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Title: "Showing up every day": A grounded theory of military veterans' resolution of trauma
Author: Riffle, Olivia
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Medical sciences, Clinical psychology
Description: The purpose of this study was to conduct an explication of the construct of resolution in the context of posttraumatic growth, or positive psychological and life changes resulting from the struggle with a highly stressful or traumatic experience. ...

Title: A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CONSTRUCT OF ACCULTURATION, ACCULTURATIVE STRESS, AND COUNSELOR SELF-EFFICACY AMONG FOREIGN BORN COUNSELING STUDENTS
Author: Interiano-Shiverdecker, Claudia
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine how cultural practices, cultural values, cultural identification, and acculturative stress related to counselor self-efficacy among foreign-born counseling students. A total of 93 foreign-born students curr...

Title: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE EXPERIENCES OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE PEER RECOVERY COACHES CAREER MOTIVATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Author: Hymes, Aaron
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology
Description: This dissertation examined the experiences leading to working as a Substance Abuse Peer Recovery Coach and experiences while working as a Substance Abuse Peer Recovery Coach. This study utilized a phenomenological approach to analyze Peer Recovery...

Title: A Phenomenological Case Study of Faculty and Staff Experiences in Green Zone Training to Support Student Veteran Transition into Higher Education
Author: Davis, Christine
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education, Higher--Administration
Description: The enactment of the federal G.I. Bill in 1944 and subsequent amendments over the past 76 years have provided greater access to higher education for veteran service members (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, 1944; Steele et al., 2018; U.S. Department...

Title: A composite model of heterosexual identity, self-deception, and lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) counseling competence: A mediation model
Author: Erby, Adrienne
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology
Description: The study used structural equation modeling to test a correlational model of the relationship between heterosexual identity and LGB counseling competence, testing self-deception as a mediator. A proposed composite model of heterosexual identity wa...

Title: AN EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF PROGRAM FACTORS AND PERSONAL FACTORS TO DISSERTATION SELF-EFFICACY IN COUNSELOR EDUCATION DOCTORAL STUDENTS
Author: Georgiou, Gregory
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology
Description: This study examined the relationship of program factors (advising relationship and program climate) and personal factors (social support, procrastination, life stressors, finances, and student classification) to dissertation self-efficacy in couns...

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: An Exploration of Factors Impacting Professional Identity Among Master’s Level Counseling Students
Author: McMullen, James
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling, Counseling psychology, Education, Higher
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between program track, clinical experience, and supervisory relationship of counselors-in-training and their professional identity defined as counseling philosophy, beliefs about the profe...

Title: Assessment of Burnout With Implementation of a Brief Mindfulness Intervention in Palliative Care Clinicians
Author: Snyder, Rachel
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Background: While work in palliative and hospice care can be a rewarding experience in helping those suffering with complicated and terminal illnesses, it can also expose those involved to significant work stress, potentially leading to burnout. P...

Title: Choice Theory: An investigation of the treatment effects of a choice theory protocol on students identified as having a behavioral or emotional disability on measures of anxiety, depression, locus of control and self-esteem
Author: Reeder, Scott
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Continuing education
Description: ABSTRACTExisting research reveals that students who have a behavioral or emotional disability is a growing population within special education. Special education law and counseling organizations both agree that these students would likely benefit ...

Title: Effects of Medical Home Among Children With Special Health Care Needs
Author: Willits, Kathryn
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Health services administration
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of having access to a medical home on the use of the emergency department, primary care office visits and the number of missed school days among children with special health care needs.Analysi...

Title: Evaluation of health literacy as a predictor of the need for additional medical care
Author: Carlton, Cameron
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Medical sciences, Public health--Study and teaching
Description: Background In the current healthcare environment, health care providers do not always have the time needed to identify patients that have challenges understanding health related information. In order to improve health outcomes, it is imperative th...

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: How Intercollegiate Athletics Contributes to Institutional Viability and Culture: Small Private College Presidents’ Perspectives.
Author: Simmons, Connie
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education, Higher, School management and organization
Description: Small, private colleges provide an essential element to the landscape of higher education, offering intimate class sizes and high touch experiences for traditional college populations. Led by an institutional president, who sets strategic initiati...

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: Posttraumatic growth and career calling in undergraduates
Author: Riffle, Olivia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Psychology, Clinical psychology
Description: As emerging adults, college students are beginning to craft a life narrative that provides purpose and direction, part of which is the identification and pursuit of a meaningful career. It may even include a calling, a sense of being summoned to a...

Title: THE IMPACT OF CHILD-CENTERED GROUP PLAY THERAPY ON SOCIAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT OF KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN
Author: Kascsak, Theresa
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling, Mental health
Description: The development of social adjustment during elementary school is of critical importance because early socialization skills are an important predictor of both future social and emotional functioning. However, an examination of current literature re...

Title: THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG MASTER'S LEVEL COUNSELING TRAINEES' TRAINING LEVEL, EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, AND PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF EMOTION REGULATION DURING A SIMULATED COUNSELING INTERACTION
Author: Hill, Thomas
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Social sciences, Psychophysiology
Description: This study explored the relationships among master's level counseling trainees' level of training, ability emotional intelligence (EI), and psychophysiological correlates of emotion regulation recorded during a video-simulated client interaction. ...

Title: The Academic Achievement of African American Post-9/11 Veterans at Martin R. Delany State University (Pseudonym of an Actual Historically Black University)
Author: Hewitt, Dymilah
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: The purpose of this study is to examine the academic experiences of veterans attending historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Following World War II, enrollment at HBCUs was as high as 35%. Broader access at traditional colleges and...

Title: The Counseling Training Environment Scale (CTES): Development of a Self-Report Measure to Assess Counseling Training Environment
Author: Lau, Jared
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Adult education, Mental health
Description: Based on Bronfenbrenner's (1979, 1992) ecological framework, the Counseling Training Environment Scale (CTES) was developed as a self-report measure that assesses the learning and training environment of counseling and related mental health traini...