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Schizophrenia and evidence-based practices
(2014-04-26)A diagnosis of schizophrenia is a label that most people don’t truly understand and would never want to be put upon them. Those who have experienced treatment for a thought disorder are acutely aware of the traditional ... -
School Professionals Perceptions of Confidence and Satisfaction of Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Training and Implementation
(2013-04-20)Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) has been found to be an effective program for working with children and adolescents who suffer from Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (E/BD). The purpose of this study is to determine ... -
Science Education: Bridging the Gap Between High School and College
(2013-04-20)In light of recent data showing that more United States’ students are unprepared for the rigor of college science education, this paper examines the developmental and educational experiences at the high school level that ... -
Science Literacy: Reading Strategies Among Secondary Reader
(2013-04-20)With the Common Core Learning Standards added across content areas in 2011, there is a critical need for reading comprehension in the content areas, including science. Students find science text difficult science literacy ... -
Self-Assembled Monolayers Incorporating Merocyanine Molecules to Optically Control Charge Transfer in Organic Electronic Devices
(2014-04-26)This poster describes the fabrication and characterization of a merocyanine self-assembled structure in a layered organic diode. Molecular switches have the potential of being used in a myriad of applications: remote ... -
Self-Perceived Stress in Women With and Without Children and/or Dogs In Relation To Dog Attachment and Dog Stress Behaviors
(2013-04-20)In the United States, over two thirds of households include a pet, and many studies have indicated that owning pets is associated with psychological benefits, such as pets providing social support for their owners (Albert ... -
Sensory Integration and Negative Behaviors
(2013-04-20)This PowerPoint is a presentation on data that has been collected on students with severe behavioral and multiple disabilities. Data was collected during escalated moments in the students school day while deep pressure was ... -
Sepian Stars: an exploration of the exotic other in the Harlem Reniassance
(2014-04-26)The narrative of those whose voices were oppressed or forgotten guides how we understand and interact with each other today. These voices exist in the traces and whispers of archives and ephemera. Gossamer thin, their ... -
Sexualities and Gender Roles in Archie Comics
(2013-04-20)This poster demonstrates through research and images the different ways Archie Comics portrays characters' sexualities and the gender roles of its male and female characters. This information also presents questions to the ... -
Should We Know? A Populace Perspective on Consuming Non-Labeled Genetically Modified Organisms
(2013-04-20)This presentation identifies individual’s opinions regarding the consumption of G.M.Os. Currently in the United States there is no mandate on labeling genetic modified organisms or their byproducts. The purpose of this ... -
Similarities between Blues and Hip-Hop Music
(2013-04-20)Within this paper I attend to argue Blues and Hip-Hop music share a similar history, culture, and tradition and have been able to cross-racial and cultural lines, influencing American society and the world at large. Each ... -
Singapore mathematics approach: The impact a problem solving heuristic, the strip model, has upon students with learning disabilities ability to solve story (word) problems in an after-school setting.
(2014-04-26)The Thomas Reynolds Center for Special Education and After-School Programs is currently teaching 3rd and 4th grade students in an after-school program a mathematical problem solving heuristic called the “strip model” from ... -
Small Islands, Big Talk: Responding to Social Change in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
(2013-04-20)This presentation identifies the capacity to respond to social change issues in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Small Island States are a unique group of countries that face a myriad of development issues. The Republic ... -
Social media’s effect on adolescents at risk of having an eating disorder.
(2014-04-26)According to National Institute of Health (n.d.), less than 30 percent of Americans are at a healthy weight based on their Body Mass Index. Media and social media in the United States have put an unrealistic perception of ... -
Social Work’s Role in Fostering the Relationship between Caregivers and Individuals with Dementia
(2014-04-26)This poster describes Social Work's role in fostering a positive relationship between family carers and persons with dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States affecting more ... -
Sojourner House at Pathstone Supportive Housing
(2013-04-20)In an effort to combat the prevalence of homelessness in the Greater Rochester community, programs like the supportive housing program operated by Sojourner House at Pathstone are critical. In order for such programs to ... -
Solution Focused Brief Therapy - Working with Bi-Polar Disorders
(2014-04-26)This poster describes how the solution-focused brief therapy technique is an effective tool for treating individuals diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. This evidence based practice has been developed over a thirty year ... -
"Some Unnatural Monster?": The Crime of Infanticide in Antebellum New York City, a Case Study
(2013-04-20)“‘Some Unnatural Monster?’: The Crime of Infanticide in Antebellum New York City, a Case Study,” is a micro-history of the case of Barbara Weidemeyer, a widowed mother indicted and prosecuted for the crime of infanticide ... -
“South Los Angeles Riot: It Happened in 1965 and 1992”
(2013-04-20)The riot the broke out in the Watts Neighborhood of Los Angeles, California in the summer of 1965 was one of the worst uprisings to take place in the United States during the height of the Civil Rights movement of the ... -
Spinning Black Holes in Numerical Relativity
(2013-04-20)In nature, it is believed that astrophysical black holes will be nearly neutral and highly spinning. The first condition is due to the fact that, if the black hole were charged, it would preferentially attract opposing ...