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Every Body Matters: College-Aged Women's Experiences of Body Positivity and Self-Acceptance

Description: The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological inquiry was to explore college-aged women's experiences of body positivity and self-acceptance. I applied a conceptual framework that blended feminist identity development model (FIDM) and relational cultural theory (RCT) to answer the following questions: (a) what are the lived experiences of college-aged women who identify as having a positive and accepting body image? and (b) how do college-aged women's intersecting identities contribute to… more
Date: May 2020
Creator: Rogers, Jordan N.
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Effectiveness of Child-Centered Play Therapy on Childhood Depression

Description: Depression in childhood is a significant mental health concern, impacting cognitive, affective, social, behavioral, and physical domains. Children who experience depressive symptoms are at an increased risk for physical and mental health, social, and behavioral problems throughout adulthood. Children who are marginalized due to their socioeconomic status, racial and ethnic identities are at an increased risk to experience depression and limited access to mental health care. Further, previous re… more
Date: May 2020
Creator: Burgin, Elizabeth
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An Historical Biography of Virginia Axline

Description: Virginia Axline developed a new field of child psychotherapy by applying a nondirective approach to the burgeoning experimentation of utilizing play in therapeutic work with children. While much biographical information is available regarding other leaders in the fields of counseling and psychology, historical research into Axline and her development of child-centered play therapy represent a gap in the literature. The purpose of the current study was to: 1) examine the professional contributio… more
Date: May 2020
Creator: Turley Stich, Erin
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The Impact of Child-Centered Play Therapy on Academic Achievement of Children in Poverty

Description: Childhood poverty is a prevalent concern in the United States and is associated with poor psychological and academic outcomes. Psychosocial stressors associated with life in poverty may interrupt the development of a positive self-concept, ultimately hampering the academic achievement of children in poverty. As the therapeutic objectives of child-centered play therapy (CCPT) support the development of an increasingly positive self-concept, I explored the impact of CCPT on the academic achieveme… more
Date: May 2020
Creator: Tucker, Sarah K
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Faculty of Color Mentorship Experiences in Counselor Education

Description: Professional counseling associations and ethical accrediting bodies mandate that counseling programs, counselor educators, and leaders in the counseling field uphold a commitment to the recruitment, employment, and retention of ethnically and culturally diverse faculty. Despite written standards and growth in the profession, faculty of color in counselor education programs continue to be significantly underrepresented at the assistant professor, associate professor, and full professor ranks. Ad… more
Date: August 2020
Creator: Oller, Marianna L.
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Development and Exploration of the Crucial Cs Self Report Instrument

Description: This study aimed to explore the ability to capture the theoretical constructs of Adlerian crucial Cs (capable, connect, count, and courage) through creation of a self-report instrument for children. After following a four-phase process to develop the Crucial Cs Self Report (CCSR), including use of an expert panel, field reviews, preliminary testing, and final administration, the researcher utilized a series of exploratory factor analyses to explore the internal factor structure and relationship… more
Date: August 2020
Creator: Angus, Emily
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The Experiences of Black Transracially Adoptive Parents

Description: The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological inquiry was to explore the experiences of adoptive parents who have Black transracially adopted children. More specifically, I sought to understand how the parents perceived their child's cultural and racial identity development and how they perceived the child-parent relationship. Therefore, I used the cultural-racial identity model created for transracial adoptees as a theoretical framework to answer the following questions: What are Black t… more
Date: August 2020
Creator: Conner, Charmaine Lanae
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Centralizing the Voices and Experiences of Microaggressions of Queer Womxn of Color in Therapy

Description: The purpose of this participatory action research study was to explore queer womxn of color's experiences of microaggressions in therapy. Due to the multifaceted and complex experiences of queer womxn of color, this study was informed by intersectionality theory and utilized photovoice methodology to answer the following question: How do queer womxn of color experience microaggressions in therapy? The seven queer womxn of color who participated in this study provided vivid, honest, and courag… more
Date: August 2020
Creator: Reyes, Ana Guadalupe
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A Consensual Qualitative Analysis of Counselor Educators' Experiences Incorporating Neuroscience

Description: Neuroscience is a relevant topic for counseling and counselor education, and it is a required area of competency for accredited counseling education programs. Despite this required competency, current counseling literature scarcely addresses neuroscience in counselor education. I have designed the present study to address this scarcity by exploring counselor educators' experiences of incorporating neuroscience into the counselor education curriculum using a consensual qualitative research (CQR)… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Beijan, Lisa Lee
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