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School Adjustment Difficulties, Coping, and Help Seeking Needs: :Among Newly Arrived Korean Junior High Students in American Schools - Couverture souple

Bae, Jin Hyung

 
9783639090741: School Adjustment Difficulties, Coping, and Help Seeking Needs: :Among Newly Arrived Korean Junior High Students in American Schools
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639090748 ISBN 13 : 9783639090741
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

In school social work perspective, newly arrived Korean junior high students' school adjustment difficulties, coping, and help seeking needs were examined. According to this qualitative study, the results revealed that the participants have not gone through extremely hard time adjusting, but there were times embarrassed, frustrated, or not-understandable, due to different culture, norms, rules, and systems. Things unclearly recognized by new students made them just copied other peers' behavior, did things without knowing exactly, or just accepted passively. They expressed some systematical or social work side needs, though they did not know exactly what school social workers do. They wanted some individual care in classes, organized orientation for the different school rules and system from Korean schools they were used to, and also some group activities in order to learn American peers' culture to share and make friends easily. Clinical, research and policy implication were suggested based on this research findings. This book shows student's real experience and opinions in their initial American school adjustment in a very rich way.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In school social work perspective, newly arrived Korean junior high students' school adjustment difficulties, coping, and help seeking needs were examined. According to this qualitative study, the results revealed that the participants have not gone through extremely hard time adjusting, but there were times embarrassed, frustrated, or not-understandable, due to different culture, norms, rules, and systems. Things unclearly recognized by new students made them just copied other peers' behavior, did things without knowing exactly, or just accepted passively. They expressed some systematical or social work side needs, though they did not know exactly what school social workers do. They wanted some individual care in classes, organized orientation for the different school rules and system from Korean schools they were used to, and also some group activities in order to learn American peers' culture to share and make friends easily. Clinical, research and policy implication were suggested based on this research findings. This book shows student's real experience and opinions in their initial American school adjustment in a very rich way.

Biographie de l'auteur

Ph.D.: Studied Social Work at Loyola University Chicago. Full-Time Instructor at Korean Bible University, Seoul, Korea.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639090748
ISBN 13 
9783639090741
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
156
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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