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  • A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Pro-Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Pro-Anorexia Public Tumblr Posts Which Use Spanish (Un Analisis de Lingüística de Corpus de Publicaciones Pública que usan Español en Tumblr que Respaldan a las Pró Autolesiones No Suicidas y Pró-Anorexia)

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    Elrod, Kristeen E.
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    On social media platforms and on blog sites, disordered behavior as a lifestyle choice is a growing trend that supports and promotes behaviors related to self-harm and anorexia. Web content advocating self-harm and anorexia can be found easily through search engines or can be concealed in the social media sphere...
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    Español en Tumblr que Respaldan a las Pró Autolesiones No Suicidas y Pró- Anorexia

  • Substance Use Among Women Who Have Sex with Women

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    Dorn-Medeiros, Cort M.
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    Professional organizations in the fields of counseling and psychotherapy-related professions all require counselors and counseling students to work with a vast array of potential clients who may differ significantly from themselves. For example, these counselor and client differences can include one or several factors such as age, race, ethnicity, ability...
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    WSW who did not report interpersonal violence. There was no significant difference in tobacco use

  • A summative evaluation of a dolphin assisted therapy program for children with special needs

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    Dilts, Rachel M.
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    This dissertation reviews the literature on the specialty area of dolphin assisted therapy (DAT), a subfield of animal assisted therapy (AAT). To date the literature on the effectiveness of DAT has been mixed although a majority of it is positive. The study was conducted with 40 parents whose children were...
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    program in the Ukraine. A parent report scale using the Behavior Dimensions Rating Scale (BDRS) was

  • Sources of Psychological Support for East Asians Reporting Mental Health Issues

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    Wong, Stephen P.
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    Mental illness is a universal phenomenon, but cultural context has a profound influence on how it is perceived, classified, and treated. Most systematic research on public attitudes toward mental illness has been completed in Western societies. The emergence of multicultural psychotherapy in the West has helped professionals recognize the extent...
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    , respectively. Compared to Western culture, a higher percentage of East Asians report they are comfortable

  • Disproportionality in Gifted Education

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    List, Allison
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    Gifted education has historically involved disproportionate rates of identification and enrollment for both students of color and students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, depriving these groups of more challenging learning opportunities. Giftedness transcends subgroups, spanning all racial, socioeconomic, and disability categories; still, data indicate that Asian and White students are identified...
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    to enter their lives in the most vulnerable of moments. I am no longer working with students as a

  • 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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    and psychological processes opioid-using pregnant women experience and report on social media

  • The relationship between individualism vs. collectivism and the culturally intelligent behavior of counselor trainees

    Creator:
    James, Gene M.
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    Multicultural competency has been established as important component of communicating within a cross-cultural ecology. Yet, there is evidence that many counselors struggle to communicate and interact outside of their own cultural communication norms. Until this study, no one has attempted to integrate culture and intelligence as a unitary counseling construct....
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    study or analysis (Kâğitçibaşi, 1994). The evolution of a clear conceptualization of I/C is no

  • An Investigation of the Impact of Adding Art Therapy to Mindfulness Enhancement Training

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    Douglas, Eileen K.
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    Attention to the benefits of mindfulness practice transcends the fields of mental health and medicine. Extensive research has explored the use of mindfulness-based practices in counseling and psychotherapy. Benefits of mindfulness practice, both during session and in cases in which mindfulness was only practiced by the therapist outside of session,...
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    art making. Currently, there is no research measuring the impact of adding art therapy to a

  • Psychological Elements of Trauma and Grief among Young Banso Widows in Cameroon

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    Lange, Ruth Kinyuy
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    Because of disease, industrialization, and regional conflicts, young widowhood is an expanding phenomenon in many parts of the world. Young widows face many challenges that can lead to mental health problems. The young widows have to make adjustments to fit their new roles as bread winners of the families, having...
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    self-report measure of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among study participants. Although the

  • Historical and current trends in counselor education dissertations

    Creator:
    Richards, Judith D.
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    Doctoral training programs in counselor education require a dissertation, a capstone project in the academic training and development of graduate students seeking a PhD or an EdD. The dissertation is expected to contribute new knowledge to the profession through the researcher reporting the results of research. The counselor education literature...
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    differences in content, research methodology, or design. No decadal differences were discovered. Having a