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The Troubadour, Issue 127 (February 3, 2010)
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The Troubadour, Issue 138 (May 6, 2010)
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Optimistic Thinking: Influences on the Well-being of Pessimists and Optimist Who Have Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety
No full textPrevious research has shown that optimism is related to the well-being of individuals. In this research, an attempt was made to see if positive thinking could increase levels of optimism in college students. Additionally, it was desired to see how having symptoms of depression and anxiety related to optimism level. Two groups were presented with the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R), the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), and the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). Participants were presented with a stressful scenario, (Group 1 was given a positive thinking strategy), and were tested with the LOT-R a second time. Results revealed that there was no significant increase or decrease in optimism level for either group. Optimism was negatively correlated with depression and with anxiety. Those living in urban areas had low levels of depression and anxiety, and high levels of optimism. Discussion is focused on the negative relationship between optimism and depression and anxiety
Effects of teaching sight words in context through repeated readings versus isolation
No full textThis study was designed to determine the effects of teaching sight words in context through repeated readings as opposed to teaching sight words in isolation for a 10-year-old student with multiple disabilities. For six weeks, this student participated in 40-minute individual tutoring sessions, three days a week, focusing on learning 60 unknown sight words from the Dolch sight word list. The researcher administered a pre-and posttest as well as weekly posttests to document student growth. Weekly posttests showed growth in learning the sight words; however, the final posttest demonstrated minimal retention of learned sight words in both conditions. These results do not support existing research in that learning sight words in context is more beneficial than learning sight words in isolation; however, this study is limited to one experience of a student with multiple disabilities
The Troubadour, Issue 153 (September 16, 2010)
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The Troubadour, Issue 147 (July 22, 2010)
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Behavior Problems in Young Children: Evaluating the Treatment Sensitivity of the Early Childhood Behavior Screen
No full textBehavior problems in children constitute a wide variety of challenging behaviors for parents, teachers, and caretakers. In order to treat these behaviors, identification of the severity and frequency of the behaviors in young children, prior to and following treatment, is a necessity. This current research project examined a new measure that was developed to measure challenging and pro-social behaviors in very young children, in low-income settings. Results indicated that the Early Childhood Behavior Screen (ECBS) was sensitive enough to measure change in behaviors from pre-treatment to post-treatment, in children of different ages, genders, and developmental statuses. Results also indicated that the ECBS correlated significantly to the Early Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI), a standardized measure of child behavior problems. Therefore, the ECBS is a valuable behavior screening tool for determining the frequency of behaviors in young children in low-income settings
Cultural Influence in Help Seeking: Accultration’s Effect on Problem Recognition and Help Seeking in the Native American Population
No full textHelp-seeking research is primarily done within the general population and large minority groups. However, the barriers to help seeking commonly found may not be the same for Native Americans. The current research sought to investigate help-seeking behaviors in Native American populations. The purpose of this study was to understand how identification with Native American culture or cultural embeddedness might interact with symptom identification, help-seeking, and preference of whom to seek help from when a problem is identified
Reactive Attachment Disorder in Children with Parents that are Incarcerated
No full textChildren who have experienced parental incarceration may have a higher risk of developing Reactive Attachment Disorder. Children who have experienced parental incarceration may also have higher levels of anger and grief. The present study is examining whether there is a correlation between Reactive Attachment Disorder and parental incarceration. The results of this study were not significant in showing Reactive Attachment Disorder in children. However, the results did show that children in out of home placements exhibited higher levels of anger and lower levels of grief. Of the subjects sampled it was interesting that 75% of group two and 100% of group three had very high levels of anger. Only 25% of the group one reported very high levels of anger
The Troubadour, Issue 140 (May 20, 2010)
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