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The Effect Of Participation In A Community Gardening Program On Mood Of College Students, Alicia Fay Mau

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

The purpose of this study was to find the effect of gardening in a community setting on mood and affect of college students. Participants of the study included sixteen students attending James Madison University. There were eight controls and eight gardening participants in the six-week experiment. All participants took a pre and posttest based on the Positive and Negative Affect Scale-X (PANAS-X). Gardening groups also took the Affect Balance Scale (ABS) after an hour-long gardening session each week. Statistical analysis showed significant changes in several of the items examined by the PANAS-X. Among gardeners, negative affect went down significantly (t=0.019) …

Building Group Resilience: A Three-Day Curriculum, Andrew Willis Garcés

Educational Specialist, 2009-2019

Social change organizations are often exposed to stress and disruptive, potentially traumatic events. Despite this, few such groups invest time into actively cultivating resilience practices. Likewise, most existing resilience promotion initiatives are designed for use with individuals, not organizations, and lack the experience-based pedagogical approach necessary to interest many social change activists. This curriculum intervention provides a needed bridge between social change activism and resilience promotion theory. Designed as a three-day workshop, it can be used with entire organizations to support both self-awareness of their existing strengths and the development of new protective measures to boost collective resilience.

November 29, 2012, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

November 15, 2012, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

November 8, 2012, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

October 29, 2012, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

October 25, 2012, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

October 18, 2012, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

October 15, 2012, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Hiv/Aids Survey In Southern Angola, Martin Chitsama, Joao Artur Dumba, Charlotte Mabhiza-Berejena, Nzola Dimbu

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Deminers in Angola have a higher than average risk for HIV infection and transmission as a result of their work in border areas and their high mobility. The Demining HIV/AIDS Partnership conducted a Knowledge, Attitudes, Behaviors and Perceptions survey to explore deminers’ HIV/AIDS knowledge in Cassinga, southern Angola. Among other conclusions, the results stressed the need for an increase in HIV/AIDS education.

October 4, 2012, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Former Dukes Aid Rise Of Washington Nationals

Madison Magazine

No abstract provided.

October 1, 2012, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

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Madison Magazine

No abstract provided.

The Madison Experience (Inside: Requirements, How To Apply And More!)

Madison Magazine

No abstract provided.

Class Notes

Madison Magazine

No abstract provided.

September 23, 2012, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

September 6, 2012, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Armed Violence And Disability: The Untold Story, Hi

Global CWD Repository

Armed violence has powerful, lasting impacts, inflicting severe injuries and impairments and leaving behind broken families, fearful communities and societies in which violence is the norm. It is a daily fear and fact of life for millions of people, particularly those in low income countries and in the marginalised urban zones of more developed countries.

Persons with disabilities experience heightened exposure to armed violence as a result of various factors, such as exclusion from education and employment, the need for personal assistance in daily life, social stigma, discrimination and communications barriers for reporting violence8 . Armed violence injuries and disabilities …

August 27, 2012, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Peer-Support Training For Nonliterate And Semiliterate Female Ex-Combatants: Experience In Burundi, Cameron Macauley, Monica Onyango, Eric Niragira

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

In September 2011, 25 female veterans of Burundi’s civil war were trained to become peer-support workers. The five-day training, funded under a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and conducted by James Madison University’s Center for International Stabilization and Recovery, was the first of its kind to offer peer-counseling skills to non-literate and semiliterate women.

Firearms Safety In Somaliland: From Mine Action To Community Safety, William Vest-Lillesøe

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Multiple border and civil wars have left Somaliland contaminated with explosive remnants of war and a surplus of small arms and light weapons. Today, unsecured firearms threaten daily life in rural villages, resulting in more deaths in Somaliland than from recent landmine incidents. Addressing the need for firearm security, Danish Demining Group provides training and awareness through its Community Safety program.

International Committee Of The Red Cross, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Founded in 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross provides nondiscriminatory aid to victims of armed conflict.

Leveraging Emerging Technology To Visually Promote Library Resources, Carolyn Schubert

Libraries

Objectives: Use emerging technologies to create and deploy a virtual bookshelf of new books to increase circulation. Previous studies completed by the library have documented the increased circulation of materials upon creation of themed physical book displays.

Methods: Currently, visitors can setup an RSS feed for each month's new listing of title. However, circulation of materials remains low. Therefore, I will use virtual bookshelf technology with graphics, such as LibraryThing book covers, to promote new monographic materials for the health sciences and nursing departments. The virtual bookshelf will appear on the home page of the health sciences and …

Optical Properties& Energy Transfer Dynamics Of Atmospheric Species, Daniel K. Havey

Science Enabled by Photon Sources: Local Research Interests in Virginia

Our research group is interested in how light interacts with small molecules and particulate matter that are important to atmospheric chemistry and climate change. An active project currently being performed in the James Madison University Undergraduate Laser Laboratory involves a detailed mapping of energy transfer rates from excited or metastable states of atomic or molecular species. This talk describes a specific example study with potential relevance to the JLAMP VUV/Soft X-ray User Facility that would investigate relaxation dynamics of metastable Krypton atoms using two-photon photoacoustic spectroscopy at 819 nm and 124 nm. A study like this would provide useful reference …

Crisis Supervision: A Qualitative Study Of The Needs And Experiences Of Licensed Professional Counselors, Madeleine Ann Dupre

Dissertations, 2014-2019

This qualitative study explored the supervision needs and experiences of licensed professional counselors working with clients in crisis. The primary purpose of the inquiry was to understand crisis supervision from the perspective of counselors in the field. The rationale for the study rested on three fundamental assumptions. First, counselors routinely encounter crises in their work with clients. Second, crisis response exposes counselors to hazardous situations and increases the risk for developing burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious traumatization. Finally, good supervision protects counselors from the risks associated with crisis work and enhances counselor self-efficacy. However, crisis supervision is frequently not provided …

Impact Of Collaborative Online Formative Evaluation Of The Learning Environment In A Higher Education Course, Aaron Joseph Clark

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

Several works in the academic literature address the benefits of discussion-based formative evaluation for improving the learning environment in higher education courses. However, even one of the most widely used methods for such formative evaluation, the small group instructional diagnosis, has a few challenges and is still utilized far less than student ratings questionnaires. The present study focused on one undergraduate course in the James Madison University College of Education that promotes formative evaluation as an integral part of instructional design. The purpose of this study was to examine participants’ perception about the worth and usability of an online feedback …

Longitudinal Invariance Of The Scale Of Ethnocultural Empathy, Jerusha Joy Gerstner

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

The Scale of Ethnocultural Empathy (SEE; Wang et al., 2003) was developed to measure ethnocultural empathy and is a promising tool for assessing change in the construct over time. However, no prior study examines the functioning of the SEE over time. The purpose of the study was to examine the invariance of the SEE utilizing a modified factor model that included a negative wording effect. The SEE was found to exhibit longitudinal measurement invariance over a two-year time span in a sample of undergraduate students. Change over time was examined at the error-free, latent level and only one subscale (EPT) …

Individualizing Certification Requirements And Professional Development For Adult Esol Teachers: Differences Between Full-Time, Part-Time, And Volunteer Teachers, Constance M. Gillison

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

Certification and professional development are widely discussed topics in the field of adult education. What is less discussed is the role and impact of those topics for adult ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) instructors specifically. This research examined the certification requirements for ESOL instructors to determine how those requirements could be individualized for full-time, part-time, and volunteer ESL instructors and tutors. The impact of teacher preparation on the in-service professional development preferences of adult ESOL instructors was also studied. The research design involved a mixed methods approach, employing the use of a survey and semi-structured individual interviews. This …

Program Evaluation Of A Suicide Prevention Walk: Finding Postvention Opportunities For Promoting Resilience In Survivors Of Suicide Loss, Lisa A. Cooper Ellison

Educational Specialist, 2009-2019

Each year more than 34,000 people die by suicide leaving between 6 to10 survivors of suicide loss behind for every person who dies. The risk of suicide for these survivors is between 2 to 10 times the general population. It is imperative that postvention efforts target vulnerable individuals grieving suicide losses. Recent studies have examined the efficacy of postvention supports for these survivors, such as counseling and survivors of suicide support groups; however, little is known about the vast majority of survivors who do not seek services. Each year, large numbers of survivors of suicide loss attend community suicide prevention …