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Women4Peace: Transformative Learning through International Collaboration and Peacebuilding
(University of Central Oklahoma, 2020-07)Recent literature suggests that education abroad programs provide a unique opportunity for transformative learning experiences (Gibson, 2017). This paper examines one such approach through a case study of an international ... -
Best practices for working with transgender clients in Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare
(University of New Hampshire, 2020-01)Research suggests that simply identifying an individual as transgender does not necessarily indicate the existence of other mental health concerns. However, many transgender adolescents experience significant psychosocial ... -
Outdoor Adventure and Experiential Education and COVID-19: What Have We Learned?
(Sage, 2021-11)Background: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) now known as COVID-19 changed the world and the outdoor adventure and experiential education (OAEE) fields were not immune. These changes ... -
Transformative learning and the development of cultural humility in social work students
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-03)Cultural humility is increasingly important in social work literature given its emphasis on mitigating power imbalances in helping relationships, particularly across cultural differences. Consequently, there is a need to ... -
Involuntary Youth Transport (IYT) to Treatment Programs: Best Practices, Research, Ethics, and Future Directions
(Springer, 2021-11-06)Involuntary youth transport (IYT) is a controversial practice used to admit adolescents into residential care. Critics point out that IYT is in need of regulation and is best used as a last resort. This article examines ... -
Impact of COVID-19 on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Latinx Caregivers of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021-07-28)The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the entire world in unprecedented ways. However, populations that have had a history of marginalization have experienced a more profound impact. One such group is Latinx families of ... -
Interrelations between After-School Settings and the Delinquency and Emotional-Behavioral Problems of Elementary School Children: Findings from Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020-09-17)Even though there are different types of after-school settings, numerous studies have focused on formal after-school settings (i.e., after-school programs or ASPs) and their association with children’s academic, physical, ... -
Preventive Dental Care Utilization in Asian Americans in Austin, Texas: Does Neighborhood Matter?
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2018-10)Although dental care is an essential component of comprehensive health care, a substantial proportion of the U.S. population lacks access to it. Disparities in dental care are most pronounced in racial/ethnic minority ... -
Virtual Reality Exposure Simulation for Student Veteran Social Anxiety and PTSD: A Case Study
(Springer, 2021)Exposure based exercises are a common element of many gold standard treatments for anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder and virtual reality simulations have been evaluated as a platform for providing clients ... -
Outcomes of a Bundled Intervention Approach: Analyzing an Enhanced MSW Training Project for Integrated-Care Settings
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-12)Those in the field of social work education are continuously looking for methods to enhance the production of competent, effective MSWs. One approach is to provide enhanced training programs to select groups of students. ... -
Predicting Psychological Distress Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic by Machine Learning: Discrimination and Coping Mechanisms of Korean Immigrants in the U.S.
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020-08)The current study examined the predictive ability of discrimination-related variables, coping mechanisms, and sociodemographic factors on the psychological distress level of Korean immigrants in the U.S. amid the COVID-19 ... -
Teaching about racial and ethnic diversity in social work education: A systematic review
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-09)Little of social work literature provides evidence of best teaching practices for preparing social work students to work with clients from historically excluded racial and ethnic groups. A systematic literature review was ... -
'Those are the things that we need to be talking about’: The impact of learning about the history of racial oppression during Ghana study abroad
(Routledge, 2019-10)This article examined what U.S. college students who participated in a Ghana study abroad program learned about the history of racial oppression and the meaning-making that resulted from that knowledge. Based on inductive ... -
Critical consciousness raising about global economic inequality through experiential and emotional learning
(Sage, 2020-11)Background: The ability to question global structures and analyze one’s own positionality in relation to economic, political, and social forces is essential for college graduates. Although study abroad programs claim ... -
The Association Between Perceived Discrimination and Allostatic Load in the Boston Puerto Rican Health Study
(American Psychosomatic Society, 2019-09)Objective: Perceived discrimination is a risk factor for poor health among ethnic and racial minority groups. However, few studies have examined the association between major lifetime and everyday perceived ...
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Health Vulnerability of Immigrants with Limited English Proficiency: A Study of Older Korean Americans
(The American Geriatrics Society, 2016-07)OBJECTIVES— To examine the extent to which limited English proficiency (LEP) poses a risk to physical and mental health, using older Korean Americans as a target population.
DESIGN—Cross-sectional ...
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Preference for Patient-Provider Ethnic Concordance in Asian Americans
(Routledge, 2018-08)Objectives: The present study examined factors associated with the preference for patient-provider ethnic concordance in Asian Americans.
Design: With data drawn from the 2015 Asian American ...
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Mental Health Service Use and Perceived Unmet Needs for Mental Health Care in Asian Americans
(Springer US, 2019-02)Using data from the Asian American Quality of Life (AAQoL, n = 2609) survey, logistic regression models of mental health service use and perceived unmet needs were estimated with background variables, ethnicity, and mental ... -
The Moderating Role of Attachment on the Association between Childhood Maltreatment and Adolescent Dating Violence
(Elsevier, 2018-18)Approximately twenty percent of female and ten percent of male adolescents report violence in their dating relationships and there is a significant association between dating violence in adolescence and later perpetration ...
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The Intersection of Self-Control Theory, Objective Self-Awareness, and Mindfulness
(Redshine Publication, 2018-06)This study investigates how changes in self-awareness impact criminological self-control and the degree to which mindfulness buffers against these changes. To accomplish this task, 118 undergraduate participants were ...
