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Positioning Hospice Care Within the Black and Hispanic Communities
Get PDFNationally, hospice care and the signing of advance directives are underutilized by minority populations. Research on this phenomenon includes cultural differences, access to medical care and language barriers. A retrospective study of 1,817 closed patient charts from a local hospice was conducted to determine significant differences among the White, Black and Hispanic patient populations. The number of White patients admitted to both hospice homecare and to the hospice inpatient was significantly greater than the number of admissions of either the Black or Hispanic patients. There were no significant findings in the total number of services provided to each of the patient groups. Hospices must be more diligent in assessing the needs of patients within their cultural setting and then to align their staffing patterns, their use of language and communication and their one-on-one interactions to create an inviting environment
The Relationship of Emotional Regulation to Relational and Overt Aggression in Middle Childhood
Get PDFAs female juvenile delinquency for violence increases, the need for understanding the development of aggression as it relates to girls is also increasing. Most often, aggression is described and measured in terms of overt behaviors meant to cause physical harm and these behaviors have been found most commonly in boys. However, more recent research indicates that girls possess a relational aggression that can be best described as behaviors such as gossiping, exclusion and threatening friendships or any behavior that means to harm the relationship. In this research, these aggressive behaviors are studied to determine their relationship to emotional regulation; that is, the ability to change behaviors associated with activated emotions. It was also hypothesized and shown that girls are relationally aggressive and boys are more physically aggressive. A series of five surveys were given to three groups of eighth graders at two different schools and then a multi-trait multimethod analysis was applied to the peer, teacher and self assessments to determine the aggressive nature of students. This information was compared to students’ self assessments of internal/external and functional/dysfunctional abilities of emotional regulation. It was determined that dysfunctional external emotional regulation is significantly related to relational aggression in girls. I
Fall 2008 Commencement - The University of Texas of the Permian Basin
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City-state Civism in Ancient Athens : Its Real and Ideal Expressions
No full textThis book focuses on the development of civism as it contributed to ancient Greek culture, and helped shape the psychology of citizenship in the Western world. The strength of this work is its interdisciplinary examination of those trends and influences that combined to give new insights into the rise and the fall of democracy in the ancient polis of Athens. The author presents an extensive description of the intellectual forces that attracted «international» scholars and teachers to Athens, who in turn established important schools of higher learning as they labored to develop and advance the study of rhetoric and philosophy as competing alternative approaches for addressing the perceived weakness of the democratic system. This volume is an ideal supplement for instruction in courses in classical history, political science, philosophy, history of Western education, and advanced foundations of education.https://falconcommons.utpb.edu/utpb-facbooks/1015/thumbnail.jp
Discipline, Facial Affect Recognition and Self-Efficacy
Get PDFThe present study explored facial affect recognition, discipline and self-efficacy correlates, predicted using the Social Cognitive Theory framework. A sample of undergraduate students (N—114) from The University of Texas of the Permian Basin, were surveyed on parental style, discipline, self-efficacy, and then tested for facial affect recognition. The results indicated that participants reporting more corporal punishment scored lower on facial affect than those reporting less corporal punishment (p \u3c .05). No significance was found for corporal punishment and self-efficacy (p \u3e .05). The parental style of the father emerged as a significant predictor for the relationship between corporal punishment and facial affect recognition (p \u3c .05). Results appear to support the idea that the social environment parents, especially fathers, create via discipline may hinder ability to interpret emotion. One important implication of this study is that paternal influence may be more vital to emotional detection development than previously considered
Summer 2008 Commencement - The University of Texas of the Permian Basin
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The Jail and the University: Make It Worth Their While
No full textThe article focuses on the effort of the American Jail Association to forge a strong relationship between the jail community and colleges in the U.S. The association hopes to augment jail staff with college-educated professionals in an effort to gain broader scholarly attention in the form of courses, textbooks, faculty and student research. The author believes that the task of the association to elicit and sustain academic interest in jail operation is a difficult, but not an impossible one
Summer 2007 Commencement - The University of Texas of the Permian Basin
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Effects of Therapy Dogs on Anxiety in Children Participating in Sexual Abuse Forensic Interviews at Children\u27s Advocacy Center
Get PDFThis study investigated the effect of therapy dogs on physiological and psychological measures of anxiety before and after a forensic interview in children who may have been sexually abused. A convenience sample consisted of 37 children ages 6 to 12 years who presented at a children’s advocacy center for sexual abuse forensic interviews. Twenty children had a therapy dog present during their time at the Center and 17 did not. Researchers measured systolic blood pressure (SBP) and heart rate (HR) using a Zelwa WS-TS Touch Screen Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor. State- anxiety was assessed using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children. All measurements were taken before and after participation in a forensic interview. Results indicate no significant differences in state-anxiety and physiological arousal in children who had the dog present in the waiting room compared to the children in the dog absent condition