According to the APA, issues of culture and diversity are essential areas of competency that all mental health clinicians should and must consider when providing services. Included under the umbrella of culture are religion and spirituality (RS) practices and beliefs. The majori…
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For decades, scholars have investigated the correlates of support for European integration. Historically, integration has taken place through two specific processes—"broadening" (or enlargement) versus "deepening" (or EU institutional development). Yet, many scholars choose outc…
To reduce the marginalization of social studies, elementary teachers integrate social studies and language arts to maximize instruction. Music lyrics with historical content is an innovative method for integration. Studies suggest that close reading is a pedagogical tool that ai…
It is estimated that the number of Iranians in the United States has reached 1.5 to 2 million since mass departures following the 1979 revolution, making it the largest population of Iranians in one place outside of Iran itself, with the majority having settled in California. Th…
Since the implementation of the Guest Worker Program in the 1950s, Germany has struggled to accept that Turkish immigrants, along with subsequent generations, constitute a large part of its society. Thilo Sarrazin's book, Deutschland schafft sich ab, which has been at the center…
Several scholars have written on the relationship between local and national approaches to integration in the Netherlands. These authors have concluded that while the Dutch national government has become more assimilationist in its approach to migrant groups, local governments h…
The information age is upon us. We generate, process, store, display and transmit information in ever-increasing amounts. Sensing and measuring is one aspect of information generation that has become an increasingly important activity in the modern time. Sensors can be categoriz…
This dissertation was designed to explore the process of the integration and adjustment of Pakistani immigrants to Norwegian society, to trace generational changes in the adaptation process, and to explore the perceptions of immigrants and their children regarding Norwegian ethn…
The central question guiding the dissertation research is how are persons who migrated to Germany after 1955 affected by living within ethnic neighborhoods? The approach the dissertation takes to answering this question differs from past responses to similar queries in a number …
This qualitative within-case study explored how technology is being integrated in a private school in Lahore. This study also attempted to shed light on the effect of different professional development opportunities on the technology integration practices of teachers in this sch…
Chapter 1: Financial Liberalization, Exchange Rate Policy and Interdependence. There is by now a great deal of evidence pointing to large scale financial account liberalization and therefore increasing capital mobility around the Pacific Basin. Freer financial systems in the eme…
Our research deals with immigrant women originating from three North African countries: Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. Despite the similarity of their cultural background, these countries have evolved differently in relation with political environments such as: the French coloniz…
This study examines the potential integration between Middle Eastern stock markets, especially Arab countries. I investigate the efficiency, diversification, correlation, and potential integration in Middle Eastern countries stock markets, in particular Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mo…
For the first time in recent history, Somali society has experienced the plight of a mass exodus. Millions have been displaced by civil war and have sought refuge in places thousands of miles away from their homelands. There are tens of thousands of Somali refugees in Canada; th…
This study is based on heuristic methodology and looks at counsellor/therapists’ experience of integrating Christian faith with their clinical practice. The researcher overtly includes her own material and documents her own internal process as part of the research journey. Some …
Sustainability is one of the most critical challenges the world is currently facing. In the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, limited energy, water and finance resources, plus growing concerns over pollution, call for immediate sustainability actions. From an environmental and social…
This is a multi-method research which consists of four studies. The first examined the influence of cultural values and ethnic identity on collective self-esteem, acculturative stress and attitudes toward seeking psychological help among 117 Saudi students living and studying in…
The governmental functions of security and intelligence require a number of distinct organisations and functions to interact in a symbiotic way. Because the external environment is uncertain and complex, these organisations must constantly negotiate with each other to establish …
This thesis examines the determinants of institutional quality and the process of convergence in the ECOWAS in order to inform policy about the region's deep integration scheme. The first part of the thesis examines the historical changes that took place in the development of co…