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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"relational cultural theory"”.
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Talking Circles For Adolescent Girls In An Urban High School: A Restorative Practices Program For Building Friendships And Developing Emotional Literacy Skills
… in the theoretical frameworks of both the Relational Cultural Theory, which promotes growth-fostering relationships, and Restorative Justice, which promotes connection, caring and justice. Four relational themes emerged in the study: a) joy of being together and building friendships; b) …
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The Role of Identity for the Practitioner and the Student: Culturally Inclusive Career Services for Pacific Islander Students in Higher Education
… this population from a relationship building and culturally inclusive career counseling perspective. By using Career Constructivist Development Theory (CCDT) and Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT), this research examined the phenomenon of how the identities and lived experiences of career services …
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In their own words: A qualitative analysis of relational resilience in the lives of gay, bisexual, and questioning male youth
… The theoretical lens adopted for this effort was Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT). In constructing this study, the author was interested in learning whether the five key conceptual features of growth- promoting relationships, as posited by proponents of RCT (i.e., supported vulnerability, mutual …
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The Case of Reintegration of Women Post Incarceration
… Case study methodology congruent with Miller's Relational-Cultural Theory philosophical framework was utilized in this in-depth, single case design and represents a unique case. The overall purpose of this descriptive and explanatory research was to explore precursors to criminality particular …
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The High School English Class and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: How do Black and Latinx Students Respond to Their Learning Experiences?
… shared. Led by the theoretical frameworks of The Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT) and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies (CSPs), this research reiterates the need for mutuality in the educational system by recognizing the role that student engagement and student voice should play in how curriculum …
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Climate control: Does caring really matter?
… increasing the probability of success. Using relational-cultural theory (RCT) as a lens, this study investigated the relationship between perceived faculty caring behaviors and nursing students’ academic self-efficacy, and explored whether the relationship was more significant for minority …
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College Women and Disordered Eating Symptomatology: A Relational-Cultural Perspective
… Our understanding of the connection between relational factors, in particular, and disordered eating may be enhanced by the measurement of constructs from feminist theories that provide a richer and more culturally-specific perspective on women's psychological development, as gender alone …
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An Exploration of the Social Justice Identity Development of Professional School Counselors Who Advocate for Undocumented Students
… in Bobbie Harro's Cycle of Liberation and Relational Cultural Theory to answer the following research questions: (1) What do school counselors who identify as social justice advocates describe as critical incidents in their social justice identity development when working with undocumented …
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An Existential Punchline: How Humor Functions in a Young Adult Friendship Facing Advanced Cancer
… topics. Grounded within the frameworks of Relational Cultural Theory and Communicated Narrative Sense Making Theory, this dissertation qualitatively explored how humor functions within a young adult friendship impacted by advanced cancer. The study sample included 12 friendship dyads, …
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Exploring resilience in pre-registration undergraduate nursing students: A constructivist grounded theory study
… student nurses (SNs). A constructivist grounded theory (CGT) approach, underpinned by symbolic interactionism and social constructivism, was utilised to investigate how UG SNs in one UK university conceptualised resilience and to identify the factors that support and challenge it. Factors that …
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Exploring the Relational Impact of Breast Cancer on Younger Women Partnered with Women
… sexual minority women with breast cancer, sociocultural factors such as lack of affirmative care influences their disease experience. Further, sexual minority women and women partnered with women may be subject to minority stress experiences, such as discrimination and stigma, during daily life …
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Understanding Distancing Behaviors in Social Justice Activism and Organizations: An Interpretive Descriptive Study
The United States has seen many social justice movements over time, seeking to improve conditions for various populations. While many of these movements have made significant changes and improvements over time, they have also been prone to various setbacks. While there are many factors that …
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Everyone Is Their Own Kind of Beautiful: The Long-Term Influences of the Girls Circle Process
The Girls Circle Model was founded in 1996 with a goal of helping young girls make healthy decisions, increase interpersonal connections, build empathic skills, and develop resiliency (Roa, Irvine, Cervantez, 2007). This study investigates the perceived long-term improvement (6 months or longer) of …
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Networks For Girls: An Examination of the Girls Circle Process
Currently, adolescent girls suffer from barriers to a healthy development such as low self-esteem, poor body image, disordered eating, depression, acts of physical aggression, and delinquency. The Girls Circle program is a gender-specific program for adolescent girls which promotes a safe setting …
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Lessons Learned: A Qualitative Study of School Social Workers’ Experiences Providing Crisis Response and Recovery After Targeted Gun Violence
… Method: The researcher used grounded theory methodology to learn from the experiences of 12 MSW-prepared school social workers employed by an impacted school district at the time of mass targeted gun violence or contracted in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. Multiple …
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True Connections: High-Quality Connections in a Post-COVID-19 Landscape
… burnout skyrocketed. This research integrates relational cultural theory, resource-based theories (e.g., conservation of resources theory; Hobfoll, 1989), transmission-based theories (e.g., crossover model; Westman, 2001) and media theories (e.g., media naturalness theory; Kock, 2004) to …