As systemic racism continues to plague the United States, the lack of culturally accountable mental health services makes it difficult to positively impact African American young adults' overall wellness needs. This project explores the historical impact of racism, and the impac…
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As the older adult community increases, there will be a higher demand for counselor professionals who are prepared to serve the needs of the population. Within that cohort, the population of older adult Black women is rapidly increasing. In efforts to serve the unique cultural n…
Most research on health behavior change programs examines their effectiveness in producing initial behavior changes, but fails to evaluate long-term maintenance of those changes. This study examined the effectiveness of the Cooper Wellness Program (CWP) in Dallas, Texas, in prom…
This study, Bodies in Contexts: Holistic Ideals of Health, Healing, and Wellness in an American Orisha Community, examines how Orisha priests' notions of the human body affect their holistic understanding of health and healing as well as how they define well-being. Specifically,…
Afghanistan and Iraq war student-veterans have increased in population on college campuses in the United States (U.S.) as a result of using the Post 9/11 GI Bill. Healthy Campus 2020 (American College Health Association, 2012) highlighted the importance of college student wellbe…
This dissertation is dedicated to the idea that the cultural phenomenon of wellness—understood as an ethos of self-directed healthcare—provides a generative framework for thinking through the formal and critical dimensions of a diverse selection of novels published in the years …
Chanting is a form of meditation that could be used to help people with wellness, well-being, and stress. The research on chanting varies from different chanting practices to physiological studies such as brain scans. There is little research on the impact and experiences of cha…
The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of choir teachers in a Collaborative Teacher Study Group (CTSG) as they met to discuss wellness in music education and collaborated to include principles and strategies of wellness in their teaching amidst the COVID-19 pan…
Many African American Pentecostal parishioners are unable to lead fully productive lives due to overwhelming exposure to one or more human challenges leading to holistic dispossession. Pastoral leaders have a big responsibility in assisting parishioners as they seek to be reliev…
Staff morale and the overall culture of an agency has a tremendous effect on the workers physical and emotional well-being. This effect will either have a positive or negative influence on the productivity of the agency. In the field of early childhood, children are on the recei…
Humanity currently lacks direction for the future; society must fundamentally change its ways of living and existing. Societies have shifted away from their agrarian past, and many cities are confronted with densification to accommodate an endless flow of new urbanites. Cities a…
During the second half of the twentieth century, liberalism gave way to neoliberalism, and as a result, the cultural role of wellness also expanded, leading to the creation of what Carl Cederström and André Spicer call “the wellness syndrome.” Now, in a society inundated by yoga…
Legalization of cannabis has accelerated over the past decade, with more than a dozen U.S. states legalizing adult-use or “recreational” cannabis, dozens more permitting medical use, and varieties low in THC (“hemp”) legal nation-wide. However, legalization does not mean the end…
Community Partnership Schools™ are designed to serve as a positive resource center in their community, staffed with dedicated professionals committed to student success and community well-being (Coalition for Community Schools, n.d.; Ellis, 2016). Following the education model c…
Since the early nineteenth century Saratoga Springs, New York has been regarded as a preeminent watering-place. While it has not remained steadfastly en vogue, Saratoga has always had a unique relationship to fashion. What has distinguished Saratoga from similar resort communiti…