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Development Of A Basic Nursing Education Course For Psychiatric Nurses, Tasha M. Jones Jan 2022

Development Of A Basic Nursing Education Course For Psychiatric Nurses, Tasha M. Jones

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

" Abstract" Development of a Basic Nursing Education Course for Psychiatric NursesThe integration of psychiatric and medical services for psychiatric patients has been problematic for psychiatric nurses. This care integration problem revealed the lack of clinician education and training needed to meet the diverse needs of psychiatric patients. The lack of clinician education and training resulted in poor patient outcomes that can also have negative implications for nurses, families, organizations, and communities. Proper education and training were necessary to effectively care for psychiatric patients with common physical health conditions such as cardiac diseases and diabetes at the inpatient facility where …

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Workaholism Development As A Self-Efficacy Behavior Among Black Women In The Workplace, Tiffany Nicole Johnson Lemon Jan 2022

Workaholism Development As A Self-Efficacy Behavior Among Black Women In The Workplace, Tiffany Nicole Johnson Lemon

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Understanding how workaholism develops in Black women and the role organizational culture plays in its development, specifically individuals who work in predominantly White organizations, is needed to address this phenomenon. Data were gathered from individuals who identify as Black women and are self-proclaimed workaholics who work in settings comprised predominantly of White employees. Understanding workplace culture and the events that may lead to behavioral changes has been limited, specific to the minority group of Black women. The key research questions investigated the development of workaholism in Black women who work in predominantly White organizations and the role organizational culture plays …

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Exposure Response Prevention For Adolescents With High-Functioning Autism And Social Anxiety, Elisha Jones Jan 2022

Exposure Response Prevention For Adolescents With High-Functioning Autism And Social Anxiety, Elisha Jones

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Anxiety disorders are the most common comorbid mental health condition seen in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders. This study was an exploration of the benefits of exposure and response prevention (ERP) for high-functioning adolescents with autism and comorbid social anxiety. The research problem was the lack of qualitative description of trained clinicians’ experiences of ERP delivery to high-functioning adolescents with autism and social anxiety. Data for this study were collected through semi structured interviews with six ERP clinicians who had experience in practicing ERP with this population. Analysis of the data revealed the following four core themes: (a) professional recommendations for …

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Predictors Of Homelessness Among Female Veterans And Civilians, Victoria Caridad Justiniano Quinones Jan 2022

Predictors Of Homelessness Among Female Veterans And Civilians, Victoria Caridad Justiniano Quinones

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Homelessness among female veterans is a problem that is likely to increase as growing numbers of women in the U.S. military reestablish themselves into their communities as veterans. There has been increasing concern about the greater risk for homelessness found among female veterans when compared to their nonveteran counterparts, so further investigation of homeless incidence by gender is also warranted. This quantitative, exploratory study was grounded in the social ecological theory, the Balshem and colleagues conceptual model of risk factors for veteran homelessness, and the Susser, Moore, and Link conceptual model which investigated causal pathways that are possible risk factors …

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Barriers And Support To The Successful Postsecondary Transition Of Virgin Islands Males With A Specific Learning Disability, Marissa S. Johnson Rogers Jan 2022

Barriers And Support To The Successful Postsecondary Transition Of Virgin Islands Males With A Specific Learning Disability, Marissa S. Johnson Rogers

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The post high school transition for males with a specific learning disability (SLD) can be challenging. Unemployment among persons with disabilities was markedly higher than those without. There was also mounting evidence that showed that persons with disabilities had difficulties adjusting to post-secondary environments. For male students with disabilities, their post-secondary experience was impacted by the support services received, both at school and within their community. Little was known about the post-secondary experiences of minority males with SLD. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore post-secondary transition experiences among Virgin Islands male high school graduates with SLD. Particularly, …

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Russian Federalism In 2012-2021, Vladimir Kalajdzhyan Jan 2022

Russian Federalism In 2012-2021, Vladimir Kalajdzhyan

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Researchers have disagreed on whether the Russian federal system of government was one of the many models of federalism, its own unique form of it, or not federalism. Therefore, the overarching research question investigated was how classic western theoretical frameworks on federalism applied to the contemporary Russian federal system, how the Russian system evolved in its own unique way, and how it related to asymmetrical federalist, quasi-federalist, and non-federalist systems. The classic theoretical foundation framework on federalism was applied. The purpose of this research was to study current trends within the Russian federal government system and investigate paths for Russia’s …

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Exploring Critical Success Factors For Implementing It Modernization Systems In Michigan State Agencies, Luc Armand Kamdem Jan 2022

Exploring Critical Success Factors For Implementing It Modernization Systems In Michigan State Agencies, Luc Armand Kamdem

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Since 2001, most government organizations’ IT modernization programs had failed because of ineffective implementation strategies from IT leaders. The research problem was the absence of effective strategies to modernize IT legacy systems. The purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore effective IT modernization strategies to revolutionize IT legacy systems. The researcher sought to answer how organizations create effective strategies to modernize IT legacy systems. The study used purposeful sampling, including 13 IT leaders, IT technicians, and customers based on their experience in implementing successful IT modernization programs’ strategies. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and agency documentation. …

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The Relationship Between Sexual Abuse And Juvenile Sexual Offending When Moderated By Family Dysfunction, Dahlia Kaplan-Regan Jan 2022

The Relationship Between Sexual Abuse And Juvenile Sexual Offending When Moderated By Family Dysfunction, Dahlia Kaplan-Regan

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Sexual abuse and victimization can have long-term negative ramifications on victims, their families, and the community. Juveniles account for a notable portion of persons who engage in sexual offending behaviors; therefore, knowing more about the pathway that leads to juvenile sexual offending is beneficial in preventing sexual abuse and promoting community safety. Social cognitive theory was applied to the pathway of juvenile sexual offending behaviors to develop insight into how this behavior may be learned and to inform the selection of variables for this research. The key research question explored how traits of family dysfunction moderated the relationship between childhood …

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Evidence-Based Discharge Planning For Assisted Living Facility Residents, Annick Sheron Kelly Jan 2022

Evidence-Based Discharge Planning For Assisted Living Facility Residents, Annick Sheron Kelly

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractLack of staff knowledge is one of the leading challenges contributing to ineffective discharge planning from assisted living facilities. Recognizing that appropriate discharge planning is essential to the well-being of residents, the purpose of this doctoral project was to develop a staff education program based on current evidence-based discharge planning procedures for residents of an assisted living facility. Knowles’s adult learning theory; Lewin’s change theory; and the analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation model guided development of the staff education program. According to a review of the literature, evidence-based strategies for resident discharge planning included early discharge planning; tailored support, …

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Middle School Administration Personnel’S Perspective On Emerging Pbis Status, Gamal Antwan Kemp Jan 2022

Middle School Administration Personnel’S Perspective On Emerging Pbis Status, Gamal Antwan Kemp

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

An urban southeastern state school district has implemented the Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS) framework since 2014. However, campus administrators from six middle schools in the school district faced overcoming the PBIS emerging status as designated by the State Board of Education. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore the challenges that urban middle school administrators confront to overcome the PBIS emerging status of their campuses. An interview protocol was used to explore the middle school administration team’s perspectives on the PBIS framework in reducing unwanted behaviors throughout the school and implementing PBIS. The study was designed …

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Exploring African American Experiences With Police In Cleveland, Ohio, Hamza Khabir Jan 2022

Exploring African American Experiences With Police In Cleveland, Ohio, Hamza Khabir

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

According to previous research, African Americans in Cleveland, OH, reported having more negative experiences with the Cleveland Police Department (CPD) than any other demographic in the city. Furthermore, The U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, determined that the CPD had regularly engaged in excessive force by police officers. This study's purpose was to understand African Americans' experiences in Cleveland regarding the CPD. This study's research question focused on African Americans' experiences in Cleveland and their relationship with the Cleveland police. The study used a general qualitative design to conduct interviews with 10 African Americans between the ages of 18 …

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Exploring Relationship Marketing Strategies For Increasing Student Retention In For-Profit, Online Higher Education, Shirin Khosravian Jan 2022

Exploring Relationship Marketing Strategies For Increasing Student Retention In For-Profit, Online Higher Education, Shirin Khosravian

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

For-profit, online, higher education institutions have lower student retention rates than institutions in other categories. Higher education leaders are concerned with low retention as it adversely impacts financial and student outcomes. Grounded in Morgan and Hunt’s relationship marketing theory, the purpose of this qualitative, exploratory, multiple-case study was to explore marketing strategies for-profit, online, higher education marketing leaders use to increase student retention. Data were collected using semistructured interviews with five marketing leaders from three online, for-profit, higher education institutions in the United States and a review of social media posts and the institutions’ websites. Four themes emerged from thematic …

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Using Agile Strategies To Improve Project Success Rates, Tim Kirkland Jan 2022

Using Agile Strategies To Improve Project Success Rates, Tim Kirkland

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Project failures can be costly to businesses, but on average, program managers’ (PMs’) success rates for managing information technology (IT) projects is less than 35%. Organizational cultures struggle to adapt to agile project management (APM) that provides stakeholder flexibility for dynamic environments. Grounded by project management theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies project managers use to reduce IT project failures. The participants consisted of nine project managers in the northeastern United States with APM experience managing successful IT projects. Data were collected from virtual semi-structured interviews and journal notes. Ten open-ended interview questions …

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Measuring Advance Directive Knowledge Gives Rise To Primary Care Nurses' Education Training, Arnell Corethia Kithcart Jan 2022

Measuring Advance Directive Knowledge Gives Rise To Primary Care Nurses' Education Training, Arnell Corethia Kithcart

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractPatients have the right to self-determine how and in what manner they desire to make end-of-life decisions. The use of advance directives (AD) is the focus of the Patient Self Determination Act (PSDA). The PSDA permits the use of legal documents to outline the patient’s end-of-life decision when they can no longer communicate to the medical community. Because individuals with chronic diseases are living longer the medical community must stay abreast on current laws and protocols to provide the care needed and address patient’s wishes for end-of-life needs. Nurses would be ideal to provide education on AD to patients upon …

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Technological Employees’ Experiences Of Psychological Contract Breach: A Phenomenological Study, Dr. Uganda Knapps, Ph.D. Jan 2022

Technological Employees’ Experiences Of Psychological Contract Breach: A Phenomenological Study, Dr. Uganda Knapps, Ph.D.

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The aim of this study was to understand the importance of employee relations, ethics, and values; how psychological contracts form through the lenses of ethics, values, organizational justice, and perceptions; and how a psychological contract breach (PCB) may occur in certain situations. The psychological contract is imperative for positive employee relations. The foundation on how psychological contracts form and how psychological contracts may be breached and, in extreme circumstances, violated is based in theory by Argyris and in Rousseau’s theory to differentiate between psychological contract breaches and violations. An interpretive phenomenological analysis approach was used in this study to understand …

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Social Competencies And Social Skills Of Adolescent Females With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Mary Kniola Jan 2022

Social Competencies And Social Skills Of Adolescent Females With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Mary Kniola

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most prevalent disorders diagnosed in children and adolescents in the United States, many of whom experience peer rejection and are at risk for subsequent employment difficulties, depression and anxiety, school failure, and substance abuse. The purpose of this study was to evaluate differences in the social skills and social competence of females with and without ADHD in 6th and 12th grades. The theoretical foundation for this study was Barkley’s theory of ADHD. Facebook, Qualtrics, and Prolific were used to recruit 80 parents, who were placed into four groups based on the …

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Teachers’ Attitudes Toward The Impact Inclusion Classrooms Have On Nondisabled Students’ Social, Emotional, And Academic Well-Being, Kristee Nicole Knouse Jan 2022

Teachers’ Attitudes Toward The Impact Inclusion Classrooms Have On Nondisabled Students’ Social, Emotional, And Academic Well-Being, Kristee Nicole Knouse

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Inclusive educational settings were developed in the United States to help encourage and facilitate grade-level and appropriate social, emotional, and academic interactions for all students with the assistance of their teachers regardless of aptitude, skill, or disability. The purpose of this quantitative research study was to investigate teachers’ attitudes toward the impact inclusion classrooms have on the nondisabled students’ social, emotional, and academic well-being compared to students with special educational needs (SEN) and special education needs and disability (SEND) students. Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior was used to guide the study to determine whether there is a relationship between the …

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Understanding Police Decision-Making With Firearms: From Training To Real-Life Deployment, Alex S. Kondos Jan 2022

Understanding Police Decision-Making With Firearms: From Training To Real-Life Deployment, Alex S. Kondos

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Modern efforts involving police reform have created a need for police administrators and policymakers to address various elements of policing. Administrative and punitive policy reforms have had little effect on decreasing police shootings. The purpose of this phenomenological study is to understand the experiences of officers who have been involved in deadly force encounters in order to identify where their past training methods led to success or failures in real-life situations. The theoretical framework for this study was Janis and Mann’s conflict model of decision-making. This study involved answering the question: From the perspectives of police officers involved in shootings, …

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Gender And Risk Behaviors Association With Hepatitis-B Infections Among Liberia Military Personnel, Joseph B N Kowo Jr Jan 2022

Gender And Risk Behaviors Association With Hepatitis-B Infections Among Liberia Military Personnel, Joseph B N Kowo Jr

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The increasing number of hepatitis B-related deaths in the Armed Forces of Liberia was due to the lack of understanding of the associated risks with the disease. Gender, substance use, and condom use have been researched as related risk factors for hepatitis B virus infection (HBV). The goal of this study was to determine if gender (male or female) and risk factors (substance use, alcohol abuse, and condom use) predicted hepatitis B infections after adjusting for age, marital status, education, and military rank among Liberia military population. The theory that grounded this study was Bronfenbrenner’s socio-ecological model (SEM) which posits …

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Covid-19 Ethical Decisions Encountered By Healthcare Professionals In Southwest Ohio, Joshua Lader Jan 2022

Covid-19 Ethical Decisions Encountered By Healthcare Professionals In Southwest Ohio, Joshua Lader

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The COVID-19 coronavirus has wreaked havoc on the world and medical community. Treating individuals during a worldwide pandemic is nothing short of heroic. With limited supplies and treatment options, healthcare professionals were forced to make ethical considerations when treating patients with COVID-19. The pandemic exposed stress in the healthcare system, leading to difficult ethical decisions such as providing access or denying access to treatment. Knowing these ethical considerations can assist healthcare professionals with practical policies for future pandemics. The key research question in this study explored how healthcare professionals in Southwest Ohio made ethical decisions related to who and how …

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Influence Of Medical Education Scholarships On Reducing Physician Shortages, Brendon L. La Grenade Jan 2022

Influence Of Medical Education Scholarships On Reducing Physician Shortages, Brendon L. La Grenade

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

For more than 44 years, the study site university and the Government of Grenada, a low- and middle-income country island, have collaborated to provide medical education scholarships for qualified citizens. These scholarships aim to provide an education pathway to medical school and a solution to the island’s physician shortage by having the scholarship recipients return to serve their country as physicians. However, the problem of a physician shortage persists because most recipients migrate to higher income countries, primarily the United States. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore the perspectives of scholarship recipients and providers regarding how …

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Officers' Perceptions Of The Ontario Provincial Police Framework For Police Preparedness For Indigenous Critical Incidents, Armand P. La Barge Jan 2022

Officers' Perceptions Of The Ontario Provincial Police Framework For Police Preparedness For Indigenous Critical Incidents, Armand P. La Barge

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractResponding to First Nation occupations and protests is one of the most challenging duties that police officers in Canada undertake. Over the last 30 years, these types of incidents have resulted in deaths and injuries to police and protesters, and millions of dollars’ worth of damage and financial loss. After the 1995 shooting death of an unarmed Indigenous protester by police at the Ipperwash occupation, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) introduced an unconventional operational approach for protests known as the OPP Framework policy. That approach was built on the concepts of peacekeeping, patient negotiation, mutual respect, and the minimal use …

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Mental Health-Medical Crisis Team Impact On First Responder Outcomes On Persons With Mental Illness, Mary Josephine Lakey Jan 2022

Mental Health-Medical Crisis Team Impact On First Responder Outcomes On Persons With Mental Illness, Mary Josephine Lakey

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Persons with mental illness (PMIs) are 16 times more likely to experience harm when interacting with police than individuals without mental illness. This inequity has recently become prominent in American discourse due to the ubiquitous use of cell phones and social media, where videos of incidents between police and PMIs circulate. In this generic qualitative research, members of a collaborative mental health and emergency medical service professionals (EMSPs) team in an urban area were interviewed to assess the team members’ perceptions of the impact of the program on frequency of adverse outcomes during interactions with PMIs. The theoretical framework for …

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Risk Factors Of Infant Mortality Among Sub-Saharan Immigrants In The United States, Roland Lankah Jan 2022

Risk Factors Of Infant Mortality Among Sub-Saharan Immigrants In The United States, Roland Lankah

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

While prepregnancy body mass index (BMI), gestational weight gain (GWG), and birthplace have been suggested to play a key role in predicting infant mortality outcomes, they have not been thoroughly investigated across all races/ethnicities. The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between prepregnancy BMI, GWG, birthplace as independent variables, and infant mortality as the outcome variable within the United States Sub-Saharan African Immigrants (SSAI). A quantitative cross-sectional study design grounded in the biopsychosocial model was used. Data were extracted from the 2017-2018 natality-linked birth/infant death file from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wonder Database. It …

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Innovation Strategies For Rural Micro And Small Businesses, Suzanne K. Larsen Jan 2022

Innovation Strategies For Rural Micro And Small Businesses, Suzanne K. Larsen

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Facing many unique challenges compared to their urban counterparts, rural business owners rely on innovation strategies to successfully operate their businesses. Reflecting only 14% of the population but occupying more than 72% of the geographic United States, the failure of rural business owners jeopardizes the network of goods and services that feed and support the entire nation. Grounded in Castle’s rural capital framework and Van de Ven’s innovation framework, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore the strategies rural small business owners use to ensure business innovation. The participants were eight successful rural small business owners …

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Perceptions Of The Strengths And Challenges Of 1:1 Learning In The Early Elementary Classroom, Desiree Lynn Larson Jan 2022

Perceptions Of The Strengths And Challenges Of 1:1 Learning In The Early Elementary Classroom, Desiree Lynn Larson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The need for technology use has become a necessity in 21st-century classrooms. To accomplish this, more districts have been implementing 1:1 technology initiatives. In a 1:1 technology classroom, every student has their own device, such as a Chromebook or iPad. Although districts are increasing their 1:1 initiatives, little research has been done on early elementary teachers’ perceptions of the use of 1:1 devices to support their current pedagogy and teaching in their classrooms. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to use Koehler and Mishra’s technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) framework to investigate how Midwestern public school early elementary …

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Improving Patients' Engagement And Retention In Intensive Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment, Leo W. Lavender Jan 2022

Improving Patients' Engagement And Retention In Intensive Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment, Leo W. Lavender

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Substance use disorder continues to be a major health crisis in the United States. Thousands of people die yearly due to substance use and related criminal activity. Substance abuse treatment is a remedy to the disorder and treatment centers admit thousands of patients yearly to address the dilemma. Throughout the years retention has been an ongoing barrier to successful treatment. This study explored significant obstacles to retention: motivation and engagement. The Baldrige Excellence Framework was utilized to assess the training, supervision, procedures, and leadership roles at an intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment center. This study utilized a qualitative approach case …

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Course Modality And Dialogue As Predictors Of Postsecondary Student Success In Online Programs, Danielle Lawson Jan 2022

Course Modality And Dialogue As Predictors Of Postsecondary Student Success In Online Programs, Danielle Lawson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

There is a growing demand for online education; however, online programs yield consistently lower student retention rates and student success. Students in online programs are typically nontraditional students from underrepresented populations in higher education. The purpose of this nonexperimental quantitative study was to determine whether dialogue (learner–learner, learner–instructor, and learner–content interactions) and course modality (traditional online and competency-based education [CBE] online) predicted student success (final course grade). Moore’s model of transactional distance served as the theoretical framework for this study, specifically the dialogue component. Participants were 127 online higher education students who took (successfully or unsuccessfully) a traditional online course …

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Barriers And The Prevention Of Human Trafficking Child Exploitation, Earl Wilson Laws Jan 2022

Barriers And The Prevention Of Human Trafficking Child Exploitation, Earl Wilson Laws

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Human trafficking is a global phenomenon encompassing areas of sex trafficking, labor trafficking, and indentured servitude. Human trafficking is an exceptionally under-researched and growing phenomenon. Texas ranks as the state with the second-largest human trafficking population in the United States. The current qualitative research study sought to discover whether, and to what degree, barriers are being presented by law enforcement policies and procedures to law enforcement officials of a human trafficking unit within a greater metropolitan area in Texas within human trafficking child exploitation prevention of children aged 5–17. The study utilized Senge’s systems theory as a framework to understand …

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Moral Distress Experienced By Behavioral Health Clinicians Who Have Worked With Maternal, Opioid-Using Clients, Jill Lee-Hubble Jan 2022

Moral Distress Experienced By Behavioral Health Clinicians Who Have Worked With Maternal, Opioid-Using Clients, Jill Lee-Hubble

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Moral distress (MD) is a concept that has been well studied in nursing and other medical fields as a precursor to provider burnout. Understanding how MD impacts behavioral health (BH) clinicians provides insights for counselor educators and supervisors to identify clinical situations that often lead to MD. This qualitative phenomenological study explored how MD was experienced by five BH clinicians who have worked in residential and hospital settings providing counseling to maternal, opioid-using clients. Interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) informed the research methodology and data analysis. Substance use during pregnancy is highly stigmatized in society; thus, a feminist conceptualization was integrated …

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