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The Moderating Effects of Religious/Spiritual Coping on the Depression-Suicidal Thoughts Relationship
Get PDFReligious coping refers to the various ways individuals respond to distress, involving cognitive, emotional, and behavioral approaches centered around their religious or spiritual (R/S) beliefs. This coping mechanism can be classified into two main facets: positive religious coping, which involves constructive approaches, and negative religious coping, encompassing struggles in the spiritual realm. During periods of depression, some individuals rely on religious or spiritual coping mechanisms. Currently, there is a lack of research examining the moderating effect of positive and negative religious coping on the relationship between depression and suicidal thoughts, especially within the Jewish community. The primary objective of the present study was to address this gap by focusing on a clinical population of individuals who identified as Orthodox Jewish and reported experiencing depression. As part of a clinical intake, participants completed Likert-scale self-report questionnaires assessing their levels of depression, utilization of positive/negative R/S coping, and levels of suicidal thoughts. Results indicated that while positive and negative R/S coping do not moderate the relationship between depression and suicidal thoughts, these constructs serve as protective and risk factors for suicidality, independent of depression, respectively. The current findings carry significant clinical implications, emphasizing the importance of clinicians evaluating both religious coping styles and depressive symptoms amongst religious individuals to identify potential risks of suicidal thoughts
Light as a Symbol in Many Cultures
No full textAs a workshop facilitator it is important to involve all participants in the process of engagement. The collage presented here reflects igniting lights that reflect the meanings and symbols of many cultures. The symbolism of lights goes back to pre-Judaic/Christian times. The winter solstice as well as the aurora borealis reflects hope and progress.
The lighting of candles within the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah reminds us of the perpetuity of good things to come. Other types of candle holders such as the kinara grew out of a need to bring people of African American heritage together in the concept of Harvest– not just the harvesting of crops, but the harvesting of good principles to be practiced throughout the year. The concept was developed by an African American scholar named Maulana Karenga. Of course we cannot forget the symbol of lights that symbolized the birth of Jesus Christ.
All of the materials used in making this collage are made of fabric. Some are actual fabric. Others are reproduced paper images which are transferred to fabric.https://digitalcommons.liu.edu/community_usquilt_2023/1000/thumbnail.jp
Migratory Birds
No full textLiving in Brooklyn, I have enjoyed getting to know the migratory birds that visit us each year, from the piping plovers of the Rockaways to the colorful warblers that visit The Vale to the little birds we only see in the wintertime, like the dark-eyed juncos in my courtyard. I had no idea a city could be host to so much wildlife.
Unfortunately, these birds have a very difficult time migrating through New York City. Birds typically migrate at night and while traveling at high speeds, they often collide with the glass windows of our many buildings and skyscrapers. The sunrise in New York City often reveals a night of carnage, with dozens of concussed or dead birds littering the sidewalks of all five boroughs.
Alongside the global decline of migratory birds and the particular situation of New York City, where building code dictates only new buildings need to have bird-friendly building and window design, the omnipresence of New York Police Department continues, in the subways, on street corners, and in helicopters in the sky.
My quilt square aims to highlight this bleak dichotomy, and contrast what is being lost with what is being protected. This comparison is not random; one of the many downfalls of living in a militarized police state are the choices made along the way of what we will not have. We will not have clean air or water; we will not have free, high-quality public transit; we will not have as many migratory birds visit as we did last year; and so on and so forth.
I hope that one day, when the sun rises over Manhattan on a beautiful spring day, the birds who passed through the night will not be underfoot but somewhere overhead, far, far, away.https://digitalcommons.liu.edu/community_usquilt_2023/1011/thumbnail.jp
Reactions to evidence of white privilege by clinical psychologists
Get PDFWhite cultural norms harm psychotherapy clients of the global majority. Racial microaggressions committed by White clinical psychologists threaten therapeutic alliance and treatment. Engagement with the advantages of being White is necessary for clinical psychologists to provide ethical therapy, but engagement is limited by defensive reactions to White privilege. This study intended to reveal defensive responses that arise in White clinical psychologists when they read about privilege with the goal of increasing awareness for the betterment of the field. The study hypothesized that White privilege exposure would predict increased colorblind racial attitudes (CBRA), increased racial system justification (RSJ), increased White racial affect (WRA), decreased empathy, increased anxiety, and increased immature defense mechanisms (IDM). Moreover, these relationships would be moderated by multicultural competence (MC). Participants were 196 White American clinical psychologists who completed self-report questionnaires online. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups: the control group read a neutral paragraph. The experimental group read a White privilege paragraph. All participants then completed the same measures. White privilege exposure significantly predicted increased anxiety. CBRA, RSJ, WRA, empathy, and IDM were not predicted by exposure, therefore, there were no moderations by MC. Exploratory constructs, mature defense mechanisms and implicit negative affect, were impacted by White privilege exposure, which predicted significantly decreased mature defense mechanisms. The interaction of White privilege exposure and MC significantly predicted decreased implicit negative affect. Possible implications are discussed
Escape
Get PDFMy creative non-fiction thesis, Escape, is a memoir of the five years I lived in Bern, Switzerland, 1988-1993. During that time, I interviewed my neighbor, Horst Schirm, about his life during the waning years of World War II in what was the eastern border of the German Reich (Jauer, Schlesien) but is now Poland (Jawor, Sląsk). His mother with Horst and his two brothers and sister traveled from Jauer to Frankfort am Main and back to Jauer in an attempt to escape the Allied bombing raids and to find their father, who was missing. Finally, they, with the other remaining Germans, were driven out of Jauer and forced to walk to Berlin. Eventually, they settled in Schleswig-Holstein, where the Red Cross reunited them with their father.
During a trip to Jawor in 1991, made with Horst and his wife, memories of my own childhood surfaced, complicating my relationship with Horst and my understanding of myself.
There is no happy ending: our friendship could not survive. But out of that sorrow, understanding, once unimaginable, arose
On-line behavior and cognitive development
Get PDFParents of 128 children in a rural elementary school provided information on home Internet access and children’s online activities. Children were individually administered four measures of cognitive development (expressive language, metacognition, visual perception, and auditory memory) and were asked to define ten Internet terms (e.g., email, chat, website). The ability to define an Internet term was assumed to be indicative of experience with that application. Parent response to the open-ended item “what does your child do when he/she uses the Internet at home” was thematically organized into four types of Internet behavior: learn, play, browse, and communicate. Children’s ability to correctly define Internet terms as well as parent reported online learning and communicating (but not playing and browsing) were associated with increased cognitive scores. Focused and goal-directed online activities (e.g., learning and communicating) are recommended for children 6 to 12 years of age
A relationship between personality traits and Internet addiction in a sample of Albanian university students
Get PDFThe internet is one of the most important inventions that has brought the world together. It has changed the way we live, the way we work, and the way we learn. The internet takes a major part of our time, and research has shown that people struggle to find the balance between being online or offline. When this escalates to the level of addiction, we have a major problem. Even though this is now a worrying problem, just a few investigations have been made into understanding the relationship between internet addiction and its potential risk factors. This study aims to explore and understand the relationship between personality traits and internet addiction in a sample of Albanian university students. To date, the researcher could not identify any existing studies that examine internet addiction and personality traits among Albanian young adults. Students from a private university in Albania were asked to complete two questionnaires, that were designed (1) to measure the presence and severity of internet addiction and (2) to measure the big five personality traits. The conclusions provided by the data analysis indicated that internet addiction had a significant negative correlation with conscientiousness but there was no other significant correlation between internet addiction and the other Big Five personality traits
Psychologists\u27 Experiences Providing Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to Children via Telehealth
Get PDFDue to COVID-19, psychologists were forced to rapidly transition to telehealth. While about 1% of American Psychological Association (APA) clinicians used telehealth for most clients pre-pandemic, 92% used telehealth post-pandemic onset (APA, 2020). However, research has not yet thoroughly assessed psychologists’ experiences providing child teletherapy. This study fills that gap by exploring psychologists’ experiences providing virtual child cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). This study is important for teletherapy’s potential use for children lacking access to care. Eighteen clinical psychologists who provided CBT to children (ages 7-12) were recruited by sending a flyer to the researcher’s graduate program’s alumni and training sites, child therapy institutes, private practices, and doctoral programs. Snowball sampling was utilized. Participants were interviewed in four Zoom focus groups of four to six participants each. Auerbach and Silverstein’s (2003) grounded theory approach was used. The transcripts were coded for relevant text, repeating ideas, themes, and theoretical constructs. Interrater reliability was assessed and a member check was completed. Six theoretical constructs were identified: 1. Transition to Telehealth Impacts Families’ Access to Care – More Positively Than Negatively; 2. Importance of Focusing on Pre-Treatment Considerations When Conducting CBT via Telehealth; 3. Adjusting to Increased Engagement and Management Issues That Arise During Telehealth Treatment; 4. Telehealth Experience has Varied Positive and Negative Impacts on a Case-By-Case Basis on Psychologists and Children; 5. Psychologists’ Attitudes Regarding CBT via Telehealth Were Mixed, Though More Positive Than Negative; and 6. CBT via Telehealth for Children is Effective and has a Long-Term Future Beyond the Pandemic. The findings help explain how to effectively provide virtual child CBT and suggest improvements and future research needed
How to Stop Killing Patients with Healthcare-associated Infections
Get PDFBackground. Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), also known as nosocomial infections, are a significant cause of preventable death for patients receiving treatment for medical or surgical conditions. HAIs are attributed to 99,000 patient deaths in the United States annually. These infections rack up an estimated $20 billion of additional costs per year by extending the length of stay for hospitalized patients and increasing the cost of treatment at the same time. Current empirical findings highlight the severity and gravity of the effect that HAIs have on patient communities around the world.
Methodology. The Google Scholar search engine was utilized with the search terms (a) nosocomial, (b) hospital-acquired infections, and (c) healthcare-associated infections for articles published between 2011 and 2018, written in English, yielding 13 articles. Supplemental information was gathered utilizing Papadakis’s 2017 edition of Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment.
Results. Recent research has established that Staphylococcus aureus, including Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), is the leading nosocomial infection in the world. S. aureus infections are followed by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli infections in incidence. The most common HAI manifestations include (a) surgical wound infections, (b) respiratory infections, and (c) genitourinary infections. However, central-line bloodstream infections are one of the deadliest with a mortality rate of 12-25%. Patient risk factors for HAIs include (a) age \u3e70, (b) mechanical ventilation, (c) indwelling catheter use, (d) intensive care unit stays \u3e3 days, and (e) immunocompromised states. These infections are most commonly caused by (a) violation of infection control practices, (b) a non-sterile environment, and (c) ill employees. After implementing CDC-based HAI preventative measures, multiple intensive care units in Michigan reported reductions as high as 66% for catheter-associated blood stream infections over a period of 18 months. The overall consensus amongst the studies was that adherence to proper hand hygiene and the standard precautions, including infection-route-specific prevention measures, reduces transmission of HAIs, length of patient stays, healthcare costs, and attributable mortality.
Conclusions and Recommendations. HAIs continue to be a major cause of preventable death for hospitalized patients. Multiple articles have identified proper hand hygiene as the single most important factor in curtailing the acquisition of HAIs. Research has shown that a significant reduction of the transmission of these infections can be achieved through adherence to CDC’s HAI-prevention guidelines. Healthcare organizations should adopt the relevant CDC recommendations for preventing HAIs and take all necessary steps to ensure a high level of compliance
Effects on SLP Graduate Students’ Clinical Skills Following “Case Study Nights”
Get PDFThis poster describes the evolution of graduate students in their clinical knowledge and attitudes before and after participating in case study nights. Speech- Language Pathology students from Long Island University (LIU) -Brooklyn had the opportunity to observe a professional describe various clinical etiologies, assessments, and treatments coupled with a client presentation during two semesters. Student evaluations measured clinician’s outcome with respect to service delivery and treatment approaches when working with multiple clients with communication disorders