ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Gender Differences in Factor Scores of Anxiety and Depression among Australian University Students: Implications for Counselling Interventions
Author: Bitsika, Vicki
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Private Colleges,Factor Structure,Factor Analysis,Foreign Countries,Gender Differences,Depression (Psychology),Anxiety,College Students,Intervention,Measures (Individuals),Counseling,Student Personnel Services,Counseling Techniques,Symptoms (Individual Disorders)

Anxiety and depression inventory scores from 200 male and female university students attending a private university in Australia were examined for their factor structure. Once established, the two sets of factors were tested for gender-based differences, revealing that females were more likely than males to report symptomatology associated with pain and fatigue, sleeping and digestive problems, psychomotor agitation, confusion, and pessimism. Implications for counsellors are discussed.
Integrating Attachment Theory to Support a Client Coming to Terms with Infidelity
Author: Claire, Carolyn A.
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Counseling Techniques,Females,Case Studies,Behavior Modification,Therapy,Attachment Behavior,Marriage,Marital Instability,Self Concept,Coping,Emotional Adjustment,Emotional Problems,Counseling

Finding it difficult to overcome the emotional distress experienced when considering her husband's infidelity, a client seeks counselling support. The client's goal was to learn about herself and to use the experience as an opportunity for self transformation. The case study utilizes Attachment Theory and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help the client develop self-awareness and come to terms with the experience.
Youth Experience of Trying to Get off the Street: What Has Helped and Hindered
Author: Brown, Tracy L.
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Homeless People,Drinking,Foreign Countries,Welfare Recipients,Incentives,Youth,Barriers,Attitude Change,Behavior Change,Financial Problems,Youth Problems,Social Support Groups,Helping Relationship,Social Services,Drug Use

This qualitative study involved 20 youth (18 males, 1 female, 1 transgender, ages 19-24) living in Vancouver, British Columbia, who reported 259 critical incidents of what helped or hindered their experiences as they tried to get off the street. What helped included (a) taking responsibility, (b) engaging in constructive activities, (c) friends and family support, (d) changing drug and alcohol use, (e) support from professional organizations, (f) disillusionment with street life, (g) dreams and hope for a different future, (h) income assistance, and (i) leaving negative influences behind. What hindered included (a) drugs and alcohol; (b) emotional struggles; (c) lack of support; (d) enjoyment of homelessness; (e) limited formal education, life skills, and employment; and (f) income assistance difficulties. The results are discussed in relation to implications and recommendations for practice, limitations, and future research.
Multi-Cultural Considerations for Counselling First Nations Clients
Author: Nuttgens, Simon A.
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Health Services,Mental Health Programs,Mental Health,Cultural Differences,Canada Natives,Therapeutic Environment,Cultural Relevance,Foreign Countries,Counseling,Counseling Techniques,Counseling Objectives,Counseling Services,Counseling Effectiveness,Client Characteristics,Help Seeking

Despite evidence that First Nations people experience a disproportionate degree of mental health concerns relative to other Canadians, many within this population do not access Western-based mental health services. In this article we extend a socio-political and historical rationale for attending to key cultural differences when working with First Nations clientele. These cultural differences are situated within the three commonly held domains of multicultural competence: self-awareness, knowledge of the other, and therapeutic practice.
School Counsellors' Perceptions on Working with Student High-Risk Behaviour
Author: Harris, Gregory E.
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Violence,Educational Psychology,Psychologists,Eating Disorders,Sexually Transmitted Diseases,Drug Use,Suicide,Bullying,Student Behavior,Behavior Problems,Risk,Counseling,Pupil Personnel Services,Counselor Role,Competence,Counseling Effectiveness,Self Destructive Behavior,Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS),At Risk Persons,School Counseling,School Counselors,Counselor Attitudes,Counselor Training,Surveys

The current exploratory-descriptive study used a survey design method to examine guidance counsellors' and educational psychologists' perceptions of their preparation, motivation, and effectiveness in preventing, assessing, and intervening into student high-risk behaviour. The study also explored training associated with addressing high-risk behaviour along with the perceived responsibility and roles of school counsellors when faced with such behaviour. Views related to the following seven categories of high-risk behaviour were explored: (a) suicide attempts; (b) self-mutilation (e.g., cutting); (c) bullying; (d) extreme school violence (e.g., school shootings, bombings); (e) eating disorders and related behaviour (e.g., extreme exercising); (f) sexual behaviour leading to risk of HIV or other sexually transmitted infections (STIs); and (g) drug-using behaviour (e.g., IV drug use, needle sharing) leading to risk of HIV or other STIs. Implications for training, practice, and research are discussed.
A Qualitative Analysis of Suicide Ideation among Manitoban Farmers
Author: Sturgeon, Ryan
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Qualitative Research,Suicide,Coping,Content Analysis,Foreign Countries,Stress Variables,Rural Farm Residents,Financial Problems,Counseling Services,Client Characteristics,Adults

Canadian studies examining suicide among rural and farm populations remain scarce. To better understand this phenomenon, a qualitative research paradigm was used to analyze encounter forms of 29 individuals (24 men, 5 women) who called the Manitoban Farm and Rural Stress Line. Content analysis revealed 7 major themes: (a) coping mechanisms, (b) financial concerns, (c) health issues, (d) family salvation, (e) uncontrollable events, (f) family stress, and (g) farm culture. Consistent with previous research, it was noted that farmers appear to experience various stressful events, with finances being a key concern. Additionally, farmers report common characteristics not conducive to help-seeking behaviour. This research indicates a need for increased services specific to Manitoban farmers.
Northern Helping Practitioners and the Phenomenon of Secondary Trauma
Author: O'Neill, Linda K.
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Geographic Isolation,Rural Areas,Stress Variables,Stress Management,Coping,Resilience (Psychology),Admissions Counseling,Counseling,Counselor Characteristics,Counselors,Emotional Response,Foreign Countries

This article highlights a narrative inquiry study that considered the experience of and the effects on 8 northern helping practitioners (5 women, 3 men, ages 30-60) who have 7 to 40 years of experience in providing trauma support in isolated communities in northern BC and the Yukon. Using a three-phase narrative analysis, 10 categories provided a structure for arranging the themes generated from the eight narratives. Six metathemes were interpreted from the data: helping takes over life, humanity, respectful engagement, invested and embedded, profoundly affected, and belief. Protective factors found in elements of embeddedness and connectiveness of practitioners and their motivation for doing the work they do emerged from the study.
Exploring the Help-Seeking Attitudes of Graduate Students at an Off-Campus Site
Author: McCarthy, John T.
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Graduate Students,Help Seeking,Insurance,Barriers,Gender Differences,Counseling,Student Personnel Services,Counseling Services,Student Needs,Predictor Variables,Measures (Individuals),Off Campus Facilities,Student Attitudes

This study examined the help-seeking attitudes of graduate students enrolled in an off-campus professional centre. The sample consisted of 217 participants enrolled in 10 graduate programs (130 women [60%], 37 men [17%], 50 unspecified [23%]). Analyses (descriptive statistics and t-tests) indicated that women possessed more favourable attitudes toward seeking counselling than men. Furthermore, an overwhelming majority of graduate students would not travel to the main campus to utilize counselling services. Many participants identified potential obstacles, including lack of time, affordability, and lack of insurance coverage, as important obstacles to help-seeking. Several factors were also found to be significant predictors of help-seeking attitudes. University counselling centre professionals are encouraged to be available and sensitive to the counselling needs of off-campus graduate students.
Professional Characteristics of Canadian Counsellors: Results of a National Survey
Author: Gazzola, Nicola
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,National Surveys,Professional Associations,Counseling,Counselor Characteristics,Counselors,Counselor Attitudes,Counselor Training,Professional Recognition

With statutory regulation of mental health professions clearly at the forefront in many Canadian jurisdictions, counselling appears to be experiencing internal tensions regarding its vision and direction. The goal of this study was to collect data directly from Canadian counsellors to more clearly define the current practices of counselling in Canada. We developed a web-based survey and invited members of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) to respond: 511 (22.9%) completed surveys were returned. Survey data indicate that CCPA members do not believe that the professional identity among Canadian counsellors is clear and coherent and they do not perceive that the profession is widely respected among the public for the services it provides. However, respondents expressed a very high degree of satisfaction with their career decision to become counsellors. The findings have implications for counsellor education as well as the practice of counselling in Canada.
Addressing Anger Using Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Author: Flynn, Sarah M.
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Child Abuse,Psychotherapy,Psychological Patterns,Behavior Modification,Behavior Change,Self Control,Relaxation Training,Females,Counseling,Counseling Techniques

A young woman initiated counselling services at a community agency to address her explosive anger that was a remnant of childhood physical and emotional abuse. Sensorimotor psychotherapy was used to help this client learn how to monitor and regulate her sensorimotor processes. In conjunction with this approach, Cognitive behavioural therapy was used to help this client process her traumatic experiences and reframe her core beliefs about herself as a victim. This client learned how to control her anger by tracking her physiological reactions in upsetting situations and implementing adaptive techniques to relax herself.
Supporting Novice Teachers of the Arts
Author: Garvis, Susanne
Date: 2010-06-30
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Self Efficacy,Foreign Countries,Beginning Teachers,Art Education,Art Teachers,Beginning Teacher Induction,Teacher Attitudes,Faculty Development,Financial Support,Drama,Music Education,Dance Education,Comparative Analysis,Teaching Skills,Language Arts,Mathematics Instruction,English Instruction,Visual Arts

This paper examines and reports on beginning generalist teacher self-efficacy, which Bandura (1997) suggests plays an important part in student outcomes. In 2008, 201 beginning generalist teachers throughout the state of Queensland, Australia, participated in a study that aimed to provide a snapshot of current perceptions towards support in schools for the arts. Beginning teachers were asked to rank their school support for a number of different subjects in the school curriculum and provide written justification for these rankings. Results suggest that beginning teachers perceived a general lack of support for the teaching of the arts in their classroom, compared to English and maths. They reported that schools provided greater financial support, assistance and professional development for the teaching of literacy and numeracy with a view to increase school performance in national testing. Findings provide key insights for school administrators and policy makers for the adequate delivery of arts education in Queensland schools, particularly when this task falls to generalist teachers with little or no subject expertise in the arts. (Contains 3 figures, 2 footnotes, and 1 table.)
Tracing the Paths of Moving Artifacts in Youth Media Production
Author: Gibbons, Damiana
Date: 2010-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Production Techniques,Semiotics,Film Production,Self Concept,Youth Programs,American Indians,Multimedia Materials,Video Technology,Educational Technology,Computer Uses in Education,Editing,Media Literacy,Content Analysis,Instructional Effectiveness,Internet

Using a theoretical grounding in social semiotics, chronotopes, and social spaces with youth, I will discuss how identities are made possible and expressed in the interplay between the different parts of the youth video production process as youth artifacts as they move through time and space. The majority of my data is what I have come to term &quot;moving artifacts&quot;, and this article will attempt to make a case for attempting to trace &quot;the paths of the moving artifacts&quot; through the spaces in which youth artifacts are created, within the youth artifacts themselves, and between the artifacts. Exploring how youth artifacts move through time and space provides a new lens with which to understand how identity expression occurs in youth media production. (Contains 4 figures and 3 footnotes.)
Embodied Memory and Curatorship in Children's Digital Video Production
Author: Potter, John
Date: 2010-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Multimedia Materials,Video Technology,Educational Technology,Production Techniques,Editing,Media Literacy,English Instruction,Self Concept,Elementary School Students,Females,Content Analysis

Digital video production in schools is often theorised, researched and written about in two ways: either as a part of media studies practice or as a technological innovation, bringing new, &quot;creative&quot;, digital tools into the curriculum. Using frameworks for analysis derived from multimodality theory, new literacy studies and theories of embodied identity, this study examines a video production made by two children who were taking part in a video project on the theme of self-representation and identity. Evidence was collected in the form of production notes, video interviews and the media text itself. The findings suggest that this way of working in new media can be thought of as a new literacy practice, metaphorically conceived as a form of &quot;curatorship&quot; of children's own lives in the uses of multimodal editing tools for the intertextual organisation of digital media assets and their subsequent exhibition to peer groups and beyond. (Contains 20 figures and 2 footnotes.)
Creating Hybrid Border Spaces in the Classroom through Video Production
Author: Cronje, Franci
Date: 2010-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Multicultural Education,Family Environment,Educational Environment,Self Concept,Critical Theory,Racial Differences,Females,Secondary School Students,Foreign Countries,Video Technology,Educational Technology,Production Techniques,Media Literacy,Cultural Pluralism,Ethnocentrism,Intergroup Relations,Sociocultural Patterns,Racial Segregation

This article explores emerging patterns of communication within a multicultural school environment. South Africa consists various and different identities all sharing overlapping living spaces. Diverse cultural identities exist in public spaces, and family units are in many cases so hybrid that very few adolescents can define themselves as originating from one single background. However, social memory within the home environment often dictates a stereotypical prejudice reflecting from the older generations down to their children. A research intervention with video production as the main focal activity is discussed, where learners were encouraged to cross identity borders and move into a Hybrid Border Space with the explicit objective of ensuring that all four participants negotiated out of the perspective of their own cultural identity and background. How each participant saw and experienced her identity, and to what extent such an individual expression formed in a group situation, shed some light on the dynamics of meaning-making in such a particular mix of respondents. Extrapolations from lessons learnt in this specific situation serve as beacons for similar initiatives in a variety of South African youth situations. (Contains 2 figures.)
Sex, Literacy and Videotape: Learning, Identity and Language Development through Documentary Production with &quot;Overage&quot; Students
Author: Goodman, Steven
Date: 2010-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Learning Theories,Active Learning,Teaching Methods,Case Studies,High School Students,Grade 8,Film Production,Instructional Effectiveness,Low Achievement,Urban Schools,Professional Development,Multimedia Materials,Video Technology,Educational Technology,Computer Uses in Education,Production Techniques,Media Literacy,English Instruction,Grade Repetition,Documentaries,After School Education,After School Programs,Sexuality

This case study examines the learning, identity and language development experienced by &quot;overage&quot; 8th-grade students who have been left behind two or more years in their New York City middle school and are participating in an extended-day video documentary program. The students practise a range of literacy skills naturally embedded in the documentary production process. The topic they have chosen to explore through their video project is teen sex. This program seeks to create a vibrant and active learning space that is planting the seeds for what might grow into a sustained program of youth-generated media in their school. Observing and listening in on the students in this case illustrates practical applications of learning theories including multiple discourses, double abstraction, situated learning, and cognitive apprenticeships and proposes new possibilities for literacy development with low-performing students as well as the kind of hybrid informal/formal learning environments needed to support such development. (Contains 1 footnote.)
Moving Stories: Exploring Children's Uses of Media in Their Story Telling and the Implications for Teaching about Narrative in Schools
Author: Parry, Becky
Date: 2010-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Story Telling,Cartoons,Young Children,Personal Narratives,Films,Literacy Education,Mass Media Effects,Games,Teaching Methods,Foreign Countries,Elementary School Students

This article draws on data from research with six ten-year-old children investigating the role of film and media in developing understandings of narrative. I present an account of one of the children, Connor (his chosen pseudonym), whose experiences represent a telling case of the dissonance found between children's knowledge and experience of narrative and what they were able to express in their school-based writing. I propose that films, games and cartoons impact on children's storytelling in distinct ways that relate to the particular affordances of their form. I present examples of children's experiences of media enhancing what they can express in their own narrative productions. However, I argue that there are some important conditions that teachers need to be aware of, that prompt children to use their experiences of media in their storytelling. I conclude by suggesting that children must be supported to draw on their holistic understanding of narrative in order to move from one media to another when reading and making their own stories.
Game Literacy, Gaming Cultures and Media Education
Author: Partington, Anthony
Date: 2010-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Media Literacy,Popular Culture,Critical Thinking,Cultural Capital,Models,Courses,Course Content,Secondary School Students,Foreign Countries,Multimedia Materials,Educational Technology,English Instruction,Cultural Context,Computers,Games,Computer Software,Computer Uses in Education

This article presents an overview of how the popular &quot;3-Cs&quot; model (creative, critical and cultural) for literacy and media literacy can be applied to the study of computer games in the English and Media classroom. Focusing on the development of an existing computer games course that encompasses many opportunities for critical activity and creativity, it considers how the cultural function of literacy has been neglected for those functions that are easier to measure. It considers how opportunities to explore the cultural functions of texts, especially games, might be developed and how computer games might provide a unique opportunity for students to bring their own &quot;cultural capital&quot; into the classroom. It examines some student work from such &quot;cultural&quot; activities and concludes by recommending how and why we might develop &quot;structured play&quot; when using &quot;living texts&quot; such as computer games in the classroom. (Contains 2 figures.)
Using a Studio-Based Pedagogy to Engage Students in the Design of Mobile-Based Media
Author: Mathews, James M.
Date: 2010-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Curriculum Development,Teaching Methods,Design,Curriculum Implementation,Cooperative Learning,Secondary School Students,Interdisciplinary Approach,Maps,Pilot Projects,Neighborhoods,Social Studies,Urban Schools,Workshops,Classroom Techniques,Multimedia Materials,Video Technology,Educational Technology,Computers,Games,Computer Software,Computer Uses in Education,English Instruction,Geographic Information Systems,Geographic Location,Handheld Devices,Computer Simulation,Simulated Environment

The article presents a brief overview of the Neighbourhood Game Design Project, a studio-based curriculum intervention aimed at engaging students in the design of place-based mobile games and interactive stories using geo-locative technologies (for example, GPS enabled cell phones). It describes the three curricular components that defined the project, then highlights how a studio method was used to guide students' design work and develop their design literacies. In particular, the article focuses on one of the main design activities students engaged in--collaboratively designing an Augmented Reality simulation--and explores how the embedded design practices align with a socio-cultural view of literacy (Gee, 2004; Jenkins, Purushotma, Clinton, Weigel, &amp; Robison, 2006; Lankshear and Knobel, 2007; Robison, 2009). (Contains 8 figures, 1 table, and 3 footnotes.)
Congruous Autonomy: The "Pull" of Personal Commitment to Extraordinary Involvement in a Pursuit
Author: Scott, Karen Wilson
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Self Efficacy,Persistence,Adults,Participation,Social Theories,Grounded Theory,Personal Autonomy,Constructivism (Learning),Models,Experience,Lifelong Learning,Independent Study

Self-efficacy and perseverance of mid- to late-life adults committed to extraordinary involvement in challenging new pursuits was the subject of dissertation research conducted as a constructivist grounded theory. Eight participants over age 50 were purposefully selected for homogenous criteria. Findings disconfirmed perseverance as a contributor to commitment. The study advances a theoretical position of congruous autonomy as an enduring, self-efficacious belief in personal capability and compelling rightness and identity, inspiring commitment to extraordinary involvement in a pursuit (rich in lifetime patterns and trends), despite sacrifice and risk, to develop one's highest potential. (Contains 1 figure.)