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Burnout In Psychiatric Nursing: Examining The Interplay Of Autonomy, Leadership Style, And Depressive Symptoms, Renee Madathil, Nicholas C. Heck, David Schuldberg

Psychology Faculty Research and Publications

It is important to consider ways in which nurses can be protected from experiencing the effects of burnout. This study examined the relationships between leadership style of psychiatric nurse supervisors, work role autonomy, and psychological distress in relation to psychiatric nurse burnout. Eighty-nine psychiatric nurses from Montana and New York hospitals completed an online survey that assessed their work-related experiences. Overall, results of this study indicate that the participants were experiencing high levels of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization when compared to a normative sample of mental health workers. Results also showed that leadership style and work role autonomy are likely …

Making Youth Matter: Exclusion And Its Impact On The School Lives Of African-American Students, Celeste L. Hawkins

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This qualitative dissertation study explored how exclusion and marginalization in schools impact the lives of low-income African-American students. The study focused on the perspectives of youth attending both middle and high schools in Michigan, and investigated how students who have experienced forms of exclusion in their K–12 schooling viewed their educational experiences. In addition to the voices of youth, the perspectives of parents, social workers, and coaches were presented and analyzed. Key themes that emerged from the study were lack of care, lack of belonging, disrupted education, debilitating discipline, the need for language diversity, and persistence and resilience. These themes …

Class Notes, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

No abstract provided.

A New Blended Course Architecture For The Modern University, Jay M. Lightfoot

Communications of the IIMA

University-level instructors work in an environment where new technology-based teaching tools are created daily. Most instructors are not formally trained in these technologies, so they must determine by trial-and-error which tools are effective. This paper describes a research project that develops a new blended course architecture that combines the best traditional and online tools. The architecture was implemented into two classes and students were surveyed. The results of the survey show that 87.7% of the students perceive the new architecture to be effective. Further, key components in the design are shown to be very useful individually and in combination.

Sexual And Reproductive Health Disparities In A National Sample Of Hispanic And Non-Hispanic White U.S. College Students, Eric R. Buhi, Stephanie L. Marhefka, Christopher W. Wheldon, David L. Tilley, Natalie Klinkenberger, Celia Lescano, Mary T. Hoban

Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice

Hispanic students are the fastest growing minority population on U.S. college campuses. The purpose of this study was to examine differences in the sexual and reproductive health behaviors and outcomes between Hispanic and non-Hispanic White college students. Analyses utilized data from 15,518 non-married undergraduates (aged 18-24 years) responding to the Fall 2009 American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment II, a national sample of U.S. college students. Binary logistic regression analyses were used to examine disparities in sexual and reproductive health behaviors and outcomes, including sexual behavior, contraceptive and condom use, HIV testing, and STD and unintended pregnancy history, between …

To Test Or Not To Test: Barriers And Solutions To Testing African American College Students For Hiv At A Historically Black College/University, Naomi M. Hall-Byers, Jennifer Peterson, Malynnda Johnson

Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice

Young African Americans are disproportionately affected by sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. The purpose was to identify reasons that African American college students at a historically Black college/university (HBCU) identified as barriers to HIV testing, and how these barriers can be removed. Fifty-seven heterosexual-identified undergraduate students (ages 18-25) attending an HBCU in the southeastern US participated in the study. Latent content analytic techniques were used to code the transcripts for themes and categories, and representative quotations were used in the findings. Qualitative data indicates three main themes used to avoid testing and three themes to encourage testing. Students were forthcoming …

May 29, 2014 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

Ay 13-14 Meeting 2014-05-29, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Faculty Retirement Recognition Dinner 2014, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

Faculty Retirement Recognition Dinner Program

May 29, 2014

Honored Guests:

• Larry Ahleman
• Robert Balik
• Nora Berrah
• Dwayne Channell
• J. Gregory Fitzgerald
• David Guth
• Dean Halderson
• Eva Jerome
• Stephen Jones
• Peter Judd
• Peter Krawutschke
• Leonard Lamberson
• Albert LaVergne
• Gary Lawson
• Ronald Miller
• Dasha Nisula
• Donna Ring
• Nancy Schullery
• Gerald Sievers
• Robert Spradling
• Leo Stevenson
• Karen Thomas
• Donald Thompson
• Neal Turner
• Charles Warfield

Improving The Spiritual Dimension Of Whole Person Care: Reaching National And International Consensus, Christina M. Puchalski, Robert Vitillo, Sharon K. Hull, Nancy Reller

Medicine Faculty Publications

Two conferences, Creating More Compassionate Systems of Care (November 2012) and On Improving the Spiritual Dimension of Whole Person Care: The Transformational Role of Compassion, Love and Forgiveness in Health Care (January 2013), were convened with the goals of reaching consensus on approaches to the integration of spirituality into health care structures at all levels and development of strategies to create more compassionate systems of care. The conferences built on the work of a 2009 consensus conference, Improving the Quality of Spiritual Care as a Dimension of Palliative Care. Conference organizers in 2012 and 2013 aimed to identify consensus-derived care …

Basic Human Health And Sustainable Community Development: A Case Study Of A Community In Monte Plata, Dominican Republic, Rachelle H. Arnoux

Capstone Collection

One of my objectives in conducting this research is to enhance my skills in data collection while simultaneously improving my writing skills. More substantively, I wanted to explore how access to healthcare in a developing country like the Dominican Republic can contribute to sustainable development. As good health is fundamental and vital for all human beings, it is important in the context of this study to understand how the healthcare system in a particular country gives the population access to quality healthcare. Referring myself specifically to the situation at Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) Dominicana medical center in the Dominican Republic …

A Lost Generation, Christopher R. Fee

English Faculty Publications

America is in immediate danger of throwing away a vast number of our young people; these are kids who have fallen through the gaping holes in our social services net and have landed on our streets. They roam this country by the thousands in search of simple necessities such as food and a warm place to sleep, often trading their bodies in exchange for the most basic of human rights. In the words of Michael Stoops, Director of Community Organizing at the National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington, DC, "there is a dire need for more shelter beds for …

Integrating Addiction Treatment Into Primary Care Using Mobile Health Technology: Protocol For An Implementation Research Study, Andrew R. Quanbeck, David H. Gustafson, Lisa A. Marsch, Fiona Mctavish

Dartmouth Scholarship

Healthcare reform in the United States is encouraging Federally Qualified Health Centers and other primary-care practices to integrate treatment for addiction and other behavioral health conditions into their practices. The potential of mobile health technologies to manage addiction and comorbidities such as HIV in these settings is substantial but largely untested. This paper describes a protocol to evaluate the implementation of an E-Health integrated communication technology delivered via mobile phones, called Seva, into primary-care settings. Seva is an evidence-based system of addiction treatment and recovery support for patients and real-time caseload monitoring for clinicians.

Easterner, Vol. 65, No. 29, May 28, 2014, Associated Students Of Eastern Washington University

Student Newspapers

This issue of the Easterner contains articles about candidates for University president, diversity week, senior track and field athlete Zack Nielsen, the Books2Eat event in the library, the tuition to freeze tuition for another year, a student visual design exhibit, the Sasquatch! music concert, the experience of international students, the EWU World Cup, the performance by track and field athletes at the Big Sky Championships, and basketball player Bogdan Bliznyuk.

Emu Today, May 28, 2014, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

No abstract provided.

Romanian Children’S Representations Of Negative And Self-Conscious Emotions In A Narrative Story Stem Technique, Loredana Apavaloaie, Timothy Page, Loren D. Marks

Faculty Publications

This research uses children’s story-stem play narratives to investigate dimensions of negative emotional expression. Fifty-one Romanian children between 6 and 11-years old participated in the study. Children’s narratives were coded for three basic negative emotions and five self-conscious emotions. Parents completed a general questionnaire for demographic data and the amount of time they spent with their children. Differences were found for frequencies of negative emotional representations in relation to the specific story-stems in which they occurred. Girls were more likely than boys to enact in their narratives guilt feelings coupled with apology following some wrongdoing. Children who spent more time …

2014 Commencement Exercises, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Commencement

Order of Exercises

Processional:

Herbert C. Dobrinsky, Vice President for University Affairs, Yeshiva University; Herald

Presiding:

Morton Lowengrub, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Yeshiva University; Chief Marshal

Richard M. Joel, President and Bravmann Family University Professor, Yeshiva University

National Anthem:

Cantor Ira W. Heller, Class of 2008

Invocation:

Rabbi Ozer Glickman, Adjunct Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Welcome:

Robert L. Perkal, Cardozo Board of Overseers, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; Class of 1981

Remarks:

Matthew Diller, Dean, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Commencement Address:

Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District …

The Power To Envision Change: Art As Environmental Activism, Sonja Raven Favaloro

Standard Theses

How do visual and narrative-based approaches to communicating environmental messages inspire action and further awareness? This thesis investigates three artists whose work tells environmental stories in various ways: activists from the Beehive Design Collective, photographer Chris Jordan, and activist/performer Marc Bamuthi Joseph. These artists produce challenging, engaging, emotionally vital art that allows urgent environmental messages to sink in to peoples’ minds and hearts in a different way than scientific information. At this time when our planet is in ever-increasing environmental danger and the need for action becomes ever greater, how we perceive our relation to the issues facing us will …

Long-Term Impacts And Outcomes: Sit Study Abroad, Marianne Mcgarrity

Capstone Collection

This capstone reports on the results of the SIT Study Abroad Long-Term Impacts and Outcomes survey, a research project designed to investigate how alumni would self-report impacts of their study abroad experience with regard to academic, personal, and professional outcomes. The principal question the study sought to answer was “How and to what extent do SIT Study Abroad programs impact alumni in the long term?” This paper focuses largely on the career outcomes of the alumni who participated in this research. A large percentage of SIT Study Abroad alumni report that impacts to their career choices were significant and that …

Looking Through A Different Window: Chronic Disease Management In Public Health. Application Of Symbolic Interactionism And Institutional Ethnography, Yuliya Knyahnytska

The Qualitative Report

Chronic diseases are defined as illnesses that are prolonged, do not resolve spontaneously and are rarely cured. They constitute 46% of the global burden of diseases and are responsible for 59% of deaths in Canada, tallying billions of dollars in annual medical expenditures. Regardless of the variety of available treatments, a vast majority of patients with chronic conditions report they do not receive the care they need or expect. The efficacy of chronic disease management (CDM) has been proven effective for the general population; the focus of this paper, however, is around populations who are less responsive to mainstream behaviour …

Between "Chicken Worm" And "Sunken Boat" : Bounded Masculinity In The Chinese Sex Industry = 在「雞蟲」與「沉船」之間 : 華人性工業中的玩界男性化特質, Travis S. K. Kong

《新自由主義下的新道德》研討會 NEO-MORALISM UNDER NEOLIBERALISM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Drawn from 24 in-depth interviews and 2 focus group discussions conducted since 2012 with Hong Kong men who buy sex (‘male clients’) in the Chinese sex industry, this paper discusses men’s involvement with commercial sex in relation to their male identity.

A few types of client masculinity have been identified: ‘Chicken worm’ (or McSex masculinity) refers to those men who are proud of paying for rather impersonal sex with as many women as they wish whilst ‘sunken boat’ (or Titanic masculinity) refers to those men who passionately seek intense emotional intimacy with sex workers. Between these two opposing types, ‘bounded’ …

慢性病的檢疫隔離與與道德重整 : 醫療治理、治療公民權與台灣愛滋列管產業 = Hiv Care As Moral Quarantine : Medical Governance, Therapeutic Citizenship And The Making Of The Aids Surveillance Industry In Taiwan, Tao Ming, Hans Huang

《新自由主義下的新道德》研討會 NEO-MORALISM UNDER NEOLIBERALISM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

One defining character of HIV care in Taiwan is that it’s built as an integral part of the punitive regime of HIV control, a regime buttressed by stigmatizing public health measures such as name-based reporting, quarterly tracking, mandatory testing, and above all, criminalization of HIV transmission. Within this context, transnational technologies of care and prevention have come to be assembled in specific ways. Notably, a new apparatus of the hospital-based HIV case management program was installed in 2005 as the state’s attempt to tighten its control over the drug-using HIV population. With its increasing link to the burgeoning local AIDS …

44th Chicano Commencement, 2014, San Jose State University, Associated Students

Chicano Commencement

44th Annual Chicano Commencement

"Edúcate para vivir. Vive para educar. = Learn to live. Live to learn." The 44th Annual Chicano Commencement was held at the SJSU Event Center on Sunday, May 25, 2014.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, May 25, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2014

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, May 25, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2014

No abstract provided.

The Hizmet Movement Of Canada’S Limitations And Weaknesses For A Healthy Dialogue, Faruk Arslan

Consensus

No abstract provided.

Want To Honor Vets This Memorial Day? Help End Veterans' Homelessness, Christopher R. Fee

English Faculty Publications

Memorial Day is a day for remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.

As we gather around the grill with loved ones, let's also remember veterans who survived their term of service only to find themselves without a place of their own to celebrate holidays.

When I first began grappling with homelessness in my local community years ago, Dave, then the director of the local homeless shelter in our small town, told me a story which illustrates some of the special circumstances faced by homeless veterans in America. [excerpt]

Foreword, Gordon A. Jensen

Consensus

No abstract provided.

香港助人工作者及教師對同性戀及自殘行為之觀點 = Perspectives Of Same-Sex Sexualities And Self-Harm Among Service Providers And Teachers In Hong Kong, Tse Shang, Denise Tang

《新自由主義下的新道德》研討會 NEO-MORALISM UNDER NEOLIBERALISM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

本研究旨在探討服務於香港中學，服務對象涉及華人女同志及男同志青少年的助人工作者之觀點；並勾勒出同性情慾、宗教、教育以及自殘行為之間的關係。本研究中的助人工作者，包括中學教師、服務於校內或校外之社工人員、服務於同志相關的非政府組織之女同志／跨性別社會運動人士。藉由研究學校對同性戀的接納包容程度，本研究旨在對香港青少年議題提供進一步的理解，並突顯蓄意的自我傷害行為與身為女同志、男同志及雙性戀者之間的關聯。採用質性研究取向，本項民族誌研究針對助人工作者前後共進行16次深入訪談，田野工作部份則是採取廣泛的參與觀察。研究發現部份涵蓋四大主題：在校談性／性慾特質（sexualities）之阻礙；個人的勉強意願與宗教之關聯；身為同性戀者容易有自殘傾向；對於自殘行為與女同志、男同志、雙性戀青少年之相似觀點。

This research study investigates the perspectives of service providers in working with Chinese lesbian and gay youth in Hong Kong secondary schools, and maps the relations between same-sex sexualities, religion, education, and self-harm. Service providers included secondary school teachers, social workers based on- and off-school sites, and lesbian/transgender activists working in non-government organizations serving lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. By studying the level of acceptance and tolerance of same-sex sexualities in schools, this study aims to provide further understanding into Hong Kong youth issues and to highlight the connections between deliberate self-harm behaviour and being a lesbian, gay, …

Commencement 2014, Taylor University

Commencement

The program of the 2014 Annual Commencement of Taylor University, May 24, 2014.