The purpose of this arts based autoethnography is to describe and explore my experience of blackness as an African American dance/movement therapist in training. A brief history of dance movement therapy, diversity within the field, the experience of blackness from the eyes of f…
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the demand for mental health services but has also imposed new barriers for those seeking care, creating a widespread shortage. As a result, providers are increasingly looking to incorporate technology into mental healthcare. Despi…
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…
The historical and scientific development of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and its status in Bulgarian healthcare is the focus of this thesis. The emphasis is on homoeopathy as the most common CAM method in Europe. Basic concepts are defined, and the European conc…
Over the past several decades, the cost of healthcare across the globe continued to increase. The projection is for faster growth in all sectors due to the improving economy, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the aging United States’ population (i.e., Baby Boomers). This growth…
Background and objectives: Despite a large amount of theoretical literature on best practices in deaf mental health, empirical research concerning hearing mental health professionals working with d/Deaf service users has been limited, with the majority of literature written in E…
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is one of the fastest growing public health concerns in the United States. There were 30.3 million patients (9.4% of the US populations) suffering from diabetes in 2015. Diabetes, which is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States, is known to…
This dissertation contributes to the scant and inconclusive literature on fidelity and alliance effects on outcomes of manualized youth behavioral health intervention. The aims of this study are to test the comparative effects of fidelity and alliance on (1) treatment progress, …
The education field has long wrestled with how to best handle students who behave badly. Specifically, students who behave in an unsafe manner towards other students present a special conundrum and the traditional response has been to suspend them (Adams, 2000; Black, 2016; Cerr…
The purpose of this systemic review of the literature is to explore the effectiveness of family-focused community-based interventions in reducing recidivism in juvenile offenders. This review examined 16 quantitative studies from the United States, Netherlands, and the United Ki…
Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is a family-based and empirically supported intervention program for adolescent substance-use and delinquency (Alexander, Waldron, Robbins, & Neeb, 2013; Robbins, Alexander, Turner, & Hollimon, 2016). FFT provides multilevel interventions …
The wars in Afghanistan (OEF) and Iraq (OIF) represent the most sustained American combat operations since the Vietnam War. A wealth of research has shown the frequency and intensity of exposure to combat experiences is positively correlated with risk for chronic PTSD and associ…
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…
Overviews evidence-based family treatments for adolescent conduct problems. Three treatments succeed in meeting recommendations for treatment development set forth in recent evaluations by reviewers and federal entities. These treatments (Functional Family Therapy, Multisystemic…
In this study, we explore how specific individual, family, and family-within-community characteristics, as well as aspects of in-home family therapy, relate to responses to treatment. The Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale scores and Global Assessment of Functionin…
With the emergence of postmodern models and critiques, the concept of symptom functionality has lost favor in the family therapy field. To be reconsidered as clinically valuable it must both demonstrate pragmatic utility and meet ethical and conceptual criteria. Functional hypot…
School refusal and truancy is a community problem that affects individuals, families, and organizations while lacking a universally accepted definition. At-risk youth often exhibit academic failure, and externalized and or internalized problematic behaviors while schools lose fu…
There are approximately 1.3 million youth who have been diagnosed with a co-occurring disorder. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between the type of therapy (brief strategic family therapy or family functional therapy), demographic factors (age, race, ty…
In order to be a therapist, one has to make certain they have addressed their emotional baggage. The journey to my career in art therapy has been filled with many educationally enlightening moments, both personal and professional. How does one mitigate their personal history as …
This art-based heuristic self-study explores Chinese associations with the color red through examining the underlying cultural values that are indicated in common auspicious phrases written on fai chun . From there, the researcher reflects on the effects of these values on solid…