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Title: Factors Related to Weight-Bias Among Counselors
Author: Christensen, Katie
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mental health, Psychology, Multicultural education
Description: More than two-thirds of adults and one-sixth of children and adolescents in the United States experience higher levels of body fat and/or obesity (Hales et al., 2020). Individuals with higher levels of body fat often experience weight-bias, prejud...

Title: Factors Related to the College-Going Self-Efficacy of Middle School Students
Author: Harden, Dia
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling, Middle school education, Multicultural education
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between middle school students' college-going self-efficacy and their race, college generational status, academic self-concept, and perceived college-going culture. The respondents were 162...

Title: Factors Related to the Self-Efficacy of School Counselors in Training
Author: Mitchell, Rolanda
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling, Counseling psychology
Description: Professional school counselors play an integral role in the academic, personal/social and career development of children. Each day, they are charged with addressing student mental health needs (Burnett-Zeigler & Lyons, 2012; Green et al., 2014), e...

Title: Factors Related to the Use of Play Therapy Among Elementary School Counselors
Author: Van Horne, Jill
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Early childhood education, Mental health
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine variables that are related to elementary school counselors' use of play therapy in the elementary school setting. The specific variables explored were age, years of experience, workshop hours, graduate cour...

Title: Healing and Posttraumatic Growth in African American Survivors of Domestic Violence: An Exploration of Women's Narratives
Author: Dickerson, Anne
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Women's studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: This research explores how African American women's narratives present their healing processes after they experience domestic violence. The research was conducted within the framework of Black feminist epistemology. A narrative approach was select...

Title: High School Students' Perceptions of the Importance of School Counselor Multicultural Counseling Competence
Author: Eckenrod-Green, Wendy
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling
Description: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between high school students' perceptions of the importance of school counselor multicultural competence (SCMCC) and student's characteristics (i.e., students race, SES, sex, grade level, a...

Title: I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO: WHAT AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE COUNSELOR STUDENT’S PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR RACIALIZED GENDERED IDENTITY SAY TO COUNSELING EDUCATION AND SUPERVISION PROGRAMS WITH RESPECT TO A PAN-AFRICAN PARADIGM
Author: Feemster, Ryan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology
Description: ABSTRACTRYAN BENSON FEEMSTER: I am not your Negro: What African American male counselor students' perceptions of their racialized gendered identity say to Counseling Education and Supervision programs with respect to a Pan-African Paradigm (Under ...

Title: I am not your Negro: What African American male counselor students' perceptions of their racialized gendered identity say to Counseling Education and Supervision programs with respect to a Pan-African Paradigm
Author: Feemster, Ryan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, History
Description: ABSTRACTDr. RYAN BENSON FEEMSTER: I am not your Negro: What African American male counselor students' perceptions of their racialized gendered identity say to Counseling Education and Supervision programs with respect to a Pan-African Paradigm (Un...

Title: IMPACT OF TWO-SESSION MODEL OF CHILD PARENT RELATIONSHIP TRAINING ON PARENTS OF CHILDREN DIAGNOSED WITH ADHD
Author: Moore, Sarah
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling, Counseling psychology, Psychology
Description: The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of a Two-session Child Parent Relationship Training on parental perception of children's problem behaviors; parental acceptance of child; parental stress; and parental attitudes, knowledge and ski...

Title: INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BELIEF IN A JUST WORLD, MULTICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE, MULTICULTURAL AWARENESS, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY ATTITUDES OF PRACTICING SCHOOL COUNSELORS
Author: Jones, Shenika
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling
Description: The school counseling profession is governed by national standards to promote the academic, personal, social, and career development of all students. There is an emphasis on outlining professional dispositions for school counselors. Yet, the perso...

Title: INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RACE, ATTITUDE TOWARD POVERTY, COLOR-BLIND ATTITUDES, AND MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION IN RELATION TO SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY
Author: Elmadani, Abdelaziz
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Continuing education
Description: The number of diverse children in the United States will increase to more than double over the next several years (U.S. Census, 2018). These changes in demographics and the increased number of minority children with low socioeconomic statues have ...

Title: Investigating the Relationship between Student Race and Academic Expectations among High School Counselors and Teachers
Author: Saunders, Rachel
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling
Description: The enrollment of racial and ethnically diverse students has increased over the years, with nearly half of all students enrolled in K-12 schools identifying as students of color (U.S. Census, 2018). Given the increase in student racial diversity t...

Title: Latino Voices: A Qualitative Study of First Generation College Latino Males
Author: Brown, Gerald
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: A qualitative study design was used to describe the perceptions and beliefs about higher education of seven first generation college Latino male students enrolled in higher education in the Southeastern part of the U.S. The purpose of this investi...

Title: Lived experiences of nurses on a burn unit related to secondary traumatic stress.
Author: Shearer, Lindsay
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Psychology
Description: Nursing is a large and growing profession. Nurses provide a critical service to patients and families, often in highly stressful work environments (McGibbon, Peter, & Gallop, 2010; Theme Filha, Costa, & Guilam, 2013). The stressful nature of nursi...

Title: Managing conflict in multicultural classes: Examining the relationship between severity of conflict and the use of interventions by university instructors to manage and resolve conflict
Author: Burton, Stephen
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Educational psychology, Social sciences--Study and teaching
Description: Multicultural class professors are faced with the often difficult task of helping prepare pre-service counselors to meet the mental healthcare needs of an increasingly diverse and pluralistic society. A major factor that has stood in the way of ef...

Title: Parenting Stress Among Sexual Minority Parents: Gender, Race, Custody Status, Timing of Coming Out, and Level of Outness
Author: Martin, Ann
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Queer studies, Families--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between parenting stress among sexual minority parents and their gender, race, legal custody status, timing of coming out relative to becoming a parent, and level of outness. A total of 833...

Title: Perceptions of a Gay-Straight Alliance ban: School counselors and advocacy for students with minority sexual orientations
Author: Sifford, Amy
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Queer studies, Ethics
Description: ABSTRACT AMY MCCARTHY SIFFORD. Perceptions of a Gay-Straight Alliance ban: School counselors and advocacy for students with minority sexual orientations. (Under the direction of Dr. Pamela S. Lassiter.) The purpose of this study was to examine how...

Title: Posttraumatic Growth Among African American Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Roles of Spirituality, Locus of Control, and Self-Concept
Author: Hill, Lisa
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Research has suggested that childhood sexual abuse (CSA) can hinder normal cognitive, social and emotional development. Research has also suggested that CSA contributes to higher levels of pathology than other traumatic experiences. Rates of victi...

Title: Predicting Positive Career Planning Attitudes Among Division I College Student-Athletes
Author: Tyrance, Shaun
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Mental health
Description: This study examined the extent that athletic identity, race, gender, sport and expectation to play professionally predict Career Planning Attitudes (Career Optimism, Career Adaptability and Career Knowledge) among Division I college student-athlet...

Title: Professional Development Relationships for Counselor Educators: the Relationship between Ethnic Identity, Advocacy, Empowerment and Cultural Empathy on Faculty Mentoring Alliances
Author: Rorrer, Audrey
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Educational leadership, Psychology, Industrial
Description: ABSTRACTMentoring programs are viewed as effective recruiting and retention tools that orient faculty members into the professoriate and provide opportunities to integrate cultural diversity into university ideology. However, empirical research ab...