THE EXPLORATION OF CLINICIANS’ LIVED EXPERIENCES IN CULTURALLY ADAPTING EMPIRICALLY SUPPORTED TREATMENTS FOR AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE POPULATIONS

This study investigated the lived experiences of clinicians who have culturally adapted Empirically Supported Treatments (EST) for American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) populations. The central research question for this investigation was: What is the experience of mental health providers in culturally adapting empirically supported treatments for American Indian and Alaska Native populations? A guided semi-structured interview protocol was used to interview eight participants. Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenological psychological method was used to develop a general psychological structure representing eight essential constituents. They are: developing an understanding of cultural adaptation, focusing on building and maintaining therapeutic relationships, immersion and engagement with community, experiencing conflict between Western and Indigenous epistemology, navigating the use of empirically supported treatments, supporting traditional and culturally developed ways of healing, clinicians’ ability to embody cultural humility and increase cultural competency, and coping with external factors. Implications for practitioners, treatment developers, funders, academic programs, clients, and the counseling field are provided. Lastly, recommendations derived directly from the data, arising from limitations of the study, based on delimitations, and those relevant to the research problem are discussed

Entering the Door

How do physical limitations affect the mind, and how can you overcome them? Imagine one day you wake up bound by physical limitations. What can you do? My research helps someone realize that having limitations isn’t the end of the world.I myself have restrictions, yet I am defying the odds.My art became integral to helping me overcome limitations; because of this, my thesis research educates others on the reality of living with limitations by helping them connect with their own struggles

The Revolving Door

Bryant College marketing brochure from 1951 which includes some extras for young women

Behind the Door

This submission is my senior project for Mass Communication. I chose to direct and edit a fictional short film, Behind the Door, written by Lindsey Hall. The film is approximately 15 - 20 minutes long. The cast and crew are all Linfield students, and the film features music from Logan Mays

Behind the Kitchen Door

[Excerpt] How do restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America? And how do poor working conditions - discriminatory labor practices, exploitation, and unsanitary kitchens - affect the meals that arrive at our restaurant tables? Saru Jayaraman, who launched the national restaurant workers\u27 organization Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, sets out to answer these questions by following the lives of restaurant workers in New York City, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Detroit, and New Orleans

AUTOMATIC DOOR DAM PROTOTYPE BASED MICROCONTROLLER ATMEGA 16

Writing of this final project aims to build a prototype system that functions to control the process of opening and closing dam’s door automatically. Making these tools also to provide information on water levels in the dam. Automatic door dam prototype based microcontroller and atmega 16 is a tool that designed specifically to simulate automatically dam doors. This tool will work in accordance with the conditions of the water level. When the water level go up, the door dam will open automatically dam the door will close when the water level drops. The method used in constructing the dam door prototype based automated ATmega 16 using the method of design that consists of several stages: (1) identification of requirements, (2) Needs Analysis, (3) design of hardware and software, (4) tool-making, (5) Testing Tool and (6) Operational Equipment. The hardware consists of (1) The minimum ATmega16 as the main controller, (2) water level sensor (water level control) as the water level detector, (3) and infrared light sensor photodiode as a detector height of the dam doors, (4) DC motors as driver door dam and (4) LCD as the viewer height and the height of the dam door. Based on the results of testing that has been done, it can be concluded that a prototype tool based automatic door ATmega 16 dams can work well in accordance with the working principles designed. The performance of the tool is observed by looking at the condition of the sensor exposed to water. If the condition of the water in the dam go up to the maximum condition, then the motor will move "open" the door dam in stages according to water conditions in the tank. If the condition of the water in the dam down to the minimum, then the motor will move "close" the door dam in stages according to water conditions in the tank and the high information and high water doors will be displayed on the LCD. There is an average percentage error of 0.15%. Keywords: Door dam, water level sensor, LCD, ATmega1

A Home Security System Based on Smartphone Sensors

Several new smartphones are released every year. Many people upgrade to new phones, and their old phones are not put to any further use. In this paper, we explore the feasibility of using such retired smartphones and their on-board sensors to build a home security system. We observe that door-related events such as opening and closing have unique vibration signatures when compared to many types of environmental vibrational noise. These events can be captured by the accelerometer of a smartphone when the phone is mounted on a wall near a door. The rotation of a door can also be captured by the magnetometer of a smartphone when the phone is mounted on a door. We design machine learning and threshold-based methods to detect door opening events based on accelerometer and magnetometer data and build a prototype home security system that can detect door openings and notify the homeowner via email, SMS and phone calls upon break-in detection. To further augment our security system, we explore using the smartphone’s built-in microphone to detect door and window openings across multiple doors and windows simultaneously. Experiments in a residential home show that the accelerometer- based detection can detect door open events with an accuracy higher than 98%, and magnetometer-based detection has 100% accuracy. By using the magnetometer method to automate the training phase of a neural network, we find that sound-based detection of door openings has an accuracy of 90% across multiple doors

Get Them in the Door

If blowout sales bring crazed shoppers to department stores on Black Friday and the perfect 75⁰ day draws people outside to enjoy the fresh air, then what brings the students to the library? With countless books, journals, and videos available at the click of a button, it might be easy or obvious to suppose that the library building would be an empty space gathering dust. It might be surprising, but quite the opposite is true. What makes a college library appealing? How can the academic library, as a place, continue to be important to the life of campus? [excerpt

Automatic Pet Door and Magnetic Field Activation

Automatic pet doors are sold commercially as a completely built unit on today’s market. A low-cost design has been created to allow more flexible placement and construction of a door. This door is unlocked upon detection of a magnetic field originating from the pet’s collar. The required activation signal has been carefully characterized to allow customization of the door and collar for a particular purpose. Detailed information on the operating circuit and sensor activation are provided. Results of how the door is constructed and operated, as well as personalization, are presented