International Journal of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Science
Volume:11 Issue: 1, Winter 2022

The overall purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of correctional education programs in America generally, and in the state of Georgia, specifically, and its role to decrease post-release prisoners’ recidivism. In addition, relying on labeling theory, this study aims to explore how the understanding of this theory could help reduce the stigma toward the educated ex-prisoners, who received educational programs while in prison. The basic design of this study was meta-analysis method. The researcher conducted a comprehensive literature search for published and unpublished studies released between 1980 and 2011. A correlation between recidivism reduction and participation in correctional education programs. The correctional education programs can help ex-prisoners start their lives after release; also, offenders who participated in education programs while incarcerated showed lower rates of recidivism, and they get a higher salary than other uneducated ex-prisoners.

Nearly at the end of 2019, the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic posed an all-out challenge to human beings in the 21st century. In fact, it started to jeopardize people’s lives on an international scale. Since it is a global pandemic for which no effective vaccines have been discovered yet, it has involved many international organizations including the World Health Organization. Therefore, the main question is what the WHO—an authorized International organization—would do to conduct a balanced approach for tackling the new threats such as the COVID-19. The current situation necessitates adopting six approaches, i.e. gaining solidarity and accepting responsibility, keeping away the predicament of nationalism, globalism, communitarianism, and cosmopolitanism, identifying security and certainty as the permanent human requirements, avoiding being involved in cultural differences, and trying to end the quarrel between the global leadership and global-regional partnership. Hence, international organizations, especially the WHO, can play a growingly functional role in tackling this global challenge. The pandemic also introduces international sanitary needs that must be addressed from a professionalization perspective rather than a politicization one so that effective efforts will be made accordingly.

Adam Smith, the great economist of the world in the eighteenth century, with a proposal on the relationship between education and human capital, pioneered a debate that took more than 200 years to find its true place as a collection of scientific research and in the form of economics. Awareness of the relationship between education and economic growth has led many people to seek their own advancement and the well-being of society, and a huge movement has emerged to gain more knowledge, insight, skills, and information. Amazing and competitive changes in countries around the world in achieving economic development and social welfare as soon as possible and the impact of these developments on various social contexts in the last three decades in Iran have led to more attention to the role and functions of public and higher education. Increasing the role of the education system in the dynamics of social life, the need to pay attention to economic functions and its "cost-benefit analysis" has doubled for the government and the people because increasing social demand for education has increased the amount of education spending in government and household budgets.

Social phobia evolved from behaviorism, and its spread was the result of a critique of what is called inflexibility and the simplistic ideas of pure behaviorism. Bandura supports the theory that fear and anxiety are learned, but enumerates four social mechanisms for learning: First, fear may be learned through classical conditioning in exactly the same way as described. Second, according to Bandura, the proxy experience can be considered important. This process is also called role modeling. Third, symbolic education, which refers to learning through education, reading, or saying that certain things are threatening, painful, or forbidden. Fourth, Bandura also refers to symbolic logic, which is potentially important in creating anxiety. One may conclude that something is dangerous. This process may be logical or irrational. Therefore, social cognitive learning theories emphasize the importance of combining learning principles with the role of individual thinking and reasoning in causing anxiety disorders. Social phobia is common in all cultures and its six-month prevalence is about 2 to 3 percent.

All human stress is seen as a process in which people's thoughts, emotions, physics, behaviors, and experiences are involved. Theories about the causes and sequence of parenting stress are different from other stress theories because, in parenting stress theory, there are external causal causes (parenting role) or other active causal causes, namely the child or children who are responsible for the parents. It is very clear how dependent children, especially infants, are on their parents. These dependencies often create a wide range of immediate and ongoing responsibilities for parents (eg, the child's crying and needs). To food, comfort, and attention, which they did not experience before the baby was born. Sometimes these experiences go beyond the immediate needs of the child's survival and are tied to the parents' emotional-social attitude towards the child. It is the child's misbehavior, such as destructive and hostile behaviors, occasional complaints, pro-activeness, and shortness of breath. Or it may even be that they have a chronic illness and are being treated with medication. This includes emotional arousal in parents. This arousal in turn leads to parental attention and presence to eliminate responsibilities and demands. , Will be answered effectively by the parents, and the child's needs will be answered correctly and without stress by the parents before he can help himself. In such an atmosphere, the child will be considered and the parents will be very likely. They become more motivated to assess the child's needs to eliminate or reduce harmful behaviors.

Job stress has serious consequences for both workers and employers. Stress is an effective factor in organizational inefficiency, manpower turnover, job absenteeism, reduction in quality and quantity of work, increase in health care costs and decrease in job satisfaction. Numerous studies over the past few decades have shown that organizational or occupational tasks that are fraught with overwork and excessive needs and responsibilities lead to many health risks. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between job stress and mental health by emphasizing the mediating role of coping strategies in formal and contractual experts of Zanjan Jihad Agricultural Organization, because the Ministry of Jihad Agriculture is one of the most important and key ministries. It is the government that has great missions in the field of food security and self-sufficiency in the production of basic products and export development of agricultural products, following the various principles of the country's constitution, the provisions of the 20-year vision document, and many articles of the Fourth Development Plan law. It is responsible for providing natural resources and growth opportunities of 6.5% in the agricultural sector.

Metacognitive knowledge refers to the beliefs and moral theories that individuals have about their thinking, such as beliefs about the meaning of a particular type of thought and beliefs about the effectiveness of memory and cognitive control. It is useful to consider both explicit and implicit metacognitive knowledge, especially in the context of emotional disorder. Explicit metacognitive knowledge is conscious knowledge. For example, people with generalized anxiety disorder believe that worrying is uncontrollable and dangerous, and some believe that worrying can have benefits. Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder believe that they have certain thoughts that lead to negative events or unwanted actions, and people with depression have positive beliefs about rumination. Implicit metacognitive knowledge is usually not conscious and cannot be expressed verbally. This knowledge includes the rules or designs that guide the process, such as paying attention, searching in memory, and using exploratory measures and bias in judgment. Considering this knowledge as a method or design for information processing is useful, and such metacognitive designs may be important at least as news knowledge in emotional disorder.

A woman may be able to relieve her premenstrual syndrome and diagnose it, meaning that when the symptoms are not severe, "natural methods or general measures to relieve premenstrual syndrome" that include education and awareness, change in diet, vitamin diet and exercise and deep thinking, effectively help her to overcome her syndrome. In fact, even if the woman's symptoms are severe - whether they are difficult to see or weaken the patient - she should treat herself with "natural methods". Recognition of the disease by the patient, spouse, and family members is very important because PMS is a very important cause of couples arguing. A woman who suspects that she has premenstrual syndrome should see a doctor who treats the syndrome. If a woman does not have a menstrual calendar before consulting, her doctor will ask her to record the menstrual calendar for a period of two or three months. The doctor will also take tests. It is at this point that the doctor should inform the woman how she can use the natural way to reduce her symptoms. If natural methods do not reduce the severity of symptoms after a few periods of menstruation, and blood tests show a severe hormonal imbalance, medication should be used. However, the "medical method for relieving the syndrome" should also be applied in conjunction with a natural diet.