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  • LGBTQ+ coming out models : corpus based studies of academic and popular discourses

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    Cisneros, Daniel
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    The process of coming out by an individual of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ+) community involves recognition and disclosure, and it is a personal and important part of identity development. The process of coming out is also a symbol of the LGBTQ+ community’s self-disclosure of their sexual...
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    addition, I acknowledge and thank my dissertation committee, which includes Dr. Mary Aguilera, Dr. Arien

  • Indicators of Success in Hispanic College Students

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    Schulthes, Gretchen M.
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    Over the last few decades, Hispanic enrollment in postsecondary education has increased significantly. Despite increased access to higher education, there are still clear issues of educational equity when graduation and persistence rates are evaluated. While these alone are imperfect measures, they shed light on a burgeoning issue within the American...
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    extend gratitude to the rest of my committee, Dr. Mary Aguilera, Dr. Vicki Ebbeck, Dr. Deborah Rubel

  • 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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    therapy. Additional thanks are extended to Mary Aguilera, Terri Strong, and Deborah Rubel for their

  • 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 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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    . To my esteemed committee members, Drs. Gene Eakin, Abraham Cazares-Cervantes, Mary Aguilera, and

  • 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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    the rate of non-Hispanic White males” (Enders et al., 2018, p. 366). The incarceration and

  • Psychological and Linguistic Processes in Treatment Related Text Messages

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    Partch, Megan A.
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    Treatment providers seek low-cost, high-impact means of engaging clients in care with the aim to enhance treatment delivery and outcomes. With improvements to mobile technology making cell phone accessibility and usage rates high across all socio-economic levels, text messaging is becoming more frequently utilized as a means of promoting provider-client...
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    & Morgenstern, 2013, p. 316). Therefore, text messages may be a particularly effective intervention for

  • 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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    ” (Pope et al., 1979, p. 687). Despite some methodological limitations with the research design and

  • Rogers, Perls, and Ellis in Three Approaches to Psychotherapy: A Corpus-based Study

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    Miranda, Roberta A.
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    Counselor education programs traditionally have student counselors role-play therapy sessions to enhance skills in rapport building, aligning with a theoretical orientation, and other essential communication skills. Students, however, are often left to determine their own choice of words when engaging in these practice sessions, and consequently, experience uncertainty regarding how...
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    counselor’s role stating that “trust is the cornerstone of the counseling relationship” (p. 4). . The

  • A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Counseling Alliance Ruptures: A Pilot Study

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    Jacques, Justin
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    Establishing a therapeutic alliance or a therapeutic bond has long been seen as an essential component of obtaining positive treatment outcomes in clinical practice. More recently, the idea of recognizing therapeutic alliance ruptures (disagreements about the tasks or goals of therapy or a problem in the therapeutic bond) during counseling...
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    considered more reliable, especially when working with small values” (McEnery & Hardie, 2011, p. 246