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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"cultural adaptations"”.
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Uplifting and Prioritizing Black Voices in Trauma Intervention: Cultural Adaptations of Written Exposure Therapy for Trauma-Exposed Black Women
… barriers to treatment, including stigma and cultural perspectives on mental health treatment. Further, avoidance and thwarted belongingness serve as additional barriers that prevent people with PTSD from seeking evidence-based PTSD treatment, including written exposure therapy (WET). Given …
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The center of the universe: A ceremony at Pipe Spring Sweat Lodge
… Paiute and Christian elements through cultural adaptations. Though the ceremony has been borrowed and has undergone some changes, its effectiveness as a place of spiritual and physical healing remains strong.
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Adaptation of Arab immigrants to Australia: psychological, social, cultural and educational aspects.
… problems that were overcome, and the social and cultural adaptations which were made, by Arab immigrants in the process of settling in Australia. The research was based on a group of forty participants, sixteen of whom migrated to Australia between 1973 and 2004. The other twenty-four were all of …
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Challenging a One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Treating Child Trauma Through the Development and Dissemination of TraumaPlay™: An Integrative Play Therapy Model for Traumatized Children and Their Caregivers
… methods. The third project investigates the cultural adaptations and global dissemination of TraumaPlay. Three critical lenses, including autoethnography, bioecological systems theory, and the MRC Framework for Developing and Evaluating Complex Interventions, are applied to each project and …
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Milneburg, New Orleans: An Anthropological History of a Troubled Neighborhood
… study of the trajectory of Milneburg and the cultural adaptations of its residents to keep it distinct, vital and respectable.</p>
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Damp Skin: Portraits of Taiwanese Domesticity, Resilience, and Otherness
… everyday life in Taiwan and exploring potential cultural adaptations. Each thread collects materials and offers distinct perspectives on Taiwanese identity and space’s historical and contemporary shaping. Together, they form portraits of the complexities and nuances of Taiwanese domesticity, …
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Exploring Sibling Relationships in Latino/a/x Immigrant Families
… has found they have an impact on each other's cultural adaptations. The current study explored the influence of the acculturation cultural adaptation processes to the U.S. and how this adaptation may impact Latino/a/x sibling relationships. Semi-structured dyadic interviews were conducted with …
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City and island : Dominicans in Lawrence : transnational community formation in a globalizing world
… a complex intersection of political, economic, cultural, and social forces linking the Dominican Republic and the City. Historic economic and political ties create strong objective and cultural-ideological links between the Island and the United States and give rise to a set of transnational …
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Privacy in the small
… privacy policies, it showcases how language and cultural adaptations influence user comprehension of technical terms and offers a replicable approach for cross-language research. Chapter 4 extends this work by refining tools for analyzing cross-language privacy policies. By mapping technical …
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Successful Practices of Micronesian College Students in Hawai‘i: Utilizing Positive Deviants to Develop Strength-Based Student Support Services in Higher Education
… low retention and graduation rates. Robust and culturally appropriate data collection methods that are more informative and responsive are sorely wanting. This qualitative study applies the Positive Deviance theoretical framework to understand the strategies and behaviors enabling success for …
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Ethnic and Language Matching: Effects on Hispanics' Treatment Perceptions
<p>Cultural adaptations to mental health treatment have been recommended to improve treatment outcomes in minorities, including Hispanics (Griner & Smith, 2006). One such adaptation includes matching the therapist to the client on culturally salient variables, such as spoken language or ethnic …
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The Medieval Climatic Anomaly and Its Impact on Health in the Pacific Rim: A Case Study From Canyon Oaks, California
… in subsistence strategies were interpreted as cultural buffers to mitigateresources stress due to the MCA. The results of this study are in line with the resource stress model and indicate significant cultural adaptations due to stressful conditions resulting in little physiological disruption …
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Lesbian Couple Dynamics and Heterosexist Stressors: Building a Foundation for Culturally Competent Relationship Interventions
… may provide content areas for creating more culturally sensitive and affirming relationship programs. The heterosexist stressors analyzed included sexual minority stress--conceptualized to consist of outness, internalized homophobia, and discrimination--as well as commitment behaviors given …
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We are the 'Who Dat' Nation: city identity, narratives of renewal, and football fandom in New Orleans public realm
… football while also engineering local cultural adaptations to the economic dimensions of sport.</p> <p>Through the story of the Saints in New Orleans, we can see sport spaces as a combination of symbolism and practice where sporting and urban affiliations are interrelated in complex …
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A Mixed Method Evaluation of the Implementation of a Caregiver Intervention for Mothers who have Survived Intimate Partner Violence: The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers
… related to implementation, with emphasis on cultural adaptations for African American families. Using a joint display, qualitative and quantitative data were integrated, and six meta-inferences created and used to produce comprehensive recommendations for future scale-up. The present study is …
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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Family Carers of Relatives Living with Dementia Adaptation and Feasibility studies for Online Delivery in Aotearoa New Zealand
… living with dementia need to be evidence based, culturally safe and accessible to make a difference. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is a potential intervention for this population due to its robust evidence base in depressive disorder and cost-effective group delivery mode which can …
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Behavioral Reconstruction of the Kerma Era Nubians
Cultural adaptations to environment can result in certain biological changes in individuals (Kennedy, 1989; Jurmain, 1999). Some of these changes can affect the human skeleton and leave markers pointing to patterns of habitual behavior or general level of workload stress placed on the body. This …
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The applicability of implementing Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT) with young children with developmental disabilities who reside in the Western Cape and speak Afrikaans or IsiXhosa at home: parent and professional perspectives
… has been conducted to prove its effectiveness in culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Furthermore, before interventions can be implemented in different contexts, there is a need to determine if any adaptations are needed to maximize the fit of the intervention to the novel context. …
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The management of native lands in New Zealand and Canada: a comparative study
… I have been content to point to the cultural adaptations of the Maori and Indian t.o the legislation affecting them and their land and have not ventured into an analysis of these changes as examples of cultural dynamism. My concern to keep a legal focus also kept me away from much of …
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Sexist Stereotypes and Prejudice in the Latin American Context, and Their Relation to Sexual Violence
… multiple causes and can be rooted in historical, cultural, religious, and socio-economic factors, among many others. A region particularly noteworthy for its high rates of violence against women is Latin America. Striking structural inequalities among genders are evident, which result on …