"Since 1898, the United States and the United Nations have deployed military force more than three dozen times in attempts to rebuild failed states. Currently there are more state-building campaigns in progress than at any time in the past century--including Afghanistan, Bosnia,…
"La relation de l’individu avec son environnement est en constante évolution. Dans un contexte social où de nouveaux phénomènes émergent continuellement et où les solutions passent souvent par un travail collectif, le rôle du travail social revêt une importance indéniable. Cet o…
Adolescence is a "window of opportunity" for the cultivation of positive qualities such as mindfulness and compassion (Roeser & Pinela 2014). Although school-based mindfulness programs have shown promise in cultivating such qualities (see Roeser et al., 2020), a critique in …
Among the many stressors that undocumented Latinx families experience, the current political climate has exacerbated the worries and fears about deportation and can heighten psychological distress. Although the research is minimal with undocumented Latinx, recent figures indicat…
The need for culturally competent mental health providers and the Mexican American immigrant population in the United States are growing. This study focused on themes from therapists’ narratives that may help to comprehend the intricacy of difficulties facing Mexican American ch…
What explains the variation in industrialization strategies across countries? In this thesis paper, I explore the influence of the business environment and economic elites in the varieties of industrial policy. I theorize that differences in how firms are integrated into an econ…
Youth behavior problems have increased in prevalence in Scandinavian countries. Functional Family Therapy (FFT) has been shown to be an effective intervention across diverse populations and international contexts. The current study examines the effectiveness of FFT within a Dani…
Family functioning is predictive of youth recidivism in Singapore. However, there is a lack of family based interventions for youth offenders on community probation. Evidence-based family interventions developed in Western populations, such as Functional Family Therapy (FFT), ha…
Background There is interest in the possibility of indicated prevention of psychosis. There is a strong case for using psychological approaches to prevent transition to psychosis in high-risk patients. Aims To identify individuals at high risk of transition to psychosis, and psy…
Purpose: The aim of the current study was to describe and compare endocrine therapy-related symptoms and quality of life in female cancer survivors taking aromatase inhibitors, tamoxifen, and no endocrine therapy, and to evaluate the effect of an exercise intervention on these s…
The Affordable Care Act expanded access to Medicaid programs and required them to provide essential health benefits, which can include prevention services. This study assesses the costs and benefits to using Medicaid funding to implement a well-known evidence-based program, Func…
The purpose of this project was to equip select pastors of Birmingham Metro Baptist Association (BMBA) churches in need of revitalization with a tool to promote humility. The project involved the implementation of a forty-day, workbook-style devotional intervention designed to p…
Background: Postpartum depression is highly prevalent among women and a lack of partner support is a strong risk factor for PPD. Partner support has been shown to decline significantly during the transition to parenthood. The primary objective of this pilot randomized controlled…
A standard practice in the sociological and comparative politics literature is to interpret ethnicity broadly as identity cleavages deriving from non-class categories such as language, religion, race and caste. In recent decades, conflicts between ‘ethnic’ communities, i.e., gro…
Sexual minorities experience mental and physical health disparities in comparison to heterosexual individuals due to minority stress (Branstrom et al., 2016; Kerridge et al., 2017; Meyer, 2003). Positive psychology interventions have improved mental and physical health (Antoine …
