The growth of mobile phone use has paralleled increased reports of identity theft. Identity theft can result in financial loss and threats to a victim's personal safety. Although trends in identity theft are well-known, less is known about individual cell phone users' attitudes …
Intercountry adoption, where children are born in one country and adopted by families in another country, has become an increasing global phenomenon (Scherman & Harré, 2004). As indicated by a review of the literature, the research in relation to intercountry adoptees provides c…
Trauma research has focused on the constructs of betrayal, betrayal blindness and Betrayal Trauma Theory with civilian populations. Research studies on betrayal in the military are sparse and have primarily explored accounts of military sexual traumas or Vietnam Veterans' war ex…
This study is a phenomenological investigation through interviews with 14 co-researchers, 11 females and 3 males, who report a state of consciousness and awareness that they call love as a "miracle." The data naturally clusters into a thematic sequence of five processes: to awak…
Within the field of school psychology there exists literature for school psychologists working with specific ethnic and linguistic groups (Frisby & Reynolds, 2005; Tomes, 2011). The Arab American population is estimated to be 3.6 million (Arab American Institute, 2012). However,…
Extensive research has been conducted over the past twenty years on Bible Storying, specifically Chronological Bible Storying, and its effectiveness for discipleship and leadership development in oral cultures. Limited study, however, has been completed on its application, curri…
Background: The current DSM-5 criteria for trauma eliminate events that do not involve actual or threatened death or injury to an individual or someone that that individual has a close relationship with. This is quite limiting as it ignores the reality that one person’s negative…
The primary purpose of this study was to qualitatively examine psychoanalytic or psychodynamic therapists’ experiences of fear and power in multicultural contexts. A phenomenological approach was employed in order to address the following research questions: 1) How is fear exper…