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Family Emotional Literacy: A Critical Education Curriculum For Mental Health Promotion, Anna L. Dinallo
Family Emotional Literacy: A Critical Education Curriculum For Mental Health Promotion, Anna L. Dinallo
Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs
This narrative study documents the experiences of seven Latina community educators through focus groups, interviews, and artifact data. Given the stigma of mental health (Bayer, 2005), a lack of culturally centered emotional curriculums (Boler, 1997; Boler & Zembylas, 2003) which are removed from structural oppression (Collins, 2002,1989; Crenshaw, 1991, 1993; hooks, 2014), educators, parents, and communities are in need of mental health promotion tools. According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA, 2015), approximately 70 million Americans annually are diagnosed with mental health issues that disable daily functioning. More relevant to the study population was the loss of three middle school-aged …
The Role Of Perceived Stress In The Relationship Between Purpose In Life And Mental Health., Anne Guzman
The Role Of Perceived Stress In The Relationship Between Purpose In Life And Mental Health., Anne Guzman
Psychology ETDs
Although purpose in life (PIL) has been consistently related to better mental health, there is little understanding of whether that may be explained by reducing appraisal of or reactivity to stress. The sample consisted of 546 undergraduate students who completed measures of PIL, perceived stress, and measures of both positive mental health (positive affect, life satisfaction) and negative mental health (negative affect, anxiety, depression). The hypotheses were that PIL would (1) be related to more positive and less negative mental health and (2) be related to less perceived stress, and (3) reduce the effects of perceived stress in increasing negative …