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Barriers to Mental Health Care for Low-Income Clients As Perceived By Counsellors
Full text linkThis study aimed to answer the question, “What have [counselors] found to be the least helpful aspects of counseling with clients facing low income?” One hundred thirteen counselors were recruited via mass email, completed an online survey, and participated in individual interviews. Using a group concept mapping procedure, participants grouped the data into seven concepts, including barriers due to low income and employment, systemic barriers for clients, obstacles due to trauma, competing needs and priorities, biased approaches, limits to real-world helpfulness of counseling, and negative impacts of systems on and for counselors. The results highlight the importance of identifying and addressing inequities faced by clients living with a low income to increase the accessibility and availability of mental health services for all
Leveraging Integration and Collaboration with the Arts to Enhance Teacher Preparation
Full text linkTraditional collaborations between schools and teacher preparation programs provide real-world experiences for teacher candidates and contribute to their professional learning. However, when preparing candidates to work with the whole child, one must also consider things outside the typical classroom. Preparing candidates to work with families, support students in community settings, and explore their own learning, attitudes, and experiences can be accomplished through unique collaboration opportunities, as well. In this article, faculty from three teacher preparation programs describe three very different collaborations utilizing visual and performing arts resources to enhance teacher candidate knowledge and skills. We categorize these collaborations into two groups related to candidates’ professional learning: skill building and skill application. Activity descriptions are provided and benefits and concerns regarding each partnership are discussed
Towards an Account of Complementarities and Context-Dependence
Full text linkModern physics proposals present deep tensions between seemingly contradictory descriptions of reality. Views of wave-particle duality, black hole complementarity, and the Unruh effect demand explanations that shift depending on how a system is observed. However, traditional models of scientific explanation impose a fixed structure that fails to account for varying observational contexts. This paper introduces context-dependent mapping, a framework that reorganizes physical laws into self-consistent subsets structured around what can actually be observed in a given context. By doing so, it provides a principled way to integrate complementarity into the philosophy of explanation
Counterstories in Cathy Park Hong's Minor Feelings
Full text linkAlthough the “model minority myth” seems promising in benefiting Asian Americans, its greatest hoax is that it has never guaranteed safety from anti-Asian hate. The Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 uncovered the long-existing, historical tensions of anti-Asian hate in America as hate crime rates had spiked to unprecedented levels. They have historically been shaped by discrimination, forced assimilation, and struggle to belong in a society that has continuously treated them as diseased or alien enemies. Asian Americans have been subjected to the simplification of what Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie defines as the “single story.” To break from this continued discrimination of autonomy and identity, it is crucial to look at stories that push back against dominant narratives imposed by mainstream society.
In recent years, a surge of minority narratives has countered pre-existing barriers formed by single stories, including Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning. Her semi-autobiography includes various essays that work toward describing the Asian American consciousness through Hong’s lived experiences and research. Authentic stories that counter the single stories imposed by mainstream society re-story the canon of what it means to be Asian American. In this paper, I will explore how Asian Americans reclaim identity through “counterstories,” turning what Hong calls “minor feelings” into visualized struggles. By analyzing the critique of single stories, narrative voice, and the experience of purgatorial spaces, I will demonstrate how Minor Feelings works as a counterstory to reclaim Asian American identity
Stitch: The Creation, The Model Citizen, and The Reality Discovered Through Exile
Full text linkMuch like other aspects of life, different forms of art and entertainment are directly influenced by positive and negative life experiences, including migration and exile. Simultaneously, important topics and ideas — such as migration and exile — are shaped by the representation and language used when such stories are told (Caprio). An example of entertainment depicting a migration story is Disney’s animated movie Lilo & Stitch. In the movie, Experiment 626, later renamed Stitch, is deemed a monstrosity, doomed to wreak havoc on cities, steal “left shoes,” and generally have “no place among [the alien society]” he was born into (1:24–2:53). Yet, after escaping his harsh, seemingly unjust imprisonment, he migrates to Earth only to face further condemnation. His appearance and lifestyle are called into question by most; however, Lilo, a six-year-old girl native to the area, accepts Stitch for who he is, allowing him into her family without question. As a result, the audience witnesses Stitch questioning who he is meant to be and where he belongs. Stitch, from Disney’s Lilo & Stitch, is pulled between three aspects of himself: who he was made to be, who he is believed to be, and who he actually is. These aspects are explored through his exile from his homeland, forced assimilation into a new culture, and eventual acceptance into a found family
Rusks and Mastic: How to Incorporate Cuisine into a Byzantine Empire Course
Full text linkTeaching Byzantine history offers educators a fascinating opportunity to explore how the Roman Empire continued from antiquity into the late Middle Ages. As with any history course, standard lectures and discussion of primary sources are essential to teaching effectively about Byzantium. Via lectures, instructors can explain complicated subjects such as Chalcedonian Christology and the Byzantines’ relationship with the Kyivan Rus’. Through primary source discussion, instructors can guide students into analyzing historical evidence in texts like The Secret History by Procopius and The Alexiad by Anna Komnene. In addition to these traditional teaching methods, I have adopted another strategy for my university-level Byzantine Empire course: incorporating food and food history into the curriculum. During a class meeting dedicated to “Byzantine Cuisine,” I bring in six Byzantine foods for my students to sample: barley rusks, olives, feta cheese, pork sausages (loukaniko), bougatsa (a pastry), and the sweet Easter bread called tsoureki. I also pass around five of the Byzantines’ favorite spices – rosemary, cinnamon, anise, mastic, and mahlep – so that students can inhale their aromas. A significant learning outcome of this lesson is that students will be able to explain a fundamental aspect of daily life in Byzantium: what and how people ate and drank. More specifically, as students sample these foods and smell these spices, they are adding gustatory and olfactory experiences to the historical facts they have learned
A Field Supervisor’s Blueprint for Optimal Distance Supervision Experiences
Full text linkHigh-quality field experiences are one of the most critical components of effective special education teacher preparation, with research showing they directly impact teacher effectiveness and student outcomes (Bussey & Lay, 2023; Dunst et al., 2019). As teacher preparation programs evolve to meet changing demands, new models of field supervision are emerging, offering promising benefits while introducing new challenges. This article examines how thoughtfully structured field supervision, supported by technology and collaboration, can enhance the quality of feedback, promote reflective practice, and improve outcomes for special education teacher candidates. A practical framework is presented to help university field supervisors guide special education teacher candidates through a successful, well-supported hybrid field experience. These insights aim to inform programs serving candidates in rural or remote areas who seek to elevate the impact of their field supervision practices
Where Are the Citations? ChatGPT Discussions in the History of Sexuality
Full text linkThis article details an experiment conducted during a spring 2023 course on the history of sexuality in the United States where students used ChatGPT to enhance their understanding of course material. I created bonus assignments that allowed students to engage with and ask questions about the week's lectures and readings to generative AI. Students submitted ChatGPT's responses and critically analyzed the accuracy and depth of the AI-generated answers. While initial reactions were favorable toward the technology, students later expressed concerns about the historical accuracy of responses and the lack of citations. I end the article with a short discussion on the pedagogical potential of integrating generative AI into higher education
Introduction: The Ludic Outlaw: Medievalism, Games, Sport, and Play
Full text linkThis introduction to “The Ludic Outlaw: Medievalism, Games, Sport, and Play,” a special issue of The Bulletin of the Association for Robin Hood Studies, traces the origins and history of Robin Hood’s association with games and gaming. As a regular fixture at May games and Whitsun ales, the medieval Robin Hood figure facilitated competitive play and encouraged festivalgoers to donate money to communal causes. At times, Robin Hood merged with the May King figure, a lord of (mis)rule who could supervise both carnivalesque celebration and military exercises. In his modern iterations, the ludic Robin Hood more frequently appears as a champion specifically of the vulnerable. This is so common that when he does not the resulting dissonance with common connotations surrounding Robin Hood only serves to underscore the ludic outlaw’s subversive ethos in the cultural memory of audiences
Making the Case for Case Management: A Holistic Care Approach for Athletic Organizations
Full text linkDue to recent athlete advocacy and changing organizational policy, sport organizations need to implement policies and procedures to meet the mental health needs of athletes. Scholars have suggested that a holistic approach—addressing an athletes’ mental, social, spiritual, and physical health — is the most effective care. However, the sport industry lacks a practical and interprofessional model of care that encapsulates holistic wellness of athletes on an individual and systematic level. To address this gap, this conceptual study reviewed the strengths and limitations of eight different evidence-based healthcare models to understand what an empirically based, athlete-specific holistic model of care could look like. Although all models had their strengths, most take an individualistic approach and do not offer implementation tactics that can be adapted to sport organizations. Taking these critiques, we proposed three best practices that emphasize an athlete-centered, collaborative approach: (1) taking an interdisciplinary approach, (2) hiring case managers, and (3) investing in top-down organizational trainin