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Postnatal Bonding and Barriers: a Literature Review on Helping Secure Mother-Infant Attachment
Get PDFThe purpose of this literature review is to explore obstacles that interfere with mother-infant attachment, and what can be done to overcome these barriers. Poor mother-infant attachment can lead to strained relationships in adulthood, the worsening of pre-existing mental health issues in mothers, and a myriad of negative side effects in children, impaired social and emotional health among them. This paper examines peer-reviewed articles on obstacles to mother-infant bonding and proposes potential solutions. Methods that were found to enhance attachment include maximizing skin to skin contact, treating postpartum pathology, and reducing emotional distress in pregnancy and labor.https://digitalcommons.slc.edu/undergrad_selectedworks/1011/thumbnail.jp
Reimagining Early Interracial And Coeducational College Administration: A Historical Analysis Of Matilda Hamilton Fee And Berea College
Get PDFMatilda Hamilton Fee was one of the founders and administrators at Berea College in Kentucky. Berea College opened in 1866 as one of the first interracial and coeducational colleges in the South. In the field of history, women are overlooked and treated as insignificant contributors to institutions of higher education. This research fills the gaps by exploring how Matilda and her husband, Rev. John G. Fee, built Berea College as an institution that valued educating all people regardless of race, gender, or socioeconomic status. Matilda’s role varied from wife and mother, to community organizer, to school administrator. As such, she was the first to navigate the complicated relationships between race and gender, southern politics and culture, and the role of religion in education. In this thesis, I discuss how Matilda Hamilton Fee’s involvement in the founding and early years of Berea College are both historically significant and grossly understudied. Additionally, this research shows how Matilda created and implemented school policies as the first president of the Ladies Board of Care. This research highlights women’s early roles in higher education administration and shows how critical women, and Matilda, were to the early survival of coeducational and interracial higher education
A Partial and Official Library Catalog of Potential COVID-19 Literature
No full textWhile writers and editors and publishers all across our great novel-reading republic have sought to dissuade any and all literary efforts to commune with the COVID-19 outbreak (suggesting that it would be simultaneously gauche and tedious to chronicle this Moment via the edifice of books), it turns out that an entire catalog of COVID-19 novels already exists and has always existed, awaiting this juncture in space-time to reveal itself to a hungry (and restless) reading public. Herewith, then, we present a cross-section of that very catalog, a small sampling of those books that we presume (as we must) exist within humanity’s ever-expanding library, replete with hope and despair, tragedy and comedy, loss and redemption… the full palette of human feeling and experience. While we continue our efforts to cross-reference these offerings with more widely available library databases, we delay no further in presenting our findings to posterity, to a future which we hope will judge us kindly.https://digitalcommons.slc.edu/undergrad_selectedworks/1009/thumbnail.jp
Visual Translation of Multi-Dimensionality: Comparisons In Physics And Dance
Get PDFThe fields of dance and physics both utilize tools for communication that translate movement into two-dimensional formats to share and process information in new ways. This research highlights issues surrounding this process, including: what is gained and lost in translation in both fields; the role of objectivity and subjectivity in dance and science; and what interdisciplinary research can potentially mean for advancing communication tools and shifting biases about how knowledge is valued. Both physics and dance register philosophical shifts in the twentieth century, related to the shift away from determinism and a Cartesian mind-body divide, and towards the rise of indeterminacy seen in quantum mechanics and dancemaking practices. This includes the popularization of improvisation as a choreographic method. I conceptualize modern communication tools in science and dance in terms of their relationship to time: predictive/descriptive (like scientific models and dance scores) or preservative (like apparatuses of instrumentation and notation systems). Choreographers who are using these communication tools for various purposes within their practice follow the historical examples of Merce Cunningham’s improvisation strategies, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Trisha Brown’s scores, and William Forsythe’s digital notation system, Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing Reproduced. Through investigation in the studio and the creation of a performance that showcases translation of dimensionality, my theoretical and practical research demonstrate the value of multiple forms of communication and lenses through which to make and view dance
Technical Hierarchies: Carving Space For West African Dance In University Curricula
Get PDF“When it comes to traditional dance, we don’t learn steps and combinations, we learn language” -Akosua Akoto
This thesis is an inquiry into the place of West African dance in university curricula in the United States and the technical hierarchies that persist in dance programs. Focusing on ballet, modern dance, and West African dance, I draw on theories of Africanist aesthetics in dominant American dance forms, embodied knowledge, and concepts of technique as a value-based system. Using these frameworks, I highlight disparities in American dance curricula, alongside historical advancements and shortcomings, while offering interventions derived from my embodied practice of all three forms. I offer my lived experiences, both learning and teaching, in suggesting methods that seek to balance the need to preserve cultural material and codify information for transmission. My navigation through the American collegiate system serves to provide methods to create inclusive and representative dance education for all students. By implementing West African movement into University curricula alongside existing dominant forms such as ballet and modern, I argue that the unequal technical value placed on the African dance, and the terms by which West African dance currently exist in the University can be rectified
Building Attachment Between Infant and Caregiver with Postpartum Depression Through Dance Movement/Therapy
Get PDFThis thesis discusses the process of fostering secure attachment with infants and mothers
suffering from postpartum depression, through dance/movement therapy. The mother-infant attachment and how it affects the overall lifespan of an individual. The impact of postpartum depression on attachment, and its effect throughout the lifespan is discussed, as well as different treatment intervention for insecure attachment and postpartum depression. Since insecure attachment is a common result of postpartum depression, a dual intervention process is recommended. Dance/movement therapy, with its emphasis on the body and non-verbal relationship building, provides a space to address both of these challenges
Psychosocial Outcomes Associated With ctNA-Based Cancer Screening Test
Get PDFDue to the increasing incidence of cancer diagnoses and lack of validated screenings for most types of cancer, cancer researchers continue to look for ways to improve cancer screening particularly for cancers that are difficult to detect early. One early detection technology being researched is blood-based testing looking for the presence of DNA from tumor cells, circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA). With any new cancer screening test there is a need to understand how participants respond, socially and psychologically, to abnormal results. Participants in Geisinger’s DETECT study of a ctDNA test, CancerSEEK, who received positive ctDNA blood test results and opted to undergo a PET-CT scan, were interviewed to assess psychosocial outcomes of true positive and false positive blood test results. Qualitative data analysis of interviews of participants with true positive and false positive results using Atlas.ti identified 16 major themes. Results of the qualitative analysis revealed some differences between the negative and positive PET-CT groups. However, most participants, in both groups, reported a positive experience with the DETECT study and would recommend it to others. Results of the study suggest that the psychosocial outcomes associated with ctDNA-based cancer screening tests should continue to be explored in-depth to provide sufficient evidence for future usage
An Investigation Into The Reasons Behind Quality Of Life Perception In Individuals With HNPP As Compared To Individuals With CMT1A
Get PDFHereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP) and Charcot-Marie- Tooth Disease type 1A (CMT1A) are autosomal dominant hereditary neuropathies caused by different mutations in the PMP22 gene. The chronic features of CMT1A and HNPP are almost identical, leaving electrodiagnostic testing to assess nerve conduction as the vital distinguisher between these two diagnoses. Differing onset, duration and recovery, as well as genetic testing, can also help distinguish the diagnosis. Patients with CMT1A often have chronic and progressively worsening symptoms, whereas patients with HNPP experience transient, acute symptoms that may or may not be associated with pain and with possible milder and later onset chronic progressive symptoms. The intent of this study is to address the hypothesis that the intermittent pattern of symptoms is the reason for worse QOL observed in HNPP patients as compared to CMT1A, as well as to establish other potential reasons behind differing perceptions in quality of life between CMT1A and HNPP patients. A questionnaire consisting of nine Likert scaled questions, four binary questions, and four questions with an open-ended component was distributed to hereditary neuropathy associations and support groups. A total of 287 individuals with CMT1A and 84 individuals with HNPP completed the survey. Data analysis was performed using the “R” platform for statistical computing and subsequent application of Welch\u27s Two- Sample T-Test. Our results support an argument in opposition to the original hypothesis, concluding that CMT1A and HNPP patients with chronic symptoms spend more time worrying about their symptoms, thereby negatively impacting their QOL. There are many confounding medical, social and psychological factors associated with chronic disease and pain that could be the true reason behind worse QOL reports. Further research using quality of life assessments, taking into account patient demographics and ascertainment biases, can guide how healthcare providers, including general practitioners, genetic counselors and rehabilitative specialists, modify patient management throughout the diagnostic and treatment processes in order to improve quality of life in this population