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Are Social Skills And/Or Creative Arts Effective Interventions To Develop Social Skills For Social Participation Among Children Between Grades Kindergarten To 5th Grade?
No full textThis is a comprehensive literature review about the effectiveness of social skills groups and creative arts interventions for developing social skills for social participation for children between grades Kindergarten through 5th grade.Occupational Therap
Parents With Physical Disabilities And Allied Health Support
No full textThis study will explore the parenting experiences of individuals with physical disabilities, and the supports that they may or may not utilize to facilitate their roles as parents. Research suggests that parents often rely on informal supports, such as family and friends, if they need assistance with childrearing. Understanding the needs of parents with physical disabilities can create more impactful interventions to help individuals participate in childrearing, thus fulfilling their important parenting role.Occupational Therap
Managing Pain In Children: Barriers To Effective Care
Get PDFThis thesis focuses upon pain management in a healthcare setting and at home, specifically within the population of children. The purpose of this research is to understand why assessment and pain management of children is difficult for healthcare providers and caregivers. This study covers the influencing factors that act as barriers in the direct care of healthcare providers to children. The aim is to understand why these barriers affect successful pain assessment and management. A systematic literature review was conducted to investigate the challenges that affect successful care for children. There were four themes that were identified in the eight articles that met the criteria for the barriers of pain assessment and management. The themes identified were the healthcare worker’s ability to collect subjective and objective data, communication within staff and family, forgotten priorities by healthcare providers and a child’s inability to rate their own pain. Recognizing these challenges and how they hinder optimal childcare will promote good patient outcomes and support child growth and development.Nursin
Non-Binary People Don't Owe You Androgyny
No full textResearch and study regarding gender and the spectrum is still fairly new. Gender is not definitive between a black and white scale. It’s not all or nothing. Gender exists on a spectrum where gender expression widely varies from person to person. This project reflects from my own experience of being a non-binary person who uses they/them pronouns. More and more studies have been done in recent years surrounding those who identify with being non-binary, non-gender conforming, or genderqueer. The purpose of this project is to examine the visual culture attached to how non-binary people are represented in mainstream media, and how there are both positive and negative outcomes from these representations. While there is more inclusion now more than ever in media and entertainment, the popular aesthetics we see don’t always reflect in every identifying non-binary person. It is also important to note that non-binary aesthetics differ from person to person. How one person chooses to present themselves, may not hold the same truth for another person. The project will be geared towards an epistemology approach with relation to social constructionism. Though my experience does not reflect that of all genderqueer/non-binary people, I know there is truth behind the critique surrounding pop culture and mainstream media and how non-binary people are portrayed. This zine is less of a guide to understanding the non-binary person and more focused on stigmas and stereotypes perpetuated by the visual culture in mass media.Art + Desig
Tiny Earth: Studentsourcing Antibiotic Discovery
Get PDFThere is a dire need for new antibiotics to treat antibiotic resistant bacterial infections. With the assistance of the course-based research experience Tiny Earth, isolates of antibiotic-producing bacteria discovered in BIO 304 Microbiology & Its Applications during Spring 2021 at Salem State University will be further characterized. This characterization may include performing 16S rDNA PCR identification of soil isolates, characterization of the secondary metabolites from these isolates by chemical extraction and testing the metabolites on ESKAPE safe relatives to confirm growth inhibitory activity, and testing the chemical extracts on eukaryotic systems, namely cultured mammalian cells for cytotoxic effects. The ultimate goal of this analysis is to contribute potentially novel antibiotic-producing soil bacterial species to the Tiny Earth database to help in the discovery of new antibiotics.Biolog
"Media and Race" Syllabus
No full textSyllabus for "Media and Race," a Spring 2022 undergraduate Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) course taught by Rebecca Hains (Media and Communication) at Salem State University. The SSU course collaborated with a course taught at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.There were 15 students in the SSU course and 15 students in the partner course. Digital tools used in collaborative work included ZoomMCO 303: Media and RaceMCO 303 Media and Race (3 Credit(s) DPDS): This course explores the role the American mass media play in the social construction of racial categories. Students will study how even though biological views on race lack scientific validation, racial categories remain central social, cultural, and political issues in American life. Using various formats the course will highlight how mediated representations have helped sustain a system of racial categorizations necessary for the survival of institutionalized racism and White privilege. The analysis is structured around four areas: fundamental definitions on race, critical analysis of media representations, audience reception and interpretation, and advocacy and activism
The Best Bad Option: Using Science to Guide Public Schools’ Pandemic Response
No full textDr. Pangallo will describe how her training as a scientist has helped her navigate the COVID-19 pandemic in her role on the Salem Public Schools Committee
Addressing Climate Change On Salem State’s Campus And Why It Matters
No full textTara Gallagher has been Salem State’s Sustainability and Environmental Health and Safety Coordinator since 2017. This is not her first role at Salem State as she served as Adjunct Faculty in the Geography and Sustainability Department from 2004 – 2010. She has also supported sustainability program development and reporting as a consultant with Pure Strategies. Earlier in her career, Tara worked in the Drinking Water Division of the MA Department of Environmental Protection. In her current role, Tara focuses on reducing Salem State’s environmental footprint by increasing renewable energy use and energy efficiency on campus. She also promotes a suite of green transportation options and sustainability behaviors to the campus community. She manages the Sustainability Council internship program and co-chairs the Earth Days Planning and University Safety Committees. She has a Masters in Environmental Management from Yale University
Unprecedented Times: Reviewing COVID-19 Protocols at Bridgewell
Get PDFTwo years ago, COVID-19 disrupted our daily lives, and everyone was told to stay home to stop the spread of the virus. For some people, they still had to go to work every day, and for those working at Bridge well’s residential programs, they had to deal with the changing guidelines by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. They had to work around residents not seeing their families, being essential workers, testing and quarantine protocols. This project examines COVID-19 protocols at Bridgewell based on the opinions of residential program managers and directors, and what they believed worked, and what should have been changed
Resiliency In Child Welfare Workers Through The Covid-19 Pandemic
No full textThe purpose of this study is to understand the overall impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child welfare workers. First a deep investigation into resiliency in social work, strategies for resiliency, and worker resiliency through the pandemic in general was done. Next, a section on child welfare workers explains the challenges they face along with research on resiliency in the field. Lastly, a section on COVID-19 investigates the possible impacts of the pandemic on child welfare workers and globally to give context. The study was completed using an anonymous survey asking both multiple-choice and open-ended questions about child welfare workers' experiences. It asked questions both about the pandemic specifically as well as general questions around resiliency.School of Social Wor