A brief social skills intervention and its effect on elementary students’ social behaviors

Student social skill improvement interventions are primarily conducted at the school site. Students also need social skills to navigate out-of-school time, and more focus on the elementary level is advised. Successful interventions are developmentally appropriate for the age group and focus on skill building. In this study, puppetry was the developmentally appropriate strategy used to teach a social skills-building curriculum. Trained volunteers presented four short, weekly lessons on positive social skill development to elementary students attending their district’s afterschool program. Pre-post intervention, student social skill knowledge scores significantly improved, and afterschool teachers reported significant decreases in student emotional problems and hyperactivity scores as well as a significant increase in pro-social behavior scores. Interestingly, conduct problem scores improved but not significantly, and peer problem scores significantly increased. Afterschool programming may be a promising initial or bridging step towards fully integrating school-based elementary-level social skill improvement interventions into community-based settings and organizations

Kimberly Griffin and Downtown Milledgeville

Drew Rice interviews Kimberly Griffin about businesses in downtown Milledgeville, including Trapnells, Piggly Wiggly, Sanford House, and JJ\u27s Locker Room.https://kb.gcsu.edu/collectingthepast/1031/thumbnail.jp

Avant et après : Examen du proto-féminisme à travers la résistance littéraire en France au XVe siècle et au Mexique au XVIIe siècle

This essay seeks to understand the implications of a “before” distinction in the feminist canon— i.e., why is there “proto-feminism”, and not just “feminism”? This essay will explore the works of “proto-feminist” writers, Christine de Pizan and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and examine how the feminist themes and issues prevalent throughout their respective works are in response to the respective and collective inequities and injustices they experienced. Their oeuvres provide insight into what advocacy for women and other marginalized peoples looked like outside of the modern understanding of the historical “waves” of feminism. This essay seeks to examine how, through the craft of writing, these women utilized their precariously privileged positions to criticize conventions of love and courtship, power imbalance and abuse, and what it means to be a woman. If the works of these early women’s advocates are responses to the systems of oppression and abuse they experienced and witnessed…how different are they really from modern-day feminists? This essay seeks to ask: is there truly a need to divide our understanding—and therefore our history—of feminism into before” and “after”

Kimberly Griffin and Memory Hill Cemetery

Courtney Brandon interviews Kimberly Griffin on the history and significance of Memory Hill Cemetery, including racial and gender divisions.https://kb.gcsu.edu/collectingthepast/1030/thumbnail.jp

Alfred Thomas and Black Businesses in Milledgeville

Maddie Marcinkowski talks with Alfred Thomas about owning AT\u27s Jazz Club in Milledgeville and describes other black businesses in the area. Listen to the podcast versions here: YouTube: https://youtu.be/IDNdkIMMlmk Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/672GyUTA7d9xVymTtPnvDy?si=i-mM6_4mTfuCXdAcJmvrtQhttps://kb.gcsu.edu/collectingthepast/1027/thumbnail.jp

Al Haslam and the History of Lake Sinclair

Emily Brown interviews Al Haslam about the history of Lake Sinclair, his family-owned marina (one of the longest-operated in Georgia), and the impact of the lake on life in Milledgeville.https://kb.gcsu.edu/collectingthepast/1026/thumbnail.jp

Dolores Marshall and McDade Grocery

Emma Brown interviews Dolores Marshall about the legacy of McDade\u27s Grocery.https://kb.gcsu.edu/collectingthepast/1034/thumbnail.jp

First Checklist to the Diplopod Species of Georgia, USA with Notes on Distribution and a Key to Genus

Millipedes are an incredibly diverse class of animals that impact soil structure and nutrient cycling. Despite their abundance, ecological importance, and wide distribution, they are understudied compared to other animal taxa, and biogeographical information is scant. Taxonomic resources for millipede identification in North America are slim, with few dichotomous keys to species. Furthermore, it is difficult to navigate to these specific keys from broader identification resources. Georgia, though the largest state by land area east of the Mississippi River, has largely been overlooked in any regional millipede checklists. The goals for this project are to compile a preliminary checklist of all millipede species in Georgia, provide maps indicating distributions, and to create a dichotomous key to make the study more accessible to amateurs, as well as to alleviate the need to rely on adult males to identify species

Psychoeducational Training for Community Health Workers to Improve Confidence in Providing Mental Health Services to Migrants

There is a higher prevalence of mental health illnesses among migrants. This minority group is faced with challenges in accessing healthcare due to poverty, stigmatization, and fear of discrimination. Research has shown that community health workers (CHWs) bridge the gap between the health and social service sectors and the patients by improving patient access to care and healthcare outcomes. A translational project was implemented to evaluate how psychoeducational training improved the CHWs’ confidence and knowledge level in providing mental health support to the patients and community members. Sister Calista Roy’s Adaptation Model was used to guide the study by incorporating the four components of the model: person, health, environment, and nursing, so that the migrants can adapt positively to their environments and have positive health outcomes. This study has a convenience sample of six CHWs from a local non-profit healthcare center in a city with the highest refugee population in Clarkston, Georgia. The CHWs’ confidence levels in providing mental health support to migrants were assessed before and five weeks after the psychoeducational training with the ten-item mental health self-efficacy scale. Pre- and post-tests were assigned on common mental health conditions like anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance use disorder before and after the training to assess the CHWs’ mental health. The study result showed no statistical significance in the participants’ confidence and knowledge levels, however, the confidence level scores increased after the mental health training

La importancia de la comunicación no verbal en la interacción humana

Nonverbal communication is an essential element in human interaction, influencing how we convey and receive emotions, intentions, and messages beyond words. The studies reviewed in this paper explore how aspects such as facial expressions and gestures influence diverse contexts, from education to intercultural and professional interactions. Throughout, my sources emphasize the importance of nonverbal communication as a tool for communicating with or without speech