Particularly problematic during the coronavirus quarantine, intimate-partner stalking is (a) a crime that comprises a constellation of threatening and repeatedly intrusive behaviors, (b) predominantly committed against women, and (c) often an attempt to maintain control within a…
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This qualitative phenomenological study is intended to expand the understanding of family resilience. Specifically, this study explores the role of religious beliefs in coping with trauma as a family. Three males and three females were interviewed who are above the age of eighte…
Oppositional defiant disorder is one of the most common psychiatric diagnoses in childhood. This hermeneutic research study explores the cultural, historical, and psychological phenomena contributing to contemporary childhood and related disorders, specifically oppositional defi…
Background: Patients with problem gambling in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) experience worse psychosocial outcomes than their non-problem gambling counterparts. Interventions targeting problem gambling may enhance psychosocial functioning, though more work is needed to d…
Despite the prevalence and health risks associated with eating disorders, research on the best empirically-supported treatments is inconclusive. Research has shown that few clinicians (approximately 13%) report adhering to a single therapeutic model when treating eating disorder…
African American bereavement experiences are underrepresented in the literature in comparison to Caucasian experiences. Due to cultural differences, the available literature may be misleading and unhelpful to African Americans dealing with grief. Therefore, the purpose of this s…
Risky sexual behaviors (e.g., engaging in condomless sex) are a leading cause of disease (e.g., sexually transmitted infections) and burden on people and families in the United States and across the globe. The United States has a longstanding history of pathologizing human anato…
Cognitive vulnerability-stress models explain depression as the result of an interaction between negative cognitive styles and stressful life events; however, the specific content of the cognitive diathesis varies from model to model. This study examined three cognitive diathese…
Risky sexual behavior (RSB) is a major public health concern due to health outcomes, such as HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, and unwanted pregnancies. RSB has been identified as 1 of the main components contributing to the high HIV incidence rate in sub-Saharan Africa…
Functional communication training (FCT) has long been empirically supported as a best-practice approach for treating problem behavior and teaching alternative more appropriate forms of communication. However, the modality that is selected for the functional communication respons…
This dissertation examines female sexual abuse survivors’ experience participating in a Christian-based sexual abuse church support group. Although sexual abuse support groups have gained more attention in society, there is still not a large number of religious/spiritual support…
Eating disorder rates have increased steadily in the United States, with over half of female adolescents displaying a disturbance in eating patterns. While existing forms of treatment are positively recognized within the field of eating disorders, statistics continue to demonstr…
Research evidences a link between eating disorders and suicidal behaviors, and capability for suicide has been proposed as a mechanism underlying this relationship. Negative body attitudes and experiences (BAE) are another promising set of explanatory variables, central to eatin…
Noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) is an antecedent manipulation used to decrease problem behaviors. NCR is often used as an intervention for severe problem behaviors that are too dangerous to risk the possibility of extinction-induced side effects. During an NCR procedure, reinf…
Stress research in North America typically uses non-human animals or college students as participants. By using only college students as participants, researchers may neglect environmental factors more stressful and longer lived than those typically experienced in a college envi…
Black women are starting to be recognized as a high-risk group for breast cancer. In addition to Black women having a relatively high incidence rate and the highest mortality rate, Black breast cancer patients were found to have an alarming rate of the BRCA1/2 genetic mutation. …
Recent comparative economic histories between Chile and Argentina reveal annually low inflation rates in Chile and chronic hyperinflation in Argentina. Although most researchers agree that there is a strong correlation between high financial literacy and “savvy” financial behavi…
The work of a minister differs from other professionals in a variety of ways. Due to the overlap between the personal and professional components of a minster’s life, there is a significant impact on their children’s spirituality when a parent is terminated from their role. The …