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  • Linguistic Characteristics of Health Anxiety from Online Discourse

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    McBride, Christopher G.
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    Health anxiety prevalence is increasing (Tyrer et al., 2019). Health anxiety is a preoccupation or overestimation of the serious physiological symptoms that cause significant distress (Salkovskis & Warwick, 2001). Those with health anxiety may endure significant suffering, intense misery, and for some health anxiety leads to suicide (Tyrer & Tyrer...
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    /HealthAnxiety to create a study corpus. The Corpus of Contemporary American English was used as a reference

  • Threat assessment in community colleges

    Creator:
    Bolante, Rebecca
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    The field of threat assessment and management in higher education is in the early stages of development. In particular, little is noted in the research literature about the practices of threat assessment teams in this environment. To fill this knowledge gap, a random national sample of 15% (n = 148)...
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    respondents was law enforcement/security (n = 52), college administration (n = 55), and other (n = 6

  • The Impact of Digital Media on Mandala Making in Art Therapy

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    Donahue, Elizabeth C.
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    In the United States, the utilization of digital media has assumed an omnipresent status and has altered the manner in which we communicate, conduct business, and create art and music. However, it has been demonstrated that art therapy lags behind the current culture of prolific use of digital media. To...
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    question was: In reference to symptoms of generalized anxiety, what is the impact of a switch to digital

  • A corpus linguistic analysis of lyrics and suicide

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    Walters, Holly
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    Corpus linguistics studies involving lyrics continue to grow. While previous research has pointed to a positive relationship between certain personality traits and music types, the relationship between lyrics and suicide is understudied. As such, mental health researchers and practitioners have little sense of how the language of someone who has...
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    keyness analysis the Cobain corpus was compared against a reference corpus of grunge music from the same

  • A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Self-compassion and Postpartum Self-help Literature

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    Watkins, Danielle L.
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    The self-help literature is full of texts on both self-compassion and postpartum depression. However, there has been minimal scientific exploration of the literature on these topics. As such, mental health researchers and practitioners have little sense of the psycholinguistic discourse contained in this literature. This study aimed to fill this...
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    "lacked." In reference to RQ4, the strongest correlates to the node word "postpartum" were

  • The Book of Mormon Topic Structure, Keyness Distinctions, and Collocates of Deity: Implications for Mental Health Professionals

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    Callister, Paul T.
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    Understanding the spiritual worldview of clients is a core element of multicultural competency for mental health professionals. One spiritual and religious population is members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and related Latter-day Saint populations. The Book of Mormon is an important sacred text of this population....
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    Counseling presented on December 6, 2021. Title: The Book of Mormon Topic Structure, Keyness

  • Toward An Academic Theory of Social Justice Judgment and Decision-Making : Rights, Justice, and Legal Ideology

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    Werner, Michael W.
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    This dissertation serves a threefold purpose: 1. identify the principles, practices and assumptions implicated in an academic theory of social justice; 2. continue moving towards articulating a theory of social justice judgment and decision making; and 3. develop a model of social justice judgment and decision making that will assist...
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    , and frames of reference (cf., ontological thought). To these ends, rights, justice, and legal

  • Prevalence of Mathematics Anxiety in Preservice Teachers and Preservice Counselors

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    Gill, Gurpal K.
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    Almost two decades have passed since the publication of Jackson and Leffingwell’s (1999) influential article on math anxiety in preservice school teachers and their worst math experiences. The present dissertation represents both a replication and an extension of the original study. Study Arm A was the replication study with preservice...
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    question was about the timing of a worst math experience (i.e., occurred in grade ranges of 1 to 5, 6 to

  • Corpus-Based Studies on Pregnancy

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    Mullen, Alyson
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    The pregnancy and postpartum periods are full of major life transitions. So often, the focus of the literature is about the unborn baby and physical changes a woman experiences throughout this timeframe. Many sources often overlook women’s personal experiences in the perinatal period. Despite an increase in perinatal mood and...
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    . Subreddit posts were examined and compared to a reference corpus. Results showed a significant linguistic

  • A National Five-Year Exploratory and Descriptive Analysis of Two-Year Public College Graduation Rates at Branch Compared to Non-Branch Campuses

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    Harrison, Faimous J. L.
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    Branch campuses play an important part in postsecondary degree attainment by providing place-bound students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds in different geographical regions access to education that is convenient. Their heterogeneousness structures, including enrollment size, communities, and populations served, are not accurately reflected in the majority of the research. Currently, there...
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