Coaching the Multiplicity of Mind: A Strengths-based Model

Professional health and wellness coaches are passionate about helping people learn, change, and grow. We are lifelong students of what enables humans to perform at our best. The phrase coaching the whole person is common coaching parlance; full engagement in self-care often requires that clients shift a spectrum of beliefs, motives, and perspectives in order to make changes that are sustainable. Just as important is the need for coaches to fully engage in their own self-care in order to best serve their clients

Music Therapy in Adult Medical Settings: Recommendations and Advocacy for Sustainable Programs

This thesis research provides advocacy, strategies, and recommendations for sustainable music therapy program structures in adult medical settings. A review of the related literature justifies the need for and benefits of music therapy programs in adult medical settings. Recommendations for establishing and growing a music therapy program in these settings are based on semi-structured interviews conducted with three music therapists who have successfully implemented cost-effective and sustainable programs. Important considerations identified for program development include what to incorporate in a development pitch, the workload and well-being of the music therapist, and staff perceptions and relationship to the music therapy program

Put Your Pirates in Pajamas

During the balmy days of summer, the exclusive party lends its participants, for the time being, the utmost in comfort. And how refreshing are cool, roomy pajamas

Optimizing Media Conditions to Enhance Toxoplasma gondii Cyst Growth

Toxoplasma gondii, the causative agent of toxoplasmosis, is an intracellular protozoan that commonly infects people throughout the world. Under immune pressure, parasites can develop into bradyzoite cysts within cells to avoid presentation or processing by the adaptive immune response. These cysts can persist in human tissue for years escaping both drug therapies and the immune system. While these cysts do not pose major health problems for healthy individuals, those who are immunocompromised are at great risk for recurrent acute infections should the cysts rupture. This study investigated the effects of cell culture medias of varying richness on bradyzoite cyst growth. HFF cells were first infected with the Pruku80 strain of T. gondii and later placed under Compound One stress in either D10, D1, DMEM1, or MEM1 media for cyst growth. Beginning three days post-addition of Compound One, the cysts were observed daily using a fluorescence microscope, and cyst diameters were measured using ImageJ software. It was found that D10, the most nutrient-rich media compared, continually produced cysts with significantly larger average diameters than the less nutrient-rich mediums. The data supports the conclusion that additional nutrients, exceeding the minimum necessary for cyst growth, are beneficial in growing cysts of greater diameters. These results will be useful in preparing larger and more stable cysts in future T. gondii bradyzoite research

Prayers, Sex, Islam, and Electric Guitars: A Rhetorical Criticism of The Taqwacores

Punk rock Islam may not a common phrase to hear in society, but it is quickly expanding in popularity and in effectiveness. A fiction book entitled The Taqwacores tells the story of faithful Muslims practicing punk rock Islam in their own way. The novel utilizes constittive rhetoric, a concept popularized by Maurice Charland, to create a social movement that is sweeping the world. This paper analyzes the novel using the tenets of constitutive rhetoric and uses social movement theory to understand the implications that a simple book is having upon the world. Punk rock Islam may not be such an uncommon phrase for much longer

Sub-State Nationalism and International Law

This Article explores the relationship between international law, defined broadly as the principles, norms, and rules governing the international order and the aspirations for collective self-government by minority national communities. It argues that there will be increasing challenges to the current international legal rules by minority nationalists, and that it is important to develop a principled response to this challenge. It also argues that the current system privileges state actors to a great extent, and that any attempt to channel self-determination claims in a more benign, non-secessionist direction needs to address the statecentric biases of the current rules

New urbanist housing in Toronto, Canada: a critical examination of the structures of provision and housing producer practices

The empirical focus for this thesis research is Toronto, Canada where four case study sites are investigated and fifty-seven semi-structured interviews conducted with a range of actors both directly and indirectly involved in the creation of New Urbanist-inspired development projects. Two of the sample projects are situated in greenfield locations outside the administrative boundary of the City of Toronto, and two are situated in brownfield locations on formerly developed lands, both within the urban core of the City of Toronto. The contrasting contexts of the study units have been purposefully selected to explore the possibility of multi-factor causality involving contrasts of place, process, time, and social interaction. Underpinning this empirical research is the contention that the structures of provision model provides a useful approach for framing housing production research. However, it is argued that the evaluative power of this approach is limited by its inability to adequately account for how and why the New Urbanist form of provision has emerged, been legitimised, and normalised as 'best practice' within Toronto. In an unorthodox move, the final chapter of this thesis takes the level of theorisation enabled via the empirical framework of the structures of provision a step further to address this shortcoming. This is done by applying a 'rationalities' perspective to the investigation of how and why New Urbanism has become such a powerful force within Toronto's development cultures

Evaluation of Central Line Insertion Bundle Practices in a Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Central venous catheters, also known as central lines, serve an essential role in critical care settings across the globe. However, these lines put patients at an increased risk for hospital-acquired infections in the form of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI). In an effort to prevent these infections, evidence-based nursing interventions in the form of insertion and maintenance bundle are undertaken. It is the focus of this practice inquiry project to evaluate nurse adherence to central line insertion bundles before and after implementation of routine reporting of adherence rates within an ICU. The evaluation will provide insight to the degree of adherence to best practices during central line insertion, if routine monitoring and reporting of adherence rates affects adherence, and help guide future quality improvement projects for CLABSI prevention. This practice inquiry project includes three manuscripts each discussing central line insertion bundle practices and their effect on CLABSI’s as well as strategies to improve bundle adherence and decrease CLABSI rates

A study of change in a children's institution from custodial to planned group care.

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit