Using narrative research study founded in social constructionism, I explored the lived experiences of thirty Afghan humanitarian aid workers in Kabul, Afghanistan, to discover how they experienced the war on terror. Ten participants were individually interviewed and their storie…
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The political use of force is generally assumed to be the product of well thought-out decisions, where US presidents defend the nation's most vital interests. However, in recent cases leaders were reluctantly drawn to intervene through a sequence of short-term events. They found…
The end of the Cold War brought contexts of violence often protracted over time, along ethnic or other cultural divisions, addressing levels of society above and below that of the nation-state and cited variously as “complex humanitarian emergency” or the “failing state”. The sa…
Psychopathy is an area of research that has been impacted by a great deal of prejudice and stigma. Studies pertaining to therapeutic interventions for psychopathy often argue that the condition might be untreatable. However, more recent research suggests that certain approaches …
This study investigates the prevalence of peri-operative anxiety and the effective management of intra-operative anxiety during awake surgery. Plastic and vascular surgical patients were selected for the study as many procedures performed within these specialities are performed …
The goals of this study were to conduct epidemiological assessment, construct a drowning risk prediction index and assess community acceptability of potential intervention for childhood drowning in Matlab, Bangladesh. In specific aim 1, drowning mortality data for children under…
In accountability frameworks for public education, the focus on the performance of individual schools is increasing. The introduction of parental choice is designed to help low performing schools improve or close. Relatively little attention has been paid, however, to the underl…
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in the military continue to be widely researched and discussed. TBI incidence has been on the rise in the military population and directly coincides with the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is estimated that 57 million individuals worldwide…
Both highly developed and developing countries share the common problem of how to maximize the health and welfare of their populations within a context of ever-tighter budgets for public health expenditures. In such situations, it becomes crucial for governments to identify effe…
This study identifies and analyzes the key conditions for and causes of NATO's success rate in conducting multinational military peace-enforcement interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo. As its baseline it uses the UNPROFOR operation in Bosnia. Subsequently, it evaluates the IFOR/SF…
This thesis investigated therapeutic services and interventions for parents who experience mental health difficulties.
Self-injurious behavior is a worldwide health concern and understanding how self-injurious behavior is developed and maintained is essential for mental health professionals, teachers, and parental figures who want to help those individuals who are engaging in self-injurious beha…
Thirteen first-time mothers who experienced infertility and in vitro fertilization participated in this exploratory constructivist grounded theory research. The participants ranged from 31 to 42 years of age. Their journeys to first-time motherhood spanned on average 5½ years. D…
The purpose of this action research study was to measure the impact of a social and emotional learning program on the academic and behavior of at-risk ninth-grade students. To address the purpose of this action research study, the following research questions guided this inquiry…
Sexual violence towards children is a traumatic event which requires family and targeted interventions to support the child. When children with disabilities are the victims, interventions need to be specialized to the developmental strengths and differences of the child and disa…
Fatima Mernissi's memoir Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood elaborates a process of self-narration that entails self-construction and self-re-creation. This dissertation examines the multiple strategies this autobiography delineates for the construction of a feminist …