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Obesity Prevention Among Latino Youth: School Counselors’ Role In Promoting Healthy Lifestyles, Amy Cook, Laura Hayden Jan 2012

Obesity Prevention Among Latino Youth: School Counselors’ Role In Promoting Healthy Lifestyles, Amy Cook, Laura Hayden

Counseling, School Psychology & Sport Faculty Publication Series

Given the burgeoning obesity problem among Latino youth and concomitant health problems (Spiotta & Luma, 2008), school counselors have begun to recognize the need for culturally sensitive programming to promote healthy lifestyles. More theoretical, evidence-based programs are needed, however, to ensure Latino youth receive appropriate interventions and services. This study provides a review of three theoretical perspectives and obesity prevention programs with recommendations to school counselors for implementing a comprehensive obesity prevention program for Latino youth.

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Mothers In Prison: Maintaining Connections With Children, Sylvia Mignon, Paige Ransford Jan 2012

Mothers In Prison: Maintaining Connections With Children, Sylvia Mignon, Paige Ransford

Publications from the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy

The significant increase in the number of incarcerated women ensures that many children must live without their mothers for some period of time. Women in prison were interviewed about their efforts to maintain relationships with their children. Mail and telephone contacts were more frequent than actual visits. Almost one half of mothers had never received a visit from their children. This article identifies challenges to the development and maintenance of contact between incarcerated mothers and their children. Recommendations are made for correctional agencies to enhance opportunities for incarcerated mothers to foster positive connections with their children.

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Empirically Supported Treatments Impact On Organizational Culture And Climate, David A. Patterson Silver Wolf (Adelv Unegv Waya) Phd, Catherine N. Dulmus Phd, Eugene Maguin Phd Jan 2012

Empirically Supported Treatments Impact On Organizational Culture And Climate, David A. Patterson Silver Wolf (Adelv Unegv Waya) Phd, Catherine N. Dulmus Phd, Eugene Maguin Phd

Brown School Faculty Publications

Objectives: With the continued push to implement empirically supported treatments (ESTs) into community based organizations, it is important to investigate whether working condition disruptions occur during this process. While there are many studies investigating best practices and how to adopt them, the literature lacks studies investigating the working conditions in programs that currently use ESTs. Methods: This study compared the culture and climate scores of a large organization’s programs that use ESTs and those programs indicating no EST usage. Results: Of the total 55 different programs (1,273 front-line workers), 27 programs used ESTs. Results indicate that the programs offering an …

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Poverty And Disability: A Vicious Circle? Evidence From Afghanistan And Zambia, Jean-Francois Trani, Mitchell M. Loeb Jan 2012

Poverty And Disability: A Vicious Circle? Evidence From Afghanistan And Zambia, Jean-Francois Trani, Mitchell M. Loeb

Brown School Faculty Publications

Disability and poverty have a complex and interdependent relationship. It is commonly understood that persons with disabilities are more likely to be poor and that poverty may contribute to sustaining disability. This interdependency is revealed not only through an examination of poverty in terms of income but also on a broader scale through other poverty related dimensions. Just how robust is this link? This paper compares data collected from household surveys in Afghanistan and Zambia, and explores the potential link between multidimensional poverty and disability. We find evidence of lower access to health care, education and labour market for people …

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Services For Adults With An Autism Spectrum Disorder, Paul T. Shattuck, Anne M. Roux, Laura E. Hudson, Julie L. Taylor, Matthew J. Maenner, Jean-Francois Trani Jan 2012

Services For Adults With An Autism Spectrum Disorder, Paul T. Shattuck, Anne M. Roux, Laura E. Hudson, Julie L. Taylor, Matthew J. Maenner, Jean-Francois Trani

Brown School Faculty Publications

Objective: The need for useful evidence about services is increasing as larger numbers of children identified with an autism spectrum disorder age toward adulthood. The objective of this review was to characterize the topical and methodological aspects of research on services for supporting success in work, education, and social participation among adults with an autism spectrum disorder and to propose recommendations for moving this area of research forward. Method: Review of literature published in English from 2000 to 2010.Results: We found that the evidence base about services for adults with an ASD is underdeveloped and can be considered a field …

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Measuring Equity In Disability And Healthcare Utilization In Afghanistan, Jean-Francois Trani, Cecile Barbou Des Rosieres Jan 2012

Measuring Equity In Disability And Healthcare Utilization In Afghanistan, Jean-Francois Trani, Cecile Barbou Des Rosieres

Brown School Faculty Publications

This paper analyses equity in health and healthcare utilization in Afghanistan based on a representative national household survey. Equitable access is a cornerstone of the Afghan health policy. We measured socioeconomic-related equity in access to public health care, using disability– because people with disabilities are poorer and more likely to use health care – and a concentration index (CI) and its decomposition. The socioeconomicrelated equity in healthcare utilization was measured using a probit model and compared with an OLS model providing the horizontal inequity index (HI). We found low rate of healthcare facilities utilization (25%). Disabled persons are using more …

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Target Population Involvement In Urban Ciclovias: A Preliminary Evaluation Of St. Louis Open Streets, J. Aaron Hipp, Amy A. Eyler, Jill Kuhlberg Jan 2012

Target Population Involvement In Urban Ciclovias: A Preliminary Evaluation Of St. Louis Open Streets, J. Aaron Hipp, Amy A. Eyler, Jill Kuhlberg

Brown School Faculty Publications

Ciclovias are active street events when roads are open to walkers, cyclists, and families and closed to automobiles. Over 70 cities in the USA have implemented ciclovias to promote physical activity. The authors evaluated four events during 2010 to determine what activities participants perform and who is attending. For two ciclovia events in St. Louis, Missouri, observation reports of activities, gender, and age of 1,452 participants were collected, and 82 adults were interviewed via direct approach. The survey covered six domains: physical activity, travel to event, sense of community, marketing, economic impact, and demographics. Each event occurred within the city, …

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Tobacco Prevention And Cessation Initiative 2011 Evaluation Report, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Nora Shields, Julianne Cyr, Caren Bacon Jan 2012

Tobacco Prevention And Cessation Initiative 2011 Evaluation Report, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Nora Shields, Julianne Cyr, Caren Bacon

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This report contextualizes Missouri’s tobacco control environment, summarizes the Tobacco prevention and Cessation Initiative (TPCI) evaluation findings for 2011, and provides highlights of the Initiative’s evaluation data to date (2005-2011).

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What Is It Worth? An Economic Evaluation Of The Mfh Tobacco Initiative, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Sarah Shelton, Dan Gentry, Stephanie Herbers Jan 2012

What Is It Worth? An Economic Evaluation Of The Mfh Tobacco Initiative, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Sarah Shelton, Dan Gentry, Stephanie Herbers

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This report presents results from the second economic evaluation of the Missouri Foundation for Health Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Initiative. The results of the economic evaluation for TPCI during the specified time period show a net positive benefit across the overall initiative, as well as for the Community Grants, Tobacco Policy Change, and Quitline Enhancement strategies individually.

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Innovative Funding Summary Report, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Nikole Lobb Dougherty Jan 2012

Innovative Funding Summary Report, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Nikole Lobb Dougherty

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This summary report for the Missouri Foundation for Health Healthy & Active Communities (H&AC) Initiative presents findings from the Innovative Funding strategy. The findings can be used to recognize strengths and challenges in implementing innovative strategies in obesity prevention and inform future funding decisions by the Foundation.

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St. Louis County Cppw Evaluation Final Report, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Sarah Moreland-Russell, Bobbi Carothers, Virginia Houmes Jan 2012

St. Louis County Cppw Evaluation Final Report, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Sarah Moreland-Russell, Bobbi Carothers, Virginia Houmes

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This report presents final evaluation results from the Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) Initiative, implemented from February 2010 through June 2012. The final results show CPPW partners implemented a number of activities to achieve the main objectives of the Initiative. In particular, advocacy and policy change, cessation, and media outreach were important areas of focus.

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Sustainability Assessment Report: Year 4, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Nikole Lobb Dougherty Jan 2012

Sustainability Assessment Report: Year 4, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Nikole Lobb Dougherty

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This report provides a summary of findings based on Healthy & Active Communities (H&AC) grantees’ responses to a sustainability assessment tool. This sustainability summary was prepared for Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) staff and Board of Directors to assess accomplishments and challenges in funding, training, and capacity-building activities for H&AC grantees. Results can help to inform the design of future funding opportunities and capacity-building activities in the future.

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"The Gift Of The Moment": Walter Benjamin And Comics History, Austin Lewis St Peter Jan 2012

"The Gift Of The Moment": Walter Benjamin And Comics History, Austin Lewis St Peter

Wayne State University Theses

This essay is a historiographical critique of the ways that the major historical narratives in the emerging field of Comics Studies are employed. I argue that scholars in the field utilize historical origin narratives and medium definitions with the intent to stake out a space of privilege for their privileged selections - thereby playing into a politics of legitimation. The major critic whose work I utilize to critique the major historical narratives of the medium, and ultimately the way that they are utilized, is the Frankfurt School critic Walter Benjamin. Not only do I employ Benjamin's work to interpret and …

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Cyberbullying And Suicide Among A Sample Of Lgbtq Young Adults, Heather Schwickrath Jan 2012

Cyberbullying And Suicide Among A Sample Of Lgbtq Young Adults, Heather Schwickrath

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

After an extensive literature review, results indicated research has been conducted examining the links between traditional bullying and suicide, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning (LGBTQ) identification and cyberbullying, as well as LGBTQ identification and suicide. However, it appears as though there is a dearth of studies examining the link between young adults identifying as LGBTQ who have experienced cyberbullying and the subsequent suicidal behaviors. The following research study attempts to answer the question of whether cyberbullying mediates the relationship between cyberbullying and suicidal behaviors.

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Department Of Education: Annual Report Fy 2012, Lehigh Valley Health Network Jan 2012

Department Of Education: Annual Report Fy 2012, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Department of Education

No abstract provided.

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Smiley Face Symbols: Students' Reactions As A Function Of A Professor's Request To Meet, Alyssa A. Radford Jan 2012

Smiley Face Symbols: Students' Reactions As A Function Of A Professor's Request To Meet, Alyssa A. Radford

Modern Psychological Studies

The college years are a period during which students transition from a parent-oriented environment to one in which they take greater responsibility for their personal and social development. Nonetheless, parents remain a lasting influence on children during these years. Attachment theorists have examined the degree to which attachment history with parents influences ones later interpersonal relationships and perceptions of others. For example, college students' attachment styles influence how they interpret a professor's request to meet (Perrine & King, 2004). The present research examined how securely and insecurely attached students differ in their reactions to a professor's written request to meet …

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Psychosocial Interventions For Adults Who Were Sexually Abused As Children (Protocol For A Cochrane Review), Jessica Shaffner Wilen, Julia H. Littell, Georgia Salanti Jan 2012

Psychosocial Interventions For Adults Who Were Sexually Abused As Children (Protocol For A Cochrane Review), Jessica Shaffner Wilen, Julia H. Littell, Georgia Salanti

Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Problems In Using Diagnosis In Child And Adolescent Mental Health Services Research, Leonard Bickman, Lynne G. Wighton, E. Warren Lambert, Marc Karver, Lindsey Steding Jan 2012

Problems In Using Diagnosis In Child And Adolescent Mental Health Services Research, Leonard Bickman, Lynne G. Wighton, E. Warren Lambert, Marc Karver, Lindsey Steding

Psychology Faculty Publications

This paper presents results from a three-part study on diagnosis of children with affective and behavior disorders. We examined the reliability, discriminant, and predictive validity of common diagnoses used in mental health services research using a research diagnostic interview. Results suggest four problems: a) some diagnoses demonstrate internal consistency only slightly better than symptoms chosen at random; b) diagnosis did not add appreciably to a brief global functioning screen in predicting service use; c) low inter-rater reliability among informants and clinicians for six of the most common diagnoses; and d) clinician diagnoses differed between sites in ways that reflect different …

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Honors And Awards Council Awards List, Faculty Senate Jan 2012

Honors And Awards Council Awards List, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Archives

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Parent Involvement Plan For Lincoln Elementary, Michelle Kaune Jan 2012

Parent Involvement Plan For Lincoln Elementary, Michelle Kaune

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

The purpose of this capstone project was to create a parent involvement plan for Lincoln Elementary using research based information. The information gathered during the literature review will be used to gain a better understanding of parent involvement along with evidence based strategies to improve parent involvement. This plan will then be used by the school to work to increase the amount of involvement parents during the 2012-13 school year. Creating a strategy to increase parent involvement has been identified as a need by the school. It is also part of the school’s Adequate Yearly Progress plan which was submitted …

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Implementation Of Evidence-Based Practices In Opioid Substance Abuse Treatment, Elizabeth V. Keck Jan 2012

Implementation Of Evidence-Based Practices In Opioid Substance Abuse Treatment, Elizabeth V. Keck

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

The purpose of this capstone project is to begin the implementation of evidence-based practices for opioid substance abuse population in the rural community of Owatonna, MN and the surrounding communities.

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Comparison Of Minnesota's Community-Based Jail Reentry Programs, Lori A. Sanborn Jan 2012

Comparison Of Minnesota's Community-Based Jail Reentry Programs, Lori A. Sanborn

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

The purpose of this capstone project is to begin to compare and analyze explicitly what services each community-based reentry program in Minnesota provides. Through a presentation of the data collected and in a written report, the key findings of the project were presented to the CARE Program’s Coordinator and the Director of the South Central Human Relations Center of current practices throughout Minnesota in order to improve staff efficiency and increase the success rate of client outcomes.

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Evaluation Of The Best Program, Rana Wehner Jan 2012

Evaluation Of The Best Program, Rana Wehner

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

The purpose of this project was to analyze the effectiveness of the BEST program. Parents/caregivers of youth involved in the BEST program were surveyed to evaluate to what extent the BEST program is achieving their goals. It was hypothesized that participation in the BEST program would result in positive family outcomes, as defined by – needs being met, increased family empowerment, and improved access to resources.

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Child Welfare Cases Involving Mental Illness: Reflections On The Role And Responsibilities Of The Lawyer-Guardian Ad Litem, Frank E. Vandervort Jan 2012

Child Welfare Cases Involving Mental Illness: Reflections On The Role And Responsibilities Of The Lawyer-Guardian Ad Litem, Frank E. Vandervort

Articles

Child welfare cases involving mental illness suffered either by a child or his parent can be among the most difficult and perplexing that a child’s lawyerguardian ad litem (L-GAL) will handle. They may present daunting problems of accessing necessary and appropriate services as well as questions about whether and when such mental health problems can be resolved or how best to manage them. They also require the L-GAL to carefully consider crucially important questions—rarely with all the information one would like to have and too often with information that comes late in the case, is fragmented or glaringly incomplete. This …

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Building Resilience In Foster Children: The Role Of The Child's Advocate, Frank E. Vandervort, James Henry, Mark A. Sloane Jan 2012

Building Resilience In Foster Children: The Role Of The Child's Advocate, Frank E. Vandervort, James Henry, Mark A. Sloane

Articles

This Article provides an introduction to, and brief overview of trauma, its impact upon foster children, and steps children's advocates" can take to lessen or ameliorate the impact of trauma upon their clients. This Article begins in Part 11 by defining relevant terms. Part III addresses the prevalence of trauma among children entering the child welfare system. Part IV considers the neurodevelopmental (i.e., the developing brain) impact of trauma on children and will explore how that trauma may manifest emotionally and behaviorally. With this foundation in place, Part V discusses the need for a comprehensive trauma assessment including a thorough …

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Toward Explaining The Transformative Power Of Talk About, Around, And For Writing, Beth Godbee Jan 2012

Toward Explaining The Transformative Power Of Talk About, Around, And For Writing, Beth Godbee

English Faculty Research and Publications

This article provides an initial approach for capturing moments of talk about, around, and for writing to explain why writing groups and writing conferences are so often considered “transformative” for the people involved. After describing the widespread and yet disparate transformations so often attributed to collaborative writing talk, I introduce applied conversation analysis (CA) as a method for getting at what is often difficult to identify, document, and explain: the intricacies of moments that underlie, if not directly account for, transformations. At the core of this article, I present a case study of a writer, Susan, and tutor, Kim, and …

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Good Teaching? An Examination Of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy As An Equity Practice, Mardi Schmeichel Jan 2012

Good Teaching? An Examination Of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy As An Equity Practice, Mardi Schmeichel

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

The adoption of educational policy measures to close the achievement gap, as well as the significant amount of scholarship dedicated to the subject, are just some of the indicators that reflect the tremendous concern in education about the academic performance of students of color. Within research aimed at promoting equitable practices in education, culturally relevant teaching has emerged as a good teaching strategy to improve achievement. Using genealogical methods to examine the ways in which culture has become relevant to classroom practice, the author argues that the perceived difference from white students that made it possible to conceive of children …

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Annual Report On Research Activities 2011-2012, Lingnan University (Hong Kong, China) Jan 2012

Annual Report On Research Activities 2011-2012, Lingnan University (Hong Kong, China)

Annual Report on Research Activities to Research Grants Council

No abstract provided.

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Annual Report Ay 2011-12, Center For Innovative Pedagogy Jan 2012

Annual Report Ay 2011-12, Center For Innovative Pedagogy

Annual Reports and Newsletters

No abstract provided.

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Reclaiming Demographics: Women, Poverty, And The Common Interest In Particular Struggles, Ezra Rosser Jan 2012

Reclaiming Demographics: Women, Poverty, And The Common Interest In Particular Struggles, Ezra Rosser

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Invited Symposium Introduction for Jan. 2012 AALS Poverty Section Panel.

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