Hamido A Megahead
Biographic Data
| ID | 91459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hamido A Megahead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hamido A |
| FAMILY NAME | Megahead |
| SIGNATURE | MEGAHEAD H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Helwan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From the Guest Editor: An Introduction to Research on Social Work Practice In Egypt and the Arab World
The editor of RSWP inspired the guest editor the idea of this special section as it has been previously sponsored special issues/sections of Research on Social Work Practice devoted to the topic of studies completed by social work specialists from different European, Asia, Australian countries. This special section is a unique one as it has been evidenced in the process of its accomplishment. An example of its particular characteristics was that …
Guest Editor’s Foreword
Non-kinship family foster care in Egypt
This article describes the history and philosophy of foster care in Egypt. While journal readers will be familiar with the issues affecting their own work, they are less likely to know about fostering in other countries. This can be limiting as international comparisons can give practitioners, researchers and educators insights into their own work as well as skills to support children from different cultural backgrounds. The article shows that fo…
Psychometric Properties of an Arabic Version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (Dass)
Objective: To translate and evaluate the psychometric properties of an Arabic-language version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS). Method: The items were translated, back translated, refined, and tested in an Australian immigrant sample ( N = 220). Results: Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the Arabic DASS discriminates between depression, anxiety, and stress but to a lesser degree than the English DASS. The factor loadings for…
Research on Social Work Practice in Egypt and the Arab World
This article aims at introducing the research on social work practice in Egypt and the Arab World as a thematic topic. It has started with the essence of the current Arab World and its definition. Social work practice and models of social work intervention in this specific region have been described in terms of its specific and topographic nature. Three main contributors and players to research on social work practice have been included namely so…
Using Movies to Change Homophobic Attitudes of Social Work Students: Turkish Example
Objectives: This article examines homophobic attitude changes among undergraduate social work students in two major universities located in Ankara, Turkey. Method: The research was conducted in Ankara for 10 weeks with 54 volunteer students from Ankara University and Hacettepe University. During one term, nine movies were screened, a get-acquainted meeting was held, three information booklets were distributed, and the Homosexuality Attitudes Scal…
Screening for Elder Abuse Among Turkish Older People: Validity of the Hwalek–Sengstock Elder Abuse Screening Test (H-S “East”)
Objective: This study aims to adapt “The Hwalek–Sengstock Elder Abuse Screening Test (H-S “East”)” (Neale, Hwalek, Scott, Sengstock, & Stahl, 1991) to Turkish and to assess its validity and reliability while determining the factors that affect elder abuse. Method: The sample of the study is composed of 465 elderly women and men (60+ years of age) who live in different cities in Turkey. First, validity and reliability analyses of the H-S “East” ar…
The Effects of Group Work With Institutionalized Elderly Persons
Objectives: This research article aims to measure the effects of group therapy on institutionalized elderly in terms of reducing depression and improving psychosocial functioning. Methods: Thirty elderly nursing home residents were recruited, and 16 of them elected to receive group treatment for depression and 14 declined treatment. The Multidimensional Observation Scale for Elderly Subjects and the Geriatric Depression Scale were given to both g…
The Impact of the Human Rights Education Program for Women on Gender Perceptions of Social Work Students
Objectives: This study examines the impact of women’s human rights education on improving the gender perceptions (GPs) of social work students. Methods: Experimental group consists of third-year social work students participated in the “Human Rights Education Program for Women (HREP)” within the scope of social work principles and methods II course given in Ankara University, Department of Social Work, whereas control group consists of the same c…
Factors of Development Social Work Education in Contemporary Egypt
The development of social work in any country around the globe has its own context that is significantly different from one environment to another. For example, Walton (Williams, 1975) has identified the role of British women and their contributions as one main factor affecting social work development in the British context along with three other factors: the influence of U.S. trends, international events, and patterns in British social work. The…
Three Concepts of the International Flow of Social Work Practice in an Egyptian Context
Within the context of the continuously 25 January 2011 Egyptian Youth Revolution, an urgent need has arose to re-read, re-cast and re-structure the available knowledge in relation to the current Egyptian Life Parameters (ELPs; e.g. Dix, 1984), because the current ELPs have proved useless and failed to achieve what the Egyptian people have been hoping. Research has sought to re-understand the significance of youth to public discourse in Egypt. It …
Adaptation to Stress: A Common Model and Method to Facilitate Within- and Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Foster Families
Studies meant to allow "cross-cultural" comparisons may be fatally flawed by the concepts, instruments, and discoveries of one culture being applied uncritically to another (namely, "etic" errors; cf. current discussions and examples in Chand, 2008; Durrenberger and Erem, 2007). Moreover, studies of foster families often disregard the unique ecosystemic environments in which those families are embedded (Lee, 2008). Therefore, this paper describes…
Family Foster Care for Abandoned Children in Egypt
The profile of Egyptian foster children has changed tremendously since the establishment of Egyptian family foster care in 1959. This is a result of changes in foster family practice and changes in the profile of foster families. The changes in family foster care practice included terminating the use of wet nurses and replacing them with Childhood and Motherhood Care Centers and by determining a specific age that foster children would leave the f…
Psychometric Properties of an Arabic Version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (Dass)
Objective: To translate and evaluate the psychometric properties of an Arabic-language version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS). Method: The items were translated, back translated, refined, and tested in an Australian immigrant sample ( N = 220). Results: Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the Arabic DASS discriminates between depression, anxiety, and stress but to a lesser degree than the English DASS. The factor loadings for…
Three Concepts of the International Flow of Social Work Practice in an Egyptian Context
Within the context of the continuously 25 January 2011 Egyptian Youth Revolution, an urgent need has arose to re-read, re-cast and re-structure the available knowledge in relation to the current Egyptian Life Parameters (ELPs; e.g. Dix, 1984), because the current ELPs have proved useless and failed to achieve what the Egyptian people have been hoping. Research has sought to re-understand the significance of youth to public discourse in Egypt. It …
Factors of Development Social Work Education in Contemporary Egypt
The development of social work in any country around the globe has its own context that is significantly different from one environment to another. For example, Walton (Williams, 1975) has identified the role of British women and their contributions as one main factor affecting social work development in the British context along with three other factors: the influence of U.S. trends, international events, and patterns in British social work. The…
Non-kinship family foster care in Egypt
This article describes the history and philosophy of foster care in Egypt. While journal readers will be familiar with the issues affecting their own work, they are less likely to know about fostering in other countries. This can be limiting as international comparisons can give practitioners, researchers and educators insights into their own work as well as skills to support children from different cultural backgrounds. The article shows that fo…
Using Movies to Change Homophobic Attitudes of Social Work Students: Turkish Example
Objectives: This article examines homophobic attitude changes among undergraduate social work students in two major universities located in Ankara, Turkey. Method: The research was conducted in Ankara for 10 weeks with 54 volunteer students from Ankara University and Hacettepe University. During one term, nine movies were screened, a get-acquainted meeting was held, three information booklets were distributed, and the Homosexuality Attitudes Scal…
The Impact of the Human Rights Education Program for Women on Gender Perceptions of Social Work Students
Objectives: This study examines the impact of women’s human rights education on improving the gender perceptions (GPs) of social work students. Methods: Experimental group consists of third-year social work students participated in the “Human Rights Education Program for Women (HREP)” within the scope of social work principles and methods II course given in Ankara University, Department of Social Work, whereas control group consists of the same c…
Family Foster Care for Abandoned Children in Egypt
The profile of Egyptian foster children has changed tremendously since the establishment of Egyptian family foster care in 1959. This is a result of changes in foster family practice and changes in the profile of foster families. The changes in family foster care practice included terminating the use of wet nurses and replacing them with Childhood and Motherhood Care Centers and by determining a specific age that foster children would leave the f…
Adaptation to Stress: A Common Model and Method to Facilitate Within- and Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Foster Families
Studies meant to allow "cross-cultural" comparisons may be fatally flawed by the concepts, instruments, and discoveries of one culture being applied uncritically to another (namely, "etic" errors; cf. current discussions and examples in Chand, 2008; Durrenberger and Erem, 2007). Moreover, studies of foster families often disregard the unique ecosystemic environments in which those families are embedded (Lee, 2008). Therefore, this paper describes…
Factors of Development Social Work Education in Contemporary Egypt
The development of social work in any country around the globe has its own context that is significantly different from one environment to another. For example, Walton (Williams, 1975) has identified the role of British women and their contributions as one main factor affecting social work development in the British context along with three other factors: the influence of U.S. trends, international events, and patterns in British social work. The…
Three Concepts of the International Flow of Social Work Practice in an Egyptian Context
Within the context of the continuously 25 January 2011 Egyptian Youth Revolution, an urgent need has arose to re-read, re-cast and re-structure the available knowledge in relation to the current Egyptian Life Parameters (ELPs; e.g. Dix, 1984), because the current ELPs have proved useless and failed to achieve what the Egyptian people have been hoping. Research has sought to re-understand the significance of youth to public discourse in Egypt. It …
Psychometric Properties of an Arabic Version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (Dass)
Objective: To translate and evaluate the psychometric properties of an Arabic-language version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS). Method: The items were translated, back translated, refined, and tested in an Australian immigrant sample ( N = 220). Results: Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the Arabic DASS discriminates between depression, anxiety, and stress but to a lesser degree than the English DASS. The factor loadings for…
Research on Social Work Practice in Egypt and the Arab World
This article aims at introducing the research on social work practice in Egypt and the Arab World as a thematic topic. It has started with the essence of the current Arab World and its definition. Social work practice and models of social work intervention in this specific region have been described in terms of its specific and topographic nature. Three main contributors and players to research on social work practice have been included namely so…
Using Movies to Change Homophobic Attitudes of Social Work Students: Turkish Example
Objectives: This article examines homophobic attitude changes among undergraduate social work students in two major universities located in Ankara, Turkey. Method: The research was conducted in Ankara for 10 weeks with 54 volunteer students from Ankara University and Hacettepe University. During one term, nine movies were screened, a get-acquainted meeting was held, three information booklets were distributed, and the Homosexuality Attitudes Scal…
Screening for Elder Abuse Among Turkish Older People: Validity of the Hwalek–Sengstock Elder Abuse Screening Test (H-S “East”)
Objective: This study aims to adapt “The Hwalek–Sengstock Elder Abuse Screening Test (H-S “East”)” (Neale, Hwalek, Scott, Sengstock, & Stahl, 1991) to Turkish and to assess its validity and reliability while determining the factors that affect elder abuse. Method: The sample of the study is composed of 465 elderly women and men (60+ years of age) who live in different cities in Turkey. First, validity and reliability analyses of the H-S “East” ar…
The Effects of Group Work With Institutionalized Elderly Persons
Objectives: This research article aims to measure the effects of group therapy on institutionalized elderly in terms of reducing depression and improving psychosocial functioning. Methods: Thirty elderly nursing home residents were recruited, and 16 of them elected to receive group treatment for depression and 14 declined treatment. The Multidimensional Observation Scale for Elderly Subjects and the Geriatric Depression Scale were given to both g…
The Impact of the Human Rights Education Program for Women on Gender Perceptions of Social Work Students
Objectives: This study examines the impact of women’s human rights education on improving the gender perceptions (GPs) of social work students. Methods: Experimental group consists of third-year social work students participated in the “Human Rights Education Program for Women (HREP)” within the scope of social work principles and methods II course given in Ankara University, Department of Social Work, whereas control group consists of the same c…
From the Guest Editor: An Introduction to Research on Social Work Practice In Egypt and the Arab World
The editor of RSWP inspired the guest editor the idea of this special section as it has been previously sponsored special issues/sections of Research on Social Work Practice devoted to the topic of studies completed by social work specialists from different European, Asia, Australian countries. This special section is a unique one as it has been evidenced in the process of its accomplishment. An example of its particular characteristics was that …
Guest Editor’s Foreword
Non-kinship family foster care in Egypt
This article describes the history and philosophy of foster care in Egypt. While journal readers will be familiar with the issues affecting their own work, they are less likely to know about fostering in other countries. This can be limiting as international comparisons can give practitioners, researchers and educators insights into their own work as well as skills to support children from different cultural backgrounds. The article shows that fo…
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