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Beyond The Competency Model of Therapist Trainings - Developing Expertise Through Deliberate Practice
Get PDFThe purpose of the present paper is to describe how Deliberate Practice (DP) can be used to assist individual therapists develop expertise and improve their ability to effect change in their clients\u27 psychotherapy outcomes. The author provides a targeted review of this literature and articulates a method of training therapists based on this relatively new and exciting concept. The initial training of psychotherapists represents an important milestone in an often lifelong career and one that is marked with a continuous professional development trajectory. While it is particularly important to achieve competency in many foundational skills and techniques during training, this method of training and continuous development of therapists does relatively little to engage individual practitioners based on their individual needs, which are said to be vast. Individual therapist effects account for a large proportion of the variance of client outcomes. However, historically, the individual therapist has been given little consideration. DP seeks to move beyond the standardized competency framework and provide a highly individualized training regime to therapists based on their individual deficits identified through data mining and linked to factors of therapy practice that have demonstrated to impact client outcomes; and as such, they can be leveraged by therapists. The findings of this review are used to inform seven recommendations for practitioners, training institutes, and regulatory bodies to consider for the initial and continuous development of therapists
Vital Materialism, Thing Power, & Political Ecologies of Fecal Dust
Get PDFThe thesis appropriates the Vital Materialist thought of political theorist Jane Bennett working in the philosophy of new materialism. Informed by a Deleuzian tradition, Bennett’s reading of Spinoza cements an understanding of materiality as lively and vibrant, wherein things demonstrate a thing-power along lines of effect that correspond to inert tendencies of persistence and activity in the object itself. This account of physical matter as vibrant, or lively, accommodates a distributed image of agency; that is to say, vital materialism seeks to take seriously the political activity and power of non-human bodies within an ecology, interrogating a traditionally anthropocentric privileging of ‘the human’ in ontology and metaphysics. A distributed image of agency rewrites traditional discourses on political thought and political problem-posing. The thesis contests that distributed agency in the form of an assemblage structure pulls politics out of prototypically human concerns—where political thought can become constipated with questions of permissibility, responsibility, and culpability—and towards an account of political thought that rests in the relationships between humans and non-human physical actants. The unique political ecology of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and their surrounding communities provides a useful scenario for analyzing the ways in which emergent causality and conatus are better suited for political analysis than traditional models of thought. In this framework we can seriously consider the political liveliness and impacts of cattle fecal dust, pollutants, chemical run-off and various other non-human bodies within the framework of a political ecology
End of life simulation to improve interprofessional competencies: A mixed methods study.
No full textA Case Study of Physics Education at Regis University: Taking Physics Beyond The Classrooms
Get PDFAcknowledgement
This work is a celebration of my four-year journey at Regis University and the people who have made it a memorable experience.
I would like to thank Tom Howe and Lara Narcisi for their guidance throughout the planning and writing processes of this thesis as well as the valuable knowledge and mentorship they have offered during my time in the Regis University Honors Program.
I am grateful for the friendship and mentorship of every single member of the Regis University Physics and Astronomy Department, especially Fred Gray and Evan Tilton. Without them, this thesis wouldn’t be in the form it is in now.
My sincere gratitude also goes to current and former faculty members who participated in this study: Evan Tilton, Fred Gray, Emily Haynes, Quyen Hart, and Jennifer Jarrell.
I would also like to thank all other participants of this study and people who took their time to read various drafts of the thesis. Your inputs are valuable to this study and are essential for the completion of this thesis.
Dat Tran
May 01 202
Fostering Jesuit Queer Inclusivity in a Charged Political Environment: One Campus’s Journey
No full textThis paper identifies three specific strategies used to promote queer inclusivity at a small Jesuit Catholic university in a politically charged environment: educating the community via intentionally designed inclusivity trainings; cultivating deep roots through coalition-building and strategic organizing; and foregrounding Catholic social teachings in the conversation. We use a local controversy to contextualize and demonstrate the importance of these strategies when fostering queer inclusivity on Jesuit campuses. We frame our discussion within a larger conversation about LGBTQIA+ issues on college campuses (including Catholic campuses) and the role that Jesuit values in higher education have to play in building inclusive communities
Educating for a Hope-Filled Future
No full textThis paper illustrates one student’s experience finding ways to pursue sustainability in a course on political narrative. The student created his own narrative for political and social change based on issues he was already deeply invested in. Tai Chi, practiced at the start of each class, facilitated this narrative creation
An Examination of Alternative Break Trips and Whiteness in Jesuit Higher Education
No full textAlternative break trips punctuate life on Jesuit college campuses, acting as experiences of conversion and putting faith into action. The Universal Apostolic Preferences of “walking with the excluded” and “accompanying the youth” come together in the practice of alternative break programs. However, these trips often operate through the position of whiteness. In this paper, we examine alternative service trips through the lens of whiteness. Too often, predominately white groups insert themselves into non-white contexts and assert themselves as owners of the space. Practices of white university students instrumentalizing experiences of service as agents in their own conversion displace the agency of others, resulting in a lack of solidarity and a shallow experience of walking with the excluded. While walking with the excluded is an important preference to enact, it must not be done in the posture of “inverted hospitality.” Accompanying the youth entails challenging structures of whiteness and privilege. We propose best practices for accompanying the youth through resisting cultures of whiteness and instead moving towards solidarity
Principles of Sustainable Beekeeping
Get PDFBeekeeping radiates the practice of living in the present moment and the immediacy of being alive. Rather than controlling the hive, beekeeping is an interdependent relationship of working with the colony to help support what is needed. During a time of global environmental collapse, we must shift from being a “bee-haver” to a “bee-keeper”. My thesis is a collection of my experiences working with honeybees interwoven with lessons from sustainable beekeepers and research in natural beekeeping. My thesis begins with the importance of honeybees, both their role in our holistic ecosystem and our everyday lives. Next, I bring into focus the issues and diseases that have resulted from our current beekeeping practices. To conclude, I offer the reader an alternative way to address the decline of honeybees, with seven main principles that reflect the major components of the sustainable practices of beekeeping. The seven principles are beginning points in the journey of radically reimagining environmental stewardship practices rooted in care and reciprocity
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT VIDEO TRAINING FOR RETAIL ASSOCIATES
Get PDFRetail associates are encountering customer conflict at an ever-increasing rate. Mistreatment by customers includes insults, name-calling, threats, and violence. Job satisfaction for associates is on the decline as a result. This Capstone project proposes retail associates are not trained in managing customer conflict. Forty-six retail associates completed a 22-question survey and watched five embedded video microlessons (lessons between one and three minutes). The video showed retail associates how to recognize, assess, and manage customer conflict through self-awareness and mindful engagement. Through grounded theory and qualitative research methods, this study confirms that retail associates’ job satisfaction can improve with conflict management training as well as using video as a sufficient means of training. These findings provide an actionable alternative to the “tips and tricks” of dealing with customers that will improve the well-being of associates at work and beyond
A Field Guide to Place: Lessons on Home, Landscape, and Transformation
Get PDF“A Field Guide to Place” is an exploration of place, land, and identity, particularly in the American West. This thesis seeks to better understand our positionality in the natural world, and how we can use literature to communicate that. This thesis uses The Meadow by James Galvin to explore place-based creative nonfiction and individual relationships with land. I challenge authorial representations of place as singular and simple, instead invoking the subjunctive mood to better understand the complexity of history that is ingrained in place. This thesis found that place is inherently subjective and dependent on identity, history, and politics of land. In our efforts to build more sustainable and just communities, we must consider the subjunctive in the places that we love