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The Stream Study: Streamlining The Genetic Counseling Process For Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer Patients
No full textBreast cancer is one of the most common cancer diagnoses in women, affecting around 255,000 women in the United States annually. An estimated 10% of all breast cancer cases have a hereditary component, and depending on the pathogenic DNA alteration, it may increase the patient’s recurrence risk and potentially increase risk of a new cancer diagnosis for both patient and family members. Thus, determining a potential genetic cause of an individual’s breast cancer offers diagnostic and prognostic information, and may guide decisions regarding treatment and prophylaxis.
At NYU Perlmutter Cancer Center in Manhattan, all newly diagnosed breast cancer patients are offered genetic testing and consultation with a genetic counselor. However, due to the high stress and appointment burden experienced by cancer patients and the need to obtain genetic test results quickly, a streamlined approach was proposed to replace the traditional pre- test genetic counseling appointment with a workflow that provides pre-test education via video and informational handout and a brief telephone appointment with a genetic counselor to review medical and family history. Here we examine the initiation of an ongoing pilot study using the streamlined workflow in April 2022. Though more data is needed to assess impact and draw conclusions, our observations consider the experience of a single participant in order to assess the effectiveness of this streamlined approach
Reconciling the Body and the Spirit: A Dance/Movement Therapy Perspective on the Life of Jesus
Get PDFThis thesis investigates the elements of breath, action, touch, consent, and empathy in dance/movement therapy through the lens of Jesus’ incarnation and life for the purpose of reconnecting the bodily experience to the spirit for Christian dance/movement therapists or those who work with people of faith. For dance/movement therapists who share a Christian faith with their clients, looking to the incarnation of Jesus is helpful and encouraging, as it so closely parallels the therapeutic work they do with the healing work that Jesus did. The relationship between spirit and body and how it can be connected through the Christian faith for a dance/movement therapist is discussed. The integration of spirit and body that Jesus models offers dance/movement therapists an example of how this practice can be applied to their work
Embodied Self-Care: Cultivating Compassion Through the Art of Surrender
Get PDFSelf-care is a vital component to the well-being and professional longevity of dance/movement therapists. Empathy, honored as a gift among highly sensitive therapists, invites exploration into certain vulnerabilities that contribute to the risks of compassion-fatigue and vicarious trauma in therapy professions. A collaborative intersection connecting the origins of self-care, kinesthetic empathy, energy healing and creativity provides therapists with an embodied self-care method. Radical love energy and interpsychic communication awaken nuanced opportunities for regenerative harmony to be experienced in the body, while enlivened states of compassion and surrender offer restorative possibilities. Practicing porous body-boundaries encourages sensory stimuli to pass through the body during emotionally charged therapeutic encounters and invites present moment revitalization. The spiritually rejuvenating nature of artmaking through sensory transmutation provide additional pathways for recuperation for therapists. These elements, supported by an exploration into the dynamic intersubjectivity within therapeutic relationships, evolve into an embodied self-care method for dance/movement therapists. This method encourages collective-care and moves away from a commodified self-care agenda within capitalism
Fight, And If You Can\u27t Fight, Kick; If You Can\u27t Kick, Then Bite : A Comparative History of Afro-Brazilian and U.S. Black Women’s Stories of Resistance
Get PDFThis thesis is an intellectual and cultural exploration of U.S. Black and Afro-Brazilian feminism(s). Each chapter begins with history and scholarship from Brazil to shift the conversation away from an Anglophone-Americentric perspective. Within U.S. Black feminist thought, there is an over-representation of voices and experiences of English-speaking Black women. This is not to say that U.S. Black feminists have not reached across socially-constructed borders to incorporate scholarship from women living in other parts of the Black diaspora. However, there has not been nearly enough cross-cultural and transnational dialogue happening between U.S Black and Afro-Brazilian feminists. The time frame of this project begins with the colonial history (a period marked by racialized gender violence and the various ways Black women resisted) to enter the post-abolition era (where we see the development of the myth of racial democracy in Brazil), and finally into the height of anti-racism and anti-sexism movements, such as the Unified Black Movement in Brazil and second-wave feminism in Brazil and the U.S. The goal of this thesis is to assist in bridging this diasporic divide by demonstrating that Afro-Brazilian women’s intellectual knowledge should move from the margin to the center within mainstream Black feminist thought. Multicultural communication is a vital component in any liberation struggle. It is a way for individuals and collectives to learn about people’s different struggles as well as how to struggle together. In constructing these converging herstories, my hope is for future Black feminists to not allow differences in cultures and languages to deter them from reimagining a more inclusive and diverse feminism
Portraying Silence- A Thesis Production Analysis Reflecting the Oppression on Chinese Women and Beyond
Get PDFThe thesis paper mainly discusses the author\u27s creative process of her thesis production- The Epic of A Woman, which collages the experiences of being Chinese women that the author has embodied with those that she witnessed. In analyzing the backstories behind the script and the aspects of design, the paper centers on unfold the approaches that the author used to portray how Chinese women became silent or consistently being silenced by a patriarchal society. Additionally, using silence as an active tool on the stage, the paper also underlines the importance of documenting and portraying silence that should not only use in women’s rights related areas but in all social fields in the context of contemporary China
