Barnes Foundation

Social inclusion is all important in the recovery of patient with mental disorders. However, as they are considered as the excluded group in a society, they may encounter some barriers in the recovery pathway. The demeanour and thinking ability of a person with a mental disorder may differ from a healthy person. According to the latest study carried on by the Ministry of health, New Zealand, it is evident that mental disorder is not rare in adult but higher when compared to other age groups.…

fourteen. As where August became educated and a successful poet. This is where we see the difference in choices made by both Troy and August. Troy let his circumstances define his life as where August decided to to take his Circumstance and provide a foundation that lead to his success. As said by August Wilson “That’s the core of black aesthetics, the ability to improvise.” (Lewis 1028) Despite having names similar name the fact that they both are names of flowers, Rose and Daisy lived two very…

In the waking age of a war-induced industrial bomb, Germany began to to create and use dams to allow an area of a town so it can be used for factories. What this meant for the Nazi’s was that wherever the dams were, they had more land to for weapon factories. The Nazi’s were also very aware that putting important factories in the canyon below a dam poses a huge threat is the dam were to be breached. This is precisely where Operation Chastise and the “Dambusters” found their objectives. If they…

Many Aboriginal children were left with no proficiency in any language, including their native language, due to poor teaching (Barnes, Josefowitz, & Cole, 2006). In 1930, 3 per cent of Aboriginal children had gone beyond grade 6, compared to 33 per cent of the general Canadian school population. By the 1940s, it was evident that residential school systems were failing (Truth and…

In President Ronald Reagan’s 1981 inaugural address, he infamously said that "government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem.” Within that one statement, Reagan presented an increasingly popular ideology based on the foundations of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is a free market economic philosophy based on the idea that an economy is a self-regulating entity that always balances out and a government is inefficient and costly. Neoliberals support the deregulation of…

about marketing, “many people mistakenly think of marketing only as selling and promotion” (Kotler & Armstrong, 1994, p. 6), because of every day we are “bombarded with television commercials, newspaper ads, direct mail, and sales calls” (University & Barnes, 2001). In fact, marketing does not only involves selling and advertising; “Selling is not only the tip of the marketing iceberg; it is only one of several functions that marketers perform, and often not the most important one” (Kotler &…

A Finnish architect, became a Phenomenologist in 1957 when he was inspired by one of his mentor, Professor Aulis Blomstedt. A quote from the man, Juhani Pallasmaa, Buildings are not abstract, meaningless construction, or aesthetic compositions, they are extensions and shelters of our bodies, memories, identities and minds. Consequently, architecture arises from existentially true confrontations, experiences, recollections and aspirations (The Thinking Hand. Existential and embodied wisdom in…

The assumption made by most children’s protection, justice, addictions and mental health professionals is that one of the foundations of healthy and normative biopsychosocial development is an adequate attachment and bond to serve the mental health and developmental needs of the child… When parents are heavily into substance abuse and/or an addictions lifestyle, there is likely…

situations, during times of crisis is a critical part of the helping process. Understanding this practice is both theoretically and experientially formed. Focusing on both the individual and familial systems from the initial engagement are the foundations of opening communication channels and developing an appropriate working relationship within their social concepts. Outcomes lead by correct interpretations during the initial engagement, are critical to the assessment process. The worker must…

other professionals serve students with disabilities (Brownell, Adams, Sindelar, Waldron, & Vanhover, 2006; Ritzman, Sanger, & Coufal, 2006) and has been deemed as the best practice in special education (Cross, Traub, Hutter-Pishgahi, & Shelton, 2004; Barnes & Turner, 2001; Kurjan, 2000; Pena & Quinn, 2003). Gable, Mosert, and Tonelson (2004) recognized the growing emphasis on collaboration as an important strategy for educators asked to take on a wider range of responsibilities in today’s…