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Developing An Occupational Therapy Trauma-Informed Guide For Practitioners To Address The Needs Of Adults Following Trauma-Inducing Events, Michael Santos Jr
Developing An Occupational Therapy Trauma-Informed Guide For Practitioners To Address The Needs Of Adults Following Trauma-Inducing Events, Michael Santos Jr
Occupational Therapy Capstone Projects
This paper explores the role of occupational therapy in providing trauma-informed care to adults, highlighting the importance of integrating trauma-informed principles into practice. Trauma, regardless of its origin, can profoundly impact the lives of individuals. In consideration to this, occupational therapy practitioners are gradually beginning to embrace the concept of implementing trauma-informed principles in their organizations and in their everyday practice. Following a comprehensive review of the literature, this capstone research paper aims to develop practical resources to support the role of occupational therapists in treating adults who have experienced trauma. Furthermore, this paper explores trauma, its impact, and how …
Three Tries, Getsay
Three Tries, Getsay
Art and Design Theses
Three Tries is an interdisciplinary exhibition featuring installation, sculpture, and performance that explores the experiences of a Queer nonbinary individual growing up in the Baptist Christian South. The exhibition centers around the reclamation of the body, identity, and space, drawing parallels between the baptist christian holy trinity of father, son, and the holy ghost and Sigmund Freud's Trinity of id, ego, and superego. By returning to the developmental stages of one's life, the exhibition serves as a revolutionary attempt to isolate the id and disentangle the workings of the id, ego, and superego. Three Tries represents a visual framework for …
Memory In The Time Of Covid, William Hy Canter
Memory In The Time Of Covid, William Hy Canter
Communication Dissertations
This dissertation examines six characteristics of memory in accordance with the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 is a major event that has changed how society operates. With the conjunction of digital archives, memory performances have changed. In light of a major world pandemic and the shift to the digital a reassessment of memory is needed. 1) With many museums physically closed, the context of the pandemic with the affordances of technology allowed for memory to symbolically be performed through the digital archives. The future of memory studies must contend with digital archives as memory performances. 2) Computer assisted analysis may help with …
A Mindfulness-Based Nutrition Intervention To Explore The Relationship Between Disordered Eating Patterns And Mindful And Intuitive Eating In College Students, Patricia Perez Asuaje
A Mindfulness-Based Nutrition Intervention To Explore The Relationship Between Disordered Eating Patterns And Mindful And Intuitive Eating In College Students, Patricia Perez Asuaje
Nutrition Masters Projects
A disruptive relationship with food is one that endorses disordered eating patterns (DEP), including dieting, restrictive eating, purging, binging and other compensatory behaviors. In most cases, DEP modulators stem from psychological distress, such as body dissatisfaction, weight stigma, anxiety, high stress, and much more. The consequence is often a dissociation from body sensations that lead to poor mental and physical health. Thus, the purpose of this project is to first evaluate the current literature to identify mindfulness-based nutrition interventions for college students previously done. Second, it aims to create an 8-week program to assist participants to identify triggers for DEP …
Self-Mutilation As Nonverbal Communication In Young Adult Literature, Morgan L. Hunter
Self-Mutilation As Nonverbal Communication In Young Adult Literature, Morgan L. Hunter
English Theses
This thesis expands on young adult (YA) scholarship by applying feminist and trauma theory to characters who self-harm in contemporary YA literature. In doing so, I emphasize how self-harm allows these specific characters to transform their bodies into books, serving as a complex method of nonverbal communication. By focusing on the significance of how the characters use their bodies as conduits of communication through cutting, I show how Camille from Sharp Objects and Callie from Cut are able to write their own stories by claiming and embodying their trauma, and how the literary form presents complexities of self-harm that other …
“Where—Am I?”: H.D.’S Search For Identity, Dianne D. Berger
“Where—Am I?”: H.D.’S Search For Identity, Dianne D. Berger
English Dissertations
Hilda Doolittle is best known as the imagist poet H.D. In a career lasting a half-century, H.D. also penned essays, memoirs, fiction, and translations of classical Greek works. Regardless of the genre, H.D. reveals much of her self in her work. Immediately following World War 1, she confronted her traumatic experiences during the war years. During World War II, she concentrated on the relationships—primarily with males—that had formed her identity. In the last work published in her lifetime, she conveyed what she had learned in her lifelong quest for identity. I explore selections from H.D.’s work in these three categories. …
Speaking The Unspeakable: How Children Of Militants During Argentina's "Dirty War" Have Used Literature And Film To Process Trauma, Samantha J. Strong
Speaking The Unspeakable: How Children Of Militants During Argentina's "Dirty War" Have Used Literature And Film To Process Trauma, Samantha J. Strong
World Languages and Cultures Theses
It is estimated that between 15,000 and 30,000 people were disappeared (kidnapped and never seen again), during the military dictatorship that gripped Argentina in the late 1970s. Many of these “desaparecidos,” as they are often called, and other militants who were killed while attempting to fight this regime, were survived by their children or “Hijos”. In this thesis, I examine five works (three novels and two films) produced by Hijos in order to demonstrate how they have used their art to express the complex and often conflicting feelings they experienced as a result of their parents’ abductions and/or deaths. I …
Queering The Monstrous Feminine: Lesbian Vampires, Folklore, And Trauma In Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, Emilee Calametti
Queering The Monstrous Feminine: Lesbian Vampires, Folklore, And Trauma In Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, Emilee Calametti
English Theses
The discussion regarding vampire history is a popular topic among scholars dating back earlier than the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rise of Gothic literature and is echoed within early Gothic texts. Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella Carmilladeserves a secure place within the literary canon for its pull on the genre’s connection to the female image, while preceding Bram Stoker’s Dracula by twenty-six years. Not only does the novella demonstrate a crucial development in the genre, but it also disrupts social norms of Victorian women by queering the title character as well as the heroine. While the connection this novella has with …
School-Based Trauma-Informed Practices: How Urban School Psychologists Support Students, Moriah A. Kearney
School-Based Trauma-Informed Practices: How Urban School Psychologists Support Students, Moriah A. Kearney
Counseling and Psychological Services Dissertations
Many school-age children in low-income communities experience at least one potentially traumatic event (PTE) before adulthood. Urban high-need schools (UHNS) can play a central role in serving youth by integrating trauma-informed practices (TIPs) throughout a multitiered systems of support framework. Although school psychologists are increasingly urged to support school-wide TIPs, their use of such practices is unclear due to the frequent omission of school psychologists from the trauma literature (Diamanduros et al., 218; Overstreet, 2015). Recent studies have identified the gap between school-based trauma research and practice, with some citing limited training as a potential barrier (e.g., Gubi et al., …
Playing For Whom? Understanding Empathy And Trauma In Postcolonial And Global South Videogame Narratives Through Witnessing, Jenn Olive
English Dissertations
This project seeks to better understand representations of and interactions with postcolonial and global south identities via trauma narratives as they are encountered in new media, particularly videogames. Building on previous research on interactive media and narratological structure both in and out of trauma studies, I investigate the ways of representing trauma narratives within videogames, challenge existing models of understanding trauma narratives in videogames by bringing postcolonial and global south narratives into consideration, and present a different model and method of analysis for such narratives based on prior media that considers the ethics of rhetorical engagement with the content and …
Art-Making As Self-Care In Studio Practice And In The Art Classroom, Shauna Delong
Art-Making As Self-Care In Studio Practice And In The Art Classroom, Shauna Delong
Art and Design Theses
In this thesis project, I examine the importance of artmaking is researched, as explored personally and applied in the classroom in order to further understand implications of art-making and its’ effect on emotional well-being. This thesis references studies and articles supporting art-making as a method of alleviating negative emotions, as a practice in mindfulness, and as a form of knowing. Art-making holds potential for creativity and self-expression. The benefits of art-making as a means to reconcile various emotional challenges or traumatic life events is both documented through research and experienced personally. In applying these concepts, I learned how I could …
The Use Of Art To Increase Awareness About Mental Well-Being And Promotion Of Mental Health Among The African American Community, Andromada Murden
The Use Of Art To Increase Awareness About Mental Well-Being And Promotion Of Mental Health Among The African American Community, Andromada Murden
Public Health Capstone Projects
Mental Illness in America affects about 43.8 million individuals in a year’s time. Internationally, the number one cause of disabilities is depression, which impacts the lives of about 16 million people every year. Depression is the most common mental illness in the African American community regardless of age or gender. Stigma around having a mental illness discourages the African American community from pursuing professional help. Mental Illness in Atlanta is unique because the city’s population is over 50% African American/black and this is the major demographic that does not utilize mental health services. Black Communities have developed a mistrust in …
Regional Flavor Of Blood: Trauma Of The Subjugated In The Nature Of Blood And The God Of Small Things, Shabana Sayeed
Regional Flavor Of Blood: Trauma Of The Subjugated In The Nature Of Blood And The God Of Small Things, Shabana Sayeed
English Theses
Inequality in the postcolonial context, takes a perilous shape involving tremendous trauma where the victim possesses a broken or no voice to present one’s angsts and sufferings to the world. The marginalization and trauma of the lower castes in India are generated from the custom of inequality that eventually gives rise to violence and bloodshed for generations. Philips’ discussion of Nazism and violence against the non-Europeans in The Nature of Blood and its trope of blood correlates with the hostility in The God of Small Things that looks at the epistemological foundation of casteist narratives in order to castigate the …
The Shine Of The Shining: Domestic Violence And Deterministic Trauma, Ashleigh Boutwell
The Shine Of The Shining: Domestic Violence And Deterministic Trauma, Ashleigh Boutwell
English Theses
Whether reading Stephen King’s The Shining or viewing Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation the prevalence of domestic violence is indisputable. Following the lives of Jack, Wendy, and Danny Torrance a relationship between domestic violence becomes evident. Fear is provoked by the violence depicted on page and screen, spurring characters into action determined by the trauma they have experienced. Past violence refuses to be ignored or buried and disrupts an individual’s notion of identity and safety. Such characteristics of trauma are depicted throughout Stephen King’s novel and Kubrick’s film, illustrating how perpetrators and victims of violence operate and survive. The Shine of The …
Emergence Elsewhere: Third Space In Linda Hogan's People Of The Whale, Joan M. Banez
Emergence Elsewhere: Third Space In Linda Hogan's People Of The Whale, Joan M. Banez
English Theses
This project examines the relationship between transnational Indigeneity and effectuate trauma in Linda Hogan’s People of the Whale (2008). The novel’s protagonist, Thomas Just, endures trauma that emerges from a transnational adoption narrative, which complicates notions of race- and place-based conceptions of selfhood. To analyze Thomas’s production of identity, I look to Kevin Bruyneel’s The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.–Indigenous Relations (2007) and Mark Jerng’s Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging (2010). Through these lenses, I interrogate the onto-epistemological boundaries that complicate Thomas’s ability to exist in more than one culture and topological community at …
Le Corps Dans Les Œuvres De Fabienne Kanor, Hortense Baya
Le Corps Dans Les Œuvres De Fabienne Kanor, Hortense Baya
World Languages and Cultures Theses
Ce projet de recherche offre une étude du « tracé corpo-mémoriel » (Francis, 2017) mis en place dans les œuvres de Fabienne Kanor. Ce processus, comme nous le constaterons dans notre analyse permet à Kanor de retracer les racines et trames d’histoire qui forment l’identité et affectent le corps d’individus qui sont héritiers de la traite noire ou de la (néo) colonisation. Se centrant sur les romans D’eaux douces (2004), Humus (2006), Les chiens ne font pas des chats (2008) et Faire l’aventure (2014), nous proposons de parcourir les procédés par lesquels Kanor re/présente le corps souffrant. Mis au …
Childhood Trauma In Refugee Children: Caretakers’ Perspectives, Ghazal Khaksari
Childhood Trauma In Refugee Children: Caretakers’ Perspectives, Ghazal Khaksari
Anthropology Theses
Many refugees, especially children, have experienced trauma related to war or persecution that may affect their mental and physical health long after the events have occurred. These traumatic events may occur while the refugees are in their country of origin, during displacement from their own country, or in the resettlement process in the US. This study aims to investigate the mechanisms associated with childhood trauma and adverse childhood experiences among refugee communities living in Clarkston, Georgia. This is accomplished through measuring multiple indicators of psychosocial stress of parents in conjunction with other factors including cultural habits and access to facilities, …
Living Hysterically, Jessica Caldas
Living Hysterically, Jessica Caldas
Art and Design Theses
Living Hysterically is an immersive exhibition of multi-disciplinary works that explore the ordinary lived experiences of women and highlight women’s constant relationship with labor and pain. Pain can be considered a uniquely feminine issue. In Living Hysterically, each series of work presents a picture of past, present, and future tied to three generations of women. These stories provide an entry point into the personal experiences, both positive and negative, that fill the lives of women. The work illustrates the forces working in these lives that create a spectrum of violence, from the mundane to the traumatic, and the ways women …
Maternal Responses To Children;S Exposure To Violent/Tragic News Media In A Sample Of Multiply-Traumatized, African-American, Low-Income Youth, Susanna Crowell Mcquarrie
Maternal Responses To Children;S Exposure To Violent/Tragic News Media In A Sample Of Multiply-Traumatized, African-American, Low-Income Youth, Susanna Crowell Mcquarrie
Psychology Dissertations
Given children’s ready access to media, particularly to sensationalized media reports of violent/tragic news (Pew Research Center, 2013), it is important to understand whether and how exposure to this news affects children’s psychological functioning. Studies in the general population have found that media exposure to violence correlates positively with anxiety and posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms in children (Becker-Blease, Finkelhor, & Turner, 2008). However, little is known about the impact such exposure may have on children who are vulnerable to myriad health and mental health problems as a consequence of multiple traumas (Fowler, Tompsett, Braceiszewski, Jaques-Tiura, & Baltes, 2009). Moreover, given …
Recognizing The War-Torn Wives Of West’S Return Of The Soldier And Woolf’S Mrs. Dalloway, Nicole Turner
Recognizing The War-Torn Wives Of West’S Return Of The Soldier And Woolf’S Mrs. Dalloway, Nicole Turner
English Theses
This thesis examines trauma experienced by wives of returned soldiers in Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and West’s The Return of the Soldier. Specifically, it considers how these women respond to their husbands returning from war shell-shocked. Critics and historians alike helped lift women’s wartime stories into cultural consciousness, but this attention neglects female trauma that occurs concurrently with a soldier’s shell-shock symptoms. Woolf and West both portray wives reacting to the symptoms of their husband’s traumatization; the women’s reactions resemble and often mirror symptoms of trauma. To explore how trauma manifests for these women, this thesis adopts frameworks established by …
Gangsta Expressions 1983-1993: Exploring The Mental Health Of African American Men, Alexzandra Strickland
Gangsta Expressions 1983-1993: Exploring The Mental Health Of African American Men, Alexzandra Strickland
Africana Studies Theses
Limited research has been conducted on the mental health of urban Afro-American men and the context of their traumatic experiencing. In this study, the researcher is interested in discovering if gangsta rap music is an artistic expression of trauma within experiences of a sector within the population of African American men. Utilizing qualitative and ethnographic analysis, this study seeks to explore gangsta rap as a form of connection to and possible expression of the contextual trauma experienced by inner-city African American men in Los Angeles, California between 1983 and 1993. Lyrics of 30 songs from gangsta rap artists associated with …
Experiences Of Racism And Race-Based Traumatic Stress: The Moderating Effects Of Cyberracism, Racial/Ethnic Identity, And Forgiveness, Terrence A. Jordan Ii
Experiences Of Racism And Race-Based Traumatic Stress: The Moderating Effects Of Cyberracism, Racial/Ethnic Identity, And Forgiveness, Terrence A. Jordan Ii
Counseling and Psychological Services Dissertations
Race is a source of trauma that may result in a wide range of mental and physical health consequences (Pieterse, Todd, Neville, & Carter, 2012). In Chapter 1, I conduct a systematic review of research on race-based traumatic stress. Although studies have documented the link between perceived discrimination and race-based traumatic stress, there is a need to explore factors that can amplify or buffer this relationship. Thus, in Chapter 2, I examine three theorized moderators of the relationship between racial discrimination and race-based traumatic stress: cyberracism, racial/ethnic identity, and trait forgivingness. Data was collected from a sample of 397 African …
"The River's For Everybody": The River Chronotope And Trauma Healing In Melvin Dixon's Trouble The Water, Keith D. Freeman Jr.
"The River's For Everybody": The River Chronotope And Trauma Healing In Melvin Dixon's Trouble The Water, Keith D. Freeman Jr.
English Theses
This thesis broadly explores river imagery, which undergirds narrative, plot, and character trajectory in Melvin Dixon’s Trouble the Water. In the novel, the Pee Dee River, with its multi-directional flow, reflects the personal journey of the protagonist, Jordan Henry, and figures as a spatialized metaphor by which time and space are organized and articulated. Additionally, this thesis identifies correlations between river imagery and articulations of trauma and trauma recovery in the novel. Ultimately, this thesis argues that via Jordan’s simultaneous geographical and psychological, literal and symbolic journey, the novel offers an African-centered spiritual framework for moving through and healing …
Asunder, Rachel Ballard
Asunder, Rachel Ballard
Art and Design Theses
Traumatic triggers come in many forms: the smell of a rose, the taste of a warm pie, the sound of music, the gaze of a loved one, and the touch of soft soil. What appears ordinary to one may repel another, but the tension between these two opposing reactions is what entices me as an artist. Every trigger is tied to a specific memory which causes me, as a survivor, to question my reality and what I believe to be true. Is this love or is this abuse? What happens when I succumb to the memory that haunts me? My …
Enhancing The Seeking Safety Group Intervention With Trauma Sensitive Yoga Practice: A Program Evaluation, Thomas M. Murphy
Enhancing The Seeking Safety Group Intervention With Trauma Sensitive Yoga Practice: A Program Evaluation, Thomas M. Murphy
Counseling and Psychological Services Dissertations
Seeking Safety is an evidence-based manualized group counseling intervention designed to address the intersection of trauma and addiction. Trauma-sensitive yoga practice has been shown to be effective as an adjunct treatment in addictions. This qualitative utilization-focused program evaluation analyzed the effectiveness of enhancing Seeking Safety with a trauma-sensitive yoga practice integrated into the Seeking Safety group intervention. The author utilized archival interviews, focus groups and documents collected from a community mental health agency. Data included client interviews, key informant interviews, and demographics. Data were analyzed using narrative analysis of transcripts and documents to assess the efficacy of Seeking Safety with …
Migration Et Transculturalité : Genre, Sexualité Et Trauma Dans Les Arts Visuels Et Les Littératures Francophones, Makani Diaby
Migration Et Transculturalité : Genre, Sexualité Et Trauma Dans Les Arts Visuels Et Les Littératures Francophones, Makani Diaby
World Languages and Cultures Theses
Cette thèse offre une étude comparative qui fait appel aux productions filmiques et littéraires d’artistes francophones, afin de mieux saisir les notions de migration et de transculturalité dans leurs œuvres. Ces thèmes sont analysés de part des notions de genre, de sexualité et de trauma dans les productions cinématographiques de Ousmane Sembène, Lionel Steketee (avec Fabrice Eboué et Thomas N’gijol), Moussa Touré et Yamina Benguigui. Dans le champ de la littérature francophone, sont analysées les œuvres de Fabienne Kanor, Gisèle Pineau, Maryse Condé et Myriam Warner-Vieyra. L’étude des configurations migratoires et transculturelles du migrant dans les arts visuels est suivie …
Not On My Watch: Moral Trauma And Moral Injury Among Combat Medics, Courtney Benshoof
Not On My Watch: Moral Trauma And Moral Injury Among Combat Medics, Courtney Benshoof
Religious Studies Theses
Combat medics’ personal identities can become indistinguishable from the professional responsibility they have to provide care to a particular group, as a result of the official training and unofficial acculturation they receive in the military. This constructs an intensified moral world in which medics live for a time and sets the stage for a specific kind of moral experience in combat, one grounded in a sense of personal responsibility for the physical well-being of their comrades. When combat medics are unable to fulfill their professional role, this can cause a distinct form of moral trauma, because they have also failed …
Healing Ptsd With Mindfulness: Exploring Mindfulness' Mechanism Of Change, Sara Klco
Healing Ptsd With Mindfulness: Exploring Mindfulness' Mechanism Of Change, Sara Klco
Counseling and Psychological Services Dissertations
Trauma has the capacity to produce a wide range of symptoms that have a damaging impact on psychological, biological, and social functioning (van der Kolk & McFarlane, 1996; Briere & Scott, 2013). Though several empirically-supported treatments for trauma exist and are used widely, the literature has identified concerns with some of the leading treatments, such as increased suicidality, panic attacks, alcoholic relapse (Pitman, et al., 1991), high nonresponse rates, and high dropout rates (Jeffreys, et al., 2013). Others have observed that cognitive-behavioral interventions, while often effective in decreasing specific PTSD symptoms, often do not address other common reactions to trauma …
Love On The Stage, War On The Page: Evaluating The Role Of War Trauma In How I Learned To Drive, Deborah Hull
Love On The Stage, War On The Page: Evaluating The Role Of War Trauma In How I Learned To Drive, Deborah Hull
English Theses
Psychological traumas surface in Paula Vogel’s portrayal of Li’l Bit and Uncle Peck in How I Learned to Drive (1997). Theorizing Peck’s fixation on Li’l Bit is necessitated by his drive to recapture his innocence—an innocence he lost as a young man during WWII—this thesis will seek to explain how Drive can be viewed as a love story by revealing the motivations behind Li’l Bit’s sympathy for Uncle Peck. Recognizing war trauma as the fundamental catalyst for both the action and the tone of the play situates Drive in a territory not yet explored. Furthermore, this thesis will explore the …
Life-Style, Coping Resources, And Trauma Symptoms: Predicting Posttraumatic Growth, Michael Leeman
Life-Style, Coping Resources, And Trauma Symptoms: Predicting Posttraumatic Growth, Michael Leeman
Counseling and Psychological Services Dissertations
Despite the negative psychological, emotional, relational, and physiological impact of traumatic events that often persist into adulthood (Breslau, Davis, Andreski, Peterson, 1991; Briere, 2004), some individuals may also experience posttraumatic growth (PTG) as they struggle to resolve their traumatic experiences. PTG is a process that originates from a cognitive response to cope with traumatic events, and an outcome that yields positive personal changes (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1998). Several factors are linked to the increased likelihood of PTG such as symptom severity, coping resources, and personality characteristics (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 2004). This study examined the contributory roles of life-style themes, coping …