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HELPING OTHERS OR HELPING ONESELF? NGO COORDINATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
This dissertation studies partnerships among non- governmental organizations (NGOs) and the resulting consequences of these collaborations. The presence of NGOs in the international system is recognized with scholarly works examining what they are, what they do, and what is their role. However, it …
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Hurting to Helping: Regret as a Potential Motivator of Helping Behavior
… examine whether regret motivates greater helping behavior than other, similar negative emotions that have already been demonstrated to motivate prosocial behaviors in humans. These studies will also use two separate samples to examine potential age differences in the effects of regret on …
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Childhood Trauma, Self-Esteem, and Helping Behaviors: Does History of Trauma Predict Helping?
… the relationship between self-esteem and helping behaviors. Specifically, some findings indicate that those with lower self-esteem are less likely to help others than those with higher self-esteem (Michelini, Wilson, & Messe, 1975), while others show the opposite trend (Briggs, Landry, & …
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Helping the Shoe to Fit
<p><em>Helping the shoe to fit </em>is a collection of short stories and “flash fiction.” This collection explores animal perspectives, the medieval period, mythology, and family dynamics. Poetic devices within these stories put the reader into a position where they must interact with sound and …
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Helping Behavior in a Globalized Community
… of how individuals participate in voluntary helping behavior in their locality. Interview data, brief economic and cultural examination of the area, and my observations as a resident of the Upper 9 th Ward inform analysis. The experiences of respondents suggest that there is a tension between …
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Kids Helping Kids Side by Side
… struggle through this family crisis and Kids-Helping-Kids-Side-by-Side is a program developed to support them through the process and protect their future. In March of 1994, the Cancer Support and Education Center began the existing Kids-Helping-Kids support group for children of parents …
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Helping Mothers Defend their Decision to Breastfeed
The United States has established breastfeeding as an important health indicator within the Healthy People agenda. Healthy People target goals for breastfeeding initiation, duration, and exclusivity remain unmet. The US Surgeon General's Office reports that lack of knowledge and widespread …
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Developing Helping Skills in an Online Environment
… skills to undergraduate students entering the helping professions. This is problematic as many bachelor-level social workers and addiction counseling students have not consistently been taught interpersonal helping skills, yet many will enter the workforce post program completion. For those …
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Evolving Minds: Helping Students with Cognitive Dissonance
<p>Even 150 years after Charles Darwin published <em>On the Origin of Species</em>, public school teachers still find themselves dealing with student resistance to learning about biological evolution. Some teachers deal with this pressure by undermining, deemphasizing, or even omitting the topic in …
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Beliefs About Caregiving Services Among Helping Professionals
… research question of this study explores beliefs helping professionals have about caregiving services. The survey provided to participants of this study examined beliefs concerning what services are most important for caregivers to have access to, as well as what are the most significant barriers …
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BELIEFS ABOUT HOSPICE CARE AMONG HELPING PROFESSIONALS
… more about the beliefs of hospice care among helping professionals and the motivations they use in order to deliver optimal service to the terminally ill.</p>
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Mood Maestro: Therapeutic Software For Helping Alleviate Depression
Depression is a serious problem for many people in the United States and around the world. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is a non-pharmacologic form of therapy that targets depression through teaching strategies that focus on an individual's depressive thoughts and behavior. CBT has been …
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Helping Kwakum Believers of Cameroon Understand Biblical Sexuality
This project was designed to help Kwakum believers of Cameroon understand biblical sexuality. Chapter 1 provides the context in which the project took place detailing the state of the church, especially in regard to sexual purity. Chapter 2 argues that God expects believers—even those from …
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Helping struggling writers through self-regulated strategy development
<p>The purposes of this action research was to determine the effectiveness of implementing a self-regulated strategy development model to teach a story writing strategy to three 3<sup>rd</sup> grade students at a New Jersey Elementary School. This study involved a comparison of stories written by …
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Helping students cope: peer counselling in higher education
This study looks at the problems facing students in their University careers and considers how they may be helped and supported at this time. A University Nightline telephone befriending service (LUA-Linha da Universidade de Aveiro) was established in Portugal (where no such provision previously …
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