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The Epoché of Factical Damnation: On the costs of Bracketing Out the Likelihood of Final Loss
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Ready to Respond: Integrating Trauma-Informed Care Education into the Baccalaureate Social Work Curriculum
No full textOver the past several years, social services agencies have increasingly focused on addressing the long-term impact of childhood trauma through implementing trauma-informed models of practice. Trauma-informed agencies and practitioners recognize the impact trauma has on an individual and work to prevent re-traumatization in their interactions. As agencies become trauma-informed, educating social work students on the principles of trauma-informed care is more important than ever. However, little research exists that provides information on the inclusion of trauma-informed care in the baccalaureate social work curriculum. The three products in this banded dissertation seek to answer the following question: Do baccalaureate social work faculty believe trauma-informed care information should be included in the curriculum, and if so, where and how should it be added? The first product is a qualitative research study using twenty-four semi-structured interviews of baccalaureate social work faculty to discover their current teaching practices on trauma-informed care and their thoughts on the future of trauma-informed baccalaureate social work education. The second product is a conceptual article exploring two methods of including trauma-informed care education in the baccalaureate social work curriculum. The third product describes a two-day workshop offered to social work practitioners who had not received trauma-informed care training in their social work programs
The Role of Social Work Faculty in Responding to Students’ Mental Health Needs
No full textThis Banded Dissertation explores social work faculty responses to students’ mental health needs and precisely how their view of their role in the academy is associated with their response. The three products include a conceptual paper, a quantitative study, and a poster presentation at the Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting (CSWE APM), a peer-reviewed conference. The conceptual paper employs the framework of the social constructivist theory coupled with the National Association of Social Work (NASW) Code of Ethics and critical self-reflection to assert that a variety of factors are associated with the perception of social work faculty\u27s role and subsequent response to students with mental health needs. The quantitative research utilizes a survey method to explore how social work faculty perceive their role in the academy and how this relates to their response to students’ mental health needs. Last, the poster presentation at the CSWE peer-reviewed conference shared a summary of the conceptual framework and research findings with social work education colleagues and students. This Banded Dissertation adds to the social work education knowledge base in these areas
Benedict XVI’s Thought Concerning the Identity of the Priest in Connection with the Eucharist
Get PDFIn the thought of Benedict XVI, the identity of the priesthood is centered on the Eucharist. Through the exploration of Benedict’s writings and homilies most concerned with the priesthood in connection with the Eucharist, this thesis demonstrates how the identity of the priest is informed by the Eucharist. The priest’s close relationship to the Eucharist calls for a unique and radical configuration to Christ; and celibacy, humility, and obedience aid in such a configuration. The thesis focuses on a few of Benedict XVI’s works. The first chapter focuses on the post-synodal exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis, and expounds upon Benedict’s more magisterial thought on the Eucharist and the priesthood. The second chapter focuses on Benedict’s essay on the “The Church and the Scandal of Sexual Abuse,” and presents his thought concerning the greatest blights on the priesthood in modern times. The third chapter focuses on Benedict XVI’s chapter “The Catholic Priesthood” from the book From the Depths of Our Hearts published, and focuses on the identity of the priest in comparison to the Old Testament Priesthood and in relation to the Eucharist. The fourth chapter focuses on Benedict XVI’s treatment of the priesthood and Eucharist in his homilies, and thematically treats of how the priest’s identity is informed by the Eucharist. The thesis’s conclusion synthesizes Benedict’s thought on the identity of the priest and offers an area for further study concerning the priest’s ontology
Union in Obscurity: Ruth Burrows’ Contributions to Developments in Mystical Theology
Get PDFThis thesis seeks to support and synthesize the claims of Carmelite Nun and contemporary author, Ruth Burrows. Across her writings, Burrows contends that a lack of flowering of the mystical life in the Church today results from a false typification of mysticism as both linear and bench-marked by sensible signs. Burrows argues this imbalanced view has stunted the spiritual growth of many, due to false expectations and discouragement. Rather, Burrows asserts that the normative experience of Divine Union is given both obscurely and intangibly (“light off”), whereas the sensible and conventional sense of mysticism is both rare and didactic in purpose (“light on”). Burrows’ arguments are evaluated chiefly in dialogue with St. Thomas Aquinas and St. John of the Cross. Burrows’ case for a didactic “Light On” mysticism is best understood as gratia gratis data, specifically as an expression of the prophetic charism. “Light Off” is explored through a closer examination of St. John of the Cross’s writings, where a reconsideration of sensate imagery in light of his doctrine of obscure faith reveals a mystical marriage more in support of Burrows’ conception. This claim is further strengthened when compared with St. Thomas Aquinas’ treatise on faith. An incarnational case for the two modes of mystical life is made through an analysis of St. Elizabeth of the Trinity (“Light on”) and St. Therese of Lisieux (“Light off”). Burrows’ theology stands the test of scrutiny, though not without limitations: research remains to be done on the function of the Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit in Burrows’ mystical theology. Additionally, when pushed to its furthest limits, Burrows’ commitment to obscure union risks a radical disjunct between the perceiver (the soul) and the object perceived (God Himself). Nonetheless, should spiritual theology undergo a ressourcement as did systematic and moral theology, the theology of Ruth Burrows offer important contributions
Text to Speech: Transportation-Imagery Theory and Outcomes of Narrative Delivery Format
No full textThis project explores how narrative formats facilitate transportation and related phenomena. Over two hundred subjects encountered fictional stories in different iterations: printed text or audiobook delivered by human or synthetic speech. Subjects rated cognitive load, transportation, and enjoyment. Audio-exposed subjects also evaluated their sense of parasocial interaction and motivation to listen to the narrator. The results suggest reading and listening to human speech are similar; synthetic speech yields weaker outcomes. The differences among formats had statistically large effect sizes. Human speech was preferred to synthetic speech, and enjoyment, parasocial interaction, and voice source are the strongest predictors of listening intention
