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Everyone Is Anxious: A Narrative For Admissions Professionals, Students, And Parents, On College Admissions And Anxiety, Sarah Hecklau
Everyone Is Anxious: A Narrative For Admissions Professionals, Students, And Parents, On College Admissions And Anxiety, Sarah Hecklau
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Written in the Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN) style of writing, this thesis explores my personal experience as a college admissions counselor. It offers a reflection of my own college search and application experience, my perspective on the experience of today's high school students, and my professional experience working within an admissions office. The juxtaposition of these three perspectives alongside scholarly references on higher education, philosophy, and anxiety, provides a full-spectrum view of the college admissions process.
The core topic of this reflection is anxiety, and showing how each party experiences anxiety in the college search, application, and selection process. Other …
Rural Teens And Stress, Morgan R. Pratt
Rural Teens And Stress, Morgan R. Pratt
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Stress is significantly associated with risk taking behavior and increasing depression/anxiety among teens. There is no shortage of stressors experienced within the teenage years.This project's aim is to create a pamphlet that can be available for teens in rural Vermont. It will contain apps for healthy lifestyle, stress, mood, mindfulness as well as local help line numbers for teens in crisis and signs and symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Mindfulness As An Effective Strategy For Anxiety Relief In Adolescent Patients, Desiree N. Dibella
Mindfulness As An Effective Strategy For Anxiety Relief In Adolescent Patients, Desiree N. Dibella
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Anxiety disorders affect 6.8 million adults over the age of 18 in the United States, and anxiety disorders are the most common mental health illness in children.
Risk Factors for anxiety disorders in young adults include the following: -Shyness, or behavioral inhibition, in childhood -Being of the female sex -Having few economic resources -Exposure to stressful life events in childhood -Anxiety disorders in close biological relatives -Parental history of mental disorders -Elevated afternoon cortisol levels in the saliva Teens and young adults increasingly suffer from anxiety disorders with the CDC reporting the rate of anxiety disorders among 3 to 17 …