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Title: A Phenomenological Content Analysis of Siblings' Lived Experiences Related to Having a Sibling with Substance Use Problems
Author: Aucoin, Rose
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology
Description: ABSTRACTROSE M. AUCOIN. A Phenomenological Research Study of Peoples' Lived Experiences Related to Having a Sibling with Substance Use Problems. (Under the direction of DR. TARYNE M. MINGO) Research indicates that substance use of a family member ...

Title: A QUALITATIVE MULTIPLE CASE STUDY EXPLORING HIGH-PERFORMING TEACHER AGENCY AND REFORM OF “LOW-PERFORMING” SCHOOLS IN NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Kessler, William
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education and state
Description: Since the early 1980s, American educational reformers tried to improve schools through standards, high-stakes tests, and punishments for those schools that failed to meet the mark. In North Carolina, many schools with diverse populations and low s...

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: COMMUNITY COLLEGE PLACEMENT: HOW EMERGING POLICY AND PRACTICE RELATE TO SUCCESS AND PERSISTENCE
Author: Helget, Donna
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine whether the method of course placement for the first attempted English and mathematics courses was independent of the student demographic variables of gender, race/ethnicity, and Pell Grant eli...

Title: EXPERIENCES OF INDIVIDUALS WHO MAINTAIN ABSTINENCE FROM MOOD ALTERING SUBSTANCES USING SELF-DIRECTED, COGNITIVE-BASED RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUPS
Author: Kitzinger, Robert
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology
Description: ABSTRACTROBERT HENRY KITZINGER, JR. Experiences of individuals who maintain abstinence from mood altering substances using self-directed, cognitive-based recovery support groups. (Under the direction of DR. PAMELA S. LASSITER) The purpose of this ...

Title: EXPLORING THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION'S NEOCONSERVATIVE PUBLIC POLICIES INFLUENCE ON AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES' EDUCATIONAL AND LIFE OUTCOMES
Author: Yowell, Alexis
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education and state
Description: This study examined the influences of President Ronald Reagan's administration's neoconservative public policies and color-blind strategy on the educational and life outcomes of African American males who attended high school between 1981 and 1989...

Title: Examining the Holistic Health of Urban African Americans Experiencing Continuous Traumatic Stress and Gun Violence in Chicago
Author: Adoma, Jabari
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology
Description: This study examined the holistic health of urban African Americans living on the West Side and South Side of Chicago who are experiencing continuous traumatic stress (CTS) due to gun violence. The qualitative research study utilized a phenomenolog...

Title: Experiences of self-criticism among counseling students
Author: Kondili, Elvita
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology
Description: This dissertation examined the experiences of self-criticism among counseling students in practicum while in session with clients. This study utilized a phenomenological approach to data collection and analysis. The data was comprised of nine hour...

Title: Exploring the Experiences of Black Resident Advisors at Historically White Institutions
Author: Murray, Morgan
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: The resident advisor (RA) position is one of the most complex and important roles on college campuses in the United States. Few other student staff positions require the same level of training and have the same level of responsibilities (Blimling,...

Title: HE WHO FEEDS YOU: THE MALES PLACE COMMUNITY GARDEN AS A FACILITATOR OF DEVELOPMENT IN BLACK MALE YOUTH
Author: Simmons, Alexander
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Agriculture, Developmental psychology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Recent theory and findings suggest that even while enduring adverse social circumstances such as poverty, Black male youth exhibit strengths that can aid in their development. Some frameworks maintain that youth strengths can be fostered through i...

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: Navigating Life Experiences: Voices of African American Women Pursuing a College Degree After Incarceration
Author: Smith, April
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: This study examined the experiences of African American women pursuing college degrees after incarceration despite systemic barriers. The conceptual framework used to ground the research was Feminist Standpoint Theory (FST) through the lens of Bla...

Title: PERCEPTIONS OF CLIMATE AND STUDENT-FACULTY INTERACTIONS AMONGST AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSISTERS IN A BUSINESS PROGRAM AT A PREDOMINANTLY-WHITE INSTITUTION
Author: Allen, Monica
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education, Higher
Description: While representation of African American students in freshmen enrollment has improved, degree attainment of African Americans and other minority groups continue to lag behind the White and Asian American populations. Compounding the issue of lower...

Title: SUSPENSION RATES FOR STUDENTS OF COLOR IN RELATION TO THE PRESENCE OF SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS IN THREE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
Author: McDonald, Tyrone
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, School management and organization
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the long-term and short-term suspension and expulsion rates for Black males, White males, Black females and White female students in grades K-12 in relation to the presence of school resource officers (SROs...

Title: TEACHER PERCEPTION OF ADHD AND ITS INFLUENCES WHEN TEACHING READING TO ELEMENTARY MALES WITH ADHD
Author: Keller, Beth
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary
Description: The learning needs of students diagnosed with ADHD have been of interest of researchers over the last three decades. It is important to understand how best to support these learners in the classroom as they comprise about 10% of students in our na...

Title: THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCES OF INTERNATIONAL BLACK WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES: A CARIBBEAN PERSPECTIVE
Author: Talley Matthews, Sheikia
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: ABSTRACT. Institutions of higher education in the United States enroll the largest number of international students in the world each year (Bain & Cummings, 2005). In 2014-2015, the United States hosted 974,926 international students from around t...

Title: The Effect of Intentionality on Leadership Development: A single-subject case study
Author: Bryant, Joel
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: The purpose of this single-subject case study was to examine the effect of intentionality on leadership development, employing the theoretical frameworks of Positive Organizational Scholarship and Multiple Realities. The two fundamental research q...

Title: The Multiple Writing Genres of Online Learning: Students' Experience of Writing in the Online Classroom Space
Author: Wilson, Lynn
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Rhetoric, Educational technology
Description: Based upon theories of computer mediated communication of Herring and Lemke and the work of genre scholars such as Askehave, Santini, and Devitt, this qualitative study explored how computer mediated communication shapes writing genres in an onlin...

Title: “You Good, Bruh?” An Exploration of the Influence of Race and Masculinity on Millennial Black Men’s Decisions to Seek Mental Health Treatment
Author: Cofield, Demetrius
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mental health, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching
Description: In recent years there has been a significant increase in the prevalence of mental illness among millennials. However, there is still a significantly lower rate of Black millennials, specifically Black men, utilizing mental health services compared...