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Diabetes Training Camp: A Brief Intervention To Improve Self-Management And Physical Activity In Adults With Type 1 Diabetes, David Charny

PCOM Psychology Dissertations

Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) is less common than Type 2 Diabetes (T2D); however, its growing incidence, chronic prognosis, and increased self-management burden, produce unique psychosocial challenges for this population. Specifically, these individuals are atrisk for poor diabetes self-efficacy, and poor glycemic control, which can contribute to diabetes-specific mood alterations, or diabetes distress (DD), and an overall reduction in diabetes-specific health-related quality of life. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Diabetes Training Camp (DTC) 1-week intervention in mitigating psychosocial distress utilizing a repeated measures design to evaluate the impact of participation on measures of DD, diabetes quality of life (DQOL) …

Predictors Of Utilization Of Care In A Community Outpatient Mental Health Sample, Matthew F. Bloom

PCOM Psychology Dissertations

The term superutilizer is used to classify individuals who frequent emergency departments and inpatient medical settings for preventable reasons. The exact criteria for this term are unclear, and there is dearth of literature on how it applies to the outpatient medical setting and to mental health utilization. The purpose of this study was to identify potential client demographic and clinical variables predictive of the utilization of mental health services/resources, as measured by number of sessions attended over the course of treatment in an outpatient mental health setting. It was hypothesized there would be a predictive relationship between being female, younger, …

Pediatric Health Care Providers’ Perceptions And Knowledge Of Caregiving Youth, Brianna Bliss

PCOM Psychology Dissertations

Many young people younger than the age of 18 years are involved in providing care to family members who are unable to manage their own medical, physical, or mental illnesses. Youth caregivers are an understudied population in the United States. The small yet growing research base has illustrated the relationship between the caregiving role, academic performance, and an individual’s social and psychological well-being. Medical settings are uniquely positioned to identify caregiving youth and provide supportive resources. A survey was created and administered to pediatric health care providers who offered medical and psychosocial support to children and adolescents. Providers were recruited …

Prebiotic Inulin-Type Fructans As A Potential Therapy On Functional Recovery In Juvenile Rats Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Nicholas Sanislo

Research Papers

No abstract provided.

If You're Reading This, Release The Tension In Your Shoulders: A Study Of Progressive Muscle Relaxation And Anxiety Relief For Injury Prevention In Athletes, Lindsey Honkomp

Research Papers

The goal of this paper was to examine the impact of progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) training in practice and athletic training sessions. PMR training as a way of decreasing anxiety and increasing readiness to play was examined in a sample of female collegiate soccer players. The specific hypothesis examined was that athletes who participated in long-term PMR training would report lower levels of cognitive and somatic anxiety and increased readiness to play compared to the control group. Participants were assessed on readiness to play and both cognitive/somatic anxiety using surveys previously found to determine these states of being. The surveys …

A Review Of Huperzine A Effects On Concussive Brain Injuries, Denver Luebbers

Research Papers

No abstract provided.

Bold Signal Variability Patterns In Neural Correlates Of Reflection And Brooding Components Of Rumination, Katie Leutzinger, Carissa Philippi

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Researchers have established that rumination is a debilitating symptom that positively correlates with symptoms of depression. Rumination involves self-focused attention, often negative, as a means of coping with a depressed mood or sadness. The Ruminative Responses Scale (RRS) is a tool used to measure rumination severity that includes two subsets of rumination: brooding and reflection. Brooding rumination is related to passive and judgmental thoughts about one’s circumstances and is therefore associated with higher levels of past and current depression. Although brooding is thought to be a maladaptive response to feelings of depression, past studies suggest that the reflection subtype may …

The Relationship Between Resilience, Stress & Ptsd, Hadeal Al-Hamdani Ms., Adam Runyan Mr, Carissa Philippi Mrs.

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized by intrusive thoughts or memories of the traumatic event that hinder daily life activities of individuals with a PTSD diagnosis. Stress exposure has further been shown to exacerbate PTSD symptoms. Given that resilience has been shown to buffer levels of stress, the current study investigated whether resilience may moderate the relationship between stress and PTSD symptoms. Eighty-one participants over the age of 18 were recruited from the University of Missouri-Saint Louis and St. Louis community. Participants completed 3 self-report measures of resilience, exposure to stressful life events (e.g., Have you ever been in a …

Stress, Resilience, And Impulsivity, Kendra Clark, Adam Runyan, Carissa Philippi

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Stress is a phenomenon that everyone will experience. Stress that is unmanageable can become chronic, which is linked to various negative psychological effects (Le Fevre, Matheny, & Kolt, 2003). Although stress research often focuses on the negative long-term effects, there are times where individuals develop a trait known as resilience. Resilient individuals eventually learn how to buffer the negative effects of stress (Cicchetti, 2010), and researchers have begun investigating the positive effects of resilience on stress (Cicchetti, 2010; Kermott, Johnson, Sood, R., Jenkins, & Sood, A., 2019). Currently, few studies have been conducted to identify any additional traits that may …

Skills For Living With Loss, Emily Mcneil

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Grief is a normative but highly life changing experience. Bereavement may disrupt one’s life as well as alter the way in which one lives and takes care of oneself. By approaching an individual’s grief as unique, specific skills and goals can be created to assist them in the midst of their new life. Specific skills and goals include engaging in self-care, developing a routine, and staying connected to others. Through the development of specific skills, one can learn to live with the losses experienced as well as take care of their physical and mental well-being. This talk will focus on …

Madness And Sanity: Wisdom Of Madmen And The Wise Men Madness In The 19th Century, Norah Roudhan

Undergraduate Research Symposium

This research is based on a careful examination of the concept of insanity and reason. In addition to mentioning some examples from the nineteenth century in the literature to illustrate how each of them used the concept of insanity. Despite the different reason for describing each of the above names and personalities as insane, through analyzes and questions posed it becomes clear that insanity in the end may have a different meaning from what today’s concept represent. The research concludes with the main reason behind the presentation of literature to some famous figures of insanity in a manner that reflects …

The Effect Of Barriers To Treatments, And The Attitudes And Beliefs Toward Medication Assisted Treatment (Mat) On The Readiness To Change Within Young Adults Engaging In Regular Alcohol And Opioid Use., Kylie Thorwardson, Ryan Carpenter, Miriam Mead

Undergraduate Research Symposium

People who use substances vary in terms of the problems they experience and the degree to which they feel change is needed. Among those who are interested in making changes, many have qualms and questions about doing so, despite the potential positive benefits of reducing use. Young adults who use substances are especially unlikely to receive substance-focused treatment. It is unclear to what extent this is due to limited access to treatment, a lack of desire to change, beliefs that existing treatments are unlikely to be beneficial, or a combination of factors. This study will examine the associations of perceived …

Sense Of Belonging Increases Performance Expectations Among Women In Stem Fields, Anne Brown, Ariana Gaydon

Undergraduate Research Symposium

This research examines threatening educational environments for women STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) majors. Previous research found that underrepresented groups receive subtle and overt messages that they do not belong in science and academia which leads to lower science identity, lower grades, and switching to a non-STEM major (Ong et al. 2011; Robnett 2016; Rainey et al., 2018). This study used survey data from students (N = 213) from a western university. The results indicate a 2-way interaction between sense of belonging (or the acceptance an individual feels regarding a specific group or environment) and science identity (how …

2021 Program, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Undergraduate Research Symposium

University of Missouri-St. Louis Undergraduate Research Symposium Program

A Model For Defunding: An Evidence-Based Statute For Behavioral Health Crisis Response, Taleed El-Sabawi, Jennifer J. Carroll

Faculty Publications

Too many Black persons and other persons of color are dying at the hands of law enforcement, leading many to call for the defunding of police. These deaths were directly caused by excessive use of force by police officers, but were also driven by upstream and institutional factors that include structural racism, institutional bias, and a historic culture of racialized violence. Public outcry against racial inequities has increased as the authority of police departments has expanded to include not only the authority to respond to and investigate criminal activity, but also to respond to calls regarding behavioral health issues and …

Unf Journal Winter 2021, University Of North Florida

UNF Journal

A university periodical for alumni and friends of the University of North Florida.

The Injustices Behind America’S Incarceration Boom, Jay Widlacki

Undergraduate Research Symposium

America’s mass incarceration system functions as a tool to keep their black communities impoverished and powerless. Black people are locked away at disproportionate rates; moreover, statistics suggest that the criminal justice system is racially biased at every step. These two systems work together to keep an alarmingly high amount of black people behind bars so businesses can profit off of them. If ex-convicts leave the prison, they will find it hard to reintegrate into society because of the post-prison fees, parole requirements, discrimination, and disenfranchisement. Without rehabilitation available in most prisons, these barriers make the prison system akin to a …

Holding On To Who They Are: Pathways For Variations In Response To Toxic Workplace Behavior Among U.S. Intelligence Officers, Greta Creech

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

The U.S. intelligence community is a critical mission industry responsible for protecting lives and safety in ways that impact the global security environment. Research on the deleterious impact of toxic workplace behavior on other critical mission fields, such as health care and the U.S. military, is robust. However, intelligence scholars publishing within the unclassified arena have been silent on the phenomenon, how personnel respond to it, and how it may impact the intelligence function. This lack of scholarship has afforded an opportunity to understand what constitutes toxic behavior in the intelligence environment and how it may affect U.S. national security …

ปัญหาความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างประเทศ: มองผ่านภาวะผู้นำทหารในการยุติการสู้รบบ้านร่มเกล้า-บ่อแตน, พยัญชน์ เอี่ยมศิลป์

Journal of Social Sciences

บทความชิ้นนี้ค้นคว้าเกี่ยวกับการเจรจาโดยผู้นำลาวระดับสูงกับ จปร.7 ซึ่งในกรณีนี้มี พลเอก  ชวลิต ยงใจยุทธ ทำหน้าที่ประสานความสัมพันธ์กับเจ้าสุภานุวงศ์ สู่ข้อตกลงหยุดยิง เมื่อวันที่ 19 กุมภาพันธ์ พ.ศ. 2531 การศึกษาพบว่าปัญหาความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างประเทศระหว่างไทย-ลาว ในกรณีศึกษานี้มีที่มาจากปัญหาดังนี้ 1. ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างประเทศไทยกับประเทศลาวและการเมืองภายในไทยและลาว 2. เศรษฐกิจชายแดนที่มีการทำสัมปทานไม้โดยบริษัทไทย 3. สนธิสัญญาไม่เสมอภาค ซึ่งต้องร่วมกันแก้ไข 4.  สงครามเย็นเริ่มส่อเค้าว่าจะสิ้นสุด ซึ่งจะส่งผลให้มีการเปลี่ยนขั้วการเมืองระหว่างประเทศตามมา 5. ยุทธศาสตร์ทางทหารต่อ อดีต ผ.ก.ค. “หมู่บ้านจัดตั้งฯ” 6. ตัวแสดง “สงครามสามหมู่บ้าน” เข้ามามีบทบาทซ้ำใน “บ้านร่มเกล้า” 7. ผลการสืบสิทธิ์ ตีความสนธิสัญญาไทย-ฝรั่งเศส ค.ศ. 1907 การตีความแผนที่ตามสนธิสัญญาสยาม-ฝรั่งเศส ค.ศ. 1907 ที่แตกต่างกับปัจจุบัน

Node : หน่วยประสานเครือข่ายงานด้านการพัฒนาสังคมในมุมมองทฤษฎีเครือข่าย-ผู้กระทำการ, สมพงษ์ จิตระดับ, นวพร สุนันท์ลิกานนท์

Journal of Social Sciences

บทความนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่ออรรถาธิบายความเป็นมาของ node หน่วยประสานเครือข่ายงานด้านการพัฒนาสังคมในประเทศไทยและอภิปรายใน 3 ประเด็น คือ 1. บทบาทและรูปแบบการทำงาน 2. องค์ประกอบด้านคุณลักษณะของ node ประกอบด้วยคุณลักษณะด้านความรู้ ทักษะ และเจตคติต่อการทำงานพัฒนาสังคม และ 3. ความสัมพันธ์ของ node กับงานพัฒนาสังคมตามทฤษฎีเครือข่าย-ผู้กระทำการ ผลการถอดบทเรียนการทำงานของหน่วยปฏิบัติการวิจัยเพื่อการพัฒนาด้านเด็กและเยาวชน พบว่า 1. node มีบทบาทเป็นผู้สร้างการเปลี่ยนแปลงทางสังคมโดยมีรูปแบบการทำงานแบบประสานความร่วมมือกับองค์กรทางสังคม 2. node ต้องมีคุณลักษณะด้านความรู้ที่หลากหลายทั้งกว้างและลึกเชิงประเด็น มีทักษะการสื่อสารเพื่อสร้างพื้นที่การมีส่วนร่วม และมีอุดมการณ์ในการทำงานเพื่อส่งเสริมสิทธิมนุษยชนและสันติภาพ และ 3. ความสัมพันธ์สัมพัทธ์ตามแนวคิดทฤษฎีเครือข่าย-ผู้กระทำการที่ node สร้างผ่านการทำงานพัฒนาสังคมทำให้เกิดปฏิสัมพันธ์ข้ามองค์กรและสานเครือข่ายงานด้านการพัฒนาสังคมให้ขยายออกไปในแนวระนาบจนเกิดการเปลี่ยนแปลงที่ยั่งยืนในระดับปัจเจกชน พื้นที่ ตลอดจนโครงสร้างทางสังคม

Identifying The Reasons Of Electronic Smoking Spreading (Vaping) In The Society With Practical Application Using Analytical Factors, Ameer Kamil Karaghowly

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

We have investigated in this research, the contents of the electronic cigarette (Viber) and the emergence of the phenomenon of electronic smoking (vibing) were discussed, although the topic of smoking is one of the oldest topics on which many articles and research have been conducted, electronic smoking has not been studied according to statistical scientific research, we tried in this research to identify the concept of electronic smoking to sample the studied data and to deal with it in a scientific way. This research included conducting a statistical analysis using the factor analysis of a sample taken randomly from some …

Circling The Wagons: A Re-Entry Program For Substance Use In Nh, Angela Leigh Walter

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

This dissertation aimed to adapt Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) to a substance-involved population in New Hampshire (NH). CoSA is a volunteer-based community program that provides accountability and various forms of support to previously incarcerated individuals rejoining the community. Program recommendations were created through qualitative realist thematic analysis of a literature review and interviews. Recommendations were integrated with existing CoSA manuals to create the proposed program. NH CoSA, through the principles of narrative reconstruction, risk-need-responsivity, and the Good Lives Model, aims to help individuals successfully re-integrate into their community over a period of about a year. The program will …

The Student Experience Of Psychoeducational Assessment: A Phenomenological Study, Teresa Hoffman

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Emerging adults with specific learning disabilities (SLD) are interviewed to understand the student experience of the psychoeducational assessment process that is codified by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 (IDEA). The assessment practice is well established to qualify students for special education and related services (SERS) to ensure every child in the United States has the opportunity for free and appropriate education. An overview of the general psychoeducational assessment practice and specific assessment for SLD is supplemented by the literature regarding best-practices for psychological assessment with children/adolescents to set the context for a process that is encountered triennially …

Sickle Cell In A Poor Community In Haiti: Attention, Emotion, And Sleep, Sarajane Rodgers

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Hemoglobin disorders or inherited blood diseases affect about 5% of the world population. One main category of these disorders is sickle-cell disease (SCD). SCD can cause many physical complications, such as kidney problems, leg ulcers, and chronic pain. Less frequently discussed symptoms include complications like attention problems and emotion regulation. The study looked at a small sample of pediatric and adult patients (N=22) with SCD at a primary care clinic in a very poor community in Haiti, researching sleep and emotion regulation, given their shared neurobiological systems. As these symptoms can influence attention, the relationships among attention, emotion, and sleep …

Construction Of A Developmental Social Privilege Integration Scale, Abigail M. Martin

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

The APA’s 2017 multicultural guidelines task psychologists with the aspirational goal of understanding the nuances of historical and contemporary systems of power, privilege, and oppression. Scholars such as Helms (1984) demonstrated the critical need to readjust psychology’s focus from oppressed groups to privileged groups. In her seminal 1988 article, McIntosh insisted that in order to “redesign social systems,” privileged groups must first acknowledge their “unseen dimensions” (p. 1). Similarly, Black and Stone (2005) and Johnson (2018) asserted the lack of social privilege awareness is part of American culture, which helps to maintain the invisibility of privilege and the status quo …

Adult Attachment Interview Classification: Comparing Two Coding Systems, Patricia M. Hastings

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Research on the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) provides an opportunity to study the ways in which early childhood relational experiences might influence an individual over a lifetime. It is not yet clear, however, whether results from different coding systems for the AAI are equally useful. The first purpose of this study was to compare attachment classification distributions obtained from coding AAIs with the Berkeley and Dynamic-Maturational Model (DMM) coding systems. The second purpose was to explore whether AAI classifications derived from the Berkeley or DMM system were more strongly associated with mother and mother-child dyad outcome variables. Participants were a …

Visibility And Indivisibility In Resource Arrangements, Lee Anne Fennell

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Projects like highways, bridges, pipelines, and wildlife corridors exhibit indivisibilities—we need the whole thing to have anything of value. Many environmental and social goals have a similar all-or-nothing character: staying above or below a certain critical threshold can make all the difference. This essay focuses on the role of visibility in addressing resource dilemmas that have this structure. I examine how two kinds of visibility can help avoid catastrophic consequences and advance desirable ones. The first involves recognizing when an indivisibility is present—that is, appreciating the vulnerability of resources to thresholds and cliff effects before it is too late. The …

Framing Vaccine Mandates: Messenger And Message Effects, Christopher Buccafusco, Daniel Hemel

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

In September 2021, President Biden announced that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) would require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure that their workers are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 or show a negative test for the virus at least once a week. The policy has been widely characterized in the media as “President Biden’s vaccine mandate,” though it could be described with equal accuracy as “OSHA’s testing mandate” (since OSHA, rather than Biden, officially promulgated the policy, and once-a-week testing and vaccination are both valid compliance options). Some commentators have speculated that reframing the policy as …

The Market As Negotiation, Rebecca E. Hollander-Blumoff, Matthew T. Bodie

Scholarship@WashULaw

Our economic system counts on markets to allocate most of our societal resources. The law often treats markets as discrete entities, with a native intelligence and structure that provides clear answers to questions about prices and terms. In reality, of course, markets are much messier—they are agglomerations of negotiations by individual parties. Despite theoretical and empirical work on markets and on negotiation, legal scholars have largely overlooked the connection between the two areas in considering how markets are constructed and regulated.

This Article brings together scholarship in law, economics, sociology, and psychology to better understand the role that negotiation plays …

Pragmatic Reconstruction In Jurisprudence: Features Of A Realistic Theory, Brian Z. Tamanaha

Scholarship@WashULaw

A century ago the pragmatists called for reconstruction in philosophy. Philosophy at the time was occupied with conceptual analysis, abstractions, a priori analysis, and the pursuit of necessary, universal truths. Pragmatists argued that philosophy instead should center on the pressing problems of the day, which requires theorists to pay attention to social complexity, variation, change, power, consequences, and other concrete aspects of social life. The parallels between philosophy then and jurisprudence today are striking, as I show, calling for a pragmatism-informed theory of law within contemporary jurisprudence. The realistic theory outlined in this essay focuses on what law does, what …