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Affecting Social Change For Transgender And Gender-Expansive Children: Exploring Advocates' Perspectives, Cortny Stark
Affecting Social Change For Transgender And Gender-Expansive Children: Exploring Advocates' Perspectives, Cortny Stark
Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs
This interpretive case study explored the experience of advocates as they pursue social change for transgender and gender-expansive children (ages 4-12). The aim of the study is to improve current understanding of the process of advocacy for this population, as well as the context in which advocacy efforts occur. Data consisted of hour long interviews, advocacy artifacts as recommended by participants, and the researcher’s field journal. Participants included 12 advocates from a variety of backgrounds and geographic locations within the United States, to include educators, community advocates, and helping professionals. Implications of this study may include increased understanding of the …
Experiences Of Western Clinical Practice And Traditional Mexican American Healing When The Provider Is The Same Person, Helen Marie Tafoya
Experiences Of Western Clinical Practice And Traditional Mexican American Healing When The Provider Is The Same Person, Helen Marie Tafoya
Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs
EXPERIENCES OF WESTERN CLINICAL PRACTICE AND TRADITIONAL MEXICAN AMERICAN HEALING WHEN THE PROVIDER IS THE SAME PERSON
By
Helen Marie Tafoya
B.A. Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1991
M. A. Clinical Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, 1995
Ph.D., Counselor Education, University of New Mexico, 2018
ABSTRACT
In counseling ethics and standards, there is a call to integrate practices and for practitioners to become more aware of other cultures and traditions (Sue, Arrendondo, & McDavis, 1992; Ratts, Singh, Butler, Nassar-McMillan, & McCullough, 2015). Very little research exists that addresses when the Western mental health practitioner and the traditional healer are …