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Using A Creative Intervention To Increase Self-Disclosure Among Mandated Juveniles With Co-Occurring Disorders, Faith Drew, George W. Bitar, Robert Gee, Chad Graff, Paul R. Springer
Using A Creative Intervention To Increase Self-Disclosure Among Mandated Juveniles With Co-Occurring Disorders, Faith Drew, George W. Bitar, Robert Gee, Chad Graff, Paul R. Springer
Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families, and Schools: Faculty Publications
Counselors providing treatment within the juvenile justice system encounter numerous challenges that are inherent in working with this population. One of the challenges includes providing treatment to adolescents who are entering the juvenile justice system with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Given the challenges, creative interventions that enhance client motivation and the therapeutic relationship are especially needed. The purpose of this article is to propose a creative intervention that may enhance the therapeutic relationship, increase client investment in treatment. and facilitate client self-disclosure. A case illustration will be used to illustrate the intervention.
African Centered Schooling: Facilitating Holistic Excellence For Black Children, Tonia Renee Durden
African Centered Schooling: Facilitating Holistic Excellence For Black Children, Tonia Renee Durden
Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families, and Schools: Faculty Publications
During the early 1970s, scholars, parents, and educators began a campaign for schooling experiences that were culturally affirming for Black children. This community of concerned individuals vested their energy and support in schools that subscribed to a worldview and ideology of education that focused on enriching the holistic development of children. The product of these efforts is known as the African centered school movement. To capture how African centered schooling has striven to awaken and invoke the natural genius of Black students, I focus my discussion on the history as well as the ideology and pedagogy of the African centered …
Teacher Education, Motivation, Compensation, Workplace Support, And Links To Quality Of Center-Based Child Care And Teachers’ Intention To Stay In The Early Childhood Profession, Julia C. Torquati, Helen Raikes, Catherine Huddleston-Casas
Teacher Education, Motivation, Compensation, Workplace Support, And Links To Quality Of Center-Based Child Care And Teachers’ Intention To Stay In The Early Childhood Profession, Julia C. Torquati, Helen Raikes, Catherine Huddleston-Casas
Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families, and Schools: Faculty Publications
The purposes of this study were to present a conceptual model for selection into the early childhood profession and to test the model using contemporaneous assessments. A stratified random sample of center-based child care providers in 4 Midwestern states (n = 964) participated in a telephone interview, and 223 were also assessed with the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale—Revised or the Infant–Toddler Environment Rating Scale to rate global observed quality, and the Caregiver Interaction Scale to rate interactional quality. When the model was tested with infant–toddler and preschool teachers combined, having a Child Development Associate (CDA) predicted global observed quality, …