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Transforming Drug Addicts\u27 Lives: Restoration Christian Outreach Community (RCOC) In Northwest Mississippi
The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports on over 14,500 specialized drugtreatment facilities providing counseling, behavioral therapy, medication, case management, and other services to persons with substance-use disorders.1 Drug addiction is a complex disorder that can involve the individual\u27s family, work, school, and community involvement with pervasive consequences, so treatment typically involves many components, with the goal of addressing each facet affected by the disorder. Residential drug-treatment programs throughout the United States follow different treatment and rehabilitation models. In Mississippi, most drug-treatment programs are offered by the Department of Mental Health, Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Services. However, residential drug-treatment programs in northwest Mississippi do not incorporate Godly tools and leadership principles to address the increasing challenges of drug addiction. This dissertation addresses v faith-based treatment environments, servant leadership, and reintegration into spiritual and community life to determine the effectiveness of three residential drug-treatment programs around northwestern Mississippi aiming to understand the effectiveness of those programs and how they could better improve the lifestyles of Mississippiâs drug-addicted population. Based on the findings, I propose to establish a Restoration Christian Outreach Community (RCOC), a faith-based, holistic, drug-treatment program, planned for northwest Mississippi and designed to change each recovering individualâs social environment. The resulting artifact, entitled âTransforming Drug Addictsâ Lives in Northwest Mississippi: Restoration Christian Outreach Community (RCOC),â represents portions of a proposed facilitatorâs manual for daily sessions at the RCOC Ministry. This artifact incorporates the Godly tools missing from many recovery programs, and may be used by others in outreach ministries and residential drug-recovery facilities as a holistic approach to healing
Growing Into Inquiry: Stories of Secondary School Teachers Using Inquiry for Themselves and Their Students
This study examines cases of teacher leaders in a professional development program that employed teacher inquiry to promote student inquiry. Program documents, observations, and interviews were examined to create three cases of high school science and math teachers learning to inquire in tandem. Guided by Cochran-Smith and Lytleâs (2009) âinquiry stance,â the study shows how commitment to student inquiry comes through learning gained through teacher inquiry. While conceptual understandings of teacher and student inquiry reinforced the learning of both, the parallel development of practical skills for both inquiry processes was not observed. Such conceptual growth was neither steady nor linear and characterized by some backward movement followed by significant shifts in thinking. Growth was grounded in increased experience with the process over time that deepened the teachersâ trust in their studentsâ ability to create their own knowledge â an understanding of the learning process that was made more visible by the programâs requirements for teachers to evaluate student inquiry as a focus of their teacher inquiry. The study confirms the need for ongoing professional development in the more complex forms of student learning embedded in newer national standards while suggesting that approaches towards professional learning must holds similar high expectations for teachers and attention to the equally complex learning required of teachers if we truly aim to create such possibilities for student learning at higher levels
Evolution: Complexity, uncertainty and innovation
Complexity science provides a general mathematical basis for evolutionary thinking. It makes us face the inherent, irreducible nature of uncertainty and the limits to knowledge and prediction. Complex, evolutionary systems work on the basis of on-going, continuous internal processes of exploration, experimentation and innovation at their underlying levels. This is acted upon by the level above, leading to a selection process on the lower levels and a probing of the stability of the level above. This could either be an organizational level above, or the potential market place. Models aimed at predicting system behaviour therefore consist of assumptions of constraints on the micro-level â and because of inertia or conformity may be approximately true for some unspecified time. However, systems without strong mechanisms of repression and conformity will evolve, innovate and change, creating new emergent structures, capabilities and characteristics. Systems with no individual freedom at their lower levels will have predictable behaviour in the short term â but will not survive in the long term. Creative, innovative, evolving systems, on the other hand, will more probably survive over longer times, but will not have predictable characteristics or behaviour. These minimal mechanisms are all that are required to explain (though not predict) the co-evolutionary processes occurring in markets, organizations, and indeed in emergent, evolutionary communities of practice. Some examples will be presented briefly
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Social competence and parental differential treatment across sibling dyads
Parental differential treatment (PDT), which varies as a function of genetic relatedness between siblings, has been linked to childrenâs self-worth. Thus, the purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship between motherâs reports of differential treatment in play and childrenâs self-reports of social competence across dyad types. Participants were 54 monozygotic (MZ) twins, 86 dizygotic (DZ) twins, 68 full siblings (FS), and 43 same-aged adoptees (VT) and their mothers. Analyses revealed a significant trend for PDT on childrenâs social competence, F (1, 234) = 2.93, p = .088, while siblingsâ social competence means reflected genetic and age effects
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