You Live, You Lose: Supporting Youths on Their Journeys in the Land of the Loss

As youths journey through life, they experience various personally significant losses and associated grief that can negatively impact their physical/mental health, developmental trajectory, and academic success. Framed in a broad-based perspective of loss, this presentation will acquaint participants with various loss-related constructs and events, potential associated physical, intellectual, emotional, and social effects of loss experiences, and supportive interventions and resources

“Don’t Shoot The Unicorn!” Finding Transformative Happiness and Resilience Through Developing Your “Anditude”!

As a care provider and leader in your community, you understand the challenge of keeping your own resilience high, and maintaining an attitude of hope. This transformational, uplifting program will equip you to develop the skill of happiness, empowering you to lead youths by demonstrating positive approaches in your own life, and impacting them with “Infectious Resilience” as they learn to adopt your Anditude

Achieving Access to Mental Health Care for School-Aged Children in Rural Communities

With creativity and collaboration, children in rural communities who have the same mental health needs as children in urban areas can achieve access to mental health care. This review of the literature explores barriers to mental health services facing school-aged children in rural communities, focusing on how challenges unique to rural communities affect the type of care rural children ultimately receive. This review aligns with the NREA Research Agenda area “access to counseling/mental health services”. The discussion incorporates national trends in the treatment of children with mental health concerns and highlights some surprising facts about the state of mental health care in rural school and examines the following factors: (1) belief, (2) family poverty, (3) school support, (4) community resources, and (5) awareness. The review concludes by outlining opportunities for advocacy and proposed solutions for improving mental health care access for rural children and suggesting directions for future research

Wind anisotropies and GRB progenitors

We study the effect of wind anisotropies on the stellar evolution leading to collapsars. Rotating models of a 60 M$_\odot$ star with $\Omega/\Omega_{\rm crit}=0.75$ on the ZAMS, accounting for shellular rotation and a magnetic field, with and without wind anisotropies, are computed at $Z$=0.002 until the end of the core He-burning phase. Only the models accounting for the effects of the wind anisotropies retain enough angular momentum in their core to produce a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB). The chemical composition is such that a type Ic supernova event occurs. Wind anisotropies appear to be a key physical ingredient in the scenario leading to long GRBs.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in A&A Lette

A Survey of Perceived Control and Domestic Environment Aspects of Early Adolescent Boys With and Without Identified Externalizing Behavior Problems

Two demographically congruous groups of early adolescent boys, one group with identified externalizing behavior problems (ESP) and one group enrolled in regular education (RED), were surveyed using anonymous self-report questionnaires that assessed academic, social, and general domains of perceived control and aspects of familial experiences. Data from EBP and RED boys\u27 extant scholastic archival records were also collected. Also, using anonymous self-report questionnaires, the parents of EBP and RED boys were surveyed regarding their levels of satisfaction regarding aspects of parenting. This study found that EBP boys had statistically significantly lower reading, math, and language achievement scores and grade point averages than RED boys. The general ability level of EBP boys was more similar to, than different from, the RED boys. Regarding perceived control in the academic domain, EBP boys (a) perceived themselves as having substantially less general control over academic success than RED boys, (b) endorsed luck as an effective strategy for academic success more than RED students, and (c) reported statistically significantly greater influence of unknown sources of academic successes and failures than RED boys. Socially, EBP boys reported statistically significantly greater beliefs about unknown sources for social (peers, adults) interaction success and unknown sources for social (peers, adults) interaction failure than RED boys. In the general environment, EBP boys reported significantly greater beliefs about unknown sources for general failure in their daily lives and imputed adults (powerful others) in their environment with great power with respect to preventing them from engaging in general activities. No statistically significant differences were found between the EBP and RED boys on self-reported aspects of parental care, social control/protection, or personal control/protection. Regarding parents\u27 self-reported levels of satisfaction, no statistically significant differences were found between parents of boys in the EBP group and parents of boys in the RED group for spouse/ex-spouse support nor parent performance. Mothers, but not fathers, of EBP boys reported a statistically significantly lower level of satisfaction with the parent-child relationship than mothers of RED boys

“Don’t Shoot The Unicorn!” How to find true happiness and resilience along your self-care journey.

“As a care-provider and leader in your community, you understand the challenge of keeping your own resilience high, and maintaining an attitude of hope. This transformational, uplifting program will equip you to develop the skill of happiness, empowering you to lead youth by demonstrating positive approaches in your own life, and impacting them with “Infectious Resilience” as they learn to adopt your “Anditude!

Being a Lighthouse on the Shore of the Stormy Sea of Grief: Supporting Loss-Affected Youth

As children and adolescents journey through life, they experience personally significant losses and associated grief that can negatively impact their physical/mental health, optimal development, and learning. Applying a broad-based perspective of loss, this presentation will acquaint educators/youth workers with (a) loss-related constructs and events, (b) potential physical, intellectual, emotional, and social effects of loss experiences, (c) supportive interventions, and (d) recommended print and Internet-based resources

Hiss or equatorial noise? Ambiguities in analyzing suprathermal ion plasma wave resonance

Previous studies have shown that lowâ energy ion heating occurs in the magnetosphere due to strong equatorial noise emission. Observations from the Van Allen Probes Helium Oxygen Proton Electron (HOPE) instrument recently determined that there was a depletion in the 1â 10 eV ion population in the postmidnight sector of Earth during quiet times at L < 3. The diurnal variation of equatorially mirroring 1â 10 eV H+ ions at 2 < L < 3 is connected with similar diurnal variation in the electric field component of plasma waves ranging between 150 and 600 Hz. Measurements from the Van Allen Probes Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) data set are used to analyze waves of this frequency in nearâ Earth space. However, when we examine the polarization of the waves in the 150 to 600 Hz range in the equatorial plane, the majority are rightâ hand polarized plasmaspheric hiss waves. The 1â 10 eV H+ equatorially mirroring population does not interact with rightâ hand waves, despite a strong statistical relationship suggesting that the two are linked. We present evidence supporting the relationship, both in our own work and the literature, but we ultimately conclude that the 1â 10 eV H+ heating is not related to the strong enhancement of 150 to 600 Hz waves.Key PointsA 1â 10 eV ion loss from plasma wave interactionHighâ amplitude plasma waves seem like probable candidatePolarization analysis reveals that the waves are hissPeer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/134763/1/jgra52995.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/134763/2/jgra52995_am.pd