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Appreciation Day For Clinical Staff At Vna Hospice, Melody Nguyen Dec 2021

Appreciation Day For Clinical Staff At Vna Hospice, Melody Nguyen

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

VNA Hospice of the Central Coast is a nonprofit that was created back in 1951. The staff at VNA are visiting about 75,000 homes per year. Throughout the years the staff have been seeing patients who reached the requirement of having 6 months or less to live. Working with Hospice patients can be hard for everyone but, the staff at VNA are seeing the patients from good days and bad days. Depression is known to negatively impact the clinical staff at VNA Hospice. Staff are working long hours which leads to sleep disturbance and chronic stress. Some staff are also …


Increasing Bullying Awareness In Middle Schools, Crystal Rocha May 2021

Increasing Bullying Awareness In Middle Schools, Crystal Rocha

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Bullying is a repetitive behavior of mistreatment towards someone less powerful than you. This includes to be verbal, physical, and social. This issue is very common in schools, but students don't get enough knowledge from this behavior to be able to change or help others.


Mental Health In Elementary School Children, Mayte Lomeli May 2021

Mental Health In Elementary School Children, Mayte Lomeli

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Due to the Global Pandemic of 2020, there have been a lot of changes in society. These changes have presented challenges to people’s mental health. Two of these changes have been the need to Shelter-in-Place and learn remotely through online and video conferencing. This capstone project is a case study investigating how remote learning has affected elementary school-aged students' mental health and what might be done to support elementary school-aged students with their mental health. The investigation takes the perspectives of 2 teachers, 2 parents, and 2 students living in South Monterey County. The purpose of this project is to …


Heavy Is The Head, Elizabeth Wiles May 2021

Heavy Is The Head, Elizabeth Wiles

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

"Heavy is the Head: how my mental illness made me a writer" is a collection of poetry about a journey in and through mental illness. It engages the social action issue of mental health awareness. "Heavy is the Head" tells a story of mental illness, how it was accepted, how it was used to improve, and how it can pave the road to self-acceptance.