Success for Graduation and Beyond: College Counseling Advocacy Skills That Target the Needs of First-Generation College Students

The writer explores how the role of a college counselor can support and advocate for first-generation students in a way that can lead to attainable success beyond merely graduating from an institution. Research has shown that college faculty have been proven to be a significant source of aspirational, intellectual, and emotional support in a student’s college success. The role of a college counselor could be an ideal mentor and advocate for those students who may be at a disadvantage, such as a first-generation student. The specific barriers that first-generation students experience that differ from continuing-generation students are discussed. Additionally, the role of the college counselor is examined, and potential areas of advocacy efforts are discussed. Finally, the ACA advocacy competencies of students/clients are examined and key factors relevant to the college counselor and client relationship are identified

Bugchaser: Protective Measures

Using photographic installation and new media, Bugchaser: Protective Measures examines risk in response to perceived danger as engaged by bug chasers (or bugchasers) and suburbanites in the United States. The work explores this theme through the contrasting nature of queer social networks and the physical boundaries of the suburban landscape. Ultimately, this work uproots conventional notions of intimacy as conscribed by the suburban middle-class and de-stigmatizes unconventional behaviors by challenging boundaries that needlessly divide. I have taken liberty with metaphor and used it in an attempt to reverse some of the damages brought forth through historical practices. If the viewer has a chance to observe suburban boundaries — contextualized by me, as a queer man raised in a suburban environment — set against the ends to which some queer men will go in order to defy other enforced physical and social boundaries, then perhaps a dialogue will open up questioning current solutions to dilemmas of danger and risk

Mindful Monsters: Development of a DBT-Informed Art Therapy Method for Traumatized Children in an Acute Inpatient Residential Program

In the treatment of complex childhood trauma, emotion regulation is a foundational component in the healing process. It is accepted in the acute inpatient setting that a highly structured, evidence-based approach targets specific needs of the traumatized child. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a model gaining popularity at the inpatient level of care for this reason. Art therapy has been introduced in adjunct to engage the sensory and developmental needs of the traumatized child in this setting, yet there is a lack of research of the inclusion of DBT-informed art therapy. Some phenomenological research has been conducted on the efficacy of DBT-informed art therapy in trauma treatment, but little research has focused on art as the tool in DBT targeting specifics of emotion regulation in the traumatized child. The available literature provides insight into the usefulness of integrating these two approaches in order to promote skill-building and retention, develop insight, and ultimately accept experiences and change maladaptive behaviors. To contribute to research on DBT-art therapy with traumatized children, this writer has created a long-term art therapy intervention informed by the emotion regulation module of DBT while working with a traumatized child in the acute residential setting. Over three sessions, the participant designed and built a three-dimensional plush monster representing anger. This writer’s personal notes, art making and reflections along with client reflections and self-report suggest there are significant benefits in integrating DBT and art therapy to address emotion regulation that should be explored further

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Geological Storage of CO2

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the collection of carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial point sources such as power plants and its injection underground. Much of the technology necessary to capture and inject CO2 into the subsurface already exists and CCS will be an integral part of any strategy to combat anthropogenic climate change until we, as a society, are able to move away from our dependence on fossil fuels. 

There are three options for geological storage of CO2: deep saline aquifers, depleted oil reservoirs and unmineable coal beds. It is the purpose of this presentation to provide a general survey of each of these options. For each geological formation I review (1) The ways in which CO2 could escape into the atmosphere. (2) Current scientific knowledge and uncertainties about the behaviour of CO2 after it is underground -particularly the interactions of water, oil or gas initially present in the geological formation with injected CO2. (3) The overall advantages and disadvantages of each option in terms of technical challenges and cost

Author Interview with Novelist Esther Laforce

Novelist\u27s Corner: Author Interview with novelist Esther Laforce, author of: In the Early Days of the Anthropocene (Aux premiers temps de l’Anthropocène). Ottawa, CA: Leméac Editeur, 201

Collegiate atmosphere in the factory as a means of reducing labor turnover

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High-Temperature, Low-Cycle Fatigue Behavior of Tantalum

High temperature, low cycle fatigue tests of tantalum in inert argon atmospher