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Living separate lives: How to nurture a work-life balance
No full textLibrarians faced many challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of us quite literally brought our work home with us as we learned to interact with our colleagues virtually and adapted to performing our job duties from home. During this time, I was handed an additional personal challenge. I was diagnosed with a chronic health condition requiring multiple surgeries. I was now not only struggling to work from home as a cataloger but struggling to work from home as a cataloger while managing my daily pain. As someone who does not enjoy working from home, this seemed like an impossible challenge. The boundaries between work and home began to blur. I learned to utilize different methods to cope with my overwhelming feelings and separate my personal life from my work life, including mindfulness, bullet journaling, and a healthy dose of self-compassion. Drawing on literature from the psychology and library science fields, I will define work-life balance and outline strategies to promote it. This presentation will help library workers of all types realize the importance of keeping a work-life balance
Group Ideation Treatment (GRIT)-A Group Approach to the Treatment of Suicidal Ideation and Relapse into a Maladaptive Coping Skill
Get PDFSuicidal ideation is experienced across both acute presentations and chronic conditions of suicidality. For some, the ideation may be the only symptom that is present while others who have undergone treatment for suicidality may find a relapse into suicidal ideation. With the prevalence and potential relapse back to this maladaptive coping skill, the development of an intervention is needed that directly targets this case presentation. Ideation acts just as any other maladaptive coping skill, and just as with those, there is support for the use of group intervention. The individual’s family or friends may become apprehensive towards being supportive if they hear of a resurgence or onset of suicidal ideation. Providing a peer-based support system in the context of a controlled therapeutic environment, where risk is being consistently monitored, could provide this individual with the situation that best fits their treatment needs
Implementing a Strengths-Based CBT Specialization for African American Girls
Get PDFHistorically, the African American community has experienced years of hardship and adversity. Beginning in the 17th century, enslaved African Americans were utilized for labor and labeled as “others” which in turn led the community to be viewed as inferior. With that preconceived notion, individuals were not allowed to obtain basic human rights (Oca & Bhugra, 2021). While there have been laws and regulations set for African Americans to have basic human rights, other forms of racism and discrimination have plagued the community for many decades. For example, systemic racism and healthcare disparities are other forms of discrimination that have seriously impacted the community (Corad, 2021)
Teacher Perception of K-5 Students\u27 Social Emotional Health
Get PDFEducation has grown in complexity. Educational stakeholders are perpetually caught within the debate of what constitutes best practices. However, “the delicate fabric of the civilization into which successive generations are woven has unraveled, . . .” (Bloom, 1988, p. 57). Bereft of much of the traditional social and emotional family support, contemporary students have been yielding diminishing school engagement and waning school success. With students’ social-emotional health teetering toward the unhealthy, educators must accept, and therefore learn to thrive in the recursive nature of best practices, all while attempting to salvage their pupils’ social and emotional health (SEH). Thus, the lived experiences of educators offer a wealth of knowledge as educational stakeholders seek new perspectives and strategies to mitigate mounting educational impediments. Since social emotional health breeds community, and since community precedes effective education, consequently, educators’ voices deserve amplification and a powerful platform. What continues to be far removed from this discourse is a more thorough and more candid account of teachers’ perceptions of their students’ social emotional health. Social emotional learning curriculums, whether supplementary or embedded in the curriculum, are typically lacking a definite imperative as well as a tried and proven course of action. When the data allow us to excel past the theoretical and become pragmatic with fidelity, education will naturally become more effective and transformative. The results of this dissertation may align educational stakeholders’ efforts with positive, reliable strategies and outcomes. Keywords: Social-Emotional Competencies, Community, Social-Emotional Learning, School Engagement, and Social-Emotional Health
OT Graduate Students’ Perceived Preparedness for Level II Fieldwork: Traditional, Nontraditional and Mixed Fieldwork I Experiences
Get PDFThis study explored the perceived level of preparedness of occupational therapy (OT) graduate students for entering Level II fieldwork after completing nontraditional, traditional, and mixed Level I fieldwork experiences. This mixed-methods exploratory study included an online 22-question survey that was delivered to Occupational Therapy Doctoral (OTD) and Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) programs throughout the United States. Participants were selected through voluntary convenience response sampling. Students (N=145) self-reported their level of preparedness for Level II fieldwork experiences. The quantitative data collected in this study reflected a statistically significant difference between Level I fieldwork experience-related questions for the three groups, including traditional, nontraditional, and mixed traditional and nontraditional fieldwork experiences. More specifically, students that took traditional fieldwork experiences felt that traditional fieldwork positively contributed to their preparedness for Level II fieldwork compared to those who took nontraditional fieldwork or a mix of traditional and nontraditional fieldwork. The qualitative data, analyzed through thematic analysis, indicated that students felt a combination of nontraditional and traditional fieldwork provided the most significant benefit from Level I fieldwork experiences. Results suggest that most OT students preferred either a combination of nontraditional Level I fieldwork and traditional Level I fieldwork or solely traditional Level I fieldwork for increasing their perceived preparedness prior to starting Level II fieldwork. This study has implications for OTD and MOT fieldwork curriculum development and implications for addressing the needs of OT students to feel better prepared for Level II fieldwork
Occupational Therapy Practitioners’ Perceptions of Workplace Stressors in One Nursing Home Post Pandemic
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Background:
Multiple stress-related issues brought on by the pandemic affected healthcare staff, including occupational therapists. Nursing home settings were particularly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is important to understand how occupational therapy practitioners in nursing home settings managed stress during the pandemic and how they perceived stress after it passed.
Purpose:
The purpose of this qualitative study was to evaluate occupational therapy practitioners ’perceptions of workplace stressors in one nursing home during the pandemic and to understand how these stressors may have changed post-pandemic.
Theoretical Framework:
The Occupational Adaptation (OA) model was the theoretical framework that served as the foundation for this independent investigation. This serves as the basis for the study since occupational therapy professionals need to respond to their surroundings successfully in order to succeed and keep themselves healthy in dealing with stress due to the pandemic.
Methods:
A descriptive qualitative design utilized using semi structured interviews to investigate occupational therapy practitioners\u27 views of workplace stressors in a nursing home following the pandemic. The respondents were occupational therapy practitioners who worked in a central valley nursing home facility in California.
Results:
Four themes emerged from the data: Life is so Stressful because of COVID-19, Fear of Death, Stressful in the Beginning but it has Become Part of the Norm and Current Protocols in Use because Disease is Morphing.
Conclusions:
This study explored the occupational therapy practitioners’ perceptions of workplace stressors in one nursing home showed similar discussions and results with other studies related to stress during the pandemic. As change agents, occupational therapists must prioritize their own health in order to provide patients in need of rehabilitation with optimal treatment and care
Belonging in Graduate Health Professions Education- Implications for Occupational Therapy Education: A Scoping Review
Get PDFIndividuals who report a high sense of belonging with their academic institution demonstrate increased levels of academic success, as measured by greater class attendance, increased appropriate classroom behaviors, and better mental health and self-concept. The available literature on this topic focuses minimally on sense of belonging in graduate health professions education and available evidence is even more sparse specific to occupational therapy education. Thus, the aim of this study was to conduct a scoping review to gather foundational knowledge regarding barriers and facilitators to belonging in graduate health professions education to determine implications for occupational therapy education. A total of 202 studies were identified; 70 remained after the title and abstract review and removal of duplicates. After reading the full text, 61 articles were removed due to their limited exploration of belonging or inability to answer the proposed research question regarding barriers and facilitators to belonging. The final sample of 9 articles provided information about barriers and facilitators to a sense of belonging across health professions (occupational therapy, physical therapy, & medicine) graduate education. Qualitative content analysis of these articles revealed three themes that contributed both barriers and facilitators to belonging in graduate health professions education: (1) environment, (2) relationships, and (3) personal factors. As the call to diversify the profession brings in a greater number of students from historically minoritized identities, it is essential that all students experience belonging in their academic programs to increase success in their education and, as a result, in their future healthcare professions
I Know What You Did on Wattpad: Understanding the Adolescent Desire to Write Self-Insert Fanfiction
Get PDFFanfiction has always been popular, but through the expansion of the internet, it can be viewed as well as published anywhere at any time. Fanfiction written by young female authors tends to follow similar themes and tropes across the age group, and often, are self-insert fanfictions. Self-insert is a term to describe a character who is the author’s surrogate character. In my research, I wanted to determine what the appeal of writing these types of characters would be. By extensively looking at many research papers and published fanfictions, I have determined that the main appeal for young women to write self-insert fanfiction is how the creative media gives them the ability for author expression, escapism, and experimentation throughout different stories. While certain problematic aspects are present in adolescent written fanfiction, such as sexually explicit content, they are not something that can be linked directly to fanfiction as a cause for the controversial aspects because they can also be seen in different online communities outside of fanfiction
Richard Hakluyt: Elizabethan Propaganda, English Identity, and the ‘Black Legend’
Get PDFDuring the early modern period (late 16th, early 17th century), England embroiled itself in conflict with Spain, contesting against each other through direct competition and expanding their territories elsewhere. The topic of this thesis is an analysis of Richard Hakluyt, a writer and geographer during Queen Elizabeth I’s reign, and his role as a proponent of English expansionism in addition to the themes present within his works. This analysis focuses on how the themes present connected Hakluyt to a broader movement for English mercantile expansion and colonization towards the New World and Old. As Hakluyt wrote and collected the works of other explorers, he sought out the likes of Sir Walter Raleigh, supporting Raleigh’s endeavors in the New World and advocating for colonization. Not only did this advocation help Raleigh, but it also helped other future settlers become motivated to settle in the New World because of the themes presented throughout Hakluyt’s works. The findings of this research done by James Nash mentored by Dr. David Coleman highlight Hakluyt’s pivotal role in the advocation for colonization and disseminate the negative portrayals of the Spanish. As a spreader of this rhetoric, Hakluyt actively contributed to the broader English rhetoric against Spain called the Black Legend. By contextualizing Hakluyt’s works to the rhetoric about English colonization and the Black Legend, this research gives a deeper insight into understanding Hakluyt’s motivations and contributions to the broader narrative in early modern England
“Go, go, Godzilla!” Defining and Creating Meaning in the Godzilla Franchise
Get PDFGodzilla is one of the longest running film franchises in history. Its core anti-nuclear message has stood the test of time, giving it continued relevance in the modern world, especially in its home country of Japan. However, after 69 years and 36 movies, it is safe to say that Godzilla, both as a movie franchise and as a character, has changed drastically since 1954. These changes, coupled with the globalization of the franchise and the creation of a new, US based Godzilla series, have created a complex and at times contradictory web of differing themes and adaptations. This project examines how the idea of Godzilla has changed over time, both in Japan and in the United States. After extensive research into both the original films as well as secondary material analyzing the franchise, it can be concluded that Godzilla, in both Japan and the United States, has evolved into multiple distinct, yet interconnected characters that serve to represent the different beliefs, hopes, and fears of the two nations. This scholarly analysis is synthesized into a creative piece that further explores the meaning of Godzilla, as well as how Fandom and Fanfiction inform our understandings of media