On May 18, 2018, a shooter entered Santa Fe High School, killing eight students and two teachers. Using ethnographic methods, this research examines the role of faith, rituals, language, and symbols in the trauma-affected community during the response, recovery, and resiliency e…
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As an individual grows up, getting along with others becomes crucial. As time goes by, many seek the approval of their peers. By the time individuals reach high school, many have found their own clique they feel they belong in. Those that do not have these perceived social suppo…
Research suggests that community violence exposure in children appears to be widespread and likely places children at a higher risk for aggression. However, not all children exposed to community violence develop behavioral problems. Interest has centered on possible moderating f…
The purpose of the study was to determine whether developmental assets could be acquired by severely emotionally disturbed youth as an outcome of planned therapeutic interventions in a residential treatment setting. A review of the literature found no experimental or quasi-exper…
This study illuminates the essence of exile and shared Christianity for the Lost Boys from Sudan. Interviews and a phenomenological research method were used to deepen the lived experience of 8 Lost Boys from Sudan. The study vividly describes the literal and symbolic journey ta…
This study explores the relationship between resilience and culture in the case of political violence in Israel. Unstructured interviews were conducted with 10 Israeli Jewish young adults living in the United States. The research was approached from a social constructionist view…
The focus of this dissertation is to answer the question, “What should constitute a contextualized curriculum designed to enhance resiliency in Generation Z Military members?” This resiliency 3-day-workshop with military personnel in Georgia was birthed in response to the vision…
Introduction: Alaska Native (AN) communities have retained a traditional way of life despite centuries of historical trauma and oppression. AN Elders possess a rich understanding of historical events. This study aims to identify the meaning and relative activities of resiliency,…
The ministry project is addressing the spiritual resiliency of service members in an intentional and innovative approach through the presence of an assistance dog in an active military Chaplain Corps setting; specifically, through South Carolina Air National Guard. The issue is …
Research on loss has found that there are correlations between loss and individual factors in a persons’ life, such as substance use (Johnson, 2012; Vaswani, 2008; Zinzow et al., 2009), mental health symptomology (Godfrey, 2017; Harner, Hentz, & Evangalista, 2011), adverse child…
National statistics indicate substantial mental health and academic challenges experienced by a sizable proportion of Hispanic children and adolescents in American school settings. School counselors can provide culturally responsive supports to this population and would benefit …
Marriage and divorce are common experiences, but divorce rates are disproportionately higher among African Americans in comparison to other races. In this qualitative interpretative phenomenological analysis study, the researcher addressed the problem of unidentified protective …
The purpose of this study was to understand the lived experiences of post-deployed veterans’ use of religion and spirituality. I used a transcendental phenomenological approach, following the seven steps of the Moustakas’ (1994) modification of the Van Kaam (1956) method for ana…
This thesis examines an intertidal area and surrounding shoreline along a portion of eastern Bayonne, New Jersey covering approximately 75.4-acres. The site is surrounded by Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor, the new redevelopment zone along the north, Upper New York Bay along the eas…
The devastation that Hurricane María caused in Puerto Rico and the deteriorating conditions in its aftermath triggered a crisis migration that displaced thousands of Puerto Ricans to the United States mainland. Many Puerto Ricans arrived in Central Florida while other crisis mig…
The field of psychotherapy dutifully addresses ruptures in the psyche for posttraumatic stress victims of war and associated violent operations. This thesis explores the possibility of creating resiliency to help prevent and lessen the occurrences or severity of posttraumatic st…
This study of the Monroe, North Carolina Fire Department is to determine if spiritually will impact the coping skills of the firefighters to become more resilient when they encountered traumatic experiences on the job. The city has one hundred firefighters and administrative sta…
Posttraumatic growth has been found to have positive benefits in one’s life following bereavement (Feigelman, Jordan, & Gorman, 2009). Multiple factors have been studied to determine their relationship to PTG, with findings suggesting that resiliency (Bensimon, 2012), social sup…
The primary focus of this research is the poorly understood relationship between water insufficiency and broad-scale social change, in the semi-arid lower Salt River Valley, in central Arizona. The overarching research question guiding this research is if water insufficiency cou…