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Toward Discussion Facilitation That Enacts Collective Care. A Response To “Teaching Dobbs Where Divisive Concepts And Abortion Are Restricted”, Jenni Conrad May 2025

Toward Discussion Facilitation That Enacts Collective Care. A Response To “Teaching Dobbs Where Divisive Concepts And Abortion Are Restricted”, Jenni Conrad

Democracy & Education

For both teacher candidates and teacher educators, facilitating discussions of contested issues in hyper-polarized climates remains a heavy lift. This response to “Teaching Dobbs…” celebrates the successes apparent in Geller’s team’s work and identifies key features that supported it. While cautioning readers against adopting avatar rehearsals elsewhere, I distill four themes of planning and enactment that show clear promise for broad transference in teacher education. Drawing from research exploring the interfaces of justice-oriented, practice-based, and democratic social studies scholarship, I offer pedagogical and logistical considerations for other teacher educators and researchers engaged in this ambitious and necessary work to sustain …

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A Plea For Deliberation In The Classroom. A Response To "Fostering Open-Minded Political Engagement Through Online Interscholastic Discussions, Alice Siu May 2025

A Plea For Deliberation In The Classroom. A Response To "Fostering Open-Minded Political Engagement Through Online Interscholastic Discussions, Alice Siu

Democracy & Education

This response to “Fostering Open-Minded Political Engagement through Online Interscholastic Discussions” reviews the strengths of the study, highlights the limitations, and discusses the importance of continuing and scaling fostering open-minded political engagement in schools, particularly in middle and high schools. Polarization, both affective and political, is one of the most pressing issues of contemporary civic life, and this study takes this issue head-on and enables students to be thoughtful in their exchanges with diverse others. The authors leverage deliberative democracy theory and educational frameworks to explore how boundary-crossing discussions can enhance students' political open-mindedness and engagement. While the paper contributes …

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Developing Reliable Epistemic Processes For Civic Life: A Response To “‘Beyond “Yelling At Them’: Exploring The Impact Of A Political Simulation In Polarized Times”, Elizabeth C. Reynolds, Sarah Mcgrew May 2025

Developing Reliable Epistemic Processes For Civic Life: A Response To “‘Beyond “Yelling At Them’: Exploring The Impact Of A Political Simulation In Polarized Times”, Elizabeth C. Reynolds, Sarah Mcgrew

Democracy & Education

PurpleState, the political communications simulation at the heart of “Beyond ‘Yelling at Them,’” was designed to foster in students the epistemic aim of building knowledge by investigating a civic issue and the epistemic ideal of considering multiple perspectives on an issue (Chinn et al., 2014, 2021). These aims and ideals are essential for contemporary civic actors to become more informed about controversial issues. The authors offered evidence that PurpleState supported students to better understand multiple perspectives on issues in ways that may reduce the effects of polarization. We argue, however, that students may not fully achieve the epistemic aims and …

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Learning To Talk And Listen In Elementary Social Studies: Exploring A Third-Grade Teacher’S Decision To Use Classroom Talk For Community Building, Jane C. Lo May 2025

Learning To Talk And Listen In Elementary Social Studies: Exploring A Third-Grade Teacher’S Decision To Use Classroom Talk For Community Building, Jane C. Lo

Democracy & Education

With mounting polarization in the political arena and media sources, trust of one’s neighbors and of teachers are facing increasing strain in the United States. Furthermore, teachers continue to struggle with how to teach high-quality, nuanced, social studies, especially in the elementary setting, where time and resources for social studies has been depleting for decades (e.g., Fitchett et al., 2014; Heafner, 2018). Within this context, this study presents a case of a third-grade teacher who chooses to use discursive talk as a way to support high-quality social studies and to build community in her classroom. Findings suggest that classroom talk …

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Teaching Dobbs Where Divisive Concepts And Abortion Are Restricted: Teacher Learning, Controversial Issues, And Mixed-Reality Technology, Rebecca C. Geller May 2025

Teaching Dobbs Where Divisive Concepts And Abortion Are Restricted: Teacher Learning, Controversial Issues, And Mixed-Reality Technology, Rebecca C. Geller

Democracy & Education

Though scholarship has long championed the positive impacts of classroom considerations of controversial or difficult issues, teachers have often hesitated to broach divisive topics for numerous reasons, including legislation purporting to limit controversy in classrooms and, often, that they had limited or no preparation to teach controversies, especially not politically contentious sociopolitical contexts. I worked with a research team to use a mixed-reality teaching simulation of a controversial issue discussion as a low-stakes learning context for developing skills for collective pedagogical reasoning. The teaching simulation centered on Dobbs v. Jackson, the 2022 Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. …

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Fostering Open-Minded Political Engagement Through Online Interscholastic Discussions: Toward Reducing Affective Political Polarization, Brett L. M. Levy, Alina Lewis May 2025

Fostering Open-Minded Political Engagement Through Online Interscholastic Discussions: Toward Reducing Affective Political Polarization, Brett L. M. Levy, Alina Lewis

Democracy & Education

This study explores how political discussions among diverse youth can support students’ open-minded political engagement. For this study, we collaborated with two teachers to adapt and enact instruction aimed at supporting students’ discussion of controversial issues across political, geographic, and cultural boundaries. During an instructional unit exploring various ways to strengthen our election system, students engaged in discussions with their classmates and with peers from another school via an online video discussion board. We collected data through observations and interviews. Our findings indicate that the instruction enhanced students’ understanding of their political bubbles and their motivation to engage in boundary-crossing …

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Beyond “Yelling At Them”: Exploring The Impact Of A Political Simulation In Polarized Times, Jeremy Stoddard, Jais Brohinsky, Jason A. Chen, Derek Behnke, M. Shane Tutwiler, Janice Robbins May 2025

Beyond “Yelling At Them”: Exploring The Impact Of A Political Simulation In Polarized Times, Jeremy Stoddard, Jais Brohinsky, Jason A. Chen, Derek Behnke, M. Shane Tutwiler, Janice Robbins

Democracy & Education

This paper explores how PurpleState, a political simulation designed to foster skills and knowledge for informed civic participation, develops students’ abilities to counter or resist the effects of political polarization and partisanship. Throughout the simulation, which has been implemented in Virginia and Wisconsin, students are asked to analyze, reason with, and communicate using evidence on a state policy issue (e.g., gun control) with a particular focus on local context. They are also asked to reflect on how what they are learning helps them understand the political information environment and their role in it. Student participants from focus groups (n=32) consistently …

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The Role Of Consumers In The Retail Design Process, Constant Berkhout, Katelijn Quartier May 2025

The Role Of Consumers In The Retail Design Process, Constant Berkhout, Katelijn Quartier

Designing Retail and Services Futures SIG

Marketing and design emphasise consumer-centricity and advocate for a participatory, co-creative role for consumers. However, retail designers often view consumers as constraints with limited influence on store design. A literature review analysing retail design from a consumer perspective reveals three key approaches: brand-based frameworks, which align retail design with brand identity; handover-based frameworks, which incorporate consumer insights in a design brief; and empathy-based frameworks, focused on understanding consumers through iterative design. In these frameworks consumer participation remains minimal. Barriers to greater involvement are largely linked to the role of the designer. The review suggests that a more creative and participatory …

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The Shop Window As A Communication Platform: From Product Showcase To Experiential Narratives, Vittorio Linfante May 2025

The Shop Window As A Communication Platform: From Product Showcase To Experiential Narratives, Vittorio Linfante

Designing Retail and Services Futures SIG

Fashion has always been closely linked to communication, evolving from aesthetic styles to a language expressing social identities and values. This process has been amplified by digital tools, creating dynamic communicative networks across media. Contemporary fashion communication encompasses all stages of production and meaning-making, blending tangible and intangible elements. Shop windows, traditionally just product displays, have taken on a new role as spaces for experimentation that bridge the physical and digital. This article examines how shop windows have evolved from simple boundaries between store interiors and real life to active spaces for engaging the public, transforming them from passive observers …

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The Facade As Communication Tool Between Brand Identity, Localism And Sustainability, Giulia Gerosa, Federica Guarnieri May 2025

The Facade As Communication Tool Between Brand Identity, Localism And Sustainability, Giulia Gerosa, Federica Guarnieri

Designing Retail and Services Futures SIG

This article explores the intersection of localism and sustainability in retail design, analyzing how a strong connection with the context can contribute to achieving a more sustainable approach. Through the analysis of case studies, the article will specifically focus on the design of retail spaces, highlighting best practices in which local aesthetics, languages, and materials are integrated and reinterpreted through the use of technology to foster a sustainable design approach. In a historical period where environmental awareness and the importance of local identities are increasingly recognized, it is essential to understand the opportunity for collaboration between designers and brands to …

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Matching The Narrative Fragments And Customer Identity Fragments In Omni-Channel Fashion Retail, Jinze Lyu May 2025

Matching The Narrative Fragments And Customer Identity Fragments In Omni-Channel Fashion Retail, Jinze Lyu

Designing Retail and Services Futures SIG

Omni-channel fashion retail integrates diverse channels and touchpoints, generating complex overlaps and combinations. In this dynamic environment, fashion brand narratives need to shift from selling products to selling experiences. This transformation challenges brands to maintain narrative coherence while adapting to distinct channel characteristics. Simultaneously, consumers exhibit varied identity expressions across channels, reflecting different consumption needs. However, existing narrative design approaches struggle to accommodate this fluidity. This study introduces a Narrative Design Alignment Framework, examining narrative fragments from the brand’s perspective and identity fragments from the consumer’s perspective. By mapping brand narratives and consumer identities across channels, the framework aligns these …

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Fashion Brand Extension Processes In Hospitality: The Bulgari Hotels And Resorts Case Study And The Sustainable Design Strategies For Future Development, Elena Elgani, Francesco Scullica May 2025

Fashion Brand Extension Processes In Hospitality: The Bulgari Hotels And Resorts Case Study And The Sustainable Design Strategies For Future Development, Elena Elgani, Francesco Scullica

Designing Retail and Services Futures SIG

The paper introduces design-led brand extension processes from the fashion system to the hospitality sector that are able to define hospitality branded spaces as part of a complex product-space-service system. The design process that guides the definition of the hospitality branded systems provides a systemic, multi-disciplinary, multi-media, multi-sensory and multi-scalar approach to these brand extension processes with the aim of maximizing brand extension potential. Analyzing the defining aspects of these processes, including through the Bulgari Hotels and Resorts case study, the paper explains how these processes impact both the interiors and the entire product system, access to services and related …

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Drivers And Obstacles To Collaborative Fashion Consumption (Cfc): A Literature Review, Gabriela Fabro Cardoso May 2025

Drivers And Obstacles To Collaborative Fashion Consumption (Cfc): A Literature Review, Gabriela Fabro Cardoso

Designing Retail and Services Futures SIG

The environmental impact of the fashion industry, driven by overproduction and waste, requires a transition to sustainable models. Collaborative Fashion Consumption (CFC), which includes resale and rental services, offers alternatives to traditional ownership consumption habits. While resale markets are thriving, rental services, while logistically complex, are attracting considerable research interest. In this context, this paper examines the rise of CFC, highlighting the importance of digital platforms in facilitating more sustainable practices, and uses a qualitative approach to systematically analyse existing literature to understand the dynamics of CFC services and identify key challenges and opportunities for future research.

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Designing Retail Development Spaces – The Case Of The Future Retail Store, Maximilian Perez Mengual, Frank Danzinger May 2025

Designing Retail Development Spaces – The Case Of The Future Retail Store, Maximilian Perez Mengual, Frank Danzinger

Designing Retail and Services Futures SIG

This paper addresses innovation challenges faced by small and medium-sized retailers by introducing the concept of a Retail Development Space (RDS) to drive business model innovation. Using a narrative case study approach, we examine the Future Retail Store (FRS) initiative, tracing its evolution and impact on participating retailers. As active participants in the project, we draw on our firsthand experiences to provide a detailed account of the RDS's development and its implications for retail innovation. Through critical reflection, nine foundational design principles for future RDS projects are derived. These principles underscore the importance of dedicated spaces to handle complex retail …

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Mapping Trends Of The Evolution In The Retail Sector: A Case Study Of A Design Research Project, Daniela Maurer, Xue Pei May 2025

Mapping Trends Of The Evolution In The Retail Sector: A Case Study Of A Design Research Project, Daniela Maurer, Xue Pei

Designing Retail and Services Futures SIG

The retail sector is evolving through the integration of physical and digital spaces, making omnichannel commerce the dominant model. This shift presents challenges and opportunities related to sustainability, consumer expectations, and strategic changes in businesses. This paper presents a design research project that maps promising trends and potential strategic business directions in the retail sector. 26 case studies were collected and analyzed through a design-led research process, identifying seven key trends in consumer behavior, technology integration, and business model evolution. These insights were validated through a webinar attended by industry professionals. The findings highlight the need for brands to rethink …

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Planning And Facilitating Hybrid Meetings To Support Relationality During Coalition Building, Luettamae Lawrence, Maureen Boyle, Moira Ross May 2025

Planning And Facilitating Hybrid Meetings To Support Relationality During Coalition Building, Luettamae Lawrence, Maureen Boyle, Moira Ross

Utah Conference on Community Engagement

Hybrid events where communities are connected through both in person and online spaces have simultaneously grown in popularity and gotten a bad reputation. While hybrid events have been around for decades, they gained significant traction with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to increase accessibility for attendees to accommodate diverse needs. Although hybrid events can be beneficial to many, they are not simple to execute. With the increase in hybrid events has come frustration with the low quality interactions between in person and online attendees leading to isolation, technology challenges, and low productivity. We argue the positive affordances of hybrid …

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Grief, Grieving, And Permission To Mourn In The Quenta Silmarillion, Dawn M. Walls-Thumma May 2025

Grief, Grieving, And Permission To Mourn In The Quenta Silmarillion, Dawn M. Walls-Thumma

Journal of Tolkien Research

Tolkien asserted on multiple occasions that death was a primary theme of his work, and there are over ninety deaths of named characters in the Quenta Silmarillion alone. In reading the Quenta Silmarillion as historiography, the universality and psychologically powerful experience of death, grief, and mourning allows the narrators of the Quenta Silmarillion to shape how readers perceive characters, events, and themes in the text. Assuming Pengolodh as the primary narrator, this paper investigates how Tolkien used a limited, flawed, and biased narrative point of view as a strategy to shape reader responses and theme. Characters who die in the …

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Perceiving The Perceiver: “Viewing” Sauron Through The Gestalt Theory Of Perception, Cameron Bourquein May 2025

Perceiving The Perceiver: “Viewing” Sauron Through The Gestalt Theory Of Perception, Cameron Bourquein

Journal of Tolkien Research

This paper uses Gestalt theory, the Gestalt laws of perception, and the reception theory of Wolfgang Iser to elucidate the character “Sauron” as he appears in The Lord of the Rings, The Rings of Power, and Tolkien’s wider legendarium. It argues firstly that Sauron’s high degree of indeterminacy and ambiguity suggests he can be read as a gestalt entity, one the reader creates by mentally constructing a whole from (seemingly) disparate parts. Building on the semiotics work of Nagy (2013), it argues that Sauron in The Lord of the Rings can be read as gestalt across the spatial, …

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Letter From The Editors, Alexandra Berardelli, Matthew Macdonald May 2025

Letter From The Editors, Alexandra Berardelli, Matthew Macdonald

Parnassus: Classical Journal

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Parnassus: Classical Journal (Volume 12, 2025), Parnassus Contributors May 2025

Parnassus: Classical Journal (Volume 12, 2025), Parnassus Contributors

Parnassus: Classical Journal

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Participant 010: Reiki Master With Three Years Of Experience (White; Female; Germany) May 2025

Participant 010: Reiki Master With Three Years Of Experience (White; Female; Germany)

0885: Reiki and Well-Being Interviews

This is an interview about Reiki and its connection with overall well-being with a Reiki Master holding three years of experience (White; Female; Germany). She was interviewed on May 14, 2025. The participant agreed to the terms outlined in the verbal informed consent form before this interview. Some of the broad conversations during this interview were about Reiki's use to help with physical health for her personally and with another family member; Reiki's ability to help (re)build relationships with others; and Reiki's ability to help the participant feel more grounded. Lindsey Harper was the interviewer and the primary investigator for …

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Declines In Tapentadol Use In The Us But Pronounced Regional Variation, Ching Y. Low, Kenneth L. Mccall, Brian J. Piper May 2025

Declines In Tapentadol Use In The Us But Pronounced Regional Variation, Ching Y. Low, Kenneth L. Mccall, Brian J. Piper

Pharmacy Faculty Scholarship

Abstract: Background: Tapentadol is an atypical opioid with a dual mechanism as a mu agonist and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor. This study characterized tapentadol use in the United States (US) using three databases. Methods: Drug distribution data from 2010 to 2020 were extracted from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)’s Automated Reports and Consolidated Orders System (ARCOS), including use per region (mg/person) and business activity (i.e., pharmacy). Tapentadol prescription claims from the Medicare and Medicaid programs for 2010–2020 were also examined. Results: The distributed amount of tapentadol was 3.5 tons in 2020. Distribution was over twice as high in southern (South Atlantic …

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Independent Vs. Signed Musicians: Does Thier Status Affect Their Success?, Zachary Vincent May 2025

Independent Vs. Signed Musicians: Does Thier Status Affect Their Success?, Zachary Vincent

Honors Projects in Mathematics and Economics

As technology has advanced and become more widely available, and as the public learns more about the recording industry and its workings, more musicians are choosing not to sign with record labels, becoming independent musicians. This now raises the question: does a musician’s status of independent or signed determine their level of success? It has been previously found that independent musicians have a more difficult time competing with signed musicians due to the resources provided by record labels and the way labels negotiate with large streaming platforms, giving signed labels more opportunities to be seen in the public eye, but …

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Legitimizing Occupation In Palestine And Western Sahara: Transactional Israeli-Moroccan Diplomacy After The Abraham Accords, Noa Schmid May 2025

Legitimizing Occupation In Palestine And Western Sahara: Transactional Israeli-Moroccan Diplomacy After The Abraham Accords, Noa Schmid

CISLA Senior Integrative Projects

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Ztc Eng 151 Syllabus: College Writing, Nicolette Guida May 2025

Ztc Eng 151 Syllabus: College Writing, Nicolette Guida

Open Educational Resources

This syllabus provides a curriculum for an introduction to research writing. In this course, students develop introductory skills for academic research writing, work on critical thinking and analysis skills, and build an awareness of the rhetorical situation both in texts read in class and in their own writing. This course focuses on the impact that culture has in shaping behavior and life experiences. Included course texts are centered on the exploration of the different cultural groups that people occupy and the specific cultural norms, values and beliefs for each of these groups. This is zero textbook cost (ZTC) course, so …

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Unh Donates Locally Grown Fish To Gather Food Pantry To Help Feed Seacoast, Robbin Ray May 2025

Unh Donates Locally Grown Fish To Gather Food Pantry To Help Feed Seacoast, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

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Teachers' Perceptions Of Education Policies To Reduce Racial And Gender Achievement Gaps, Lisa Mondett Davis May 2025

Teachers' Perceptions Of Education Policies To Reduce Racial And Gender Achievement Gaps, Lisa Mondett Davis

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Teachers possess valuable knowledge about classroom experiences that remains untapped in educational policymaking, particularly concerning persistent achievement gaps for Black female students, which have resulted in less effective student academic growth outcomes when compared to White female peers. Although prior research has indicated the implementation of targeted education policies, few studies have explored how excluding educators’ insights about these policies have caused the achievement gap to widen based on race and gender comparisons. Grounded in Black feminist theory, the purpose of this qualitative intrinsic case study was to explore Black female teachers’ perspectives of how education policies influence the achievement …

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Continuity Of Novice Middle School Teachers In An Urban School District, Andrea Torres Williams May 2025

Continuity Of Novice Middle School Teachers In An Urban School District, Andrea Torres Williams

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Extensive research suggests that effective and meaningful teacher preparation programs can help reduce novice teacher attrition. The problem addressed in this study was the high middle school teacher turnover in an urban school district (USD, a pseudonym) in Georgia, despite the implementation of coaching programs for novice teachers. Guided by Yerkes and Dodson’s challenge-hindrance model, the purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore novice middle school teachers’ perceptions on the support received, the challenges encountered in their first year, and the usefulness of mentoring, professional development, and instructional coaching received at USD. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 12 …

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The Moderating Effect Of Political Ideology On The Relationship Between Locus Of Control And Covid-19-Related Anxiety And Stress, Sarah Boomhower May 2025

The Moderating Effect Of Political Ideology On The Relationship Between Locus Of Control And Covid-19-Related Anxiety And Stress, Sarah Boomhower

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The COVID-19 pandemic created a mental health crisis within the United States. Previous research examining locus of control and mental health issues during the pandemic revealed that individuals with an external locus of control exhibited increased mental health symptoms. Research also found that political attitudes played a role regarding COVID-19 with liberal-leaning individuals and Democrats reporting higher levels of emotional distress during the pandemic. The purpose of this quantitative, nonexperimental, correlational study was to determine the extent to which political ideology moderates the relationship between locus of control and COVID-19-related anxiety and stress. Locus of control was the theoretical foundation …

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Psychologists’ Competency And Training Regarding Treating Transgender And Non-Conforming Youth With Gender Dysphoria, Amydth Chumacero May 2025

Psychologists’ Competency And Training Regarding Treating Transgender And Non-Conforming Youth With Gender Dysphoria, Amydth Chumacero

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

There is limited evidence-based research on required competency, training, assessment, and treatment practices for psychologists who treat transgender and non-conforming (TGNC) youth with gender dysphoria. Eleven licensed psychologists with at least 5 years of experience treating TGNC youth were recruited through social media and snowball recruiting to participate in this qualitative Delphi study. Using multicultural competency theory as a guide, these experts were asked to develop a consensus regarding the minimum competencies and training to treat TGNC youth, as well as what they thought the standards should be for assessment and treatment. Data were collected in three rounds of online …

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