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Proposed Theoretical Model of Pediatric Onset Multiple Sclerosis and Restrictive Eating Behaviors
No full textMultiple Sclerosis (MS), a chronic, demyelinating, autoimmune disease that causes an array of physical and cognitive symptomatology, is commonly diagnosed in adulthood. Pediatric Onset Multiple Sclerosis (POMS) is characterized by diagnosis of the disease before age 18 and accounts for about 5% of MS cases. While there is a growing body of literature examining the impact of adult-onset multiple sclerosis on psychosocial functioning, research specifically addressing POMS remains limited. Moreover, there is a notable gap in the literature regarding the risk of eating disorders among individuals with POMS. This paper will explore a constellation of potential risk factors that may contribute to the development of eating disorders (ED) among individuals with POMS. It will examine how the interaction of biological factors (e.g., age, gender, medication side effects), psychological factors (e.g., trauma history, psychiatric comorbidities, and presence of maladaptive cognitions), and social factors (e.g., family functioning, peer isolation, and cultural identities) may cumulatively elevate an individual’s vulnerability to disordered eating. Drawing from both The Biopsychosocial Model and The Rainbow Model, a specific social determinants of health model, this paper will then introduce a multifactorial visual model for understanding relative risk levels for ED development among POMS patients with the aim of increasing clinician’s awareness of the potential eating related comorbidities among this unique population. Ultimately, this model will serve as an aid to clinicians in screening for additional feeding concerns and determining supplemental treatment approaches aimed at promoting adaptive individual psychological and behavioral functioning and improving overall quality of life
Innovative Partnerships to Expand School-Based Health Capacity in Rural Communities
No full textOur nation\u27s youth are in dire need of increased access to high-quality school-based mental health (SBMH) services. In Colorado’s rural areas, the school psychologist-to-student ratio is 1:2,128— over four times the recommended level. Our team secured $4M in federal and state funding to implement an innovative partnership strategy for strengthening rural SBMH capacity. We describe how innovative partnerships enabled us to overcome systemic barriers to training future school psychologists as they live, work, and learn in rural settings. Our culturally sustaining approach to program design, implementation, and evaluation leverages family-school-community partnerships to expand rural SBMH capacity
Maximizing Limited Resources in Rural Schools: Toward Effective Gifted Programs
No full textParticipants will receive knowledge and tools to support the implementation of local norms and universal screening within the boundaries of rural gifted programming. Participants will examine the variables impacting gifted identification and programming in rural school districts, evaluate rural gifted identification scenarios, and will explore ways to adapt universal screening and local norms to their own rural school districts\u27 identification process
The Role of Imagination in Archaeology: Linking Contemplation and Method at the Amache National Historic Site
No full textArchaeology is both a science and an interpretative process, blending material discovery with imagination to reconstruct past experiences. This research, conducted through the 2024 University of Denver Amache Field School, explores the archaeological imagination and the creative and cognitive engagement that shapes historical interpretation. Using Amache, a WWII Japanese American incarceration site, as a case study, this thesis examines how material culture, landscape modifications, and reflection inform archaeological understanding. This study explores how imagination connects tangible findings to cultural narratives by integrating community-based archaeology, place and landscape theory, and contemplative inquiry. Findings highlight imagination as essential to archaeology, enabling deeper engagement with material evidence and lived experiences. This research underscores archaeology as analytical and creative by merging empirical methods with introspection. The Amache case illustrates how archaeology extends beyond uncovering artifacts to fostering a dynamic exchange between memory, materiality, and meaning
Showcasing Student Artwork in an Academic Library
No full textIn this paper, the collaborative efforts of a Government Documents Librarian, an Art Librarian, and an Emerging Media and Digital Arts Professor at a regional public university with a liberal arts focus are detailed. The collaborative project began as a way to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the university library\u27s membership in the Federal Library Depository Program. The authors asked students in a graphic design class to each create a poster featuring a randomly assigned government agency to display in the library as part of the anniversary celebration. The professor and librarians framed the poster project as a real-world design opportunity for the students, assigning the library as the client, and the students responded by completing the project in a professional manner. The collaboration included library instruction on the library’s collection of government resources, government agencies, and freely available government websites, providing students with lifelong learning tools. The students were engaged and positively impacted by the poster design project, as seeing their work displayed in the university library contributed to a culture of inclusivity within the library. This paper includes the student learning outcomes of the library instruction session, a description of the students presenting their finished posters to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the library’s membership, and lessons learned from the collaboration between the librarians and the art professor
In Search of a Granada School of Lutherie
No full textA review of Alberto Cuéllar et al., La guitarra tradicional en Granada = Granada and the Traditional Guitar (Granada: Diputación Provincial de Granada, 2024)
Things as They Are: Transcribing and Arranging; Continua, Intertext, Alchemy
No full textThis lecture explores historical and contemporary approaches to arranging and transcribing music for the guitar, taking in ideas of continua, intersection, instrumental languages, translations, and intertext within a postmodern framework. Musical examples range from the 1500s to the present, including excerpts from Milán, de Visée, Carulli, Sor, Albéniz, Granados, Brouwer, and many others.
With Alan Mearns
AI Isn’t What We Should Be Worried About – It’s the Humans Controlling It
No full textStratton examines depictions of AI in popular media and literature, drawing comparisons to real-world AI and humanity\u27s capacity to harness technology for good or ill
