Mindfulness for the Reduction of Anxiety, Stress, and Depression in the Preservice Teacher Community

Teachers and students alike suffer from anxiety, stress, and depression. Mindfulness-based strategies have been indicated to help teachers and students deal with stress, anxiety, and depression. Teachers often report not wishing to add more learning strategies to their packed schedules and workload. Education in mindfulness is not easily accessible due to the time constraints of this overworked population. The criteria for participation in the study required the college students in preservice education classes to be over 18 years old, enrolled in the teacher education program, and not have participated in any mindfulness in the last six months. The study is a quantitative pretest posttest design and included 10 participants who completed the pretest, intervention, and posttest. The data was collected via the website Mindful Teacher and included a link to the intervention, Palouse Mindfulness. Palouse Mindfulness is a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program. The data was collected, screened, and then analyzed using a paired sample t-test and noted, after analysis using SPSS, a reduction in the posttest scores on the depression, anxiety, and stress scales (DASS-21) after using the MBSR intervention. The factors of anxiety, stress, and depression have been associated as being significant factors in burnout as well as overall teacher health. Hopefully, MBSR could be a valuable technique for better mental health in teachers and those entering the profession

Ecology and life history of an Amazon floodplain cichlid: the discus fish Symphysodon (Perciformes: Cichlidae)

The discus fishes of the genus Symphysodon are popular ornamental cichlids that occur in floodplain lakes and flooded forests of the lowland Amazon Basin. These habitats are characterized by extreme seasonal fluctuations in the availability of food, shelter and dissolved oxygen, and also the densities of predators and parasites. Most aspects of discus biology are influenced by these fluctuating conditions. This paper reports an autoecological study of the western Amazonian discus S. haraldi (until recently classified as S. aequifasciatus). This species feeds predominantly on algal periphyton, fine organic detritus, plant matter, and small aquatic invertebrates. At high water it forages alone or in small groups in flooded forests. At low water it forms large aggregations in fallen tree crowns along lake margins. Breeding occurs at the beginning of the flood season, ensuring that the progeny are well grown before the next low water period. Symphysodon haraldi is an iteroparous partial spawner, reaches reproductive maturity within a year, and undertakes parental care of its eggs and larvae. The timing of spawning events, and/or the rate of brood survival, may be influenced by fluctuations in the flood level, resulting in a non-unimodal distribution of size classes for the subsequent 1+ cohort

The Stellar Content Near the Galactic Center

High angular resolution J, H, K, and L' images are used to investigate the stellar content within 6 arcsec of SgrA*. The data, which are complete to K ~ 16, are the deepest multicolor observations of the region published to date.Comment: 34 pages, including 12 figure

Reproductive Character Displacement And Signal Ontogeny In A Sympatric Assemblage Of Electric Fish

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/86991/1/j.1558-5646.2011.01245.x.pd

Introduction to the Special Issue

We are pleased to bring you the first of two special issues of Educational Considerations comprised of papers presented at the 2012 National Education Finance Conference in San Antonio, Texas

Introduction to the Special Issue

This special issue of Educational Considerations presents a selection of papers from the inaugural National Education Finance Conference held in 2011

Introduction to the Special Issue

We are pleased to bring you the second of two special issues of Educational Considerations comprised of papers presented at the 2012 National Education Finance Conference in San Antonio, Texas