107 research outputs found
The refinement and validation of a model of family functioning after child\u27s disclosure as lesbian, gay or bisexual
No full textThis dissertation examines the anecdotal and empirical literature regarding the experiences of heterosexual parents after their child discloses an identity as lesbian, gay or bisexual. Currently, there is limited empirical data which addresses this issue. The author utilized a path analysis to study, refine and validate an emergent theory of family functioning (Goodrich, 2009). This model explored a number of predictor variables, including: parents\u27 pre-conceived notions about their child\u27s sexual orientation, comfort with disclosure to others, parents\u27 initial emotional reaction, religiosity, perceived level of social support, cognitive flexibility, empathy, family\u27s behavioral response to their child\u27s disclosure, as well as parent\u27s endorsed level of heterosexism. These predictor variables were used to find the direct and indirect effects on the criterion variable: parent\u27s perceptions of current family functioning. The results found partial support for the emergent model of parental identity adjustment (Goodrich, 2009). Significant paths were found between parent needs and initial emotional expression, initial emotional expression and social support, initial emotional expression and cognitive flexibility, social support and empathy, religiosity and cognitive flexibility, as well as cognitive flexibility and family functioning. Based on these results, it appears important for difficult conversations (Stone Fish & Harvey, 2005) to occur in families after disclosure, specifically conversations about family member experiences and reactions to the disclosure. It was also found that more successful outcomes occur when parents seek support from their spouse. Additionally, the results suggest that the focus of family behavior should center around the needs of their child, away from a focus on the parent\u27s needs, and family members should be allowed to have lives within, as well as outside, of the family. The study\u27s significance is that it provides a greater insight into the process parents and families undergo once they learn their child is lesbian, gay or bisexual. It also offers a number of clinical implications so that counselors are better able to intervene in their work with parents who struggle to adjust to the news that their child identifies as lesbian, gay or bisexual
A Commentary Response to the Article Reconceptualizing the Achieving Success Everyday Group Counseling Model to Focus on the Strengths of Black Male Middle School Youth
No full textThe purpose of this commentary is to review the article Reconceptualizing the Achieving Success Everyday Group Counseling Model to Focus on the Strengths of Black Male Middle School Youth. In the commentary, the author complements the article authors on their strong foundation of critical race theory, their attention to the current status of scholarship surrounding Black middle school students, as well as their notes about the need for more rigorous methodology in the future. The commentary author offers the article authors suggestions surrounding how they may better situate the Achieving Success Everyday group model for readers less familiar with it so that they can better understand and apply towards their future practice
Exploring School Counselors’ Motivations to Work with LGBTQQI Students in Schools: A Q Methodology Study
No full text This study surveyed a national sample of school counselors who were members of ASCA to understand what motivated their work, or not, with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and intersex (LGBTQQI) students in school. The author implemented Q methodology to collect and analyze the data, and results provide scholars and professional development providers with an understanding of how they might be able to motivate different types of school counselors to work with LGBTQQI students. </jats:p
Navigation computation in the smart cockpit
No full textDue to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-78).This thesis discusses the design and development of a hics. software module responsible for performing various navigation computations in the smart cockpit. The goals of decreased workload and increased situation awareness for the general aviation community are the motivating forces behind this software, the Navigation Module. The smart cockpit environment in which the Navigation Module operates is called the General Aviation Pilot Advisory and Training System (GAPATS) and was developed at Texas A&M University. The architecture of GAPATS is presented briefly followed by the functional requirements and operation of the Navigation Module. Next, an overview of the Navigation Module's software architecture is presented to describe how the object oriented methodology in C++ is used for the data abstraction in the Navigation Module. Other factors affecting the development of the Navigation Module are discussed such as the software development environment including useful tools available to the author. Next, results from pilot evaluations of GAPATS are given, noting where the data relate to the Navigation Module. These results show that the Navigation Module achieves its goal of a reduction in workload with an increase in situation awareness. Finally, recommendations are made that will improve future iterations of the Navigation Module, addressing its areas of weakness such as its database structure and flight planning abilities
Ultrafast extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy of transition metal dithiolate coordination complexes
No full textTransient tabletop M-edge x-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy using extreme ultraviolet (XUV) light is used as a tool to interrogate the evolution of the metal center in a series of transition metal dithiolate complexes. The behavior of these molecules after absorption of light has implications for the development of catalysts and photosensitizers using earth-abundant transition metals. The cobalt dithiolene complex, [Co(bdt)2]- (bdt = 1,2-benzendithiolate), is primarily known for its ligand-noninnocence and participation in the catalytic production of hydrogen. After excitation of [Co(bdt)2]- with visible light, its relaxation dynamics are tracked with a combination of optical and transient M-edge XANES spectroscopic techniques that allow for the identification of a ligand-to-metal charge transfer (LMCT) excited state whose spin can be determined by comparison to semi-empirical ligand field multiplet calculations. The combination of optical and x-ray techniques is crucial to identifying relaxation processes that affect predominantly either the metal or the ligand. NEVPT2 calculations are used to understand its optical absorption spectrum and rationalize the timescale by which the molecule relaxes to the ground state. A set of three of cobalt tris(dithiolate) complexes with varying ligand field strength have been studied using optical transient absorption spectroscopy which shows a difference of a factor of at least ten in their excited state lifetimes. Understanding the origin of this change is important to further extending the lifetimes of photosensitizers. The sensitivity of M-edge XANES spectroscopy to the oxidation and spin state of a metal enabled the identification of the excited states involved in the relaxation of all three complexes. The contribution of a long-lived charge transfer state was ruled out and the final excited state was determined to be a 5T state. Finally, a nickel dithiocarbamate complex, Ni(dedtc)2 (dedtc = diethyldithiocarbamate, S2CNEt2) was studied as a simple analogue of a square planar nickel-centered hydrogen catalyst. Examination of this complex and the equivalent copper and zinc complexes reveal new phenomena in XUV spectroscopy, including dependence of the ligand absorbance on the metal center and observation of a ligand-based change in absorbance beneath the nickel M-edge after LMCT excitation.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-05-01The student, Kristopher Benke, accepted the attached license on 2021-04-12 at 10:11.The student, Kristopher Benke, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2021-04-12 at 10:46.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2021-04-14 at 11:42.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16283 on 2021-09-16 at 17:02:51Made available in DSpace on 2021-09-17T02:34:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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Book Review: LGBT Families
No full textLGBT Families, by Nancy J. Mezey. Los Angeles, CA: Sage, 2015. 213 pp., $31.98 (paperback)
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