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Successful application of CranioSacral Therapy in a case of self-harming and low mood in a 13-year-old female.
Get PDFThis case reports on the effectiveness of CranioSacral Therapy (CST) for a 13-year-old female presenting with self-harming by cutting, self-starving and poor sleep. Seven treatments of 45 minutes each, over a period of 9 months between September 2023 and June 2024 took place and monthly treatments are still ongoing. An improvement in symptoms was recorded after the first treatment and over the period of the treatments the client did not self-harm or self-starve and her sleep improved. At the first session the client scored 24 with the Patient Health Questionnaire – 9 (PHQ-9); at the seventh session her score was 4. This case suggests that CST can be an effective support for teenagers who are suffering with self-harming behavior, low self-esteem and general low mood. It is put forward as an example of how CST could be a stand-alone treatment but also an additional support for young people complementing other treatments such as counselling.
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Facilities Reinvestment Plan Proposal
No full textEastern Illinois University’s strategic plan, Plan 2028, emphasizes the importance of comprehensive campus-wide facilities and capital planning under its “Create” theme. This facilities reinvestment plan aims to foster opportunities for improving university facilities and grounds. The last EIU campus Master Plan was commissioned in 2010. Over the past 15 years, EIU has experienced significant changes in its student and employee demographics, population and space utilization. However, minimal updates have been made to the campus facilities and landscape during this time. This facilities reinvestment proposal and the research conducted were created to address current needs and goals in the EIU strategic plan.
EIU’s campus spans 320 acres and includes 88 buildings, totaling approximately 3.5 million gross square feet. The average building age is 56 years, with the oldest being Old Main (the Livingston C. Lord Administration Building), built in 1899, and the newest being the Renewable Energy Center, built in 2011. The Integrated Science building, currently in the planning phase, is anticipated to open in 2028.
Many of the facilities were constructed during the post-war college boom of the 1960s and 1970s. As the campus continues to age, it is imperative to assess how we can remain responsible stewards of our facilities and resources to support the needs of our students and employees.https://thekeep.eiu.edu/plan2028_facilities/1000/thumbnail.jp
Your Space
Get PDFThis is a story about three people who have become friends and get to know each other although there is an underlying eerie feeling.https://thekeep.eiu.edu/cwc_short_stories/1002/thumbnail.jp
Conservatism Amongst Racial Minorities
No full textConservatism Amongst Racial Minorities
Historically speaking, racial minorities have, most notably, voted with the democratic party. Of course, there are plenty of outliers, but it’s common knowledge that the Democratic Party has most of the black, brown, and Asian vote—the reason why is relatively simple. The democratic party usually runs on a platform of inclusivity and takes an apologetic stance to past racial injustices committed by the American government. Voting democrat increases diverse representation and, overall, means more space for underrepresented groups. Does this mean that racial minorities always hold leftist values, or do racial minorities vote for whichever party promotes their acceptance?https://thekeep.eiu.edu/polisci_capstone_posters/1060/thumbnail.jp
Women Spinning on the Edge: Finding and Redefining the “Spinster” in the Witches of Discworld
Get PDFThe word “spinster” has undergone a series of evolutions over the past seven hundred years, first coined to describe the occupation of women engaged in the spinning of plant and animal fibers into thread and yarn in the Middle Ages and later a legal marital status designation used until the 21st century. The connotation associated in social contexts became pejorative. This project’s tracing of the word spinster is used to set up the broader scope looking at how the spinster can be viewed as an archetype, what we can learn through the lenses of gender and feminist theory, and how she can be traced and analyzed in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series and especially its witch characters. For much of its publishing history, Pratchett’s Discworld series has avoided much examination by academics, all but ignored except for some genre-specific attention. His brand of absurdist satire, metafiction, and critique not only of the fantasy genre but of societal norms, warrants much more serious consideration than it has received. Genre fiction is often relegated as a lower form of literature. Fantasy, especially, has been dismissed while science fiction novels by the likes of Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Octavia Butler, and Philip K. Dick have been the subjects of more scholarly attention. The dismissal of his work’s value as literature is aided in part by Pratchett’s own style of satire and metafiction. Like fantasy and other genre fiction, comedy is often overlooked in scholarship. Looking at Pratchett’s work through an exclusively genre-focused lens discounts its value as a humorous and populist critique of both modern and historical life, and genre itself. This project instead looks at his work through a gender and feminist theoretical lens, and how Pratchett’s use of satire fits into that, to get a deeper understanding of the series’ characters and the spinster they represent. Through Pratchett’s concept of “narrative causality,” used throughout the series to describe the influence stories have over our understanding of cause and effect and the power stories have over people’s lives, we find a humorous critique of the consensus fantasy universe and a metaphor for prescriptive gender roles and gender performance, emphasizing the importance of making choices and living life authentically regardless of the path a repeated narrative may try to lead you down. Joining the albeit limited academic conversation of Pratchett’s work and adding to it the understudied figure of the spinster, this project aims to broaden the understanding of both