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Games in Telemental Health with Children and Adolescents
Get PDFThe authors of this study explore the use of games in telemental health services with both children and adolescents, focusing specifically on how live video, telemental health interactions contribute to the reduction of barriers in terms of access to mental health services. Game play, the use of games in counseling to foster engagement and connection, may be done through a variety of ways including but not limited to, board games, card games, art games, and physical games. Modifications can be made to these games that allow them to be played virtually such as through the use of an online medium (website game, virtual or whiteboard). Additionally, the provider can incorporate talking points throughout the games, certain colors mean sharing about a specific emotion, or specific actions (sinking a ship) means sharing something about yourself. Finally, it is important to bear in mind the providers’ technology abilities, HIPPA, privacy, and safety with using web-based platforms
Perils of a Modern Collector
Get PDFProvides the history of starting the Greater Boston Philatelic Society. 
Julie L. J. Koehler, Shandi Lynne Wagner, Anne E. Duggan, and Adrion Dula’s Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales
Get PDFPopular understanding of the history of the European fairy tale begins with canonical authors like Charles Perrault (late seventeenth to early eighteenth century) and the Brothers Grimm (early nineteenth century), then proceeds to the twentieth-century Walt Disney films, and ends with feminist revisionist fairy tales written by women authors in the past fifty years. Even in fairy-tale scholarship, it has been hard to shake the narrative that male authors established the conservative fairy-tale canon and then female authors beginning in the late twentieth century subverted that canon with revisions that sought to expose and remedy the sexism of classic fairy tales. This narrative has been complicated by robust scholarship on the role of the conteuses—French women writers who were Perrault’s contemporaries and just as important as he in establishing the literary fairy tale. As a result, discussions of the role of women in the production of fairy tales have ended up jumping from the seventeenth/eighteenth-century conteuses to late-twentieth-century writers like Angela Carter, without much in between. Were women writing fairy tales during the intervening years? Women Writing Wonder answers this question with a resounding “yes.
NUDGING STUDENTS THROUGH EMAIL COMMUNICATION
Get PDFThis study analyzes the results of an experiment using personalized emails to nudge second-year students to attend a career fair. The study relied on peer mentors to send out emails informing students about the details of the career fair. Students were randomly assigned to receive an email that focused on the benefits of attending the career fair and offered pizza and a prize if they attended a session to help them sign up and prepare for the career fair. The results indicate that the intervention had no measurable effect on increasing the likelihood that students attend the help session or attend the career fair. Several reasons for this might be because of email overload, present-biased preferences, and factors related to COVID. Further, we provide guidance on what might be done to address these factors in future interventions
TEACHING PRICE AND INCOME ELASTICITIES OF DEMAND USING EXCEL AND FEDERAL RESERVE ECONOMIC DATA
Get PDFThis paper describes an assignment designed for use in an undergraduate Principles of Economics course. The assignment is a pedagogical tool that encourages collaborative problem-solving and the use of recent up-to-date data from the Federal Reserve Economics Data (FRED) to compute and analyze the price and income elasticities of demand. This tool is an efficient way for undergraduate economics students to understand the price and income elasticity of demand, gain valuable experience using public datasets, and develop their computer skills without taking classes outside of the economics major
He Whom I Loved as Dearly as My Own Life: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Achilles and Patroclus
Get PDFHomer’s Iliad has been a pillar in Western literature for centuries. Following thestory of the Trojan War, the epic introduces us to Achilles, the greatest warriorof Greece. Although in most of the epic Achilles has abstained from fighting,he rejoins after the death of his dearest companion, Patroclus. Achilles’srelationship with Patroclus has been heavily debated since antiquity, with thelikes of Plato arguing their status as lovers. Recently, there has been a shift inthe accepted dogma, with more historians accepting the fact that Achillesand Patroclus’s relationship was more than simply platonic. This analysislays out the evidence to support this claim and adds to the scholarship onqueer interpretations of the Iliad. This article compiles direct material fromthe Iliad, information from other scholars, and works from historical figuressuch as Plato. There are several pieces of evidence that show that Achilles andPatroclus enjoyed a very close, very intimate relationship with each other. Itwould be inaccurate and a disservice to the works of Homer to assert thatthere were no romantic attachments between the two
The Representation of Differing Abilities in Children’s Literature: A Local Analysis
Get PDFThe authors explored representation of disability in one hundred children’s books. In this study a content analysis methodology was used to identify the portrayal of medical conditions listed by the ADA in books that are most frequently checked out for ages 0 to 6 years old. The results suggest that library displays and communications better showcase and share books that are representative as well as, more books that have characters with disabilities in primary roles. Finally, the implications of the results suggest that representation is important as it increases the desire to read and contributes to the development of positive self-esteem
Heinz Tschachler’s Washington Irving and the Fantasy of Masculinity: Escaping the Woman Within
No full text“Like other men who were becoming frustrated by efforts to keep up with the relentless pressure to modernize,” Heinz Tschachler contends in this study’s prologue,Irving was obsessed with being a man, and, suffering from his perceived femininity,throughout his career was questing for the self-image of a man whose masculinityseemed secure. He finally found it in George Washington, whose image allowed him tocome to terms with his own purportedly ‘female’ defects, especially his shyness anduncertainty. (10-11)From this central idea Tschachler sets out to explore the intersection of Washington Irving’s life and his works through a psychoanalytic examination of masculinity as it appears across the author’s career, from the “troubled masculinities” of earlier texts like A History of New Yorkauthor’s own struggles with his “anima consciousness”—the “woman within” of the book’s subtitle and Tschachler’s Jung-inspired term for the “feminized masculinity” (8) that plagued Irving with self-doubt and insecurity much of his life. Thoroughly researched and solid as an introduction to many of the broader scholarly conversations involving Irving, Tshachler’s scholarship here offers in-depth analysis of the “jostling of ideologies of manhood in a highly conflicted emotional drama about the successful life,” both as Irving lived it and as he explored it through his writings (10-11)
Deconstructing the Moral Animal Stigma: A Study of the Scholarly Conversation on Biological Altruism
Get PDFForms of altruism such as kin selection, reciprocity, and group-selectionaltruism exist in a biological sense—but the question of whether “real”altruism, based on good intentions, exists in a measurable manner and is ahuman-exclusive trait, remains to be seen. Based on observations of primitiveempathetical contagion behavior in mice, nonreciprocal interspecies altruismin cetaceans, and theory of mind behavior in Eurasian blue jays, certainnonhuman animals could be capable of complex empathetical acts that donot fall under the “standard” biological umbrella alongside kin selection,reciprocity, and group-selection. In reviewing these phenomena, this paperseeks to change the general societal understanding of empathetical cognitionand emotional capacity in nonhuman animals, and to redefine the conceptualparameters of biological altruism