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Black And African American Young Adult Male Experiences: Implications For Building Resilience And Survival Skills Within Educational Settings And Public Spaces, Akimma Wright-D'Abreau

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

The aim of this study is to better understand, from the perspective of Critical Race Theory, the experiences of adolescent males who are Black and living in the United States and to examine how they build resilience and survival skills. Participants were between the ages of 18 and 26 and asked to recall adolescent experiences as part of a semi-structured interview with a Black Storytelling approach. There were six participants and data were analyzed using thematic analysis. According to the results, there were seven themes: (1) Policing In the United States of America Comes in Many Forms, (2) Recognizing Racism …

From East To West: Exploring The Mental Health Of Punjabi Immigrants Residing In British Columbia, Jasleen Kaur

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Mental health has been a topic that is slowly gaining more acknowledgement and awareness over time. However, despite the elevation in awareness, there are many cultures where mental health issues remain subject to stigma, which discourages an individual from seeking, or even acknowledging, mental health treatment and services. This study focuses upon varying perceptions of mental health by exploring in-depth the perception of mental health within the Punjabi community and how Punjabi culture affects such perceptions. Specifically, this research study examines how young adults who immigrated from Punjab, India to British Columbia (B.C.) perceive and respond to mental health concerns. …

Therapeutic Interventions For Adolescents With Non-Epileptic Seizures, Noah Trantel

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Although there have been some studies that explore the lived experiences of adults with non-epileptic seizures, there have been limited studies that examine the lived experiences of adolescents and emerging adults with non-epileptic seizures. This qualitative study explored the experiences of emerging adults who had been diagnosed with non-epileptic seizures during adolescence. The study focused on specific interventions utilized in therapy that they found helpful, highlighted what their experiences were throughout their daily lives, and what treatment recommendations were provided. The research will also help guide parents, clinicians, and individuals with NES towards treatment recommendations. Eight participants completed an in-depth, …

The Development Of Internalized Sexism In Young Adult Women, Kylie Schwabe

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

The present study utilized Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis in order to examine the lived experiences of young adult, cisgender women and the development of internalized sexism. Eight participants completed semi–structured interviews focused on their relationships with other women and subsequent views of womanhood. Themes found were (a) womanhood is taught by women throughout the lifespan, (b) women are sexually responsible for men, (c) women are emotional caregivers, (d) there are biological bases of womanhood, (e) women are expected to “do it all,” (f) expectations of women are fueled by media portrayal, (g) traditional femininity is seen as oppositional to the feminist …

Plan De Preservación Digital De Las Historias Laborales De La Empresa De Transportes Coflonorte, Alcira Lucía García Gonzáles

Maestría en Gestión de la Información Documental

El proyecto de investigación se centra en analizar y desarrollar un plan de preservación digital para las historias laborales de la empresa de transportes Coflonorte. Este modelo se basa en el enfoque de OASIS y en metodologías específicas diseñadas para implementar y adaptar la preservación digital en entornos con recursos limitados. Su contribución radica en proporcionar una estructura práctica para la preservación digital, destacando el conocimiento y el vocabulario asociados con OASIS. En cuanto a la metodología, se emplea un enfoque cualitativo y descriptivo, basado en una investigación exhaustiva que busca comprender y describir la situación actual de la preservación …

Highlighting The Importance Of Advocacy, Policy, And Legislation In Occupational Therapy, Victoria Maichel

Occupational Therapy Student Capstones

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A Case Study Of An English Teacher In Ukraine: Where Gender And National Identity Intersect, Oksana Moroz

Language, Literature & Writing Educator Scholarship

Using a transnational intersectionality framework that focuses on the interactions of multiple identities, this article reexamines the study conducted in 2017 on the experiences of one female in-service English language teacher in the Ukrainian context. Employing a narrative inquiry approach, using an online autobiography, interviews, and lesson materials, Irene's multiple identities have intertwined with her gendered identity, shaping her experiences. This study's findings show that Irene's transnational gendered identity was influenced by her educational and professional paths, her position in the language teaching field, and various social identities. Irene used language strategically and negotiated power relations professionally to navigate her …

Summary Of Statedata: The National Report On Employment Services And Outcomes Through 2021, Jean Winsor, John Butterworth, Alberto Migliore, Daria Domin, Agnes Zalewska, John Shepard, Esther Kamau, Ryan Wedeking

All Institute for Community Inclusion Publications

This Data Note summarizes the findings from the National Report on Employment Services and Outcomes Through 2021. Overall, the findings suggest that across data sources, people with IDD experience greater levels of unemployment, underemployment, low wages, and poverty compared to those without disabilities and those with non-IDD disabilities.

Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Asian Consumers Of The Maryland Behavioral Health Service System, Kota Takayama Ph.D, Teresa Crowe Ph.D

JADARA

This exploratory study examines the demographic profile and diagnoses of deaf and hard of hearing Asian consumers in Maryland who received behavioral healthcare services from January 2016 to January 2019. Results show that: 1) most deaf consumers lived in private residences, 2) most consumers felt somewhat satisfactory in their mental health recovery, 3) almost half had mood disorder diagnoses, 4) nearly 25% had a schizophrenia diagnosis which was more than three times higher than the prevalence for non-Asian populations, and 5) deaf Asian consumers were more likely to have alcohol-related disorders. The discussion includes comparisons with other racial and ethnic …

Adult-Child Estrangement: Clinical Considerations For Deaf Clients, Emmett B. Kessler Ph.D.

JADARA

This paper provides an overview of specific considerations for counselors when working with DHH parents who have experienced adult-child estrangement. Estrangement is a process continuum brought about by schisms between adult-children and their parents/caregivers. Topics for consideration include early childhood attachment styles, issues surrounding emerging adulthood, psychological well-being, and resilience of DHH clients. Recommendations are offered to clinicians working with DHH clients. Specific individual, couples, and family counseling approaches are recommended as likely modalities to address the needs of clients embroiled in estrangement experiences.

Sharing Your Success: Using Photovoice To Document And Communicate The Impact Of Independent Living Services, Lillie Greiman, Rayna Sage

Independent Living and Community Participation

In this brief guide, you will learn about strategies for documenting and communicating the impact of your independent living work. Specifically, this guide will give you a tool for using “Photovoice”, along with some examples of how to share your organization’s outcomes with the communities you serve.

Education In Changing Times: How To Identify And Rehabilitate Issues In Education Post-Crisis, Gaius Forsyth

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Modern US education post-pandemic is facing issues with students far behind pre-pandemic. This paper investigates this issue through two lenses: Psychology and Classical Studies. Within the Psychology lens deficits in academic achievement, socioemotional development, and accessibility emerge as key issues. Educational Psychology presents potential solutions with a learning theory named Constructivism emerging as the theory with the best possible implementation and supporting evidence for solving the specific issues post-pandemic. Within the Classical lens one thinker from Late Antiquity, St. Augustine, lived within a time with similarities to the current problem and wrote on teaching. Past literature did not adequately cover …

How Was I, Mom? A Study Of The Impact Of Prenatal Narratives, Aria Esther Komoroff

Senior Projects Spring 2024

This senior project investigates the enduring impact of prenatal narratives on individuals' lives, particularly focusing on the transmission of maternal experiences from mother to daughter. The study explores how these narratives persist throughout a child's life and how the story of the mother's pregnancy experience influences the daughter's self-esteem and perceived closeness to her mother.Daughters and mothers were asked to share either lived or heard experiences of pregnancy through a free write. Daughters then completed self-report instruments assessing their self-esteem and feelings of closeness to their mother.

The research begins with a review of recent theories and research on life …

The Joy And Taboo Of Menstruation (Body Image And Self-Objectification), Lola Justine Mainieri

Senior Projects Spring 2024

This study strove to understand the correlation between menstrual attitudes, body image, and self objectification. Participants were menstruators that were garnered from the Bard College population. They proceed through a Google Form that was compiled from the the Menstrual Joy Questionnaire (MJQ), the Menstrual Distress Questionnaire (MDQ), the Self-Objectification Questionnaire (SOQ) and finally the Body Appreciation Scale (BAS) (Delaney et al., 1988, Vannuccini et al., 2021, Dahl, 2014, Tylka & Wood-Barcalow, 2015). Participants accrued a score from each questionnaire that was then used to run the four separate correlations. A significant positive correlation was found between the Menstrual Joy and …

Engendering Ethics: Recognition And Inclusion Of Intersectional Identities In Queer Communities When Conducting Population Survey Research, Kim Andreassen, Leanda D. Mason, Julian Chen

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This paper delves into the critical importance of ethical considerations in research, with a primary focus on gender, sex, and sexual orientation. Recognizing the vulnerabilities and complexities inherent in these communities, we emphasize here the necessity of ethical awareness throughout all research phases. Ethical obligations may extend to ensuring cultural sensitivity, safety, and equitable resource distribution. The core ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice are promoted here to serve as a viable framework for ethical research. These principles require meticulous attention to informed consent, minimizing harm, maximizing benefits, and promoting fairness throughout the research process. The paper delves …

Offenders’ Perspectives On Acquisitive Crime Targets And Stolen Goods Disposal Methods, Joseph Clare, Liam Quinn, Natalie Gately, Suzanne Rock

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This paper examines offenders’ perspectives about acquisitive crime targets and stolen goods markets in Australia that have not been comprehensively reviewed since 2005. Over the last 18 years there have been significant changes in the rates of property crime, reductions in cash usage, and rapid movements to online markets as a disposal outlet, that motivate this updated analysis. In late 2022, n = 107 detainees in a Western Australian police watchhouse were interviewed about their property offending frequency, offence preferences, target selection, disposal methods, and estimated financial return for targeted goods. Results demonstrated (a) meaningful shifts towards shoplifting and away …

Physical Health Of People With Mental Illness: A Snapshot Of Consumer Engagement In The Provision Of Care In Primary Care., Irene Ngune, Dianne Wynaden, Karen Heslop

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Primary care is crucial to the health of people with mental illness. However, there is limited information on their reported engagement in this setting. This study surveyed 100 people with mental illness who had a general practitioner or a general practitioner and a case manager from a tertiary mental health service to determine their engagement level with their GP and what interventions they received to manage their health. Forty-four per cent had their psychotropic medications primarily prescribed by their GP, and 58% reported visiting their GP for physical health problems. Ninety-four point nine percent of participants aged 50 years and …

Excavating Archaeological Knowledge: An Archaeological Ethnography Of Indigenizing Practices Within A Collaborative Field School Landscape, Isabella Pipp

WWU Graduate School Collection

This thesis outlines the results of the ethnographic archaeological research on the community-based participatory field school program undertaken in partnership between the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians and Western Washington University–the Stillaguamish-WWU Collaborative Archaeological Field School. The use of an ethnographic reflection of Indigenous and university collaboration offers lessons for institutions teaching archaeology that transform pedagogical practices, uphold Tribal sovereignty, and challenge academic standards to archaeological field schools and research. Goals of this research include exploring the efficacy of methodology implemented within the field school and to create a body of work about the field school that is relevant to the …

An Ecocentric Turn: Emerging Narratives In The Growing U.S. Rights Of Nature Movement, Raechel E. Youngberg

WWU Graduate School Collection

This research project utilizes the Narrative Policy Analysis framework to analyze print news media coverage of the Rights of Nature (RoN) movement in the United States. This burgeoning movement draws upon Indigenous principles of animism and interconnectedness to recognize the existence rights and legal personhood of non-human animals, plants, and ecosystems. This project highlights the legal and legislative challenges the RoN movement has faced. Including the complexities of attempting to incorporate Indigenous epistemologies into a colonialist legal system and highlighting the narrative strategies and emerging coalitions present in the U.S.-based movement.

Collective Benefits, Individualized Responsibility: A Q Method Case Study Of Local Food Consumer Subjectivities In Bellingham, Wa, Henry Fisher

WWU Graduate School Collection

The local food movement (LFM), positioned as a challenge to the dominant industrial agri-food system (IAFS), has become increasingly visible in the United States cultural mainstream since the 1990s. For LFM advocates, local food consumption promises personal (e.g., enhanced nutrition, higher quality), economic (i.e., supporting small-scale producers, keeping money in the community), and environmental (e.g., organic and/or regenerative production methods) benefits. However, a body of theoretical literature advanced by political economists, critical sociologists, and critical geographers suggests that the prevalence of neoliberal notions of individual responsibility in LFM discourse may—at a basic level—reproduce some of the very processes the movement …

Beyond Dystopia: The Effect Of Reading Hopeful Climate Fiction On Climate Anxiety And Environmental Self-Efficacy, Brandon Mcwilliams

WWU Graduate School Collection

Climate communication and climate storytelling have thus far been unrelentingly bleak. However, growing evidence suggests that the barrage of negative, technical communication may result in negative mental health impacts and doesn’t necessarily translate into climate action. Rather than continuing to focus on technical and fear-based communication, there are calls to shifts towards narrative communication and hopeful communication frames. In this study, I investigate what effect hopeful climate fiction has on readers through three related avenues of inquiry using the popular solarpunk novella A Psalm for the Wild Built as an experimental text. I examined (1) what effect, if any, the …

Post-Mortem Resurrection: An Alternative, Practice-Based Examination Of Research And Education During The Covid-19 Pandemic, And An Argument In Favor Of Professional-Track Social Science Degrees, Rhiannon Joker

WWU Graduate School Collection

The international tragedy of the coronavirus pandemic disrupted lives, livelihoods, and operations across the world. We as global citizens saw a massive upheaval in nearly every daily process, including health systems and education. In the spring of 2021, I had a fully developed research proposal, had won grant funding, and was making contact with local family practice clinics to study how patients experiencing culture-bound syndromes were being treated, in both the literal and medical sense of the term, by their physicians. After several years of trying and failing to complete this proposed clinical research in the midst of a global …

Coast Salish Foods Gathered On Clam Gardens And Rocky Intertidal Beaches, Amy Rose Cline

WWU Graduate School Collection

Indigenous Peoples have been gathering foods using traditional technologies since time immemorial. Indigenous Peoples are intertwined with the environment by practicing traditional technologies and transmitting Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) within their communities. Since the beginning of time Indigenous People have interworking relationships with the natural world, these relationships are a result of thousands of years of transmitting TEK about the environment and traditional food systems. Clam gardens are one example of traditional mariculture that increases the optimal habitat for clams, increases biomass, and clam density. In addition to clam garden beaches providing productive habitats for clams, the clam garden rock …

Restoring Forest Habitat Using Assisted Migration As A Climate Change Adaption, Chelsea Harris

WWU Graduate School Collection

Rapid climate change alters the conditions for which tree species can migrate successfully. Restoration efforts are vital for our future forests to ensure healthy and sustainable forests. Assisted migration is a restoration practice that can speed up trees' slow migration process, promoting resilient forests. This study assessed how genotypes from California, Oregon, and Washington nursery stock plants would succeed in a Western Washington-assisted population migration project. Additionally, we want to evaluate how transfer to new soil microbiomes will affect ectomycorrhizal (ECM), a fungus that forms symbiotic relationships with certain plant root tips. To achieve this, in January 2022, 900 plants …

The Lived Experiences Of Transgender Women Engaged In Virtual Sex Work, Patricia Fernandez

WWU Graduate School Collection

This thesis explores the experiences of transgender women engaged in virtual sex work through a qualitative approach. The study aims to investigate the business strategies, personal relationships, experiences of stigma, and the triumphs of being a transgender woman engaged in digital sex work. The purpose of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of how transgender women navigate performing their transgender identities while simultaneously challenging societal expectations of being a transgender woman and digital sex worker. This thesis found that transgender women have claimed a temporary venue, where their performance is performative as they emerge as their authentic selves …

Epistemology Of Ignorance And The Invisibility Of Indigenous Peoples, Kimberly R. Peterson

WWU Graduate School Collection

Some cultural narratives in the United States prioritize White esteem and promote a superficial narrative of racial progress and equality. These same narratives influence psychological processes of ignoring history and denying racism (Nelson et al., 2012; Bonam et al., 2019) and play a part in the erasure of contemporary Indigenous peoples. We investigated how Native visibility could have an impact on interest in Native issues and systemic racism acknowledgment. When people learned about Pacific Northwest Native peoples’ past and present experiences with the environmental impact of dams, they demonstrated higher systemic racism acknowledgment through the process of having learned new …

An Ethnographic Study Of Grace Services: Understanding Resilience At An Organizational Level, Jessica Paredes Strong

WWU Graduate School Collection

Drawing on organizational resilience theory, social support theory, and self-efficacy theory, this study explores the pivotal role of resilience among advocates working with survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV), domestic violence (DV), and sexual violence (SV). Conducted at Grace Services in Balevi County, the study engaged a total of five staff and volunteers. Grace Services is a non-profit organization that supports survivors of IPV, DV, and SV. They employ staff and volunteers who provide crucial services and support to these survivors. Given the emotional toll associated with their work, this research focuses on how Grace Services approaches fostering resilience among …

The Evolutionary History Of Primate Litter Size, Jack Hansen Mcbride

WWU Graduate School Collection

Litter size plays an important role in the life history strategies of all mammalian taxa. It is one of the most important factors determining whether an organism is deemed to have a ‘slow’ or ‘fast’ life history strategy. Investigating how the evolution of litter size has influenced human evolution, extant primate biodiversity, and how it relates to other life history traits is crucial to understanding ourselves and our closest relatives. This thesis summarizes a two-pronged investigation into the evolution of litter size: 1) I performed a meta-analysis using 955 taxa within the magnorder Boreoeutheria, and 2) I performed a geometric …

A Micro-Longitudinal Study Of Coping, Stress, And Meaning In Life, Zachary Z. Willett

WWU Graduate School Collection

This thesis investigates the potential for studying meaning-centered constructs on a daily basis and considers how meaning-centered measures may complement existing models for understanding the dynamics of daily stress, affect, and coping.

As part of a week-long protocol, participants (N = 138) provided daily reports (N = 917) of their coping behaviors, perceived meaning in life, affect, stress, and perceived coping competence. These data were collected via a combination of widely adopted (e.g., the MIL-Q, Brief COPE, and PANAS-SF) and ad hoc measures (including an original 6-item assessment of daily stress and 4-item measure of perceived coping competence).

Results of …

How Latinx Are You: Cultural Identification Impacts Perceptions Of Latinx Youth, Natalie Saavedra

WWU Graduate School Collection

Previous research has consistently found a relationship between students’ gender and race and patterns of discipline in school settings. Much of this work compares discipline of various racial groups with their White peers rather than looking at comparisons between marginalized racial groups and within a particular marginalized racial group, and if this work mentions gender, it’s usually comparing one gender across racial groups rather than looking at gender groups with consideration to race. This study examined White participant’s evaluations of a male or female Latinx middle school student who engaged in problematic behavior in school. The results indicate that discipline …