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“I Missed A Lot Of Childhood Memories”: Trauma And Its Impact On Learning For Formerly Incarcerated Adolescents In The Age Of Zero Tolerance Policies, Alberto Guerrero

Doctoral Dissertations

The literature makes abundantly clear that trauma has a detrimental impact on students’ academic and behavioral efforts. It also challenges the notion of zero tolerance disciplinary practices being effective in redirecting student behaviors, making schools safer, and creating an environment that is conducive to learning. Yet, our current school climate consists of educators who have not been exposed to trauma-informed learning, while also incorporating disciplinary practices that are both draconian in nature and push students out of their learning spaces. This unfortunate reality is felt even more harshly by students who return to schools following an incarceration. This phenomenological study …

Young Adult Early Childhood Home Visitors’ Perceptions Of Fan (Facilitating Attuned Interactions) And Its Potential Protection To Burnout, Lee Mackinnon

Doctoral Dissertations

ABSTRACT YOUNG ADULT EARLY CHILDHOOD HOME VISITORS’ PERCEPTIONS OF FAN (FACILITATING ATTUNED INTERACTIONS) AND ITS POTENTIAL PROTECTION TO BURNOUT FEBRUARY 2019 LEE MACKINNON, B.A., WILLIAMS COLLEGE Ed.M., HARVARD UNIVERSITY Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor Claire E. Hamilton This qualitative study investigated the experience of young adult early childhood home visitors in the training and implementation of a family engagement tool, Facilitating Attuned Interactions (FAN) (Gilkerson, 2015). Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, the case study explored how 5 home visitors, who were under 30 years of age, viewed their training and use of FAN in three components of their …

Meeting The Complex Mental Health Needs Of Children Moving To Permanency Through Adoption And Guardianship: A Review Of The National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative For Child Welfare And Mental Health Professionals, Debbie Riley, Dawn Wilson

Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

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Factors That Shape Arab American College Student Identity, Abdul Rahman F. Jaradat

Doctoral Dissertations

Arab American identity has not yet received the research attention and scholarship that it deserves. In this dissertation, I have qualitatively studied the narratives of young Arab American college students and recent graduates. The research questions that I explored include what makes them Arab Americans, and what are the factors that help them identify as such. By focusing on Arab Americans and their identity factors, I have presented the narratives of those women and men who self-identify as Arab American and quoted their accounts of how they navigate this undervalued, misunderstood, and stereotyped identity. I have used ethnic and racial …

Residence Directors As Residential Crisis Workers: Exploring The Role Of Campus-Based Critical Incident Stress Management In The Mitigation Of Compassion Fatigue, Noga Flory

Doctoral Dissertations

Residence Directors, as a result of repeated exposure to their students' trauma, are prone to developing compassion fatigue. Research on the use of college-based Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) has been shown to foster collaboration, consultation, and increased stress debriefing among staff who respond to critical incidents on campus. CISM can teach Residence Directors means of recognizing work-related triggers, contribute to the normalization of stress reactions, and improve healthy coping and self-care strategies. CISM can also potentially help reduce or diminish the incidence of compassion fatigue and burnout, thereby improving Residence Directors' overall professional and personal quality of life and …

Getting It Right: African American Male College/University Presidents And Their Early Cultivation Of Self-Efficacy, James Randall

Doctoral Dissertations

GETTING IT RIGHT: AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS AND THEIR EARLY CULTIVATION OF SELF-EFFICACY MAY 2017 JAMES ANTHONY RANDALL, B.A., MOREHOUSE COLLEGE M.S.W., UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, COLLEGE OF SOCIAL POLICY AND PRACTICE Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by Joseph B. Berger Education remains the single most important means by which individuals in the United States can empower themselves economically, socially, and personally. In spite of this, a significant percentage of young African American males do not even appear to be competing or reaching for the educational opportunities before them as they rank the poorest amongst their peers in a …

Syllabus: How To Recover A Truly Sustainable Food System: A Look At Food Waste And Recovery, Mary Bell, Angela Roell

Sustainability Education Resources

This course is an introduction to food waste, and the impact waste has on our food system. We will introduces the current food recovery hierarchy, and examines how consumers, producers and distributors waste food. We will explore the environmental and social impact of food waste in our food system, and introduce social and policy initiatives employed to recover food. Students will read, refect and discuss the actionable steps being taken to shift our local food system's food waste into food recovery.

Conference Program 2015, Rudd Adoption Research Program

Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

New Worlds of Adoption Conference: Launching into Adulthood

Parents' Gender Ideology And Gendered Behavior As Predictors Of Children's Gender-Role Attitudes: A Longitudinal Exploration, Hillary Paul Halpern

Masters Theses

This longitudinal study examined the association between parents’ early and concurrent gender ideology and gendered behaviors and their children’s gender-role attitudes at age six. Specifically, parents' global beliefs about women's and men's "rightful" roles in society, as well as their work preferences for mothers, were considered in relation to the gender-role attitudes held by their first-graders. In addition, parents’ gendered behaviors, including their division of household and childcare tasks, division of paid work hours, and job traditionality were examined as predictors of children’s gender-role attitudes. Based on previous research, it was hypothesized parents’ early and concurrent behavior and ideology would …

Testosterone, Dominance, And Depression In Recently Married Couples, Gabriela I. Quiñones-Torres

Masters Theses

Dominance refers to the wide set of behaviors individuals engage in with the intention of achieving or maintaining social status. Considering the relevance of these behaviors in the dynamics of close relationships, this study examined relations among testosterone, dominance, and the emotional health of a total of 225 opposite sex newlywed couples. An original measure of dominance was developed that accounted for both positive and negative manifestations, as well as situational and dispositional qualities of these status-promoting behaviors. Structural equation analyses revealed that dominance behaviors predict depression for both wives and husbands, and that positive and negative aspects of dominance …

Adverse Childhood Experiences Effect On Young Adults Chronic Stress Response, Karen Kalamkis, Jerrold Meyer

Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

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Socialization Practices Among Gay And Lesbian Adoptive Parents, M.K. Oakley, Rachel Farr, David Scherer

Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

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Bicultural Socialization Practices In The Netherlands, Norway, And The United States Of America With Children Adopted From India, Maureen Riley-Behringer, Victor Groza, Wendy Tieman, Femmie Juffer Ph.D

Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

No abstract provided.

Understanding The Cultural Values Of Latino Adoptive Families In Southern New England, Julie Guest

Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

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Identity Development In A Transracial Environment: Racial/Ethnic Minority Adoptees In Minnesota, Emma R. Hamilton, Diana R. Samek, Margaret Keyes, Matt Mcgue

Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

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Early Adjustment Of International Adoptive Families Compared To Non-Adoptive Families, Chie Kotake, Jessica Matthews, Elizabeth Mullins, Rachel Katz, Laurie Miller, Linda Tirella, Ellen Pinderhughes, Ann Easterbrooks

Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

No abstract provided.

Stigma And Foster Care: An Experimental Investigation, Deborah Denzel, Marian L. Macdonald

Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

No abstract provided.

Trends In U.S. Adoptions: 2000 To 2009, Matthew Shuman

Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

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How Does Parental Anxiety Affect Children’S Self-Perceptions In Adoptive Families With Lesbian, Gay, And Heterosexual Parents?, Maggie Cunningham, Rachel Farr

Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

No abstract provided.

Unpacking Racial Preferences Of Young Transracial Adoptees From China, Daryl Cooley, Ellen Pinderhughes

Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

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A Qualitative Study Of Racial And Adoption Microaggressions Experienced By Adoptive Families With Children, Elliotte S. Harrington, Julia Kimball, Andrew Kitchen, Jonathan Mazza, Zoey Shaw, Jadah Stephens, Jodi Waddell, Ebony White, Xian Zhang

Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

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Dyadic Trait Fit In Adoptive Families, Bibiana Koh, Martha A. Rueter

Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

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Relationship Adversity In Early Parenthood Among Gay, Lesbian, And Heterosexual Couples Who Adopt Through The Child Welfare System, April M. Moyer, Alyssa J. Henry, Abbie E. Goldberg

Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

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Exploring The Psychosocial Adjustment And Parental Relationships Of Ethiopian Adoptees: The Untold Stories, Dara Kruman, Ruth G. Mcroy

Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

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Keynote: Innovations And Best Practices: Helping Adoptive Families Overcome Early Adversities, Philip Fisher

Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

Children who have experienced foster care and adoption often have early adverse experiences that impact their development and complicate effective parenting. Dr. Fisher will discuss the effects of early stressful experiences on children's neurobiological and psychological development, highlighting the brain's plasticity over the course of development in order to maximize the effectiveness of interventions. Perhaps nowhere is this more important than in the area of adoption, where there are still very few evidence-based interventions, where many adoptive parents struggle to find appropriate services that can meet the needs of their children and families, and where there is very little state …

Conference Program 2014, University Of Massachusetts Amherst

Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

New Worlds of Adoption Conference: Helping Families Overcome Early Adversity

Through The Camera Lens Of Development: An Exploration Of Ngos' Representations Of Africa, Sebastian Lindstrom

Master's Capstone Projects

The purpose if this qualitative research is to acquire new knowledge in the African visual representational landscape, a digital space carefully filmed and edited by some of the most celebrated and acknowledged, mostly Western, NGOs in the world. The most watched Africa-related video from 50 NGOs were selected, downloaded and analyzed. After continuous re-watching of a 3.5 hour long set of visual data tree themes emerged. One segment relates around the NGOs intervention, another about the term or statement ‘help’, and the last theme is HIV/AIDS. The findings include the realization that the beneficiary was never explaining the intervention of …

Negotiating Invisibility: Addressing Lgbt Prejudice In China, Hong Kong, And Thailand, Hunter Gray

Master's Capstone Projects

This research serves as a consolidation of information regarding the global response to LGBT prejudice, and in particular, the response of organizations situated in China, Hong Kong, and Thailand. Interviews with activists and researchers from organizations that address LGBT prejudice served as the main form of data. Findings and subsequent analysis point to the ways in which organizations respond to the lack of visibility of the LGBT community, and how this invisibility is related to various manifestations of LGBT prejudice. Strategies that organizations have developed to respond to LGBT prejudice reveal how organizations negotiate contextual variables in their attempts to …

Through A Critical Sociocultural Lens: Parents’ Perspectives Of An Early Childhood Program In Guatemala, Yaëlle Stempfelet

Master's Capstone Projects

The present case study is on an Early Childhood program in Guatemala based on participant parents’ feedback. The Early Childhood program is non-formal, focuses on emergent literacy and nutrition, and takes place in a community-run library in a poor, semi-rural town in the mountainous regions of Quiche, Guatemala. The library was set up by a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that works in Guatemala as well as another neighboring country.

Using a critical sociocultural lens, this study assumes that the parents’ perceptions reflect the state of the program and that involving their feedback through this research will ultimately help to bolster the …

Ingos In The Mirror: Critical Reflections Of Practitioners Implementing Psychosocial Support Programs, Stephen M. Richardson

Master's Capstone Projects

The purpose of this qualitative research is to learn from the professional wisdom of practitioners involved in implementing school-based psychosocial support in conflict-affected contexts. Practitioners from four different International Non-governmental Organizations (INGO) working in three different contexts—the Congo Basin region, the South Asia region, and the Sudan region—reflect on the concepts and realities of the psychosocial support models that their organizations use. A common theme emerging from these interviews is that the approach to psychosocial support has the potential to do harm. The practitioners provide real examples of the ways in which harm may occur and their possible causes. These …