SLIDES: Water Towers in the Balance: Time for a New Water Project

Presenter: Rick Cables, U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region 9 slide

Resilience in Black Mental Health Counselors

Though resilience is a commonly studied variable in different disciplines, there is relatively little research on occupational settings. Researchers take various perspectives in defining resilience as a trait, process, and an outcome. Regardless of how it is defined, it is a vital protective factor for Black mental health counselors who may be significantly impacted by similar experiences, such as racism and racial discrimination, as the Black clients they serve. This dissertation study consisted of two studies utilizing the same data set. In the first study, psychometric properties of a new quantitative instrument, the Race-Based Resilience Scale (RBRS), was constructed to measure Race-Based Resilience (RBR) within a group of Black mental health counselors. The second study investigated group differences in Vicarious Traumatization (VT) and Race-Based Resilience (RBR) for Black mental health counselors with moderate and high levels of Racial Centrality (RC) using an independent samples t-test. Findings of the first study yielded a 14-item instrument with a three-factor solution (Self-Efficacy, Coping Mechanisms, and Multicultural and Social Justice Advocacy) that reflected high factor loading accounting for nearly 60% of the variance. For the second study, there was no significant difference in Vicarious Traumatization (VT) or Race-Based Resilience (RBR) scores for Black mental health counselors with moderate to high levels of Racial Centrality (RC)

SLIDES: Forest Service Planning at a Crossroads; New Approaches to Old Recommendations

Presenter: Rick Cables, Regional Forester, U.S. Forest Service - Rocky Mountain Region (Golden, CO) 23 slide

Declaración ambiental

EMASFabricació de cables elèctric

Young Adults’ Perceptions of Bisexual and Transgender Adoption

Public support for LGBTQ+ rights is at an all-time high; however non-traditional adoptions remain a controversial issue. Previous research examined adopting homosexual parents as a collective group. We focused specifically on bisexual and transgender adoption. We hypothesized that male/female bisexual parents would have higher social approval than a bisexual pair of women, but lower social approval than a male/female straight couple. Participants were 100 adults with a mean age of 19.98 (SD = 1.71). Majority categories were women (70%), African American (45%) and heterosexual (75%). Participants randomly received a vignette that described an adoptive couple comprised of a bisexual woman and male partner, a bisexual woman and female partner, or a straight couple. Participants assessed the couple’s qualifications for adopting and the child’s likely mental and physical health. We also assessed participants’ perceptions of transgender couples adopting and LGBTQ+ rights. We found strong support among young adults for non-traditional parents and perceptions of positive outcomes for non-traditional parents’ adopted children. Women and politically liberal young adults were more supportive of non-heterosexual individuals and their adoption rights. These groups may also have perceived that their beliefs were widely endorsed as they predicted less prejudice for children adopted by non-heterosexual parents. These positive feelings may be restricted to very young adults, as age was correlated with more concerns about prejudice and a belief that sexuality is taught by parents. These findings suggest that society may be moving in a direction of more acceptance of non-traditional adoptions

Methods for improving the acceptability of vegetables in the school lunch program

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1955 C33Master of Scienc

SLIDES: Forest Service Planning at a Crossroads; New Approaches to Old Recommendations

Presenter: Rick Cables, Regional Forester, U.S. Forest Service - Rocky Mountain Region (Golden, CO) 23 slide

Trabajo de Fin de Máster

Código del Trabajo de Fin de Máster del Máster en Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento y de la Salud (UCM-UAM-UNED), titulado "Las diferencias de género en la carga de trabajo doméstico y de cuidados: una perspectiva micro y una perspectiva macro"