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The Development of a Children’s Book Designed to Use Bibliotherapy and Mindfulness Skills to Promote Interoception in Young Children with Insecure Attachment as a Result of Adverse Childhood Experiences
Get PDFOne third of children in the United States have experienced trauma known in the literature as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). The long-term outcomes of ACEs have a higher likelihood of reducing interoceptive awareness—the ability to sense internal body signals like heart rate, hunger, pain, and emotions. Research suggests that interventions, such as mindfulness and attachment therapies are useful for increasing interoceptive awareness, regulating emotions, and fostering secure attachment in adults. However, apart from attachment, interventions are lacking for young children. Bibliotherapy is one such intervention designed for young children which potentially fosters secure attachment between child and adult storytellers and interoceptive awareness in young children. This researcher examined the concepts of ACEs in children, interoception, insecure attachment, and incorporated mindfulness techniques to inform the development of a storybook for children 3-5 years old. When a draft of the storyline was completed, experts in the field of attachment, interoception, trauma treatment, learning and cognition, and early childhood education were consulted, and their feedback was integrated into the final draft of the storybook. The manuscript reflects a synthesis of the research and creative storytelling aimed at promoting interoceptive awareness in young children
ALIGN Panel: Patron Privacy v. Big Data
No full textThe titles of the panel presentations are: Speaking Out Against Data Brokerage in Academic Libraries (Michele Gibney, UOP and SPARC) Need vs. Interest: Telling the Difference When You\u27re Asked for Data (Jill Strykowski, SJSU)
When the Patriot Act enabled government to secretly surveil the borrowing and usage activities of library users, librarians adhered admirably to the ALA Bill of Rights tenet of safeguarding patrons\u27 “right to privacy and confidentiality in their library use” by ceasing to maintain borrowing records. Over twenty years hence, usage analytics and patron data are provided to libraries in abundant and granular detail by publishers and database vendors.
While such information provides valuable insight into user habits and preferences to improve services and demonstrate library value, as well as the ability to gauge student research habits to link to student-success initiatives, what has become of the concept of patron privacy? Are libraries at odds with the specificity of vendor-provided user data, or has privacy been sacrificed at the altar of greater insight as it is employed for more targeted collections, instruction, and advising decisions? Do users care about the data collected on them? How is user privacy addressed in resource licensing agreements? How are libraries responding when campus administrators ask for student data from the library? Are libraries alerting users to what data is collected from/about them when they use library services, and how that data is used? How are librarians grappling with these conflicting concepts?
Join ALIGN—CARL\u27s northern California interest group—as we host a panel and group discussion of these issues and what libraries are doing to help slow the erosion of our right to privacy.
Michele Gibney is the visiting program officer for Privacy & Surveillance at SPARC, focusing on raising awareness and developing strategies to address privacy threats in academic libraries. She is also the Head of Publishing and Scholarship Support at the University of the Pacific, where she manages the institutional repository and conducts additional scholarly communications work. She holds an MLIS from San Jose State University (2009), a Master\u27s in Asian Studies from the University of San Francisco (2006), and a B.A. in English from the University of Puget Sound. She is also currently pursuing a doctorate in Informatics from Linnaeus University in Sweden.
Jill Strykowski is the Cataloging and Government Documents Lead at San José State University.
She has a rich background in original cataloging work, archival digitization, library project management, library systems configuration and physical collection maintenance. Her current scholarly interests focus on how library science is impacted by AI tools, linked data, and the data brokering economy.
Ms. Strykowski has a master\u27s degree in Library & Information Science from Long Island University, and another in Archives & Public History from New York University. And she is excited to start her PhD work this fall through the SJSU iSchool\u27s Gateway PhD partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University
