Supported Education for youth with psychiatric disabilities. AEIPS students-family-staff meeting Lisbon, November 5th 2014

Higher and advanced vocational education prepare young adults for a career and enhance their life goals.The onset of mental illness generally occurs between 17 and 25 years. For young adults with psychiatric disabilities, educational resources are largely unavailable.

The ideology of inclusive education signifies that every child should be able to attend a regular school, unless there are insoluble barriers which make this impossible. This principle is voiced in treaties such as the Salamanca Statement and the No Child Left Behind Act. Accordingly, many countries …

This presentation reports on the natural experiment. The developed toolbox with information regarding methods and measurements of physical activity, sedentary behavior and diet will be applied in the context of JOGG-Drenthe. This natural experiment is part of DEDIPAC, a sub project of the Joint Programming …

Supported education: community participation through education for youth and adults with psychiatric disabilities

This paper argues that there is a need for a dialogical learning space because soft skills are becoming increasingly important in an ever more unstable labour market. Where once a monological form of education worked to prepare youth for the future, now a dialogue is required. This dialogue, by definition …

In de adolescentiefase zouden jongeren in de gelegenheid moeten worden gesteld om te experimenteren met verschillende alternatieven, voordat zij hun bindingen (‘commitments’) ten aanzien van verschillende deelidentiteiten formuleren (Marcia, 1996). Vaak is er een spanning zichtbaar: jongeren moeten bindingen …

Europe is on the path, though rocky, to political and cultural unity. After World War II, relatively large numbers of immigrants moved to Europe and brought with them outside cultural customs and religions. The issue of multiculturalism in society has been on the political agenda for decades, but attitudes …