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Healing Through Movement: The Benefits Of Belly Dance For Gendered Victimization, Angela Moe

Angela M. Moe

Perceptions of “belly dance” are that it is degrading, exploitive, and incongruous to feminism. Curiously, however, the dance is incredibly popular in various parts of the world, including the United States, as a form of recreation and creative expression. This paper examines the apparent disconnect between public perception and practitioner standpoint. Findings indicate a strong holistic healing component, particularly in terms of gendered interpersonal victimization, where belly dance seems to hold potential for self-exploration and discovery. Grounded historically, culturally and empirically, these findings are discussed in terms of their application to social work practice as it relates to alternative therapies.

Introduction, Paul Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.

Cosmopoliteness, Cultivation And Media Use., Leo Jeffres, Cheryl Bracken, Kimberly Neuendorg, Jennifer Kopfman, David Atkin

Cheryl C Bracken

No abstract provided.

Lived Experience From The Inside Out: The Social And Political Philosophy Of Edith Stein, Antonio Calcagno

Antonio Calcagno

While most works devoted to Edith Stein’s philosophical legacy focus on her later, more explicitly Christian works, including Finite and Eternal Being, this comprehensive account offers readers a look into the early social and political philosophy of Stein before her conversion to Catholicism. During this period, Stein produced a significant body of philosophical work drawing on advancements in phenomenology, psychology, philosophy of mind, and sociology. As Antonio Calcagno demonstrates, this leads to a rich account of society, community, and the state through Stein’s analysis of certain states of mind, psychology, and a defense of a law-centered state community. Lived Experience …

Emotional Doubt And Divine Hiddenness, A. Thornhill

A. Chadwick Thornhill

This essay will seek to develop a possible model for addressing the existential problem of divine hiddenness and the emotional doubt that it might cause in the life of a believer. In doing so, it will identify several potential "root causes" for the experience of the existential problem of divine hiddenness and attempt to guide a hurting individual through dealing with their doubt by applying misbelief therapy.

Huron University College Learning Behaviors And Learning Spaces - Student Survey Results, Jennifer Robinson

Jennifer Robinson

In March 2014, Huron students and faculty were invited to participate in an online survey on Learning Behaviors and Learning Spaces. This survey was part of an effort to match desired learning behaviours with the design of learning space at Huron, including a proposed Learning Commons. The report summarizes the results of the survey and gives information on next steps in the Learning Commons project.

Gun Show Research, Or Ridicule?, Rachel Rayburn

Rachel L Rayburn

No abstract provided.

Secondary Targeting: A Strategic Approach To Tar Sands Resistance, Stephen D'Arcy

Stephen D'Arcy

A strategic framework for tar sands resistance.

The Federal Communities Agenda: Metagovernance For Place-Based Policy In Canada, Neil Bradford

Neil Bradford

No abstract provided.

The Sky Is The Limit, Alexander Hayes

Alexander Hayes Mr.

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine Associate Editor Alexander Hayes interviewed Glass Explorer Cecilia Abadie on January 21, 2013. The complete Google Hangout interview is available for viewing on YouTube at http://goo.gl/YFFbxJ.

The Embedded Librarian's Cookbook, Kaijsa Calkins, Cassandra Kvenild

Cass Kvenild

The Embedded Librarian’s Cookbook offers step-by-step guidelines for implementing tested approaches to embedded librarianship. As with ACRL’s 2009 Library Instruction Cookbook, the “recipes” are sorted into categories related to different uses and depth of need. This second Cookbook provides librarians with a variety of approaches to embedding instruction in courses and to assessing these activities. 55 recipes aimed at different audiences and for a wide variety of situations are presented. This volume builds on the ACRL 2011 publication Embedded Librarianship: Moving Beyond One-shot Instruction, also edited by Kaijsa Calkins and Cassandra Kvenild.

Afterword: For Inspiration And The Future, Paul Nesbitt-Larking, Henk Dekker, Tereza Capelos, Catarina Kinnvall

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.

Gender And Wildfire: Landscapes Of Uncertainty, Christine Eriksen

Christine Eriksen

In pursuit of lifestyle change, affordable property, and proximity to nature, people from all walks of life are moving to the wildland-urban interface. Tragic wildfires and a predicted increase in high fire danger weather with climate change have triggered concern for the safety of such amenity-led migrants in wildfire-prone landscapes. This book examines wildfire awareness and preparedness amongst women, men, households, communities and agencies at the interface between city and beyond. It does so through an examination of two regions where wildfires are common and disastrous, and where how to deal with them is a major political issue: southeast Australia …

Autism Spectrum Disorders In Children And Adolescents: Evidence-Based Assessment And Intervention In Schools., Lee Wilkinson

Lee A Wilkinson, PhD

School professionals and clinicians share the challenge of identifying and providing interventions for the increasing number of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This book is an authoritative resource that presents up-to-date research and evidence-based tools for accurate assessment and intervention. It includes procedures to help identify children using the new DSM-5 symptom criteria and offers essential guidance for assessing a variety of emotional, behavioral, and academic problems. The book provides practitioners with an evidence-based assessment battery, which includes tests of cognitive, academic, neuropsychological, and adaptive functioning. The pragmatic, social-communicative functions of language are considered together with assessments to identify …

Labeling To Distract, John Lang

John T. Lang

Excerpt: But by labeling, people may believe that they have successfully insulated themselves from the problems of modern agricultural practices and may therefore lack motivation for organizing for change. As sociologist Andrew Szasz explains in his 2009 book, Shopping Our Way to Safety, if individuals believe that they have shielded themselves from a perceived threat, there is a false sense of security.

With GM food labeling, the “protected” consumers would feel less urgency to push for the kind of regulatory controls needed to address structural issues in the food system, and regulators would have little incentive to defy the powerful …

American Evangelicals Talking With God In Their Minds, Rebecca Kim

Rebecca Kim

Tanya M. Luhrmann’s When God Talks Back examines how God becomes real in the minds of American evangelicals. How is it that sensible and reasonable people in this evidential world claim to walk and talk with God and experience God personally? Luhrmann answers this conundrum as an anthropological psychologist and sympathetic outsider delving into the world of American evangelicals. She finds that evangelicals are able to experience an all-loving God who has a direct and positive effect in their lives because they train their minds to do so. They school their minds to see, touch, and feel God. Reviewing the …

Depression Screening On A Maternity Unit: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation Of Nurses’ Views And Implementation Strategies, Lisa Segre, Lauren Pollack, Rebecca Brock, Jeana Andrew, Michael O'Hara

Lisa S. Segre

Postpartum women often suffer clinically significant depressive symptoms, a problem addressed by nurse-delivered screening programs. In the past, success of these identification programs was measured in terms of screening rates; however, merely evaluating the screening rate does little to inform howto implement depression screening in clinical practice. This article describes the experiences of nurses in implementing depression screening on a maternity unit. We evaluate the practice qualitatively, by asking nurses to describe their screening strategies and their views about implementation, as well as quantitatively by assessing their screening rates and the number of women identified. Utilizing a framework of program …

Individual Learning In Team Training: Self-Regulation And Team Context Effects, Kemp Ellington, Erich Dierdorff

Erich C. Dierdorff

Although many analysts recognize that team-level learning is reliant on the acquisition of learning content by individuals, very little research has examined individual-level learning during team training. In a sample of 70 teams (N = 380) that participated in a simulation-based team training setting designed to teach strategic decision-making, we examined how self-regulation during team training influenced the extent to which team members subsequently demonstrated individual mastery of the team training content. We also investigated the extent to which team characteristics moderated the relationships between self-regulation and learning outcomes. Multilevel mediation results indicated that self-efficacy fully mediated the effects of …

The End Of The Pipeline: A Journey Of Recognition For African Americans Entering The Legal Profession, La Loria Konata

La Loria Konata

No abstract provided.

The Us Congressional Record As A Technology Of Representation: Toward A Materialist Theory Of Institutional Argumentation, Zornitsa Keremidchieva

Zornitsa Keremidchieva

No abstract provided.

I’M Not An Alcoholic Anymore: Getting And Staying Sober Without Twelve Step Meetings, Rachel Rayburn

Rachel L Rayburn

This project studies desistance from substance abuse and 12-step meetings. In the early 1990s, The New Orleans Homeless Substance Abusers Project (NOHSAP) was created to uncover treatment strategies for homeless substance abusers. The program ran for 3 years with 670 homeless New Orleans individuals going through treatment. This project involved finding these individuals and re-interviewing them (19 years later). The methodology for this study consists of follow-up interviews with 32 individuals in a variety of settings including at their homes and in prisons. Individuals interviewed tended to be sober, but disaffiliated with 12-step meetings.

Well-Being And Health Considerations For The Aging Lesbian Community: Understanding Age Cohorts, Partnerships And Caregiving Among Other Unique Needs, Marcia Spira

Marcia Spira

No abstract provided.

Dynamic Participation In Interdistrict Open Enrollment, Lesley Lavery, Deven Carlson

Lesley Lavery

No abstract provided.

Information And Communication Technologies (Icts) And Climate Change Adaptation In Latin America And The Caribbean: A Framework For Action, Hallie Eakin, Pedro Wightman, David Hsu, Vladimir Gil, Eduardo Fuentes-Contreras, Megan Cox, Tracy-Ann Hyman, Carlos Pacas, Fernando Borras, Diego Barrido, Daniel Kammen

David Hsu

Despite ongoing interest in deploying Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for sustainable development, their use in climate change adaptation remains under-studied. Based on the integration of adaptation theory and the existing literature on the use of ICTs in development, we present an analytical model for conceptualizing the contribution of existing ICTs to adaptation, and a framework for evaluating ICT success. We apply the framework to four case studies of ICTs in use for early warning systems and managing extreme events in LAC countries. We propose that existing ICTs can support adaptation through enabling access to critical information for decision-making, coordinating …

Getting Serious About The Teacher Quality Gap, Dan Goldhaber, Lesley Lavery, Roddy Theobald

Lesley Lavery

No abstract provided.

Neighbourhood Revitalization In Canada: Towards Place-Based Policy Solutions, Neil Bradford

Neil Bradford

No abstract provided.

Resilience & Recovery In Special Populations: Children, John Fairbank, Ernestine Briggs, Karen Carmody, Johanna Greeson, Briana Woods

Johanna K.P. Greeson, PhD, MSS, MLSP

This volume synthesizes cutting-edge research on natural processes of resilience and recovery, highlighting implications for trauma treatment and prevention. Prominent experts examine what enables many trauma survivors to heal over time without intervention, as well what causes others to develop long-term psychiatric problems. Identifying key, modifiable risk and resilience factors—such as cognitions and beliefs, avoidance, pain, and social support—the book provides recommendations for when (and when not) to intervene to promote recovery. Illustrative case examples are included. A section on specific populations discusses children, military personnel, and low socioeconomic status or marginalized communities.

Smart Women, Different Choices: College-Educated Women With Children Negotiating Work And Family, Dianna Shandy, Karine Moe

Dianna Shandy

No abstract provided.

Police-Building And The Responsibility To Protect: Civil Society, Gender And Human Rights Culture In Oceania, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou

Nichole Georgeou

Forthcoming: This book examines how the United Nations and states provide assistance for the police services of developing states to help them meet their human rights obligations to their citizens, under the responsibility to protect (R2P) provisions. It examines police-capacity building ("police-building") by international donors in Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea (PNG). All three states have been described as "fragile states" and "states of concern", and all have witnessed significant social tensions and violence in the past decades. The authors argue that globally police-building forms part of an attempt to make states "safe" so that they can adhere …

The Effectiveness Of Educational Interventions In Reducing Negative Attitudes And Stigmatisation Toward Patients With Anorexia Nervosa., Peta Stapleton, Amy Bannatyne

Peta B. Stapleton

It is frequently reported that clinicians across a range of professional disciplines experience strong negative reactions toward patients with eating disorders, particularly anorexia nervosa (AN). As research consistently demonstrates fear of stigma is the most frequently cited reason explaining why individuals with mental illness do not seek treatment, the current study aimed to develop, evaluate and compare the effectiveness of two differing educational interventions, based on an etiological framing model, against a wait-list control. Participants were fourth-year medicine students randomly assigned to one of three conditions. A three-hour educational workshop was delivered to participants at the beginning of an eight-week …