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Jacobs, Gaby C. – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2008
Public health is a major focus of government policy worldwide and an expanding area of practice that includes an array of professionals and disciplines. Since the 1980s "empowerment" of individuals and communities to gain greater control over the factors that influence their health has become the focus of many national and local policies…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Health Promotion, Public Health, Experiential Learning
Frenken, Jos; Van Stolk, Bram – Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, 1990
Interviews with 130 Dutch professionals helping incest victims and 50 adult women who were incest victims as children found that assistance was hampered by institutional distrust, inability of professionals to stop ongoing incest, frequent breaking off of contact by the young girls, professionals' shortcomings in knowledge and skills, and…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Foreign Countries, Helping Relationship, Incest