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Environmental Enrichment: A Potential Treatment for PTSD and Alcohol Abuse
Get PDFPost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) will affect approximately eight out of every hundred individuals at some point in their lifetime. One major issue accompanying PTSD is alcohol abuse—estimated rates of alcohol abuse in persons with PTSD vary from 30-75 percent. Environmental enrichment (EE) has been shown to decrease voluntary alcohol consumption as well as decrease anxiety levels post-stress. As such, EE could be a potential treatment mechanism for co-morbid PTSD and alcohol abuse. Our independent research into the effectiveness of EE at attenuating post-stress alcohol consumption in male Sprague Dawley rats validates this idea. Rats were stressed and then given intermittent access to 20% ethanol via the 2-bottle-choice drinking paradigm for three weeks. Rats in EE consumed significantly less ethanol, relative to controls. Anecdotal evidence from survivors of trauma suggests that such findings could be translated into the human populations with PTSD, such as through travel, religion, and other forms of meaning making. Further, environmental enrichment surpasses other treatments as it seeks to “care for the whole person”—the Jesuit value of cura personalis—by attending to both their mind and body. This paper will discuss the explicit effects of PTSD, the specifics of our independent research, and the detailed implications of our results for the human population. As a caring and compassionate society, we have the responsibility to conduct further research to help to expand our knowledge of symptoms and vulnerabilities associated with PTSD and alcohol dependence, to harness valuable and effective treatment mechanisms
Maternal Depression\u27s Effect on Child Joint Attention and Language Skills
Get PDFThe goals of this study are to measure the effect of maternal depression on child joint attention and language
Medical Home Access Effect on Recidivism Rates of the Inner City Juvenile Detention Population
Get PDFThis is an overview of the DNP project that was used for the writer’s Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. The project focus is the population at Gilliam Youth Services Center, the juvenile detention center that serves Denver County, Colorado. The project’s objective was to provide resources to the residents that are served by Gilliam, in the form of access to a medical home. The assessment attempted to provide data to show that there is a need for an intervention to provide this population with the resources and benefits that the services of a medical home provide
The Expressed Emotion of Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Meta-Analysis
Get PDFVegetation Disturbance Regimes and Conifer Succession in Gunnison Sage Grouse (Centrocerus Minimus) Habitat
Get PDFThe major reason for Gunnison sage-grouse decline in southwestern Colorado is thought to be loss and fragmentation of its sagebrush habitat by pinyon and juniper encroachment. This encroachment could be driven by both anthropogenic disturbance and natural climate variation. This project determines these potential drivers of Rocky Mountain juniper and pinyon pine forest expansion into sagebrush area at low elevations in Gunnison County, Colorado. Fire, grazing, and other anthropogenic activities was assessed to explain juniper and pine forest invasion patterns on sagebrush steppe. I hypothesize that recent land use, climate variability, over-grazing, and fire will drive pinyon or juniper tree invasion of sagebrush. Field work done in late summer and early fall 2017 collected data on the establishment dates of trees invading sagebrush. Juniper and pine forest structure, density and lower treeline elevation, and fire history were analyzed using tree cores and forest inventory data. Climate, fire history and livestock data were extracted from published database and literature. We found that the tree establishment in the mid-and later- twentieth century (post 1970s) was caused by wet and cool growth season after the great drought period in the 1950s. The outcome of this project will help land managers to understand current lower treeline conifer condition, and decide whether current tree removal treatment is necessary to improve sage-grouse habitat
Telephone (Science Edition): What We Can Learn From the Vaccine Controversy About Science Communication
Get PDFThe mechanisms of science communication, while complex, can still be explained, to some extent, by the game of telephone which has a similar set of roles involved. With telephone and science communication, you have the givers of information and various receivers who can misinterpret messages. Nonetheless, as stated previously, science communication still retains a degree of complexity because you find yourself within a telephone network with many telephone lines. Consequently, you may be overwhelmed by the amount of information; thus, it becomes difficult to discern what is true. However, in the end you still manage to somehow choose to believe, select, or endorse a particular message. But, what allows you to ultimately choose one message? The answer to this question lies in the type of information that is conveyed to you, the narrative. This type of information can come in various forms that some may be more receptive to for various reasons. To better understand what these reasons are an investigation of the vaccine controversy’s history and the narratives involved are performed so that you have a better understanding of how information is consumed or relayed
Our Pale Blue Dot: Scientific Naturalism, Catholic Theology, and Finding Meaning in Light of Modern Science
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Medication Administration Education for Unlicensed Assistive Personnel in a Residential School Environment
Get PDFNurse supervised unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) medication administration is a frequently completed health related activity in the school environment (National Association of School Nurses [NASN], 2017). Students face potential adverse outcomes impacting the school experience from medication errors (Clay, Farris, McCarthy, Kelly, & Howarth, 2008). School nurse supervised and directed training for UAP is essential to ensure the mitigation of risk in this vulnerable population. UAPs themselves have been noted to be uncomfortable with the task and expressed a lack of understanding of policy and procedures (Canham et al., 2007; Price, Dake, Murnan, & Telljohann, 2003). It is the role and responsibility of the professional school nurse to provide oversight, supervision and training of UAP and ensure safe medication delivery to students (State of Maine, Department of Education [DOE], 2017). The discussed project is an online medication administration module, which streamlined the staff education process in a small residential school. The project findings demonstrated increased knowledge and comfort level after the training intervention supporting ongoing education of UAP in this setting
Inaugural Issue of the Scholarship Review
Get PDFH. Luis Vargas, Editor of the Counseling and Family Therapy Scholarship Review, introduces the journal\u27s editors and mission
International service learning in the business curriculum: Toward an ethic of empathy in a global economy
No full textIn the context of business education, International Service Learning (ISL) programs introduce students to social responsibility and help them develop a sense of solidarity with individuals living in a different context from their own. But even ISL programs that strive for reciprocity and co-create projects with community partners still reinforce a microcosm of the power asymmetries present in the global economy. As an alternative to traditional ISL models involving direct service, I propose a model of ISL that eliminates the direct service component and instead emphasizes listening and learning abroad. In this model, local knowledge is expert and then students engage in advocacy in their home countries. Herein, I present a current course—Marketing for Social Change: The Uganda Project—as an example of the alternative ISL model designed to address the structural inequalities and wealth disparities brought by globalization