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An Assessment of Students’ Perceived Peripheral Stressors in Counseling Internships
No full textThe Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP, 2009) defines a counseling student’s internship as the “capstone” experience in his or her training (p. 60), and the importance and value of the counseling internship experience has been established in the literature (Bernard & Goodyear, 2004; Gibson et al., 2010; Gnilka et al., 2012). However, despite all of its benefits, the masters-level internship process itself can pose several stressful challenges for the counseling intern, specifically “peripheral stressors”. Peripheral stressors refer to those stressful challenges or issues that counseling students face outside of counseling sessions and beyond client work. The purpose of this study was to assess counseling interns’ perceived peripheral stressors when completing their masters-level internship. Research questions included: What are the student-perceived peripheral stressors when completing a masters-level counseling internship? How stressful are these challenges to counseling interns, if at all? Do students in CACREP recommended internship structures experience various stressors differently than students in longer internship structures? Is there a difference in the effect of stressors among demographic groups?
A survey was developed and distributed in Qualtrics survey software. The survey was used to identify counseling interns’ perceived peripheral stressors as they relate to the counseling internship, and determine how stressful these challenges are to interns, if at all. The results indicated that some peripheral stressors experienced by interns could be considered “a concern” or “problematic.” Further, an exploratory factor analysis was conducted, resulting in the peripheral stressors being appropriately grouped into six common or underlying dimensions: Deficient Training Experience at Internship Site, Struggles with University Supervisor, Internship Site Selection Process, Personal Wellness and Financial Strain, Meeting CACREP Requirements, and Issues with Internship Site Personnel. The factor scores were then used to compare peripheral stressors in internship across internship structures and other demographic groups through analysis of variance and t-tests. Certain groups of students, including but not limited those employed outside of their counseling internship and those that must find and secure their own internship site, perceived more stress in some of the peripheral stressor factors than other counseling interns.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Counseling and Psychological Service
The Etymology Of Salvation
No full textDrawing from the conventions of narrative and confessional lyric poetry, this collection of original poetry aims to explore the concepts of myth and femininity, ranging from the autobiographical to the universal. Based on thematic similarities, the collection is broken into two main sections that are loosely split on the before and afters of the coming of age experience. These deeply intertwined poems uncover a failed family, a deeply religious upbringing and its lingering effects, specifically as/for a female, and the attempts to live with early life traumas and create a sense of security within the borders of the body and the spiritual self.Master of Fine Arts (MFA)Englis
No Boys Allowed
No full textNo Boys Allowed is a collection of multi-length stories centered on the lesbian experience within the patriarchal proprietary foundations of society. These proprietary foundations include but are not limited to the dynamics of romantic relationships, social politics, working institutions, and marriage. I examine the heteronormative influence on lesbian interpersonal and institutional relationships through various perspectives and from a variety of women throughout the United States. Such communities include a group of women who frequent a queer owned and operated club in the Midtown area of Atlanta, Georgia as well as a group of friends living in metro Arizona. The characters’ relationships in this collection of stories, while not overtly related, are linked through the presence of one consistent character who is present in each state at varying points throughout the collection. The age range of characters varies from early twenties to mid-forties. The length of the stories ranges from five-hundred words to ten-thousand words. I chose a variety of lengths to amplify the range of voices found throughout lesbian communities across the country. The shorter micro and flash pieces serve to present singular moments, like a first kiss in “I Think It’s Love,” which explores the heteronormative boundaries of someone who doesn’t know they are polyamorous, or the idea of masking in “Drag,” a story about identity politics. The short stories establish a set of recurring characters who face hardships predominantly examined through the dissolution of a long term lesbian relationship. The question these stories examine is, can an authentic queer feminine lesbian identity exist outside a male-controlled heteronormative structure of identity which informs all systems, institutions, and interpersonal relationships. My research for this project began after my own divorce. Major influences include several auto fiction writers such as Lucia Berlin, Dorothy Allison, and Eileen Myles. Outside of these influences, I also interviewed several workers in the bar industry. I spent a night observing a DJ in the booth for the story, “Spinning.” I interviewed several drag performers, leaders and business owners from the lesbian and gay community in Georgia, and various queer professionals in order to inform the characters who appear throughout the collection.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Englis
Design of Novel Protein-based MRI Contrast Agernets with High Relaxivity and Stability for Biomedical Imaging
No full textMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the leading imaging technique for disease diagnostics. MRI contrast agents facilitate MRI technique to obtain tissue-specific image with improved sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio. However, the applications of current MRI contrast agents are hampered by their uncontrolled blood circulation time, low relaxivity, and low specificity. To address such need, I have developed a series of analitical methods to determine and evaluate the strong metal binding affinity and metal selectivity of developed protein-based contrast agents (ProCAs). In addition, we have successed designed contrast agents ProCA3 series based on key determinats for metal binding sites and relaxivity. We have dementrated that one of the ProCA3 variants, ProCA32, has a high Gd3+ affinity less than 10-21 M and high metal selectivity with relxivity of more than 30 mM-1s-1 per Gd and 60 mM-1s-1 per particle. Moreover, we have demonstrated that ProCA3 variants have proper blood circulation time, high relaxivity, high metal selectivity and low toxicity, which facilitate MR imaging of multiple organs, such as liver, kidney, and blood vessels, as well as tumors. ProCA32 is also able to image liver metastases a tumor size less than 0.25 mm, which is more than fourty times more sensitive than that of clinical diagnostics of liver metastases using MRI and our developed methodology. We have further created ProCA3 variants with targeting peptide moieties such as ProCA3.bomb or ProCA3.affi to against cancer biomarkers such as GRPR and HER2 with capability to imaging tumor biomarker expressions in vivo at molecular level. We have shown that ProCA3 has an excellent safety profile and pharmacokinetics for MRI in animals. With our additional effect in protein expression, modification, and scale up production of these developed protein contrast agents, ProCA3 is expected to be a promising MRI contrast for the diagnostics for disease, such as metastatic tumor and blood vessel abnormalities, and tumor biomarkers.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Biolog
First Light
No full textThe poetry in this book is primarily about my life—where I grew up, Texas, and all the extraordinary places to which life has led me, such as Germany, Italy, England, Ireland, and Wales. The wonders of nature—light (stars, moon, sun), water, and the lay of the land, whether desert or forest, have also influenced my writing.Master of Arts (MA)Englis
The Life of Thomas
No full textIn this collection of linked stories and shorts, the narrator reflects on important people and events in his life, particularly his high school and college years, primarily through first and second person points of view. The stories “Joanna” and “Honor Roll” are first-person narratives, while “Mr. Finethreads” is told from the third person. “Pictures from a Wedding” and “College | Collage” are considered modular fiction, which create a mock-autobiography out of the disparate pieces of the overall mosaic.Master of Arts (MA)Englis
Assessing the Role of Marketing at Earnings Announcement: Stock Market Response to Marketing Metrics Surprises
No full textThe explanatory power of earnings per share (eps) is on the decline as firms are focusing more on intangible assets and are disclosing more marketing metrics when they announce their earnings (e.g., subscribers for the telecom & media industry and monthly active users for social media industry). However, the performance of these marketing output metrics beyond market/analysts’ expectations (i.e., surprises) requires marketing resources, which may reduce current profitability but may also signal a higher future cash flow. Therefore, building on information economics, we assess if there is information content in marketing metric surprises, and how the stock market reacts to such surprises. Further, we argue that the information content of marketing metric surprises varies under different information signals by firms (strategic emphasis) and screening cues by investors (marketing expenditure). We also investigate the temporal variations in the effect of marketing metric surprises and also examine the relative importance of marketing metric surprises as compared to earnings surprises across multiple industries. We test the claims using an event study methodology around earnings announcement on S&P 1500 firms consisting of firms disclosing industry-specific marketing metrics and non-disclosing firms. We account for sample selection bias and correcting for potential endogeneity concerns of surprises marketing metrics. Our findings suggest that (1) although an increase in marketing metric surprise affects the stock market returns positively, (2) this effect is strengthened when firms signal strategic emphasis on value appropriation relative to value creation whereas (3) it is attenuated when investors screen for firms with higher unanticipated marketing expenditure, (4) the effect of marketing metric surprises increases over time whereas it decreases for earnings surprise, and (5) the effect of marketing metric surprise is higher in the telecom and media industry as compared to earnings surprises. The study helps to improve marketing accountability at the time of earnings announcement by improving the overall earnings quality of firms.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Marketin
The Narrows
No full textIn this novel, Joni invites her long-time friend Ray to paddle the remote whitewater river that runs through North Carolina’s Stillwell Gorge, to reconnect after the demands of family life have replaced the kayaking adventures of their twenties and weakened their bond. Though Joni and Ray’s friendship formed on such boating trips, this river’s unexpectedly flooded water levels, caused by climate change, stress their dynamic and reveal a toxic core to how they relate and interact. Early mistakes delay their progress and force them to spend a night on the river, where they encounter another boating friend whose rebellious nature inspires Joni’s recklessness and deepens the divide between her and Ray. In the morning, they discover that Ray’s stalker ex has joined them in the Gorge. In order to survive, as he follows them into the river’s final and most dangerous section called The Narrows, they will need to find new ways to be, both as individual women and with each other.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Englis