions:
http://www.5minuteenglish.com/reading.htm
to find a penpal to talk to:
http://www.polyglot-learn-language.com/
Ministère affaires étrangères: actualité en anglais, traduction possible !
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/
un site très complet (voc/ grammaire/ comprehension etc):
http://www.smic.be/smic5022/Onlineexercises.htm
5.METHODOLOGIE/ CONSEILS
Fiche conseils pour l'oral:
http://www.c-a-dir.org/soiree_anglo2005/fiche_english_pr%E9parer%20votre%20oral.pdf
http://www.erp.oissel.onac.org/anglais/tips_to_the_candidates.htm
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/oralexpr.htm
http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:diiziE9XGgkJ:www.ielanguages.com/esl/presentdocument.pdf+oral+exam+in+english+gap+fillers&hl=fr&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=fr
video: conseils pour passer un oral d'anglais
http://lewebpedagogique.com/anglais/comment-se-comporter-a-loral/
6.THEMES RECURRENTS ORAL BTS ESF:
Information and links to health and welfare issues:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/studentservices/counselling/usefulwebsites.htm
Money and life:
http://www.princes-trust.org.uk/Main%20Site%20v2/14-30%20and%20need%20help/useful%20links.asp
Understanding money:
http://www.understandingmoney.gov.au/Content/Consumer/Resources/default.aspx
Climate change/ environment:
http://www.cbi.org.uk/ndbs/content.nsf/802737aed3e3420580256706005390ae/29EE8C8C19D9DDA080256BA5003C3D97
http://www.sej.org/resource/index4.htm
social attitudes:linkson attitudes, persuasion and influence
http://www.geocities.com/l_zinkiewicz/socialpsych.html
Domestic violence:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/domesticviolence.html
battered children:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n7_v45/ai_13699800
eating disorders:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/mental_health/disorders_eating.shtml
http://www.equip.nhs.uk/topics/neuro/eating.html
Addictions:
http://addictiontoday.typepad.com/addictiontoday/useful-links.html
http://www.dop.wa.gov/Employees/EmployeeAssistanceProgram/UsefulLinks.htm
psychology and education:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/psychology/for-current-students/resources/useful-links.php
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/edspec.html
Information about finding a job, training, couselling:
http://www.ekep.gr/english/SYP/stoexoteriko.asp
Women at work / gender equality:
http://www.equalities.gov.uk/
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-1847
http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=117
The elderly:
http://www.independentage.org.uk/useful_links
The disabled:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/disability/links.htm
Humanitarian aid:
http://ec.europa.eu/echo/about/actors/links_en.htm
Volunteer work:
http://www.support4learning.org.uk/jobsearch/voluntary_work__voluntary_organisations__ngos__gap_year.cfm
http://www.thecareerbreaksite.com/useful-links/volunteer-work/index.php
Child care:
http://www.southamptoncis.org/childcare/useful-links.asp
http://www.oecd.org/document/20/0,3343,en_2649_39263231_1941780_1_1_1_1,00.html
1. DOCUMENTATION: informations sur le métier
http://www.socialworker.com/home/component/magazine/edition/Fall-2008-Edition/
des articles divers sur des thèmes comme le rire( fall edition), domestic violence ( summer edition)+ « the new social worker » magazine téléchargeable.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos060.htm
nature of the work, training... tout sur le métier de travailleur social
http://www.thesocialworker.com/history.html
brief history of child welfare
http://www.gscc.org.uk/Training+and+learning/Become+a+social+worker/
information on how to become a social worker
2. VIDEOS:
http://www.suas.ie/109.html
an 8mn video about the impact of post election violence in Nairobi ( Kenya)
http://teachingandlearning.qia.org.uk/tlp/shd/resource/usingmultimedia/multimediaresou/library/browseresources/videopages/practitioners/2179_49_SSW2_enjoy_O.html
A student social worker explainswhat she enjoys about her role.
http://teachingandlearning.qia.org.uk/tlp/shd/resource/usingmultimedia/multimediaresou/library/browseresources/videopages/practitioners/2179_49_SSW3_pract_O.html
the same student lists some practitioners she works with.
http://www.ceimh.bham.ac.uk/downloads/GPSWVideo.shtml
toute une série de videos (cases study) en relation avec la dépression chez les personnes âgées, chez les jeunes, dépression et alcoolisme, etc.)/ University of Birmingham.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~bswrun/videoPortal/
where's the money in social work ? Differents points de vue ( videos)
http://www.theu.com/career_videos_view/career_choice_life_passion_vs_money_mandarin_626
life passion vs money : videos/ university of Phoenix
3. LIENS LEXICAUX:
http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/drftp/7988.asp
a glossary of terms and acronyms used in work with children and young people.
http://www.lingoz.com/fr/glossary/social%20work%20in%20canada/c/214/1
glossaire thématique ( ex child labour...) site canadien.
http://www.socialpolicy.ca/glossmain.htm
alphabetical glossary ( words + definitions+ facts+ history)
http://www.ssa.gov/multilanguage/French/EN-FR-GL.pdf ( version PDF)
http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:1d5pwlrrHKkJ:www.ssa.gov/multilanguage/French/EN-FR-GL.pdf+french+english+glossary+social+work&hl=fr&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=fr
( version html)
Lexique Anglais-Français ..... Department of Social Services (or Department of Public Welfare). Département des Services Sociaux
http://www.healthywomen.org/healthtopics
Health topics ( from A to Z): definitions.
4 COMPREHENSION:
Short texts+ voc + short comprehension questions:
http://www.5minuteenglish.com/reading.htm
to find a penpal to talk to:
http://www.polyglot-learn-language.com/
Ministère affaires étrangères: actualité en anglais, traduction possible !
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/
un site très complet (voc/ grammaire/ comprehension etc):
http://www.smic.be/smic5022/Onlineexercises.htm
5.METHODOLOGIE/ CONSEILS
Fiche conseils pour l'oral:
http://www.c-a-dir.org/soiree_anglo2005/fiche_english_pr%E9parer%20votre%20oral.pdf
http://www.erp.oissel.onac.org/anglais/tips_to_the_candidates.htm
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/oralexpr.htm
http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:diiziE9XGgkJ:www.ielanguages.com/esl/presentdocument.pdf+oral+exam+in+english+gap+fillers&hl=fr&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=fr
video: conseils pour passer un oral d'anglais
http://lewebpedagogique.com/anglais/comment-se-comporter-a-loral/
6.THEMES RECURRENTS ORAL BTS ESF:
Information and links to health and welfare issues:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/studentservices/counselling/usefulwebsites.htm
Money and life:
http://www.princes-trust.org.uk/Main%20Site%20v2/14-30%20and%20need%20help/useful%20links.asp
Understanding money:
http://www.understandingmoney.gov.au/Content/Consumer/Resources/default.aspx
Climate change/ environment:
http://www.cbi.org.uk/ndbs/content.nsf/802737aed3e3420580256706005390ae/29EE8C8C19D9DDA080256BA5003C3D97
http://www.sej.org/resource/index4.htm
social attitudes:linkson attitudes, persuasion and influence
http://www.geocities.com/l_zinkiewicz/socialpsych.html
Domestic violence:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/domesticviolence.html
battered children:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n7_v45/ai_13699800
eating disorders:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/mental_health/disorders_eating.shtml
http://www.equip.nhs.uk/topics/neuro/eating.html
Addictions:
http://addictiontoday.typepad.com/addictiontoday/useful-links.html
http://www.dop.wa.gov/Employees/EmployeeAssistanceProgram/UsefulLinks.htm
psychology and education:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/psychology/for-current-students/resources/useful-links.php
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/edspec.html
Information about finding a job, training, couselling:
http://www.ekep.gr/english/SYP/stoexoteriko.asp
Women at work / gender equality:
http://www.equalities.gov.uk/
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-1847
http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=117
The elderly:
http://www.independentage.org.uk/useful_links
The disabled:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/disability/links.htm
Humanitarian aid:
http://ec.europa.eu/echo/about/actors/links_en.htm
Volunteer work:
http://www.support4learning.org.uk/jobsearch/voluntary_work__voluntary_organisations__ngos__gap_year.cfm
http://www.thecareerbreaksite.com/useful-links/volunteer-work/index.php
Child care:
http://www.southamptoncis.org/childcare/useful-links.asp
http://www.oecd.org/document/20/0,3343,en_2649_39263231_1941780_1_1_1_1,00.html
Teenage drinking
The government yesterday faced fresh calls to increase the price of alcohol, after research showed young people in the UK reported some of the highest levels of teenage binge drinking, drunkenness and alcohol-related problems in Europe.
British girls aged 15 and 16 are binge drinking more than their male classmates, with fresh evidence that their behaviour is contributing towards high rates of teenage alcohol-related accidents and unprotected sex. Yet British teenagers were the most likely to claim that they expected "positive consequences" from drinking, such as "forgetting my problems".
The European School Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs (Espad) is the most detailed international study of its kind, covering teenagers' drinking, smoking and drug-taking habits in 32 European countries. The UK sample involved 2,179 teenagers: 1,004 boys and 1,175 girls.
The study was carried out in 2007 by the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. Professor Martin Plant, who led the exercise, said: "The UK retains its unenviable position in relation to binge drinking, intoxication and alcohol-related problems amongst teenagers. This problem is both serious and chronic. I hope that the government will prioritise policies that are effective to reduce heavy drinking and alcohol-related disorder and health problems amongst young people."
UK teenagers ranked third highest (after Denmark and the Isle of Man) in terms of saying they had been drunk within 30 days of the survey, on 33%. In 2003 it was revealed that teenage girls in the UK (as well as Ireland and the Isle of Man) were more likely than boys to have been binge drinking in the previous 30 days.
Just over a quarter of students (26%) said they had suffered an accident or injury as a result of getting drunk, and 11% said they had had sex without a condom.
The report concludes: "The fact that some teenage girls are binge drinking even more than boys suggests that in the UK and elsewhere a profound social change has been taking place. It is clearly no longer socially unacceptable for females to drink heavily or to become intoxicated."
Dr Patrick Miller of the UWE said: "Some of the girls who drink to excess will die. The government has a chance to save lives by increasing the price of alcohol."
Don Shenker, chief executive of Alcohol Concern, said: "Not only are UK children getting drunk more often than most of their European peers, they're drinking larger amounts when they do. These figures show that the widespread practice of binge drinking in the UK has now filtered down to school-age children."
The Wine and Spirits Trade Association said: "The survey's authors are entirely wrong to advocate higher taxation of alcohol and higher prices to curb misuse when it is illegal for under 18s to purchase alcohol in the first place. What the survey does show is that proper education on alcohol in schools is needed."
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