4429 research outputs found
Sort by
Spirituality as a resource for coping with academic stress among college students.
No full textContext:Academic stress causes anxiety, distress, and fear, which are detrimental to students’ psychological well-being and mental health. Given the negative effects of academic stress on college students’ wellbeing, very little is currently known about the kinds of spiritual practices that can help college students manage academic-related stressors. Purpose:The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore if and how spirituality helps college students deal with academic stress and setbacks experienced in higher education.Methods: A sample of twenty-five students responded to open-ended semi-structured interview questions. Data were analyzed using Colaizzi’s phenomenological method. Results: Content analysis of twenty-five transcripts generated four major themes: the spiritual student, sources of meaning in life, academic goals and challenges, and coping strategies and benefits. Most of the students engage in spiritual coping practices to manage their academic struggles. These strategies ranged from prayer, self-reflection, yoga, meditation, listening to music, connecting with nature, loved ones, and a faith community. Conclusion:Spirituality is a good psychological resource for managing academic-related stressors and it plays a huge role in shaping students’ identity, values, and life purpose. Mental Health Policy Implication:Since spirituality is of paramount importance to college students who rely on their spiritual beliefs and practices to sustain them through academic hardships, it is critical that college administrators provide adequate spiritual resources to support and nurture students spiritual and mental wellbeing
The Impact of Macroeconomic Policies on Healthcare Delivery in Kenya: An Analysis of the National Sexual Violence Prevention and Care Response
No full textSexual violence is one of the most common forms of violence against women in Kenya. This study documents the care of sexual violence survivors from the perspective of health care practitioners based on an analytic framework developed in studies of the political-economy of health to examine the effects of International Financial Institutions’ conditionalities on the allocation of national fiscal resources. The study documented the working conditions of practitioners and myriad challenges that they experience in providing quality services to sexual violence survivors. The issues reflected in the results are grounded in social structural inequities driven by the global political economic policies that perpetuate poverty and dependency throughout Africa and the developing world. Macro-level variables associated with health care provision are assessed with a focus on global macroeconomic policies established by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, their impact on Kenya’s health economy and their ultimate impact on the capacity of the health system to meet the complex needs of survivors of sexual violence. In this paper, study results are analysed within the context of these macroeconomic policies and their legacy
“From Criminalization to Carceral Consequences: Race at the Center of the Criminal Legal System”,
No full text
MSK of the abdominal muscle.pptx
No full textPresentation and ultrasound lab demonstration to the PT student
Centering Diverse Ways of Knowing: A Self and Community of Care Model
No full textBased on co-development of an undergraduate social work course focused on self and a community of care, presenters will review the professional context, syllabus, course resources, and lessons learned. Presenters will engage workshop attendees in exploring the application of the model within the context of community agencies and practice through discussion and co-creation of draft strategies and plans
Reading Relational in Mildred D. Taylor: Toward a Black Feminist Care Ethics for Children’s Literature
Get PDFStruggling to Breathe: COVID-19, Protest, and the LIS Response
No full textThe purpose of this article is to provide a follow up to “Libraries on the Frontlines: Neutrality and Social Justice,” which was published in 2017. It addresses institutional responses to protests and uprising in the spring and summer of 2020 after the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd—all of which occurred in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The article expands the previous call for libraries to take a stand for Black Lives. We describe the events of 2020 (a global pandemic, multiple murders of unarmed Black people, and the consequent global protests) and responses from within library and information science, from our perspectives as women of color faculty and library professionals. We comment on how libraries are responding to current events, as well as the possibilities for panethnic solidarity. We also consider specifically how libraries and other institutions are responding to the racial uprisings through statements on social media and call for concrete action to ensure that their organizations and information practices are actively antiracist. In so doing, we update the claims and expand the appeals we made in 2017—that Black Lives Matter and that librarianship must not remain neutral
