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Title: Redefining The Discipline Gatekeeper: A Mixed Method Analysis Of Urban Middle School Assistant Principals
Author: Williams III, John
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership
Description: African American students, despite over four decades of research and reports, still receive the highest percentage of school discipline infractions (i.e., office referrals, in-school suspensions, out-of-school suspensions, expulsions, and referral...

Title: Navigating the Insider-Outsider Divide: Understanding the Socialization Experiences of Contract Workers
Author: Beveridge, Chelsea
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Management, Communication, Psychology
Description: Contractors have unique employment arrangements, but previous research has often grouped them into samples with other contingent workers. As such, research specific to contract workers is relatively sparse and focused on This dissertation focused ...

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: Function Matters: Examining Body Functionality as a Dimension of Body Image Among Women With and Without Disabilities
Author: Thomas, Erin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Public health
Description: Body image is defined as the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions a person has about their body. Body image disturbance is an increasingly important public health issue due to its documented associations with maladaptive health behaviors and dimini...

Title: From Early College to the University: A Case Study Exploring First-Semester Experiences
Author: Smith, Bradley
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: This single case study explored the first-semester experiences of twelve early college high school (ECHS) graduates as they transitioned to a large, public university in North Carolina. The purpose was to understand how early college graduates mad...

Title: AN EXPLORATION OF SUPERVISORS' EXPERIENCES OF SUPERVISORY WORKING ALLIANCE AND SESSION FACTORS WHEN FACILITATING DISTANCE-DELIVERED CLINICAL SUPERVISION
Author: Hammonds, Dominique
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology
Description: This dissertation examined supervisors' experiences of factors that may affect the facilitation of distance-delivered clinical supervision. Factors impacting the facilitation of face-to-face supervision such as supervisory working alliance, sessio...

Title: A BROKEN HEART: THE IMPACT OF PEDIATRIC OPEN HEART SURGERY ON PARENTS' WELLBEING AND PARENTING
Author: McWhorter, Linda
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: According to the pediatric medical traumatic stress model, pediatric medicalexperiences can create posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in pediatric patients and intheir parents and siblings. While the impact of traumatic medical experiences has b...