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Trapped in Toxic Exposure: Mitigation Masking and the Emotional Geography of Residential Proximity to Expanding Industry
No full textThe purpose of this study was to introduce a citizen’s stakeholder perspective into research on environmental regulation and offending. The business operations of a steel recycling plant located in a residential neighborhood was analyzed to identify how their mitigation efforts have been used to justify continued business expansion, mask other aspects of environmental offending, and block citizen efforts to become stakeholders in the governance process. The concept of “mitigation masking” was introduced to reveal victim blaming governance processes. We surveyed the residence using the retrospective pre-then-post design in a two-block radius surrounding HI&M (N=17). We collected a convenience sample of public comment cards (n = 79) on two different occasions. This study adds to research on environmental offending by introducing a citizen narrative into the literature on environmental regulation and offending and exploring how mitigation masking pollutes citizen human agency
Parenting Behaviors of Adults with Chronic Pain Influence Internalizing Symptoms in Children
No full textBackground: Chronic pain is one of the most prevalent health conditions, affecting up to 30% of adults. Children of parents who have a chronic illness, including chronic pain, are at risk for poorer outcomes including health issues, pain-specific conditions, internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and poorer family functioning. Limited research has been conducted examining parent and child variables that influence mental health outcomes in healthy children whose parents have a chronic pain condition.
Aims: The current study has three aims: (1) to examine the associations of parent variables (mental health, pain status, and parenting behaviors) and child variables (child pain, child sex) on children’s mental health in the context of a parent with chronic pain; (2) to explore both the direct effects and indirect effects of parent chronic pain and maladaptive parenting behaviors on child mental health outcomes; (3) to explore both the direct effects and indirect effects of relevant child factors (sex and pain) and maladaptive parent behaviors on child mental health outcomes.
Methods: The study sample includes 137 parent and child dyads, including parents with chronic pain and their healthy children (n = 58) and parents without chronic pain and their healthy children (n = 79). Parents and children completed self-report questionnaires assessing pain characteristics, mental health symptoms, and pain-specific parent responses.
Results: Results indicated that children who identify as female, children who endorse higher rates of non-clinical pain, and parent catastrophizing behaviors contribute to increased symptoms of both anxiety and depression in children. Results did not support significant interaction effects, but significant main effects were seen for child sex, child non-clinical pain, parent pain, and pain-specific parent responses.
Conclusions: With regard to parenting with chronic pain, findings highlight the potential impact of specific parent and child variables that may influence child mental health in a sample of healthy children
Basic Diabetes Class Handout with Goal Numbers - Spanish
Get PDFThis diabetic patient handout reviews A1C test results and simply illustrates what the patient can do to keep his/her blood sugar levels in the goal range. (Spanish
How To Use YouTube
Get PDFThis patient education handout shares step by step online navigational tools for using YouTube to watch videos
Lots of Ways to Be a Leader
Get PDFIn this issue, you’ll find more stories of librarians who, by leading from their individual strengths, have made their libraries, communities, and the Oregon library community better places to be. Jane Corry and Elaine Hirsch kick off this issue with a discussion of the planning and coordination that went into the first LIOLA, and how their own strengths—as defined by the Gallup StrengthsFinder assessment around which the LIOLA curriculum was based—influenced and guided that process. Hillsboro’s Courtney Gill writes about how a collaborative, compassion-driven leadership model, combined with strategic outreach partnerships, produced the HPL Cares series of community service-based library programs. Mark Richardson talks about how he has employed the four-stage Situational Leadership model and his own supportive leadership tendencies in helping his Teen Council discover their strengths. Julie Gaida, acquisitions specialist at Pacific University and the head of a department-of-one, discusses how she overcame the insular nature of her position and made lasting connections with the campus community and her fellow Oregon librarians. Finally, librarians who want to exercise leadership from a non-administrative or non-supervisory position will find much wisdom in Melissa Little and Dawn Marie Lowe-Wincentsen’s articles; both address how “followers” can, with confidence and authenticity, be agents of change. Melissa’s article might even help you get into a titled leadership position, which is pretty cool work if you can get it.
This rambling introduction concludes with a full-hearted endorsement of the program that inspired this issue of the Quarterly in the first place: Leadership Institute of the Oregon Library Association (LIOLA). LIOLA is essential for every librarian or library-adjacent person who has ever wondered if their style of leadership (or not even leadership, necessarily; just their style of being a person in the world) makes them an asset or a liability to their community. I just described you, didn’t I, you impostersyndrome- having basket case!? Even if you are a world-class weirdo, LIOLA will teach you how to recognize, celebrate, and then mobilize your unique strengths for the betterment of your library and your universe, and to recognize, celebrate, and mobilize the unique strengths of others. You’ll also get to meet other cool library-types from across the state and get one-on-one advice from bonafide mentors in the field
Message Music a Universal Genre
Get PDFMessage Music is a collaboration of music from many different genres, that is meant to communicate universality, and bring about healing for individuals, couples, families, groups, and the community. It has a global message, and we are one. Finding its roots in an eclectic collection of folk, spiritual, gospel, blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, Motown, Fusion, Metaphysical or other genres Message Music, transcends all genres and allows people to join in a universal quest to unite and find collective consciousness and way of being together that brings acceptance and love. It has always existed, in some circles, it will be described as the message in the music, or music with a message, but defining it simply as message music enables the listener to participate without creating the image of religion or an affiliation to a social organization that defines the music. In this manner, the music allows one to rise above and engage in a personal journey that unites both the internal and the external experience. Music evokes memories with a range of emotions and social meaning. There are times music communicates messages that we do not have words to describe. Music happens within the context of culture and creates a time capsule of what was occurring at the moment the music was recorded