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Do The Write Thing Essay, 2015

Do the Write Thing, Boston

No abstract provided.

Do The Write Thing Essay, 2015

Do the Write Thing, Boston

No abstract provided.

Do The Write Thing Essay, 2015

Do the Write Thing, Boston

No abstract provided.

Do The Write Thing Essay, 2015

Do the Write Thing, Boston

No abstract provided.

Do The Write Thing Essay, 2015

Do the Write Thing, Boston

No abstract provided.

Do The Write Thing Essay, 2015

Do the Write Thing, Boston

No abstract provided.

Do The Write Thing Essay, 2015

Do the Write Thing, Boston

No abstract provided.

Keflavík On Hegranes: Cemetery Excavation—Interim Report2015, Guðný Zoega, Douglas J. Bolender, Brian N. Damiata, John M. Steinberg

Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research Publications

The summer of 2015 was the first of three planned years of excavations at the early Christian cemetery at farm Keflavík on Hegranes in the region of Skagafjörður, North Iceland. The excavation is the third phase of Skagfirska kirkjurannsóknin (Skagafjörður Church Project) and is a collective effort of the Skagafjörður Heritage Museum and the Fiske Center of the University of MassachusettsBoston. The collective project goes by the name Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey (SCASS). The excavation season started on the 6thof July and finished on the 14thof August. The first two weeks were spent cleaning the surface and removing a …

Book Review - Journal Of Rehabilitation, James Soldner

School for Global Inclusion and Social Development Faculty Publications

This review concerns Clinical Supervision and Administrative Practices in Allied Health Professions, edited by Flowers, Soldner, and Robertson. This is a timely work in view of the complex challenges currently facing health care administrators. The book focuses on both managerial issues and supervision practices, is well organized, and leaves few important stones unturned. This fresh contribution to the management literature features originality and responsiveness to real-world challenges. Of particular note is the fact that the authors have chosen to combine issues of managerial administrative importance with clinical supervision roles and functions. While management and supervision roles differ significantly, it is …

Performance Management, James Soldner

School for Global Inclusion and Social Development Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

State Agency Promising Practice: Washington’S Investment In Robust Training And Technical Assistance, Jennifer Bose, Thinkwork! At The Institute For Community Inclusion At Umass Boston

ThinkWork! Publications

In the mid-1980s, the state of Washington was awarded a five-year federal systems change grant to kick-start their supported employment efforts via the Washington State Employment Initiative. Funding from this grant was used to develop training on best practices and to generate high-quality integrated employment supports among agencies. At the end of this five-year period, with state funding and support from state leadership, the Washington State Employment Initiative re-formed as WISE, an independent training and technical assistance (TA) organization. WISE now contracts with the Washington Developmental Disabilities Administration to provide ongoing, high-quality training and TA across the state and to …

State Agency Promising Practices: New Hampshire’S Employment Data Collection - The Power To Transform Communication, Partnership, And Service Delivery, Jennifer Bose, Thinkwork! At The Institute For Community Inclusion At Umass Boston

ThinkWork! Publications

In 2010, when the New Hampshire Bureau of Developmental Services (BDS) received grant funds to strengthen multisystem service delivery, its administrators partnered with area agencies; community rehabilitation providers, or CRPs (employment providers); and other stakeholders to improve and streamline the process of collecting employment data. Originally a multi-system process, BDS continued the data-collection effort when other systems withdrew. BDS’s new data-collection system allows unprecedented access to clear data displays, as well as the ability to run a variety of detailed reports to guide the statewide promotion of integrated employment.

State Agency Promising Practice: Project Gate In Alabama - Creative Sequencing Of Funding, Susanne Freeze, Thinkwork! At The Institute For Community Inclusion At Umass Boston

ThinkWork! Publications

Alabama has piloted the Gaining Access to Employment project, a collaborative effort between the state’s Department of Mental Health/ Developmental Disabilities (MH/DD) and its Department of Vocational Rehabilitation (VR). Through this project, known as Project GATE, the two agencies work together to help local service providers use funds to support integrated employment opportunities. MH/DD and VR have a long history of partnering, including joint efforts on a supported employment workgroup, due to the strong relationships between colleagues at each department.

2015 Poll Of Emerging Adults [Work, Education And Identity], Jeffrey Jensen Arnett

The Clark University Poll (2012-2015)

Report for the 2015 Poll of Emerging Adults: Work, Education and Identity". Unlike 2012-2014, the 2015 report was a PowerPoint Presentation. The slides are presented and made available as a PDF.

The research objectives were as follows:

• Reflections on education and its impact on the lives of Emerging Adults and their transition into the workplace
• How Emerging Adults form their identities and pursue identity-based work that makes the best of their talents and interests
• Insight into the stereotypes associated with Emerging Adults
• Current status of life at work, and how Emerging Adults envision their futures

The …

The Relationship Between Transformational Leadership Behavior, Adult Attachment And God Attachment, Deboarah Foulkes

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Transformational leaders are charged with the undertaking of not only accomplishing tasks, but also engaging followers in a manner that will achieve these tasks. An interaction with the follower is needed to achieve this, and the quality of that interaction may be impacted by environmental stressors. Past studies suggest that adult attachment orientation will determine the quality of interpersonal interactions. Additionally, past studies also suggest that an attachment to God influences the quality of interpersonal interactions and how one copes with stress. A correspondence model of God attachment posits that a person’s attachment to God will be similar to their …

A Life Beyond Endurance By: Fay Grindrod (Review), Susan Stuntzner

Counseling Faculty Publications and Presentations

The author of this book is one such individual. Ms. Grindrod witnessed the Holocaust from an early age, saw and experienced the devastating effects of it firsthand. Grindrod opens the book with a synopsis of her time and experiences as a master’s student in a guidance and counseling program. During this portion of her life, she is afforded an opportunity to explore and write about her own (a) personal and life development; (b) familial experiences growing up and those that occurred during the Holocaust; (c) testimonial witnessing to mass starvation amongst people she knew; and (d) stark observations of friends, …

Implementing A Holistic Approach To Enhance Career Opportunities For Transition Students With Disabilities, Susan Stuntzner, Bryan Austin

Counseling Faculty Publications and Presentations

Transition services are vitally important and an essential component of successful employment, career planning, self-determination, and independent living for students with disabilities. Public schools strive to meet the federal mandates placed upon them to help this group of students reach graduation and beyond. However, students with disabilities oftentimes fall short and do not succeed following high school. In an effort to change this trend, information pertaining to transition services and ways it can be enhanced are provided. This chapter addresses: the necessity of transition services and its relationship to federal legislation, barriers that inhibit students’ successful transition to adult life, …

Resiliency And Coping With Disability: The Family After, Susan Stuntzner

Counseling Faculty Publications and Presentations

The content of this book was also intended to be used as a starting place for families to sort out and make sense of their experiences with self, life, other people, and society following disability. I believe this to be very important because the process of figuring out what to do following disability is often murky and extremely vague. It is my hope that readers can take the information provided and apply it to situations of childhood disability (e.g., congenital conditions), acquired disability (e.g., later onset such as TBI, SCI), or age-related disability (e.g., dementia, Alzheimer’s disease), although the specific …

Family Resilience Following Disability: Enhancing Counselors’ Skills, Susan Stuntzner, Michael Hartley

Counseling Faculty Publications and Presentations

Resilience is a relatively new research concept that has yet to receive the attention it needs to be adequately applied to individuals with disabilities and their families. Resilience as an approach, solution, or set of skills has scantly been applied to families dealing with the advent of disability. The information provided is intended to change this trend. Counselors can enhance their work with families living with a disability by understanding ways disability may influence family functioning and how familial coping impacts personal coping and adaptation to disability, as well as utilizing strategies to help families become more resilient following disability.

Community Advanced Data And Research Analysis: A Mixed Methods Capstone Project, Michael Bernarndo, Brandie Green, Amber Konold, Kathryn Weavil

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The Community Advanced Data and Research Analysis project, or CADRA, is project that houses an interdisciplinary research team located at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The vision of CADRA, as defined by its stakeholders, is to create positive community outcomes by encouraging and engaging nonprofit organizations, as well as student and professional researchers, to develop and evolve their data management practices. CADRA offers three program options including Nonprofit Audits, Program Development and Grant Writing, and Community Data Mining. The purpose of this program evaluation will be to evaluate the Community Advanced Data and Research Analysis (CADRA) Project, with a …

A Fresh Look At An Old Artifact: A New Interpretation Of Edged Cobbles At Cherry Point (45wh1), Northwest Washington, Jamie J. Palmer

WWU Graduate School Collection

As scientists, archaeologists sometimes accept interpretations proposed long ago as the standard. For this thesis, I chose to challenge the consensus hypothesis that edged cobbles (aka cobble choppers) were primarily used for wood-working activities in the Salish Sea during the Locarno Beach phase (3200-2400 BP). I questioned this hypothesis for two reasons: first, because previous analyses failed to use replication as an aid in recognizing relevant use-wear attributes; and secondly, because alternative uses for edged cobble during the Locarno Beach phase were never tested. My research tests the hypothesis that edged cobbles were used in the manufacture of stone weights …

Quartz Crystal Microblade Function In The Salish Sea Region Of Washington State During The Locarno Beach Phase (3500-2400 Bp), Rachael N. Kannegaard

WWU Graduate School Collection

Quartz crystal microblades are a small lithic tool technology dating predominantly to the Locarno Beach Phase (3500-2400 BP) in the Salish Sea region. The function of these tools has not been well established in previous research. This thesis applies morphological, microwear, and residue analyses to a sample assemblage of 68 quartz crystal artifacts from six archaeological sites in northwestern Washington State (45SK46, 45WH1, 45WH17, 45WH47, 45WH55, and 45WH59). The results of these methods determined that quartz crystal microblades were multiuse tools. Morphological analysis determined the variability of object types and metric measurements within the assemblage. Microwear analyses at multiple magnification …

Recrystallization Of Biogenic Aragonite Shells From Archaeological Contexts And Implications For Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction, Susan C. Larsen

WWU Graduate School Collection

Archaeologists do not consistently test the mineralogy of archaeological bivalve shells before conducting isotope analysis for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. This is a problem because if biogenic aragonite is heated, or cooked, it can recrystallize into calcite, and can become depleted of its heavy oxygen and carbon isotopes. Oxygen isotope ratios are recorded in the growth rings of bivalve shells as they grow, and reflect the temperature conditions of the ambient ocean water. Thus, ancient bivalve shells are used to reconstruct paleoenvironments. I have conducted an experiment to demonstrate the importance of testing the mineralogy of archaeological shells before isotope analysis. I …

Living In The Moment: Daily Life Assessments Of Mindfulness Meditation On Stress, Coping Flexibility, And Well-Being, Dusti R. Jones

WWU Graduate School Collection

The broaden-and-build theory proposes that positive emotions build over time to promote well-being (Fredrickson, 2001). Mindfulness meditation (MM) promotes positive emotions and well-being (Garland et al., 2010). This study examined the influences of a short-term MM intervention on trait mindfulness, stress, coping flexibility, and well-being (defined as flourishing and positive emotions) at longitudinal, daily, and momentary levels. Further, this study examined whether coping flexibility mediated the link between stress and well-being, and whether MM moderated each of the previous links. Results indicate that MM increased mindfulness, coping flexibility, and well-being, and decreased stress over time. Coping flexibility mediated the link …

Unnecessary Roughness: Examining Terrain, Indiscriminate Violence, And Conflict Duration, Christine Dulaney

WWU Graduate School Collection

During the past decade scholars have attempted to identify factors influence conflict by using cross-national quantitative analysis, many of which utilize terrain roughness as an independent variable asserting that it provides an advantage in guerrilla warfare. However, despite the theoretical assumptions, these studies fail to reach consensus regarding how or if rough terrain contributes to conflict. One study in particular, Buhaug and Lujala (2005), found that higher levels of rough terrain in the conflict zone were associated, albeit insignificantly, with shorter conflicts, while higher levels of terrain roughness at the country level were associated with longer conflicts. This thesis seeks …

Socioeconomic Status And Stress As Factors In Academic Dishonesty, Ashton D. Macaulay

WWU Graduate School Collection

A recent survey demonstrated that over 80% of students admitted to having engaged in academic dishonesty at least once in their time at University (Macaulay & Lemm, 2014). Previous research examining why students cheat has brought to light many different potential reasons behind students’ academically dishonest behavior (McCabe, Trevino, & Butterfield, 1999; Curasi, 2013). The present set of studies aimed to examine three potential factors behind why students engage in academic dishonesty. Study 1 examined whether or not high Socioeconomic Status (SES) primes would elicit higher cheating likelihood ratings in a hypothetical scenario. Study 2 examined whether high levels of …

Mapping The Landscape Of Children’S Play., David F. Lancy

Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Cultural Views Of Life Phases., David F. Lancy, M. Annette Grove

Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Faculty Publications

The knowledge base in the study of human development is built primarily from work with children from the modern, global, post-industrial population. This population is unrepresentative in many respects, not least in that childhood and adolescence is dominated by the experience of formal schooling—an experience missing from the lives of most of the world’s children until very recently. This entry will examine child development from the perspective of pre-modern societies as described in the ethnographic, archaeological and historic records. Specifically, we will review material indicative of cultural or indigenous models of development, phases and phase transitions, in particular.

The Path To Library Leadership: The Importance Of A Leadership Plan, Trevor A Dawes

University Libraries Publications

Preparing leaders in the library profession is by no means a new phenomenon. However, as one looks at the number of leadership training and development programs, institutes, workshops, and conferences, you might begin to ask the question, “where are all the people who participated in these programs?” Top Takeaways in this Chapter •Develop a personal mission statement and refer to it often •Build relationships with mentors—formal and informal •Know your limitations •Continue to learn and grow

Rethinking Majoritarian Modification: Toward An Explanatory Theory Of Electoral System Reform In Canada, The U.K., And New Zealand, Christopher M. Miller

WWU Graduate School Collection

Traditional theories of electoral reform have focused on the outcomes of reform as a way of explaining the rational-strategic actions of political elites. Recently, the literature has moved from an ex post to an ex ante approach, analyzing the context and process of reform independent of its expected outcomes. This new conceptualization of electoral reform has produced new analytic frameworks, from which I propose to explore the development of an explanatory theory of electoral reform.