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LGBTQ+ Identity Development and Individual vs Group Psychotherapy Experience: A Consensual Qualitative Analysis
Full text linkMulticultural topics, such as LGBTQ+ experience, have accrued predominance within the field of psychology. It has become clear that better understanding minority experience is of utmost importance. Pervasive stigma, discrimination, and mistreatment culminate into minority stress; thus LGBTQ+ individuals face greater risk for poor mental health and seek out psychotherapy at higher rates. Despite this reality, limited psychotherapy research exists in this area generally and essentially no research has looking into the experience of LGBTQ+ individuals in group therapy. The current study investigated experiences of LGBTQ+ clients who have participated in both individual and group psychotherapy. Eleven participants were interviewed and their data analyzed according to the methods of Consensual Qualitative Analysis (CQR; Hill & Knox, 2021). Themes emerged including reasons for seeking therapy, therapy\u27s impact, therapeutic mechanisms of change, format differences, and recommendation to others. Results showed that participants typically sought out individual therapy due to depression/anxiety or other mental health concerns. Participants were also typically referred to group therapy by their individual therapist for the interpersonal benefits. Participants were typically internally distressed regarding their queer identity when starting individual and typically interpersonally distressed regarding their queer identity when starting group therapy. Therapeutic relationship, therapeutic environment, and therapeutic techniques were the most typically reported mechanism of change within individual therapy. Many variant mechanisms of change were for group, although universality and group cohesion were most reported. Individual therapy generally had a positive impact on queer identity development. Group therapy typically had a positive impact on queer identity development as well as having other typical positive impacts. Further, participants generally identified individual therapy\u27s intrapsychic focus and group therapy\u27s interpersonal focus as defining differences between the formats. Generally, this study provides preliminary findings on the unique differences and benefits of both individual and group therapy for those in the queer community
Co-creating a Community of Learners Through Interactive Read-alouds of Expository Texts
Full text linkI am reading aloud Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature’s Undead (Johnson, 2013) to a group of 7th grade students. The text describes the larva stage where a young jewel wasp feasts on the cockroach’s insides. As I read, there are scattered exclamations of “ewwww,” “sick,” and audible gasps. I stop reading to dig into these reactions
A Cohort of the Willing: How Secondary Schools Might Face the Literacy Crisis
Full text linkExperts like Louisa Moats and anyone who has recently completed LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) training, know that 95% of children can be taught to read (Louisa Moats, 2023). As a secondary educator, it’s tempting to see this statistic and ignore it. Surely, this must be someone else’s problem. In fact, if all goes according to plan in the world of elementary education, students become proficient at foundational reading skills before fourth grade, especially if one considers Kilpatrick’s work which establishes this benchmark for the development of advanced phonological awareness skills (Kilpatrick, 2015, p. 85). However, the problem we face as secondary teachers is simple: nothing ever goes according to plan
Book Review: \u3ci\u3eSomething Like Home\u3c/i\u3e
Full text linkSomething Like Home is a poignant exploration of resilience and adaptation. Laura, the protagonist, finds her life disrupted when her parents are forced into a drug rehabilitation program and she must navigate a new environment with an unfamiliar aunt and school. Her initial resistance to accepting this change forms the central conflict of her journey
Book Review: \u3ci\u3eThe Faint of Heart\u3c/i\u3e
Full text linkIs it better to experience negative emotions with the positive, or to not feel at all? The Faint of Heart, a graphic novel by Kerrilyn Wilson, takes place in a society where scientists have discovered how to successfully remove the human heart without killing the patient. Once a heart is removed, it is placed into a numbing solution, which effectively eliminates the patient’s ability to experience emotion. The procedure quickly gains popularity, and people flock to the hospital to have their heart removed, in an effort to escape feelings of grief, pain, and stress, only to inadvertently remove positive emotions like happiness and passion as well. Everyone eventually removes their heart—all except June. June watches as her parents, friends, and sister undergo the operation, leaving her feeling increasingly isolated and disconnected from the relationships she used to have. However, everything begins to change when June finds something strange in a dark alley one day—an abandoned human heart
Spirit-guided Learning
Full text linkWe know the importance to learn under the influence of the Holy Ghost, but we may not know very well how to proactively invite that influence. This article helps us learn the principles to enhance our spirituality and receive many encouragements by many testimonies of those who tried seriously to have such a proactive stance in learning
Adjudicating Utah Public Records Requests: A Textual Analysis of Relevant Appellate and Supreme Court Decisions
No full textThe purpose of this thesis project is to identify the boundaries that have been established by the Utah courts between disclosure and non-disclosure of government records. This analysis focused on the legal theory of balancing public interest in disclosure vs. the rationale for some government records being retained as confidential