Time Out! Getting Life Back on Track

A research and development project

Time Out! Getting Life Back on Track is a research and development project that aims to develop a psycho-social support programme for preventing the process of exclusion among young men. The purpose of the project is to develop the content of support interventions, draw up models for service organisation and to examine the impact of support interventions. The target group consists of men who are exempted from service at the call-up for conscripts or who interrupt military or civilian service. The project makes use of this final compulsory contact that the entire male cohort have with the authorities. The project is implemented between 2004 and 2007 as a joint project between STAKES, the participating municipalities, the Finnish Defence Forces and the Ministry of Labour.

Publications

Contact details

Esa Nordling, PhD (Psych.), Development Manager
Tel. +358 20 610 7460 or +358 40 708 3383

Working group: Eija Stengård, PhD (Psych.), Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Promotion, Minna Savolainen, Project Manager, Kaija Appelqvist-Schmidlechner, Researcher

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Eija Stengård, Kaija Appelqvist-Schmidlechner, Maila Upanne, Tanja Haarakangas,
Kai Parkkola, Markus Henriksson. Time Out! Aikalisä! Elämä raiteilleen
[Time Out! Getting Life Back on Track. Effectiveness of a Psycho-Social Support
Programme for Young Men]. Nuorten miesten psykososiaalisen tukiohjelman
vaikuttavuus ja hyöty. Stakes, Tutkimuksia 176. Helsinki 2008.

English Abstract

Eija Stengård, Kaija Appelqvist-Schmidlechner, Maila Upanne, Kai Parkkola, Markus Henriksson. Time Out! Aikalisä! Elämä raiteilleen. Varusmies- ja siviilipalveluksen ulkopuolelle jääneiden miesten elämäntilanne ja psykososiaalinen hyvinvointi [Time Out! Getting Life Back on Track. Life Situation and Psycho-social Well-being of Men Exempted from Military or Civilian Service]. STAKES, Reports 18/2008.
Language Finnish

English Abstract