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The Judicial Examination in Marriage Nullity Trials
No full textQuestioning by letter is used in many American tribunals to instruct marriage nullity causes. This thesis examines whether questioning by letter is a lawful method of instruction in marriage nullity trials.Canon lawCanon LawDegree Awarded: J.C.L. Canon Law. The Catholic University of Americ
Skills to enhance positivity in suicidal adolescents: results from a pilot randomized clinical trial
No full textJournal of Positive Psychology, Volume 15, Issue 3, 3 May 2020, Pages 348-361.The objective of this study was to examine the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary effects of an intervention, Skills to Enhance Positivity (STEP) that aims to increase attention to positive emotions and experiences and to decrease suicidal events. STEP involves four in-person individual sessions delivered during an inpatient psychiatric admission, followed by one month of weekly phone calls and daily text messages with mood monitoring and skills practice. A pilot randomized controlled trial of STEP vs. enhanced treatment as usual (ETAU) was conducted with 52 adolescents. Results indicated that on average 83% of the sessions were completed and that on 70% of the days, participants engaged with the text-messaging component of the intervention. Acceptability for both in-person and text-messaging components was also high, with satisfaction ratings averaging between good and excellent. STEP participants reported fewer suicide events than ETAU participants (6 vs. 13) after six months of follow-up
Milwaukee 53206 impact report: documentary & social justice in U.S. faith communities
No full textThis report provides the background, details and impact highlights about the strategic public engagement and social impact campaign for MILWAUKEE 53206, an hour-long documentary focused on the intersection of race and mass incarceration in the United States. The impact campaign was shaped and directed by Odyssey Impact, a nonprofit documentary production organization, which also funded the production of the film. The Center for Media & Social Impact provided formative research to help shape the issue campaign and developed the field screening survey facilitated by the Odyssey Impact team at grassroots screening events for the film. This report was prepared and written by a team at the Center for Media & Social Impact. For CMSI, director Caty Borum Chattoo served as principal investigator. The report was written by Caty Borum Chattoo; Varsha Ramani, CMSI communications and program manager; and Danage Norwood, former American University School of Communication Strategic Communications program graduate student. AU School of Communication graduate student Sarah Huckins provided support with citations and formatting. Funded by a grant from Odyssey Impact, this report is part of a larger collaborative project between Odyssey and CMSI that examines the role of multidenominational faith communities in grassroots social justice interventions centered around the use of documentary film
DC History Conference 2019
No full textThe annual D.C. History Conference provides a dynamic, friendly, and rigorous forum for discussing and promoting original research about the history and culture of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The Humanities Truck took part in the 2019 Conference on Friday, November 22nd, presenting the exhibit “Downtown Displaced: A Case Study of Gentrification in Mount Vernon Square 1840-Present.” The exhibit emerged from a four month collaboration with Street Sense artists, and it explores the social costs of neighborhood change in a long temporal context. On Saturday, November 23rd, the Truck returned for a “performance” that included Street Sense artists Reggie Black, Angie Whitehurst, and DC filmmaker Bryan Bello. The artists/vendors provided their own interpretation of the neighborhood change and the meaning of Apple moving into Mt. Vernon Square. Also on Saturday, AU Public History students shared about their experiences collaborating with DC community partners for this project at the “Collaborating for a Community History” conference panel. This exhibit contains photos from the event
AU Scholars Exhibition
No full textOn April 13, 2019 on the American University Quad, two classes from the AU Scholars Program presented the culmination of their semester-long research projects. Displayed inside the truck, students in Dan Kerr's class put together an exhibit about the history of the Community for Creative Nonviolence in DC. On the outside the truck, students from Martyn Oliver's class presented their exhibit on religious minorities in DC
Downtown Displaced
No full textThe Downtown Displaced project involved an extensive collaboration between the Humanities Truck, Dan Kerr and students from his Engaged Community History course, and the Street Sense Media Filmmakers Cooperative. Collection contains photos from planning and creation of Downtown Displaced: A Case Study of Gentrification in Mount Vernon Square, 1840-Present exhibit, for which Dan Kerr's Engaged Community History class collaborated with Street Sense Media artists during the Spring 2019 academic semester. The exhibit explores the social costs of neighborhood change in a long temporal context. Collection also contains photos from May 20, 2019, when the exhibit was presented to the Street Sense Media collaborators. In June, the filmmakers co-op did a performance at the Carnegie Library, which drew upon this research
Household economic instability: constructs, measurement, and implications
No full textChildren and Youth Services Review, Volume 118, November 2020, Article number 105502.A growing body of research demonstrates the multiple dimensions and dynamism of family income and employment. The metrics of household economic instability and their associations with household characteristics and hardship require further examination in order to compare across studies, subgroups, and historical periods. This paper empirically examines and compares commonly used measures of income and employment instability, how these measures inter-relate, vary by household characteristics, and how they predict household hardship. Using longitudinal data from the 2008 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), and focusing on households with children, this study examined a range of descriptive measures of economic instability, including in income, earnings, public assistance benefits, and employment status, and how these measures related to each other. Results indicate that overall rates of income and employment instability were high, particularly among less-educated families, those with young children, and those who did not own a home. Economic instability, particularly decreases in employment, was associated with increased household hardship three months later. Findings also show that the source of income included in the instability measure affects the patterns identified and conclusions drawn, whereas the specific type of measure used matters less. Results highlight the instability of public assistance benefits and suggest that safety net programs must take economic instability into account when designing programs and benefits
Interpreting social accounting matrix (SAM) as an information channel
No full textEntropy, Volume 22, Issue 12, December 2020, Article number 1346, Pages 1-28.Information theory, and the concept of information channel, allows us to calculate the mutual information between the source (input) and the receiver (output), both represented by probability distributions over their possible states. In this paper, we use the theory behind the information channel to provide an enhanced interpretation to a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM), a square matrix whose columns and rows present the expenditure and receipt accounts of economic actors. Under our interpretation, the SAM’s coefficients, which, conceptually, can be viewed as a Markov chain, can be interpreted as an information channel, allowing us to optimize the desired level of aggregation within the SAM. In addition, the developed information measures can describe accurately the evolution of a SAM over time. Interpreting the SAM matrix as an ergodic chain could show the effect of a shock on the economy after several periods or economic cycles. Under our new framework, finding the power limit of the matrix allows one to check (and confirm) whether the matrix is well-constructed (irreducible and aperiodic), and obtain new optimization functions to balance the SAM matrix. In addition to the theory, we also provide two empirical examples that support our channel concept and help to understand the associated measures