Browsing by Department "Special Education, Rehabilitation, Counseling"
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SOCRATES-C: Measuring Readiness for Change in Academic Coaching
(2018-06-08)
Academic coaching is a remedial method to assist undergraduate students experiencing academic difficulties due to counterproductive behavioral patterns related to their academic skills and habits. Developing academic skills ...
Special Educator Preparation: Are We Preparing Candidates who Possess the Dispositions to be Effective Educators for Diverse Learners?
(2020-04-17)
Considerable debate continues in the field of educator preparation regarding how to ensure candidates possess critical teaching dispositions upon program completion. Despite considerable evidence that teachers who do not ...
STEM Summer Bridge Programs: Implications for College Counseling and Social Justice in Higher Education
(2024-04-24)
Ethical counselors promote social justice (American Counseling Association, 2014). Based on counselors’ specialty and site of practice, promoting social justice involves different goals and methods. One way for college ...
Stereotype Threat, Black Consciousness, Racial Identity, and Psychological Wellbeing: Examining the Fluidity of Biracial Identity
(2021-11-12)
To date, the majority of research surrounding stereotype threat explores the experiences of monoracial minorities, with little research exploring the intersection of individuals who hold multiple racial identities. Research ...
Student-Led Individualized Education Program Meetings: A Study of Special Education Teachers’ Self-Perceptions and Practices
(2017-04-25)
The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the self-perceptions and practices of credentialed, practicing full-time special education teachers towards student-led IEPs. The problem for this study was the lack of ...
A Study of the Relationships Among and Between Factors Within the Workplace, Emotional Exhaustion and Turnover Intention in Professional Counselors
(2019-07-23)
The purpose of the current study was to gain an understanding of the relationships among and between factors within the workplace, emotional exhaustion, and turnover intention; specifically in mental health counseling ...
Surviving Stigmatizing Sociocultural Environments: A Critical Narrative Inquiry into LGBTQ+ POC Experiences of Meaning-Making
(2021-07-14)
The purpose of this critical narrative study was to examine the lived experiences and meaning-making structures of LGBTQ+ POC as they negotiate and conceal their stigmatized social identities within sociocultural contexts. ...
Swiped off my feet: Exploring differences related to relationship initiation
(2020-05-27)
An increasing number of people are going on dates and forming relationships after meeting through a mobile app or online dating site. Although stigma towards the use of these services is likely decreasing, negative perceptions ...
Teaching Diversity: An Exploration of the Experience of Instructors Teaching Diversity Courses to Mental Health Professionals
(2021-11-17)
The current study explored the experiences of instructors who teach diversity/multiculturism classes to students training to become a mental health professional. More specifically, the current study examined the reported ...
“Tell Your Friends to Pull Up”: Development and Validation of the Measure of Allyship Identity (MAI)
(2022-06-24)
The present study describes the development and validation of the Measure of Allyship Identity (MAI), an instrument intending to assess the development of one’s identity as a social justice ally across a continuum. Items ...
Therapists' Implicit Bias towards Chinese International Students
(2019-07-11)
This study examined therapists’ implicit biases toward Chinese international students,
including therapists’ unfavorable perception, tendency to pathologize their struggles less than
those of others, attribution of issues, ...
Transformative Learning in Counseling Programs through International Experiences: A 25-Year Qualitative Content Analysis of the Counseling Literature
(2017-06-21)
For decades the counseling profession has emphasized the importance of
multicultural competence when working effectively with diverse populations (Arredondo
et al., 1996; Korman, 1974; Pederson, 1991; Ratts, Singh, ...
Transgender and Genderqueer Youth and Adolescent Populations: An Ethnographic Content Analysis of Postings to Social Media
(2017-07-25)
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the trends, issues, and concerns surrounding the transgender and genderqueer youth and adolescent populations with the aim of better understanding the culture of this demographic. ...
Understanding the Experiences of Student Parents in Master's Counseling Graduate Progams
(2020-07-22)
The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the experiences that student
parents have in master’s counseling graduate programs and fill the gap of student parent research
that exists (Trepal et al., ...
Using the Concrete-Representational-Abstract Sequence to Teach Conceptual Understanding of Place Value, Rounding, and Expanded Notation to Elementary-aged Students with Learning Disabilities
(2020-05-13)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of CRA instruction on teaching place value understanding, rounding to the tens and hundreds place, and making equations multiple ways. The intervention included ...
Veterans, Military Culture, and the Therapeutic Alliance
(2023-12-04)
Understanding how military culture influences the therapeutic alliance is vital to ensuring competent and ethical care for the veteran population. A qualitative analysis incorporating a social constructionist framework, ...
Vicarious Trauma, Subthreshold PTSD, and Resilience in Professional Counselors Working with Traumatized Populations
(2019-06-07)
As counselors empathically listen to their clients’ traumatic experiences on a regular basis, there is a potential for counselors to be negatively impacted and become impaired (Abassary & Goodrich, 2014). Without effective ...
Visible Yet Unseen: An Exploration of the Moderation Effects of Religiosity on the Relationship Between Discrimination and Psychological Distress among Muslim Women
(2022-05-19)
The purpose of this study was to gain understanding into the experiences of gendered discrimination among Muslim women by examining the relationship between religious discrimination and psychological distress. Specifically, ...
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors’ Knowledge and Practices of Reasonable Accommodations to Increase Employment of Persons with Disabilities
(2016-12-12)
Americans with disabilities face unemployment rates that are unacceptably high (Krooks, 2011). This high unemployment rate is caused, in part, by employment discrimination against persons with disabilities (EEOC, 2007). ...
“Well, What did you Sexpect?” The Relationship of Heavy Episodic Drinking with Rape Myth Acceptance, Sexual Expectations, and Sexual-Coercion Alcohol Expectancies
(2022-07-26)
Contemporary research has established a strong relationship between heavy episodic drinking and both perpetration and victimization of sexual assault. To better understand this relationship, we aimed to explore the interaction ...