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Title: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF EXPERIENCES OF TRAUMA-TRAINED K-12 TEACHERS PRACTICING TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE APPROACHES WITHIN THEIR CLASSROOMS
Author: McCasey, Christine
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences, Educational psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Trauma-informed care (TIC) has been the subject of numerous scholarly studies in various contexts for nearly four decades. Thus, TIC practices have been shown to reduce educators' stress (Jaycox et al., 2019), increase teacher awareness of student...

Title: ANOTHER BATTLE, ANOTHER HURDLE: HOW PARENTS CREATE MEANING FROM RAISING A CHILD WITH AUTISM
Author: Basalik, Debra
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology
Description: The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is increasing (CDC, 2016). Research studies have focused on either medical treatments and therapeutic interventions for this disorder, or the trauma of the diagnostic process. Scholarship, however,...

Title: ASSESSING THE RELATION BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING AND EMOTION REGULATION STRATEGY CHOICE
Author: Park, Sydney
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Emotion regulation (ER) is an essential aspect of daily life. Critically, an individual’s ability to implement different ER strategies requires varying levels of cognitive control known as executive functions (EFs). Specifically, EFs such as inter...

Title: An Exploration of Gender Differences in Seventh-Grade Single-Sex Mathematics Classrooms in a Co-Educational Public School
Author: Rohn, Debra
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of this exploratory case study was to examine the learning experiences of students enrolled in an all-girls and all-boys math class. Forty-nine (22 boys and 27 girls) seventh-grade students from a rural co-educational public middle sch...

Title: Black MSM Oral Health Behaviors and Implications for HIV Risk
Author: Johnson, Darrin
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Health services administration, Social service
Description: The primary goal of this qualitative and quantitative mixed methods exploratory pilot study is to determine the oral health behaviors of Black men who have sex with men (MSM). The secondary goal of this mixed methods study is to determine if Black...

Title: Cognitive Control of Attention, Emotion, and Memory: An ERP Study
Author: Eyer, Joshua
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Cognitive psychology, Clinical psychology
Description: Unwanted retrieval of negative memories can be problematic for many clinical populations. The Think/No-Think (T/NT) task (Anderson & Green, 2001) is a new paradigm for studying cognitive control during cued recall. In this task participants view a...

Title: Counselor Posttraumatic Growth Linked to Harmful Clinical Supervision
Author: White, Tristin
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology
Description: Clinical supervision is the primary method to educate and train professional counselors (Baltrinic & Wachter Morris, 2020). While clinical supervision tends to be positive and constructive, harmful clinical supervision occurs. As defined by Ellis ...

Title: Housing Insecure Black Mothers’ Experiences Navigating Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Charlotte, NC
Author: Patel, Kripa
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact across the US, but further strained Black families’ financial security, especially Black mothers. Black individuals were already disproportionately represented as low-wage workers and housing insecure p...

Title: Institutional Factors in Health Disparities
Author: Hampton, Cicily
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Government policy
Description: The purpose of this dissertation is to address institutional factors that may be the root cause of health disparities. Misdirected resources may help to explain why health disparities have actually increased as targeted interventions aimed at thei...

Title: Intersectionality of Identity and HIV-Related Stigma
Author: Lovato, Laura
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Government policy, Psychology
Description: The impact of HIV-related stigma on HIV prevention, treatment, and the well-being of people living with HIV (PLWH) is well established within the existing literature. HIV-related stigma experiences are compounded by intersections of identity, in t...

Title: QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF A COLLEGE STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH GROUP
Author: Larson, Jacqueline
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: College students experience mental health problems (MHPs) at high rates, presenting challenges to students, families, and campus officials. As one response, student mental health groups – often student-led campus chapters of national organizations...

Title: Repair Following Healthcare Institutional Betrayal
Author: Richie, Fallon
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology, Health services administration
Description: Institutional betrayal is a type of betrayal trauma that occurs when an organization or system perpetrates wrongdoing through acts of omission or commission, against individuals who depend on that system. Originally applied to systems responding t...

Title: The Incentives and Effects of Unnecessary Emergency Ambulance Transport
Author: Deziel, Jackson
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Medical sciences
Description: In the EMS field, the problem of low-acuity, non-emergency individuals who summon an emergency ambulance for simple transport to a local hospital is ever-present. Any person may summon an emergency ambulance and receive transport for the most mino...

Title: WHAT'S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER: IMPLEMENTING THE SIOP MODEL INTO AN URBAN ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS
Author: Collins, Jennifer
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Curriculum planning
Description: Research points to many factors that contribute to the achievement gap between white and minority students however; one important issue that is often overlooked is the academic language status of the student. Knowing that lack of familiarity and p...

Title: “It sometimes heals, but it sometimes hurts”; Exploring the issues facing first-generation and immigrant staff caring for immigrant youth in an after-school program
Author: Cronin, Claire
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Counseling psychology, Early childhood education
Description: Coming from countries across the world, immigrants have chosen to start a new life in the United States, and become part of the fabric that makes up American society. Today, immigrant children face a unique set of challenges and hardships includin...