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Item The Contribution of School Counseling as a Language Therapy(Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Subasinghe, W.Counseling being a process with a programed, goal oriented discussion helps the client to empower his life. Currently School Counseling has become an integral part of the education system in many countries. School Counselors being sensitive to individual differences attempt to make learning a positive experience for every student and further to facilitate the communication among teachers, parents, administrators, and the students. Thus this research mainly focuses on exploring the role played by the School Counselor as a Language Therapist in uplifting the student education. Further, the study attempts to identify the School Counselor‟s contribution in improving the mental well-being of the student which has a direct impact on their education. Conducting this study the researcher has mainly focused on symbolic interactionism perspective to understand this complex situation and Sigmund Freud's iceberg theory model has been used to identify the state of mind. The data necessary were gathered through semi-structured interviews where three samples including three School Counselors, thirty teachers, the students and professional counselors were interviewed. The findings of this research reveal that there are no qualified School Counselors in government schools but just the teachers with diplomas in counseling or the teachers with no good awareness on School Counseling and a proper training or evaluation etc. Further it was revealed that the majority of the School Counselors who serve the primary schools as well as the secondary schools have to work with the students who are incompetent in their language skills; reading, writing, speaking and hearing. However the professional counselors shared the view point that a School Counselor is committed to be an aid to the students with language difficulties in enhancing their language skills.Item Correction: Double burden of maternal and child malnutrition and socioeconomic status in urban Sri Lanka.(Public Library of Science, 2020) Shinsugi, C.; Gunasekara, D.; Gunawardena, N.K.; Subasinghe, W.; Miyoshi, M.; Kaneko, S.; Takimoto, H.[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0224222.]. Erratum for Double burden of maternal and child malnutrition and socioeconomic status in urban Sri Lanka. PLoS One.2019;14(10):e0224222.Item Double burden of maternal and child malnutrition and socioeconomic status in urban Sri Lanka(Public Library of Science, 2019) Shinsugi, C.; Gunasekara, D.; Gunawardena, N.K.; Subasinghe, W.; Miyoshi, M.; Kaneko, S.; Takimoto, H.Child malnutrition and maternal obesity are serious public health issues in Sri Lanka. This study explores the associations between socioeconomic status and the double burden of malnutrition among school-aged children and within their household. A total of 543 primary school children aged 5-10 years (204 boys and 339 girls) in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka, were included in the analysis. The nutritional statuses of thinness, normal, overweight, and obesity for children and mothers were defined according to WHO growth references and body mass index. Maternal education, household equivalent income, and maternal employment were used as socioeconomic status indicators. The proportion of child thinness and overweight was 19.3% and 13.4%, respectively, and that of maternal overweight (body mass index ≥ 25 kg/m2) was 36.5%. A positive correlation was found between maternal body mass index and the child's body mass index for age z-score in older boys and younger girls. A multivariate stepwise logistic regression analysis showed that lower education of mothers posed a higher association with child thinness (adjusted odds ratio = 2.33, 95% confidence interval: 1.08-5.00). Mothers with overweight and obesity were less likely to have a child with thinness (adjusted odds ratio = 0.30, 95% confidence interval: 0.16-0.58). Maternal employment status and household equivalent income were not significantly, but marginally, associated with child overweight and obesity. Socioeconomic inequality combined with maternal nutritional status affected child malnutrition. These findings suggest that the underlying circumstances within households should be considered to improve child malnutrition. Erratum in: PLoS One. 2020;15(3):e0230785.Item Educational background of the child abuse convicts in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2024) Subasinghe, W.; Ihalagama, S.Child abuse is one of the most violent incidents in Sri Lanka. There are nearly 10000 reported child abuse cases in 2023. There is a new trend of criminal offences against persons related to child abuse in Sri Lanka. The study was focused on exploring the child abuse perpetrators’ social background and education access in childhood. Research Problem was ‘what is the social background to get less education of child abuse perpetrators’. research question was, ‘is there a relationship between less education opportunities and committing child abuses in Sri Lanka?’. research objective was to explore the relationship between opportunities for education and committing child abuse among convicts. The research adopted an ontological approach to subjectivism and an epistemological approach of interpretivism. It was descriptive, cross-sectional, and qualitative. The study was underpinned in cognitive theory introduced by Charles Goring focused on the differences on addressing education towards crime. Ten convicted persons have been interviewed. Thematic analysis was used for the analysis. Child abuse can happen with one's own child abuse, close relatives' child abuse, neighbor child abuse, and stranger child abuse. Several risk factor characteristics of child abuse perpetrators could be identified. It could be summarized as perpetrators’ childhood experience, social interrelationships, less opportunities and encouragements to get education, less economic background, and lack of awareness about the child abuse law in the community, etc. Family background was important in determining the risk of becoming a child abuser and was intertwined with economic factors and issues related to sexual behaviour. Poor childcare and parent care relationships, frustration, socioeconomic conditions, and alcoholism are other main factors behind this behaviour. Most of them grew up not with their mothers but with close relatives such as grandparents, aunts, etc. Most of these people had only attended school up to a maximum grade eight. Many of them cannot read and write, they had associated with older people, not peers at their school age, they had been addicted to use illicit alcohol and to watch nude pictures. There were also people who had developed sexual relationships with girls of fourteen or fifteen years of age and brought them to their homes. But they didn't know or had ignored that one day they would be punished by the law. Most of the abusers had done wage labor as their occupation in paddy work and other unskilled works. Many of these abusers had failed in marriages with divorces or separations. The social background of abused children was also in an unsafe condition. 13 years of school education access must be compulsory and government attention should be enhanced to mitigate the issueItem Gypsy culture and society in the changing world: A sociological analysis of Gypsies in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, 2009) Subasinghe, W.Item Quality of Life Study on Slum Dwellers (With Special Reference to Sri Lanka)(International Journal of Scientific Research and Innovative Technology, 2015) Subasinghe, W.This report examines the major characteristics of urban slum dwellers. In case of social transmittance, some anti-social phenomena have been occurred. Especially in this modern world, there are different kinds of social phenomenon. Poverty, suicide, prostitution, alcoholism, malnutrition, child deviancy, child abuse are most affected social problems which the present society have to face in these decades. According to several studies, poverty is the main and center problem among them. Because of this center problem, many other related problems have arisen. These social effects directed to create many social issues such as unemployment and under employment, malnutrition, illness, low income dwellers as slum and shanties, prostitution, abortions, criminals, and other social and health related problems etc. On the other hand these social experiences help to derive new social problems. Therefore, this study focuses to explore urban slum residences. It researched slum resident’s life style through quality of life social indicators in this study. As consequences, it makes a platform to discuss and make arrangements to uplift their quality of life.Item A Quality of Life Study on Urban Slum Residents and It’s Effects on Urban Poverty in Sri Lanka(University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom, 2007) Subasinghe, W.; De Ping, XiangItem Recommendations for the Development of the School Counseling System in Sri Lanka(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Subasinghe, W.Education is the one of most valuable investments made in the 21st century all over the world. Each country allocates considerable amounts of funds from their national income for the education sector. While, in the Sri Lankan context, the government and parents give their fullest attention towards developing an efficient educational system. On the other hand, within the complex social relations that prevail in our society, individuals face considerable psychological difficulties. Consequently the children constitute one of the most significant groups, affected by these difficulties. In this research, I explore ways of developing an adequate school counseling system in Sri Lanka. Thus, my research questions are as follows: what is the existing condition of the school counseling system in Sri Lanka? what are the challenges that school counselors face? The main purpose of this research is to identify the school counselors’ role in addressing the students’ disturbed mental state. Employing the symbolic interactionism and Sigmund Freud's iceberg theory model of the mind the study approaches the question at hand This research employed the survey method and case study method. Data was collected by using a structured questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The research employed three sample units in the research: school counselors, teachers and students. I have interviewed three school counselors, 30 students and 15 teachers in boys’ schools, girls’ schools and mixed schools in the Gampaha district. The research found that there are only about 300 teachers trained as school counselors in Sri Lanka. But they are not adequately trained for counseling and/or they don’t have enough qualifications for this purpose. Some of them have diploma certificates for counseling and their main appointment is for teaching. There is no proper understanding of the importance of counseling among educational heads, school administrative officers, and Students Therefore, an appropriate national school counseling program should be implemented. It is a crucial and arduous task that should be followed up by government.Item Socio economic issues of the war affected fisheries community in Sri Lanka (with reference to the Eastern province of Sri Lanka)(Global network for economic and social sustainability, 2013) Kumudu Sumedha; Subasinghe, W.Item A study on poverty and women unemployment(Reviewing International Encounters 2015, Research Center for Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Subasinghe, W.This paper explores one of the key issues in current research on gender and development: the links between poverty and women's employment and underemployment. The nation‟s economic crisis has deeply affected the lives of thousands of Sri Lankans. Unemployment has pulled the rug out from under many families, particularly those living in low-income communities. Deepening poverty is inextricably linked with rising levels of homelessness and food insecurity/hunger. Poverty can be considered as a central socio and economic problem. The women ratio is highly vital factor in concerning of current population statistics including women households, education level, and women workforce. The purpose of the study is looking the women unemployment and makes proposals to uplift the women‟s contribution to the national economy. Objectives: To identify male vs. female unemployment, what extent is a woman's household economic status, which programs are most suitable for women for livelihood. Research question: What is the co-relation between poverty and women‟s unemployment? Methodology: Survey method has been done for collecting primary data through structured questionnaires. FGDs and KII has done. Findings: The first phase of the project involves screening overall studies have shown very different effects of poverty, for different types of poverty: from income inequalities, to social exclusion and unemployment. The final phase involves the analysis provides strong evidence for a co-relation between household economic status and women's current employment status. This is true for the entire sample and for the married and unmarried women. The interplay of economic factors (in terms of household needs and aspirations) and cultural factors (in terms of women's position in the family as unmarried daughters as opposed to wives or daughters-in-law) as determinants of women's employment is important both on the supply side of the labour market and women's ability to obtain employment in an imperfect and almost saturated labour market in the context of Sri Lanka.Item Study on poverty and women unemployment(2014) Subasinghe, W.Item Suitable Implications for School Counselling System in Sri Lanka: Comparative Study with School Counselling Programmes in China(Centre for Chinese Studies, Department of Modern Languages, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Subasinghe, W.Item Support from School Counseling Service to Overcome Mental Inconvenience in Schools: With Special Reference to Sri Lanka(Reviewing International Encounters 2018,The Research Center for Social Sciences (RCSS), University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Subasinghe, W.This paper focuses on school counseling and its effect on student’s educational efficiency. Counseling is an outside support that is given by the qualified person on professional counseling to encourage human life as quality way. Guidance and psychotherapy are other fields relates to counseling. All human being can be faced by the mental troublesomeness in complex social inter-relationships. It can be happened with children, young people, students, professionals, elders so on. Currently; students have high expectations in their life. On the other hand; parents force them to work hardly to reach to their expectations. Within this multifaceted inspirations and other social issues and problems make many inconveniences among the studentsItem චීනයේ නූතන ගමන්මග හා නව ප්රවණතා(University of Kelaniya, 2008) Subasinghe, W.Item පූර්ව හා පශ්චාත් ගර්භණී මව්වරුන්ගේ මානසික ආතතිය පිළිබඳ සමාජ විද්යාත්මක අධ්යයනයක්(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Lakshika, K.A.P.; Subasinghe, W.