Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by restricted interests, repetitive behaviors, and deficits in social and communication skills. In order to help a person with ASD improve their communication skills, behavior analysts should place emphasis on teaching intraverbal …
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Young adult women are more likely to be dissatisfied with their bodies (Wansink et al., 2017) and engage in disordered eating patterns when they have a history of receiving parental comments about their bodies during childhood (Fortesa & Ajete, 2014). Furthermore, high bodily sh…
This is the first time such an extensive application has been attempted. The thesis argues that Gestalt therapy as a modality of perception, can best come to a recognition of itself in the Phenomenology of Perception. That Gestalt therapy requires such a support is apparent righ…
The purpose of this study was to understand the lived experiences of post-deployed veterans’ use of religion and spirituality. I used a transcendental phenomenological approach, following the seven steps of the Moustakas’ (1994) modification of the Van Kaam (1956) method for ana…
The purpose of this study was to conduct a content analysis of the scholarly literature on marital quality in African American marital unions in 20 scholarly journals, and in TWU dissertations published from 2008-2018. This content analysis study used a combination of qualitativ…
The purpose of this project was to create a resource on spiritual exercises that would provide support for families participating in the Pennsylvania Tourette Syndrome Alliance. The design of the project was to survey a panel of experts. They were given access to the resource an…
Child mediated-consequences are likely to influence how often caregivers implement a prescribed intervention with students with disabilities, but prior studies fall short of demonstrating such a functional relation. Study 1 investigated correlations between child performance and…
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…
Decision making is an important cognitive process that can become dysfunctional when exposed to drugs of abuse. Those who suffer from substance use disorders often have increased rates of impulsivity, including delay discounting, a type of impulsivity comprised of magnitude and …
Resurgence is one of several laboratory models of treatment relapse that describes the recurrence of a previously decremented behavior when a more recently acquired alternative behavior undergoes a worsening of conditions. The present study comprised two experimental sections th…
Human error in medicine – medical error – has been identified as the third leading cause of death within the United States. Analyses of deaths attributable to medical error conclude that, overwhelmingly, faulty communication plays a central role in medical error. Faulty communic…
Research suggests that non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) precedes and increases risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors, but the reasons for this are not understood (Hamza et al., 2012). The trajectory from NSSI to suicidal thoughts and behaviors likely reflects a complex interac…
Purpose: Studies indicate a distal association between mothers’ history of childhood abuse and emotional/behavioral problems in their children, though the pathways linking the two remain unclear. Utilizing a developmental cascade framework, this study extends prior research by p…
A recent generation of electronic vapor products (EVPs) called pod devices have appeared within the EVP market with JUUL being the most popular. Many brands/models of non-JUUL pods (NJPs) appeared on the market shortly after. With recent FDA regulations prohibiting flavors in JU…