When forecasting the amount of water consumed by individuals at Kuwait’s Mubarak Al-Kabeer city Block 8, it is important for any water producing company to tell the amount of water they should produce for its target consumers. After interviewing a couple of residents in this blo…
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This research study explored the meaning of the lived spiritual conversion experience for the African American male by exploring in-depth descriptions of the phenomenon through semi-structured interviewing. The spiritual conversion process has been studied from perspectives of A…
Faculty behavior inside and outside the classroom is one of the many concerns faced by higher education administrators. Inappropriate comments, behavior, or acts engaged in by faculty members have resulted in sexual harassment complaints being filed by students, and in some case…
This program has been developed to address gaps in African American religious culture and psychological programing to develop an informed approach to meet the psychosocial and emotional needs of the religious population that make up the Black church. The Black church has served …
The literature establishes the importance of religious affiliations in the lives of youth. However, mental health professionals overlook this factor in assessment and treatment planning. The purpose of this qualitative, descriptive phenomenological study was to explore how menta…
Behavioral momentum theory research has demonstrated that differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA) based interventions, while decreasing the rate of a target response (i.e., problem behavior), may in fact increase the persistence of the target response when there…
The purpose of this study was to examine whether women who experience abuse as an adult have experienced abuse as a child. The relationship between the types of abuse experienced as a female adult and the types of abuse experienced as a child was also examined. Previous research…
Reversal learning is a measure of a subject’s ability to correctly allocate their behavior to a response following a change in contingencies (Audet and Lefebvre, 2017) and is used to measure behavioral flexibility across multiple disciplines (Laughlin, Grant, Williams & Jentsch,…
This study examines what psychosocial factors influence treatment seeking behavior among female survivors of eating disorders. This study uses a mixed methods survey consisting of open-ended item questions regarding treatment experience and social environment, and close-ended it…
Historically, Black men have been found to perpetrate IPV at higher rates in comparison to other ethnic groups; however, studies of IPV perpetration have largely focused on samples of White individuals. There is a paucity of empirical research related to the interrelationships a…
College students undergo identity development in emerging adulthood, including adjustments in relationships, exploration of occupations, and revisions of spiritual worldviews (Arnett, 2000). Using a modified portion of Lent’s (2004) normative model of life satisfaction, this stu…
Helping professionals have a role as service providers when working with African American men with dual diagnosis and incarceration histories. The purpose of this qualitative single case study was to understand how helping professionals provided community-based treatment and est…
Ayahuasca is a mixture composed of psychedelic and other ingredients, historically brewed by indigenous people for centuries to heal physical and mental ailments and for spiritual purposes. In recent years, it has become more widespread and gained an appeal outside of the indige…
Sexual behavior has been pathologized throughout history beginning in 1850 with early psychiatry. The history of pathologizing sexual behavior was explored making a distinction between alternative sexual behaviors and paraphilic disorders as defined by the DSM-5. The purpose of …
Recombinative generalization is a generative outcome that involves responding to novel stimulus combinations, and it can be facilitated through an instructional approach called matrix training. A learner’s history with constituent stimuli and the arrangement of combination stimu…
Social media has become an important tool used by citizens to assess police officers’ activities through user-generated videos that are posted online. However, little is understood about how police officers, who are the main actors of these videos, feel about this phenomenon. Em…
Ineffective financial decision-making has frequently led to nondenominational church failures and contributes to 4,000 to 8,000 churches closing each year in North America. Grounded in stewardship theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore effecti…
Cardiovascular disease still plagues the American people as the number one cause of death even though there have been significant research strides surrounding the treatment of CVD through therapies and other interventions. Plant-based diets have been widely promoted for CVD risk…
Religion benefits both mental and behavioral health in the general population, but not among gay, bisexual, and queer-identified (GBQ) men. Non-affirming monotheistic religion, by causing internalized homophobia (IH), is a risk factor for most GBQ men’s mental health. High IH an…