The article reflects on the importance of leadership and empowerment in Latin American nursing as a collective body responsible for participating making public health worker policies. For this, it spotlights contribution that nursing, discipline based research theory, makes to knowledge, which relies upon evidence care health-disease process individuals, families, groups. It also posits region’...

This study examines the use of interpersonal touch by television reporters in their interactions with sources — mainly residents and government officials before Hurricane Maria made landfall Puerto Rico. We used a qualitative approach, which allowed four functions to emerge inductively but aligned concepts from haptics journalistic roles research. The engagement participation, empathy caring, e...

Media convergence is generating many collective performances on social media, where the rise of short-form videos has created a new opportunity for empowerment society online platforms. In this context, TikTok appears as an application creative expression through music clips and lip-syncs. Through #ThisIsMeChallenge hashtag, which introduces musical theme <em>The Greatest Showman</em&g...

The scope of this study is to identify what empowerment strategies were addressed for the promotion of health in health research, characterizing them from a socio-critical and post-structuralist standpoint. It involved an Integrative Review conducted in May 2011 of the Medline, Lilacs and SciELO databases. The inclusion criteria were complete research articles, case reports or experience report...

Enterprise Systems (ES), historically justified as means of control, are paradoxically also becoming integral to empowerment. Some researchers suggest that achieving the right balance between control and empowerment is a key challenge for today’s organizations. Others argue that such simple dichotomous conceptualizations fail to account for the co-existence in practice of a high degree of contr...

[ABSTRACT What does it mean to empower people through the housing in which they live, and how is this empowerment to be achieved? These are the questions which are examined in this paper. Typologies of empowerment processes are devised in an attempt to make sense of the conceptual and empirical variety involved. The distinction between ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ empowerment orientations is argu...

This study describes and understands the joint venture community development group (KUB) in KUB Tungkaran Prince, Tanah Bumbu, Indonesia. research uses a descriptive qualitative approach. The subjects are managers members. Data collection techniques were carried out using interviews, observation, documentation. data analysis technique used is reduction, presentation, conclusion drawing. results...

Community psychologists have long worked with community-based human service organizations to build participatory processes. These efforts largely aim at building participatory practices within the current individual-wellness paradigm of human services. To address collective wellness, human service organizations need to challenge their current paradigm, attend to the social justice needs of comm...

Empowerment evaluation entered the evaluation lexicon in 1993. Since that time, it has attracted many adherents, as well as vocal detractors. A prominent issue in the debates on empowerment evaluation concerns the extent to which empowerment evaluation can be readily distinguished from other approaches to evaluation that share with it an emphasis on participatory and collaborative processes, ca...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether Black men experienced empowerment throughout the process of employment preparation. This study also sought to give voice to this population regarding their experience in this process. A definition of empowerment, posed by Barbara Solomon of “empowerment theory”, was used to understand the process of empowerment the study participants may have...