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PERCEPTIONS OF BLACK ADULTS REGARDING EFFECTS OF FATHER ABSENCE DUE TO LOSS AND THE IMPACT IT HAD DURING ADOLESCENCE
No full textThis qualitative dissertation explores the psychosocial impacts of paternal death during adolescence on Black identity development, relationships, independence, and well-being as disclosed through in-depth interviews with 8 Black adults who lost their fathers between ages 12-18. Using a phenomenological approach framed by Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development and Critical Race the study examines how father loss disrupted normative processes of racial identity, relationships, and externalizing behaviors during this critical phase. Preliminary thematic analysis suggests losses complicated maturation and connection-building while accelerating self-reliance. Key impacts included fractured racial identity, strained bonding, suppressed grieving and survivor's guilt/confusion. Findings can inform how parents, educators and clinicians can better support Black youth navigating trauma, establish culturally affirmative aftercare, and validate experiences often systemically disenfranchised
LIVED EXPERIENCES OF GAY BLACK CISGENDER MEN VICARIOUSLY EXPOSED TO THE ORLANDO SHOOTING
No full textThe purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the lived experiences of gay Black cisgender men who were vicariously exposed to the 2016 Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting. Minority stress theory was the theoretical framework to ground this research study. This theory and lens was used to better understand the position of being a minority in society and the associated stress at the intersection community violence and identity.
The study included 11 participants that identified as gay Black cisgender men using a combination of purposeful and snowball sampling. A demographic questionnaire was administered to gain background information about the participants in the study and a semi-structured interview protocol was used to gain qualitative data. Participants answered 11 demographic questions and 19 open ended questions. Three major themes emerged from the data: identity development, impact of media and post traumatic coping. Future research was suggested to explore the intersection of vicarious exposure to community violence and all identities within the LGBTQ community. The researcher made implications of the research to counseling and counselors in training
A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF COUNSELORS’ AWARENESS OF WEIGHT BIAS IN THEIR THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH CLIENTS
No full textBody image dissatisfaction and biases on weight as well as body size and shape, cultivated by a stance of privilege, often excluding many individuals, pervade societal norms. Due to the multivariant nature and connectedness of body image concerns, counselors working with clients who present with these issues could struggle with their own biases. How counselors manage this struggle within the therapeutic relationship could be a key factor in treatment effectiveness. Over the last decade, researchers have examined components of weight-based discrimination in connection to counselor countertransference and treatment outcomes. Although these negative attitudes could negatively impact therapeutic outcomes for clients, the prevalence of weight bias among counselors and its impact on therapeutic outcomes is not fully understood. The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was be to explore counselors’ awareness of their weight bias in their clinical work with clients of various body sizes. A review of the literature indicated the factors that may impact counselors’ weight bias, weight-based discrimination, and closely examined sociocultural connections to beauty and body image. Answering the research questions required exploring counselors’ perspectives of their implicit weight biases and the influences on the therapeutic alliance and clinical work with clients who present with disordered eating, body image concerns, and eating disorders
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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