Latino Acculturative Stress Implications, Psychotherapeutic Processes, and Group Therapy

The Latino population is the fastest growing ethnic minority group in the United States. Yet, Latinos do not receive adequate mental health treatment due to the lack of cultural sensitivity regarding the necessity of bilingual and bicultural staff and culturally modified therapies. The difficulties associated with Latinos wrestling to preserve their native culture while also adjusting to the new dominant U.S. culture may cause them to experience acculturative stress. This specific distress may lead Latinos to implement maladaptive coping strategies that could influence Latino risk factors regarding unemployment, poverty, alcohol and drug abuse, aggressive behavior, mental health issues, and suicide rates. After reviewing the research focused on Latinos, Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Interpersonal Therapy were three major orientations aimed at individual therapy with Latinos while Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy and psychoeducational groups dominated group therapy literature with Latinos. This review concluded the importance of incorporating cultural values and addressing socio-psychological stressors in therapy in order to produce significant treatment efficacy. Nonetheless, the rapidly increasing Latino population and genuine lack of cultural awareness requires continued research on culturally modifying other treatment modalities, multicultural competency for mental health professionals, and graduate program incorporation of a language component to stimulate interest with this needy population

Junior Recital, Micah Baldwin, tenor & Jasmin Ward, soprano

Junior RecitalMicah Baldwin, tenor & Jasmin Ward, sopranoDavid Kim, pianoTuesday, April 16, 2019 at 7:30pmRecital Hall / James W. Black Music Center1015 Grove Avenue / Richmond, Va

A Mixed Method Study of the Effectiveness of Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) Federal Incentive Program in Southern Mississippi Public Secondary Schools

The Gaining Early Awareness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) incentive program has been in place since the late 1990s nationally. This grant, which covers a time span of six years and offers up to eighteen million dollars in federal funds, is designed to increase college readiness and decrease dropout rate among high school students. This study examines the effectiveness of this grant in southern Mississippi for the graduating class of 2014. Utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods to determine the effectiveness of this grant, this study draws some conclusions and recommendations for this incentive program

Attracting and retaining teachers in a changing educational system

This study explored a growing organizational literature which has suggested that the record levels of teacher defection that are currently costing American schools dearly in terms of dollars and talent can be explained by working conditions and teacher organizational commitment. By incorporating educational research into Hackman and Oldham’s (1980) job characteristics model, which was created to explain organizational phenomena in non-educational settings, a new model was proposed wherein organizational commitment mediated the relationship between turnover and seven categories of school working conditions: skill variety, autonomy, participation in decision-making, feedback, collaboration, learning opportunities, and resources. One hundred and twenty one teachers were recruited through e-mail to take part in an online survey measuring the perceived quality of these seven working conditions in their respective schools, along with measures assessing their level of organizational commitment, turnover intentions, and the extent of turnover problems in their schools. As hypothesized, it was found that each of the seven organizational variables was negatively related to teacher turnover and, further, that these relationships were all either fully or partially mediated by organizational commitment. A full discussion of the study’s results is provided, alongside suggestions for next steps in this research area

Scripture and Self in Origen of Alexandria\u27s Exegetical Practice

In this dissertation I examine the nature of scripture and the self as presented by Origen of Alexandria. I argue that Christian scripture and the Christian self are constructed by exegetical practice; furthermore, in the case of Origen, I will demonstrate that Christian scripture and the Christian self are so closely related that it is best to speak of a scripture-self complex emerging out of his exegetical practice. I use a theory of structure as developed by William Sewell as a means to discuss both scripture and the self. As structures, scripture and the self are composed of resources and schemas that are paired together into meaningful wholes. That whole is a structure, which in turn structures other aspects of culture. However, resources and schemas are not automatically paired together. Rather, they are paired together by practices of historical agents who both shape structures and are shaped by them. With this framework in mind, I discuss the ways in which exegetical practices pair resources and schemas together into meaningful wholes. There are two initial processes, the becoming scripture of biblical texts and the becoming the self of a human person, which I trace in Heracleon, Irenaeus, and Origen. I then argue that in the case of Origen, scripture and self mutually structure one another. I call these processes the anthropomorphizing of scripture and the scripturalizing of the self. These processes result in what I call a scripture-self complex, by this term I mean that scripture cannot be what scripture is without the self being what the self is and the self cannot be what the self is without scripture being what scripture is. Key texts for my study of Origen\u27s exegetical practices are his Commentary on the Gospel according to John, On First Principles, Homilies on Jeremiah, and finally, Commentary on the Song of Songs

Senior Recital: Micah David, violin

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Performance. Mr. David studies violin with Helen Kim.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1068/thumbnail.jp

Junior Recital: Micah David, violin

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Performance. Mr. David studies violin with Helen Kim.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1243/thumbnail.jp

Continuous and Pulsed Quantum Zeno Effect

Continuous and pulsed quantum Zeno effects were observed using a $^{87}$Rb Bose-Einstein condensate(BEC). Oscillations between two ground hyperfine states of a magnetically trapped condensate, externally driven at a transition rate $\omega_R$, were suppressed by destructively measuring the population in one of the states with resonant light. The suppression of the transition rate in the two level system was quantified for pulsed measurements with a time interval $\delta t$ between pulses and continuous measurements with a scattering rate $\gamma$. We observe that the continuous measurements exhibit the same suppression in the transition rate as the pulsed measurements when $\gamma\delta t=3.60(0.43)$, in agreement with the predicted value of 4. Increasing the measurement rate suppressed the transition rate down to $0.005\omega_R$.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure

Characterizing Manipulation from AI Systems

Manipulation is a common concern in many domains, such as social media, advertising, and chatbots. As AI systems mediate more of our interactions with the world, it is important to understand the degree to which AI systems might manipulate humans without the intent of the system designers. Our work clarifies challenges in defining and measuring manipulation in the context of AI systems. Firstly, we build upon prior literature on manipulation from other fields and characterize the space of possible notions of manipulation, which we find to depend upon the concepts of incentives, intent, harm, and covertness. We review proposals on how to operationalize each factor. Second, we propose a definition of manipulation based on our characterization: a system is manipulative if it acts as if it were pursuing an incentive to change a human (or another agent) intentionally and covertly. Third, we discuss the connections between manipulation and related concepts, such as deception and coercion. Finally, we contextualize our operationalization of manipulation in some applications. Our overall assessment is that while some progress has been made in defining and measuring manipulation from AI systems, many gaps remain. In the absence of a consensus definition and reliable tools for measurement, we cannot rule out the possibility that AI systems learn to manipulate humans without the intent of the system designers. We argue that such manipulation poses a significant threat to human autonomy, suggesting that precautionary actions to mitigate it are warranted.Comment: Presented at EAAMO 2023; The first two authors contributed equally; author order was decided with a coin fli