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The Daily Gamecock, September 2024, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

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Schooling And Evidence-Based Interventions For Adolescents And Young Girls In The Sahel, Mame Soukeye Mbaye, Miriam Temin, Sharon Nashipae

Adolescents and Young People

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Review: Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, And Digital Archives, Blynne Olivieri Parker

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Review: Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives. Edited by Gesa E. Kirsch, Romeo Garcia, Caitlin Burns Allen, and Walker P. Smith (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2023), 338 pp. Reviewed by Blynne Olivieri Parker.

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The Decoloniality Of Feeling: On Sandovalian Praxis, Ceremony, And Emancipatory Politics In The Classroom And Beyond, Kristian E. Vasquez

Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal

"The Decoloniality of Feeling: On Sandovalian Praxis, Ceremony, and Emancipatory Politics in the Classroom and Beyond" by Kristan E. Vásquez.

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Fatphobia In Ballet: The Impact Of Organizational Practices On Body Size And Mental Health In American Ballet Companies, Ashley Chenery

Proceedings of the New York State Communication Association

In American ballet companies, female dancers’ weights factor into decisions regarding hiring, casting, and promotions. However, female dancers are now using social media to speak out against fatphobic organizational practices. This paper analyzes personal accounts of size discrimination posted to Instagram and YouTube by high-profile veteran ballerinas of New York City Ballet. It also includes interviews with professional Gen Z ballerinas (in companies spanning the US), who discuss current fatphobic practices in companies and schools. Utilizing qualitative coding, this paper seeks to disarticulate thinness from artistry and to urge mental health as a priority in American ballet.

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Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal

This is the full issue of Regeneracion: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal.

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The Body, Mind, And Trauma: A Case For Trauma-Sensitive Somatic Mindfulness, April T. Neufeld

Mindfulness Studies Theses

This thesis comprises a rationale paper and a creative project advocating for an integrated approach to mindfulness for trauma survivors that prioritizes trauma sensitivity and body-oriented somatic practices. It is important because trauma is a pervasive social issue with profound psychophysiological impacts on survivors, and current mindfulness offerings often fail to adequately address their needs, causing confusion or possibly re-traumatization. The literature indicates somatic and mindfulness-based interventions show promise for trauma recovery; however, research is limited. The findings reveal gaps between trauma-informed care and mindfulness-based approaches due to inconsistent application of trauma-sensitive techniques, a disconnect between somatic and mindfulness-based approaches …

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Análisis Del Canon De Belleza Femenina Y Su Manipulación Digital En La Publicidad De Perfumes, Ana M. Muñoz Muñoz, María Del Mar Martínez-Oña

Artículos científicos

La belleza femenina es un fenómeno cultural de la sociedad, donde el canon de belleza reproducido en la publicidad convierte a las mujeres en un producto más del mercado de consumo. En la actualidad, la belleza femenina se rediseña por programas de retoque fotográfico o por filtros digitales de aplicaciones móviles que manipulan las imágenes femeninas, creando mujeres irreales. Este artículo pretende identificar como se consigue el modelo femenino de belleza difundido en la sociedad a través de la publicidad. Para ello, se aplicó un método iconográfico y comparativo a través del programa Adobe Photoshop, se seleccionaron 100 anuncios de …

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Collaborating For Social Change: Promising Practices For Effective Youth-Adult Partnerships, Michael Kokozos, Maru Gonzalez

The Journal of Extension

Youth-adult partnerships are a powerful means to nurture and amplify youths' voices and create social change. Drawing on our own framework, critical positive youth development, and our experience pilot testing the #PassTheMicYouth curriculum, we identified four promising practices to cultivate youth-adult partnerships. 4-H professionals can use these strategies with youths to prepare them to partner with community-based organizations and to maintain enduring and effective relationships.

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Animation As Therapy For Mental Health Treatment Across Diverse Populations And Contexts, A Literature Review, Daneile Tabana

Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses

Scientific research has explored and identified the beneficial relationship between health and creative expression, recognizing art therapy as a source of healing. Animation has been newly recognized as an art therapy medium with potential for therapeutic healing and increased psychological well-being. This review of the literature on animation therapy explores the history of the modality’s interaction with the population observed and the effects of animation on the cognitive processes, discusses current theoretical orientations and treatment options for treating a range of conditions that affect mood, thinking, and behavior with animation therapy, and considers culturally informed and client-centered practices alongside traditional …

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Community Project: Dominican Palo Dance, A Non-Pathological Intervention To Enhance Youth Therapeutic Engagement In Community Based Healing, Johanny Maria Castillo

Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses

Palo Dance is a Dominican folkloric, cultural, spiritual, and community dance, an essential piece of Dominican roots and their ancestral healing practices. Dominican Palo Dance healing qualities include a variety of Indigenous and diasporic approaches including chanting, rituals, and community healing. These methods not only have healing properties but also reflect deeply rooted cultural practices designed for holistic well-being. The research is grounded in my experiences growing up in Los Guaricanos de Villa Mella, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, a marginalized yet culturally rich community. Through participation in youth spiritual groups, community dances, and events, I developed a profound appreciation for …

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Monologue Writing And Psychodramatic Techniques With Adolescents Experiencing Suicidality, Justine Rea

Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses

The United States continues to face an ongoing youth mental health epidemic among children and adolescents, coinciding with an increase of suicidal behaviors among this developmental age group. Accessibility to culturally competent mental health support, addressing social barriers, and an increase in research to identify and respond to youth mental health needs are among recommendations provided by the Surgeon General. Currently, there is limited clarity on standards and best practices for treating suicidality across mental health sectors. As such, it’s necessary to explore additional means of support for adolescents experiencing suicidality within the individual therapy model. Thwarted belonging and sense …

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Dance/Movement Therapy: A Remedy For Burnout In Behavioral Health Professionals, Chelsie Greene

Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses

This literature review takes a personal approach by identifying challenges as I grew in my clinical skills through education and internship. I will present burnout issues within the behavioral health professional field while intersecting with dance/movement therapy (DMT) as I experienced and witnessed it. In addition, DMT is proposed and supported as a useful tool to increase protective factors that prevent burnout.

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Empowering Children With Music Therapy: Trauma Narrative Songwriting, Deborah Hudson

Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses

This capstone thesis explored trauma narrative songwriting as a music therapy intervention for children with trauma. The literature reviewed sought to understand how music therapy helps children with trauma regulate their emotions, process heightened emotional states, practice social skills, build self-esteem, and support identity development. After reviewing the literature, the researcher noted a lack of research in using trauma narrative songwriting to foster feelings of empowerment in children. This capstone thesis explored if trauma narrative songwriting could expand expression and foster feelings of empowerment for 2 able-bodied, cisgendered African American children with a trauma history in an elementary school setting. …

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Prescribed Child Abuse? Using The Americans With Disabilities Act To Deconstruct Discrimination Against Medication For Opioid Use Disorder In Child Abuse & Neglect Proceedings, Makenzie Stuard

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

The opioid crisis has disrupted parent-child relationships across the United States. While states actively seek to remove children from households with current drug use in order to protect the children, state entities often fail to protect the parent-child relationship itself by imposing counterproductive policies and stereotypes on parents who are in treatment for their drug use, which makes maintaining "recovery" and parental rights an uphill battle. This note argues that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) provides a novel path to root out discrimination in child abuse and neglect proceedings against parents who either take prescribed buprenorphine or are interested …

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Welcome To Texas: Home Of The Most Extreme Abortion Ban In The United States, Generating Vast Child Welfare Disparities, Bailey Harvey

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

This comment uncovers the harsh trickling effects of overturning Roe v. Wade through focusing on the statistical nexus between the Texas’ foster care system, the victims of system cycling, and the criminal justice system. We are witnesses to watching the Court in 1973 from first balancing State’s interest and women’s fundamental rights to having the subject be a topic of the political battlefield.

Examining precedent and the reasoning behind the United States Supreme Court’s decision is a science, and the statistics continue to prove Texas’ child welfare systems are failing the children of America. Juvenile delinquency directly correlates with low …

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