Literature Review On Homesickness

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1. Read the article ‘Homesickness and adjustment in university students’ by Thurber and Walton (Appendix 1 of your course and tutorial handbook) and answer the following questions in your own words:

a. How is this paper relevant to your practice essay topic? The paper is relevant to the practice essay topic as it provides information on factors that lead to homesickness in university students. Homesickness is one of the factors that make it difficult for students to adjust to university life. [2 marks]

b. Quote the definition of Homesickness directly from the text, and use the appropriate referencing.
According to the article, Homesickness and Adjustment in University Students, homesickness is defined as “the distress or impairment …show more content…

According to the authors, there are many effective treatment strategies for students that are currently homesick. Discuss five of these strategies.

Effective treatment strategies for students that are currently homesick can include the following:
1. A comfortable atmosphere should be created during orientation where students can get to know fellow students and create a circle of friends that they are most comfortable with (Thurber & Walton, 2012). By doing this it will help students feel less homesick.

2. Communicate to students that most students at the university are away from home and therefore feeling some form of homesickness as well (Thurber & Walton, 2012). Assure them that they are not the only ones feeling homesick and that it is a common feeling amongst their fellow peers (Thurber & Walton, 2012).

3. Let students know that their homesickness is a positive sign of their love for the things that they have left back home and that these things will always be there when they need something to feel better (Thurber & Walton, 2012).

4. Awareness of the fact that the increased homesickness feeling is not something that will just go away (Thurber & Walton, 2012). Students should know that by making effort to adapt to the environment and new social circles will decrease the feeling of homesickness as time goes on (Thurber & Walton, …show more content…

[4 marks]

2. Read the article ‘Factors negatively affecting university adjustment from the views of first-year university students: The case of Mersin University’ by Sevinc and Gizir (Appendix 1 in your course and tutorial handbook) and answer the following questions in your own words:

a. According to the authors, what is the aim of their study?
The aim of the study was to explore the factors that negatively affect the adjustment of first-year students to university (Sevinc & Gizir, 2014) . The aim was also to look at the coping strategies that these students used while adapting to life as a first-year student (Sevinc & Gizir, 2014).
[2 marks]

b. In your own words, briefly describe the four types of adjustment that are discussed in the Sevinc and Gizir (2014) paper.
The four types of adjustments that are discussed in the paper are as follows:

1. Academic adjustment refers to the type of adjustments that has to do with a student’s ability to do well with regards to their work as well as within the academic environment (Sevinc & Gizir,

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