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Respecting The Spectrum: Creating A Gender Inclusive Structured Diagnostic Intake Interview
Get PDFTransgender and nonbinary (TNB) people, more than ever, are in need of and actively seeking out services in order to cope with the reality of being transgender in the United States. This includes requiring assistance from local and federal governmental systems that do not provide protections for equal housing, workplace discrimination, and healthcare provisions, much less hate crime investigation and prosecution. In 2011, 75% of transgender people were or had been in therapy in the past, with a further 14% intending to participate in therapy in the future. Recently, the newly elected President Joseph Biden issued an executive order (EO) within his first 100 days in office. The EO was a directive for all federal agencies to review their practices to ensure that they are not discriminatory in nature toward gender-diverse individuals. . Additionally, the Biden administration empowered the Department of Defense to do a similar review of their practices and conclude that trans individuals should be allowed to serve in the military to create a stronger, inclusive service (Department of Defense, 2021). These, along with other policies, including the protections of Title IX protecting trans athletes and students, are some of the significant positive changes by the current administration. TNB people experience discrimination in many ways, which calls for a review of the instruments psychologists use to differentiate the proper treatment clients. Using the research of risk factors and specific information needed for treatment planning with TNB individuals, the intake interview created an inclusive and efficient experience for the transgender clients and the clinicians administering the intake
A Program Evaluation of Tuition Free Boarding Schools: Lessons and Policy Implications for Public School Districts Educating the Whole Child
No full textStudents from disadvantaged backgrounds, especially those exposed to a traumatic event, bring complex experiences to the classroom setting that can affect learning and/or behavior. This qualitative study provided district administrators, policymakers, and community partners (providers, liaisons, funders) in the education field with strategies and examples from two tuition-free boarding schools that successfully implemented and sustained evidence-based trauma-informed practices. I surveyed and interviewed former students who shared information on the academic, social, and emotional impact their schools had on their success. In addition, I analyzed publicly available data such as annual reports and programmatic reviews. I featured real-world experiences, cost factors, partnerships, and allocation of resources that are distinctive to educational organizations and essential for the successful execution of trauma-informed practices and provided answers regarding the extent to which the rules, rituals, and routines present in boarding schools inform the supports needed in public schools related to SEL and Trauma-Informed Practices. Public school districts are provided with protocols of academic, emotional, and social support required of students in need of additional services to provide equity. Results show that trauma-informed programming can have a direct impact on a disadvantaged student’s success in being prepared for college, careers, and beyond. Recommendations include increasing the amount of time that public school districts, educating disadvantaged students, are engaged in a holistic learning environment as well as creating a school culture that focuses on closing the opportunity gap, preparing them for college and career success, and beyond. I also proposed funding solutions in this study
An Intergenerational Photo Exploration Of Self Care Actions In Self-Identifying Strong Black Women
Get PDFThe current study sought to expand upon the Giscombé Superwoman Schema (2010) specifically exploring the role of vulnerability resistance and help obligation as potential barriers to changing comprehensive self-care health commitments in self-identifying Strong Black Women (SBW). The Superwoman Schema characteristics of vulnerability resistance and help obligation along with socio-economic factors of income, religious affiliation and marital status were assessed in the project using a visual-ethnography approach to Photo Voice methods and five intergenerational focus groups of SBW\u27s born between 1946 and 2002. The collective self-care knowledge of these eighteen participants was analyzed using a participatory action research discussion framework to initiate the process of visualizing and verbalizing radical self-care changes through photos. Participants shared reactions to their own and others\u27 photography to create a shared visual perspective of self-identifying Strong Black Women’s self-care barriers and strengths. Future research should include participant perceptions of Photo Voice methods, exhibition of participant self-care photography, and using Photo Voice as an inquiry method to examine socio-cultural and racial health disparities, stress management education and advocacy for self-identifying Strong Black women
Investigation of Factors Affecting Organizational Innovativeness in Schools
Get PDFThe current study aims to examine the relationships between organizational innovativeness levels of schools and school administrators’ demographic characteristics, school climate, school leadership and job satisfaction. To this end, this survey study employed a correlational design. The sample of the study consisted of the school administrators who participated in TALIS 2018 study. Stratified sampling is used in TALIS surveys for selecting samples. The sample consisted of 808 school administrators working in primary schools, lower secondary schools and high schools. In data analysis, descriptive statistics, the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient technique and the hierarchical multiple linear regression analysis technique were used. A positive medium-level relationship between organizational innovativeness and academic pressure and distributed leadership, a positive weak relationship between organizational innovativeness and stakeholder involvement, job satisfaction with the work environment, job satisfaction with profession and system leadership were identified in the study. Besides, it was revealed that school size, a lack of resources and personnel in schools, school climate, school leadership and school administrators’ job satisfaction had significant contributions to organizational innovativeness levels
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing as a Complimentary Treatment for Clients with Addiction and Comorbid Trauma
Get PDFObjective: The purpose of this study is to investigate eye movement desensitization reprocessing for those with substance use disorders and comorbid trauma. The research question is, how does the addition of eye movement desensitization reprocessing intervention assist treatment of those diagnosed afflicted with addiction and comorbid trauma as opposed to the treatment without eye movement desensitization reprocessing? Method: A quantitative study consisted of 24 participants consisting of 12 men and 12 women ages 18 years and older diagnosed with substance use disorder and comorbid trauma. Participants were recruited from an outpatient treatment substance use disorder facility where they were randomly assigned into two groups: treatment as usual or eye movement desensitization reprocessing and treatment as usual. Pretest and posttest measures were conducted to measure severity of trauma, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem. The intervention, eye movement desensitization reprocessing included 8 weekly 60-minute sessions. The treatment as usual treatment group received an additional weekly session to counter variance. A one-way analysis of variance for means was used as parametric analysis to examine eye movement desensitization reprocessing’s effectiveness. Results: The treatment as usual and eye movement desensitization reprocessing group showed significant reduction in all measures trauma severity, anxiety, depression, and increased self-esteem. The treatment as usual group also showed improvement and reduction in symptoms from trauma and depression, however showed no improvement in anxiety and self-esteem. Conclusions: The results of this study suggest eye movement desensitization reprocessing protocol can successfully treat symptoms from posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression and increase self-esteem with patients diagnosed with substance use disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder
The Latina Graduate Experience at Hispanic Serving Institutions
Get PDFHispanic Serving Institutions are designated as such as a result of meeting the minimum enrollment of 25% full-time, undergraduate Hispanic identifying student enrollment. Though this designation is met solely through undergraduate enrollment, there is a need for services and programming to be expanded to graduate students. This study explores the experiences of Latina graduate students at Hispanic Serving Institutions with the purpose of understanding what support participants needed to persist and succeed and what HSIs are or should be doing to better to increase student outcomes and create a culturally engaging campus community
Are All These Elementary Assessments Necessary? Phenomenological Study of Standardized Assessments in the Elementary School Setting
Get PDFAll children warrant a rich, meaningful public education that prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities, and challenges that await them as contributing members of a democratic society and a global economy. Based on testing calendars, teacher testimonials, and applied research from other state and local mandated testing studies, this study found that the length of time students spend taking and preparing for the test is extensive. CBS News (2015) noted between 20-25 hours are spent by each student taking standardized assessments, according to a comprehensive report of 66 of the nation’s large-city school districts by the Council of the Great City Schools. Standardized assessments measure about 2.3% of the classroom period for the regular eighth-grader in public school. Between pre-K and 12th grade, administrators removed 112 mandatory standardized exams
An Evaluation of Virtual School\u27s Preparation Of Second Grade Students For Third Grade Reading Proficiency
Get PDFThird-grade reading proficiency is an indicator of future student success in middle school and ninth grade, on-time graduation rates, and career success; however, 44% of third-grade students in one state were not meeting this goal. The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which virtual school in second grade prepared students for third- grade reading achievement. I used a mixed methodology to compare extant data from a state database on third-grade state achievement tests in the area of English Language Arts. Sixty-one second and third-grade teachers completed surveys, and three teachers participated in follow-up interviews. The data from my study demonstrated that third- grade students in virtual school outperformed third-grade students in face-to-face learning environments in reading proficiency by seven percentage points on the State Standards Assessments between the years 2015-2019. These data were in direct contradiction with the data from the teacher survey and interviews. With the results from this study, I made recommendations using Michael G. Moore\u27s Theory of Transactional Distance to improve teacher effectiveness in online instruction to increase student reading achievement
An Examination of Refugees Strategies of Survival: A Critical Ethnographic Study of the Status of Resettlement Organizations and the Promotion of Alternative Forms of Resettlement Setting
Get PDFResettled Refugees require humanizing approaches to community integration that promote healthy levels of independence and connection to the U.S. cultural practices, similar to that of home communities. Instead, a host culture dominates with complex and none-reachable profit-making institutions suffocating home culture practices. Within this context, this study attends to the social dysfunctionality that occurs beyond an interpersonal stress-adaptation-growth dynamic and clarifies why research often failed to understand a more successful refugee cultural integration experience.
The research was a systemic review of refugee strategies of survival collaboratively obtaining perceptions post-settlement: attitudes, motivations, interests, experiences, and expectations and the different ways in which environmental factors influence hope, values, cultural beliefs, and other decision-making. The two-part study narrative research explores adopted strategies of survival to gain an in-depth understanding of their survival psychology. To compare the usefulness of experiences gained before arriving in the U.S. To investigate if government interventions are complimenting refugee strategies of survival.
The result of both studies, in brief, suggests the need for more empowering (i.e., participatory) interventions. Therefore, in keeping with a strength-based approach, this study\u27s additional objective is to provide participants with a therapeutic medium to narrate their stories to begin the healing process