Caregiver Burden, Coping Mechanisms And Catharsis: An Exploratory Study,
2020
Special education specialist - India
Caregiver Burden, Coping Mechanisms And Catharsis: An Exploratory Study, Triveni Goswami Vernal
BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing
Adopting a qualitative approach, with narrative analysis, an attempt will be made to understand the experience of ‘Caregiver Burden’ amongst 5-7 primary caregivers of children with Autism, in India. An attempt will also be made to capture their coping mechanisms and cathartic behaviours, to reduce stress. To this end, a Caregiver Burden Inventory and an Open Ended questionnaire, touching upon the main issues, will be used. The study also aims to perceive how autonomy as a personality trait can play a significant role in empowering oneself as a caregiver and subsequently have noteworthy consequences on the coping mechanisms and cathartic …
Current Practices Of Community Pharmacists In Counseling Patients On Smoking Cessation In Beirut:A Questionnaire – Based Study,
2020
Faculty of Pharmacy, Beirut Arab University, Lebanon
Current Practices Of Community Pharmacists In Counseling Patients On Smoking Cessation In Beirut:A Questionnaire – Based Study, Mohamed Issa, Maya Elsolh, Lama Soubra
BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing
Despite various strategies and efforts exerted in the form of awareness campaigns, health conferences, targeted advertisements and laws, the prevalence of smoking is alarmingly increasing for both genders in Lebanon. Because of the ease of accessibility, community pharmacists are ideally positioned to help their patients quit smoking. The current study aims to assess the Lebanese pharmacists’ practices in counseling their patients on smoking cessation. A cross-sectional study targeting community pharmacists in Beirut was conducted during June 2017 to September 2017. The adopted questionnaire was designed based on the WHO approved 5A’s toolkit program for delivering brief tobacco interventions in primary …
Does Durkheim's Theory Hold Any Truths For Modern Day Self-Immolation? A Review On The Literature,
2020
Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department, Rafsanjan Medical School,
Occupational Environmental Research Center, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran
Does Durkheim's Theory Hold Any Truths For Modern Day Self-Immolation? A Review On The Literature, Mohsen Rezaeian
BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing
Durkheim categorized suicide into four types as “egoistic”, “anomic”, “fatalistic”, and “altruistic”. He further hypothesized that the last two types i.e. “fatalistic” and “altruistic” are assigned to the then traditional society. However, in the present article and through literature review I will discuss that in modern society and especially within some low and middle income countries, self-immolation on its first and second most prevalent patterns i.e. to protest at micro and macro levels, respectively could be considered as a social self-sacrifice phenomenon. Therefore, it may well categorize as the altruistic type of suicide based on Durkheim’s theory.
Suicide And Culture,
2020
Psychology Department Rumelifeneri Yolu, 34450 Sarıyer, Istanbul, Turkey
Suicide And Culture, Mehmet Eskin
BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing
The rates of suicidal ideation, attempts and mortality present a large intersocietal variation. This variation is usually attributed to the role of culture, but the issue is still poorly understood. How does culture contribute to the intersocietal or cross-cultural variation of suicidal behavior? How culture might be involved in the onset, maintenance and aggravation of suicidal tendencies? In this paper, I will be discussing possible mechanisms of culture for the onset, maintenance and aggravation of suicidal propensities. Specifically, I will be examining the role of religion, individualistic-collectivistic value orientations, self-construal and survival versus self-expression values for their relevance to suicidal …
Natural Narcotics: Phytochemical Content Analysis And Their Social Hazards,
2020
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Beirut Arab University, Lebanon
Natural Narcotics: Phytochemical Content Analysis And Their Social Hazards, Kareem Raafat
BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing
Narcotics can cause a wide range of adverse effects. The analysis of the narcotics phytochemical content utilizing rapid and efficient techniques have become of imminent need. The use of illegal drugs has been a long-standing problem in the world, a problem that has taken on a particular urgency in the last 30 years. The aim of the study is to develop comprehensive rapid technique in the field of phytochemical content analysis of narcotics, and to illustrate the role of the new narcotics on many psychological, physiological and social hazards, and giving recommendations on how to find solutions to these problems. …
Diabetes And Depression: Relation To Glycemic Control,
2020
Clinical Sciences Department Faculty of Medicine- Beirut Arab University
Diabetes And Depression: Relation To Glycemic Control, Hala Ahmadieh
BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing
Diabetes mellitus is a worldwide highly prevalent chronic metabolic disorder, characterized by hyperglycemia, and is associated with significant complications, including the microvascular complications such as neuropathy, retinopathy and nephropathy and the macrovascular complications such as cardiovascular, cerebrovascular disease and peripheral vascular disease, thus leading to significant morbidity and mortality. Patients with diabetes were found to be 1.4-3 times more likely to suffer from comorbid depression when compared to non-diabetics, and depression in diabetes is usually persistent and/or recurrent. Depression was found to be increased among patients with type I and type II diabetes mellitus, which have higher glycosylated hemoglobin. Association …
The Factor Structure Of Mental Health: Explanatory & Confirmatory Factor Structure Of Psychological Distress And Psychological Well-Being Measures,
2020
Department of Psychology, Faculty of social sciences, University of Kuwait
The Factor Structure Of Mental Health: Explanatory & Confirmatory Factor Structure Of Psychological Distress And Psychological Well-Being Measures, Badr El Ansari
BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing
Psychological distress (PD) is usually based on the level of anxiety and depressive symptoms while psychological well-being (PW) is usually conceptualized as some combination of positive affective states such as happiness, optimism, satisfaction with life, and hope. This paper addresses the question of whether psychological distress and psychological well-being are the opposite poles of the same axis of mental health or independent constructs that should be measured on two independent axes. Methods: The sample consisted of (510) Kuwait University students, (240) males with a mean age of (24.08 ±5.10) and (270) females, with a mean age of (21.68 ±2.70), (f=46.77, …
Maternal Well-Being Therapy In Treating Depression In Johor City Of Malaysia,
2020
Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Malaysia
Maternal Well-Being Therapy In Treating Depression In Johor City Of Malaysia, Akeel Khan, Deviga Marappan, Adibah Abdul Latif
BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing
Maternal depression during pregnancy appears to be the most common and complicated psychological disorder in the world. Although maternal depression can be treated medically, consumption of antidepressant drugs could leave some kind of negative side effects on mother’s body and the baby in the womb. Therefore, the purpose of the current study is to determine the effectiveness of Maternal Well-being Therapy (MWT) in treating women with maternal depression. It is a qualitative study adapting case study research design. From the state of Johor city of Malaysia, four pregnant women who has scored 12 or more with suicidal thoughts symptoms on …
التراكيب اللغويّة بين معياريّة التراث والاستعمال المعاصر,
2020
Beirut Arab University, Lebanon
التراكيب اللغويّة بين معياريّة التراث والاستعمال المعاصر, Khalil Ajine
BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior
Language is a living organism that gets born, develops and multiplies. It is either meant to survive and regenerate whenever needed and necessitated, or to fall into inertia and stagnancy, and then to perish and evanesce. Undoubtedly, this is all directly linked to the ability of its speakers, and to their constant quest to vividly express their culture, thoughts, behaviors, beliefs and other life matters, fortifying, thus, their existence and upholding their presence in this world. The Arabic language has been and continues to be the language that refuses to age, and declines to stand still, unless this pleases its …
رؤية الواقع من خلال الإبداع الأسطوري في الشرق القديم,
2020
Beirut Arab University, Lebanon
رؤية الواقع من خلال الإبداع الأسطوري في الشرق القديم, Samir Itani
BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior
Myth played a principal role in old agricultural and pre-agricultural societies. The mythical thought has developed throughout the years but we got only the last versions of texts that have been recorded after being developed, though we approximately received their final version. The myth is a literary text which authors were the temples priests at that time. Its role is to determine the origins of the community’s vision towards the existence and the contribution of the society in this vision based upon a metaphysical belief scope. Thus, the text should express human feelings towards its problems on its cultural part. …
الإبداع في بعض كتابات الزمخشري وأبي حيّان (دراسة مقارنة),
2020
Beirut Arab University, Lebanon
الإبداع في بعض كتابات الزمخشري وأبي حيّان (دراسة مقارنة), Bachir Faraj
BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior
Abi Hayyan and Al Zamakhshari creativity was based upon each one’s method in grammatical orientation and linguistic and rhetorical analysis. These constitute important elements of the research methodologies in sciences that were common within the Islamic community being in theology, jurisprudence principle, grammar and rhetoric etc. These two interpreters were special and different than other previous interpreters and they added new theories in this area. Islam expanded among other ancient civilizations and benefited from the Greek civilization that built all its opinions upon reason. Thus, it was important for Muslims to sharpen their minds and denude their explanations to support …
كتابة التاريخ بين المذكرات والواقع(سامي الصلح مبدعاً سياسياً),
2020
Beirut Arab University, Lebanon
كتابة التاريخ بين المذكرات والواقع(سامي الصلح مبدعاً سياسياً), Mohammad Ali El Kouzi
BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior
This research paper focuses on the creative and living situation of the political life of most prime ministers in Lebanon. Their creativity was most prominent by the fact that they were prime ministers with limited authoritative powers. The president has the most authority in power while his prime minister holds full political responsibility. Prime minister Sami El Solh, showed his creativity by being member of the cabinet in two different presidential terms. His diaries in his presidential terms appeared in four different volumes though the main book was titled “Diaries of Sami El Solh”. Other books were titled “ Refer …
التأريخ والتدوين: بين الوثائق البريطانية والفرنسيةوبين وثائق المحاكم الشرعية والمحاضر البلدية,
2020
Beirut Arab University, Lebanon
التأريخ والتدوين: بين الوثائق البريطانية والفرنسيةوبين وثائق المحاكم الشرعية والمحاضر البلدية, Hassan Hallak
BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior
“If documents are lost, history is lost”. This premise emphasizes the importance of the adoption of historical documents and manuscripts in this research, relevant to the historical period under study, while focusing on the following: - Diplomatic and consular documents, including French, British, American, German, Italian and other documents; - The documents of the Islamic courts in the Ottoman period, which constitute the transactions and documents of each court in an Ottoman city; and - The documents and records of municipalities, including the Municipality of Beirut, which include various important documents that the historian can rely on and benefit from. …
« Mais Pourquoi Donc Willy Protagoras S’Est-Il Enferme Dans Les Toilettes ?Ou Comment Recreer La Realite Au Theatre De Wajdi Mouawad »,
2020
Holy Spirit University of Kaslik - USEK, Lebanon
« Mais Pourquoi Donc Willy Protagoras S’Est-Il Enferme Dans Les Toilettes ?Ou Comment Recreer La Realite Au Theatre De Wajdi Mouawad », Christelle Stephan - Hayek
BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior
When he wrote his very first play, Willy Protagoras enfermé dans les toilettes, Wajdi Mouawad was only 23 years old. In this tragedy, he talks about freedom’s right, and wonders about the limits that society builds around that liberty. In this play, the nicest apartment of the building is divided between two families that have complicated relations between love and hate. One day, Nelly decides to leave this masquerade, while her brother, Protagoras, locks himself into the toilets and forbids anyone to enter. He refuses to listen to his parents, to negotiate with the squatters or to deal with the …
L’Imagination Comme Forme De Creation Et De Demarcation En Publicite (Cas Des Visuels Publicitaires Sur Le Developpement Durable),
2020
Ibn Zohr University, E.N.C.G. Agadir, Morocco
L’Imagination Comme Forme De Creation Et De Demarcation En Publicite (Cas Des Visuels Publicitaires Sur Le Developpement Durable), Amina Saoussany
BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior
The theme of sustainable development today is a growing concern of society. It aims to reconcile objectives of respect for the environment, economic efficiency and social equity. Transposing and applying this new approach to economic development, which is more systemic and more transparent, requires innovation and creation. These two requirements will bring about new ideas being capable of arousing the interest of the inhabitants of the planet, involving them and pushing them to adopt new ideas, to demonstrate eco-responsible behavior, and be to be more ethical in this regard. Humor in advertising for sustainable development is increasingly seen as a …
Tous Les Matins Du Monde De Pascal Quignard Oules Arts Recrees Par Le Septieme Art,
2020
Beirut Arab University, Lebanon
Tous Les Matins Du Monde De Pascal Quignard Oules Arts Recrees Par Le Septieme Art, Sophie Nicolaides Salloum
BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior
Pascal Quignard's novel All the World's Mornings is the fictional biography of a seventeenth-century musician, Jean de Sainte Colombe. The famous violist lives a life of recluse and devotion to music. A young violinist, Marin Marais, asks him to help him perfect his art, but the teacher and the disciple share opposite views about music. Marin Marais discovers the glory in Versailles while Sainte Colombe sinks more and more into solitude. However, the two men end up being reunited when the disciple finally discovers the true meaning of the music. Through his writings, Quignard represents two Baroque arts; music and …
Le Roi De Kahel Et Le Terroriste Noir De Monenembo: Une Reecriture Postcoloniale De L’Histoire,
2020
Blida University, Algeria
Le Roi De Kahel Et Le Terroriste Noir De Monenembo: Une Reecriture Postcoloniale De L’Histoire, Meriem Zeharaoui
BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior
The historical evolution of the African continent was not smooth; the region experienced many upheavals including two powerful traumas that are slavery and colonialism. It is therefore not surprising that African writers, who are mainly inspired by the world around them, revisit History to write their novels. Among them, the Guinean writer Tierno Monénembo. The writer sheds the light on the history that has painfully shaken his continent, West Africa more precisely. His novels translate the almost obsessive concern to narrate the story of the African continent. We propose to study two of his novels: The king of Kahel (2008) …
Profession Du Pere, Un Reel Deraisonnable,
2020
French Language and Literature, Faculty of Human Sciences, Beirut Arab University, Lebanon
Profession Du Pere, Un Reel Deraisonnable, Soumaya Al Jarrah
BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior
The current French literature is experiencing a tremendous renewal in all areas. At the beginning of the 21st century we are witnessing a great tendency of writing about oneself. This has created novel forms such as autofiction. The term is invented by Serge Doubrovsky in 1977. It is presented as a new version of the autobiography which takes as its subject the individual story of the subject of writing. There is a certain permeability between autobiography and autofiction. It is the fictional side of narrated events that differentiates between the two genres. Sorj Chalandon's novel 'Profession of the Father' (winner …
Creation Et Procreation Dans Le Roman Lait Noir D’Elif Shafak,
2020
Lebanese University, Lebanon
Creation Et Procreation Dans Le Roman Lait Noir D’Elif Shafak, Nadia Naboulsi Iskandarani
BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior
Black Milk, is the title of a book by Elif Shafak, the Turkish writer, and it deals with the complexity of female identity and the difficulty encountered in reconciling different aspects of this identity. The writer expresses these identities in an allegorical way, manifested in the chorus of inner voices of midget women representing the different aspects of this identity. They introduce themselves alternately into the life of the narrator, assailing her in order to orientate her towards the determined role of Woman. The theme mainly focuses on the “incompatibility” between motherhood and literary creation. The problematic of the topic …
Aziyade Et Les Desenchantees De Pierre Loti Ou Quelques Notions Du Mal Voir,
2020
Lebanese University, Lebanon
Aziyade Et Les Desenchantees De Pierre Loti Ou Quelques Notions Du Mal Voir, Asma Chamly Halawaniel
BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior
A simple reading of Pierre Loti’s novels Aziyyad and Disenchanted reveals fundamental differences in the way we see the others. It is this gap that we propose to study in this research.
