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  • 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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    particular social, historical, and political context” (Whaley & King, 2007, p. 568). This definition of

  • Family aided community treatment as an intervention for the treatment of early psychosis : a proof of concept study

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    Melton, Ryan P.
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    Major psychotic disorders are one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, having severe impacts on the people who suffer from the conditions, their families and society. There is evidence that if these conditions are identified and treated early, the prognosis is improved. The purpose of this dissertation study is...
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    ABSTRACT AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Ryan P

  • The treatment of criminal recidivism : corpus-based analyses

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    Texidor Maldonado, Carlos Obed
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    The dehumanization of Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) and marginalized communities does not end once an individual is released from an institution. The dehumanization process is kept alive with ineffective community supervision and the stigma associated with an individual’s incarnation history. Evidence of this continual dehumanization process is reflected...
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    ) criminal sentencing in sexual offense cases, and (f) behavioral experiments and interventions in

  • 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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    ., Zane, N. W., Leong, F. T. L., Hwang, W-C., Nezu, A. M., Nezu, C. M., Hong, J. J., Chu, J. P., & Huang

  • A Linguistic Analysis of the Content, Context, and Demographic Variables Related to Clinician Professional Misconduct

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    Ström, Eric L.
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    The professions of counseling, marriage and family therapy, and social work are highly controlled with regulators frequently issuing findings of professional misconduct against clinicians. Although much research has been conducted with regard to clinician professional misconduct in general, there is a scarcity of research investigating the relationship between gender and...
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    (f) recordkeeping words were compared to the criterion variables consisting of (a) gender, (b

  • The Bullying Experiences of Muslim-American Youth in U.S. Public Schools

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    Baadarani, Dalia
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    Bullying cultivates insecurity and fear while generating attention for the perpetrator and degrading the student-victim in front of others. The act erodes the self-efficacy and identity of minority students more specifically and produces a hostile climate that undermines the learning and social development to all affected. Despite the pervasive negative...
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    -direct bullying among Muslim students (p > .05). The analysis employed an extant database with de

  • A Corpus Assisted Analysis of Eating Disorders

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    Cantu, Sara A.
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    The number of deaths by suicide each year in the United States is rising. Men, women, and people of all ages die by suicide at high rates. Someone diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia is at significantly greater risk of completing or attempting suicide, making clear the importance of understanding how...
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    determine word usage rates in the memoir corpus compared to known norm rates. Besides p values, effect

  • A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Public Reddit and Tumblr Blog Posts on Non-Suicidal Self-Injury

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    Greaves, Mandy M.
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    Self-harm is a frightening phenomenon that affects adolescents and young adults all over the world. While non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) has a high prevalence rate, it is not a new behavior. One of the earliest documented cases of NSSI was in ancient Greece and it has gained popularity amongst adolescents. NSSI...
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    noted: (a) percentage of all words, (b) one sample z test of proportion with study results as p-hat

  • Adolescent sexual initiation : a predictor of adult female romantic attachment?

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    Waggoner, April R.
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    There is a knowledge gap concerning the outcomes of early adolescent sexual initiation (ASI). In particular, the influence of early ASI upon adult attachment is unknown. A multiple regression study was conducted to address this knowledge gap. Adult partner/spouse attachment was the criterion variable, and the predictor variables included both...
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    development” (Aarestad, 2000, p. 87), this dissertation focused on the constructs of early ASI and

  • Adolescent Suicide Through the Lens of 13 Reasons Why: A Corpus Based Study

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    Ware Zooi, Rachel
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    With growing recognition of adolescence as the time in which suicidal thoughts and behaviors first occur, early identification and intervention systems in schools have become an international priority. Understanding and incorporating language indicators associated with the core psychological and interpersonal processes of adolescent suicidality could provide promising tools for school...
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    , S., Yu, C. P., Fung, S. F., Pan, S., & Long, G. (2018). Supervised learning for suicidal ideation