Youth Leadership Through Adventure: Alums\u27 Perspectives on the Experience of Leadership

In this study, I examined the perspectives that emerging adult alums of a program called Youth Leadership Through Adventure (YLTA) have of their adolescent experiences of being a leader. Eight YLTA alums engaged in semi-structured interviews focusing on the research questions: What are the lived experiences of leadership in emerging adult alums of YLTA? What factors of their adolescent involvement were most influential in their emerging adult lives? As a youth development program, YLTA is supported by Adapt and the North Country Health Consortium (NCHC), two nonprofit organizations devoted to improving health conditions and habits of individuals residing in the north country of New Hampshire. YLTA is implemented in middle and high schools in this region. In this dissertation, I describe the components of and evidence base for YLTA. I point to literature that highlights the importance of researching youth development programs and adolescent and emerging adult experiences of leadership. Through both a developmental perspective and the relational leadership model I offer a theoretical framework through which to conceptualize and discuss the findings. I outline the method of recruitment and procedure for the qualitative approach to data collection including an explanation of interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA), and the analysis and interpretation of results. Five clusters of themes surfaced through the analysis. The themes suggest that (a) alums are committed to the program for various reasons, (b) alums gained a sense of self through program participation, (c) YLTA supported multiple aspects of alums’ development, (d) the YLTA culture and community were significant factors in alums’ experiences, and (e) three other aspects of YLTA programming (conferences, its emphasis on reflection, and its timing) were highly influential in alums’ experiences. I discuss the implications of these findings for the YLTA program, limitations of the study, and potential areas for future research

Female Barrenness, Bodily Access and Aromatic Treatments in Seventeenth-Century England

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/.Scholars examining medical practice in early modern England have often remarked upon the complexities of the relationship between male physicians and female patients. It has been noted that ideas of female modesty and concern about the potential erotic nature of contact between patients and practitioners could affect the treatment of certain disorders. This paper contributes to this on-going discussion by examining the use of pungent substances to diagnose and treat female barrenness. Diagnostic tests included in medical treatises could rely upon the woman’s ability to perceive a particular substance. These tests thus put women at the centre of the diagnosis of their disorders and allowed them to negotiate access to their reproductive bodies. Similarly medical practitioners included a range of treatments for infertility that involved the fumes of certain substances entering the womb or surrounding the body. These treatments may have allowed women, and perhaps their medical practitioners, to choose a method of remedy that did not involve the application of external lotions to the genitalia. Thus by considering the multi-sensory nature of medical treatment this paper will highlight that the diversity of remedies advocated in early modern medical texts would perhaps have allowed women to restrict access to their reproductive bodies, while still obtaining diagnosis and treatment.Peer reviewe

The birth of mankynde, otherwyse named the womans booke [electronic resource] : Newly set foorth, corrected, and augmented. Whose contentes ye may reade in the table of the booke, and most plainely in the prologue. By Thomas Raynalde physition.

Based on a translation by Richard Jonas of a Latin edition of: Roeslin, Eucharius. Der swangern Frawen und hebammen Rosegarten.Dated "1565" at end; printer's name supplied and actual publication date conjectured by STC.The "plates" are woodcut.This edition has A2v catchword "harde".B6r catchword "forte"; device at end. Variant: B6r catchword "comfort"; no device at end.Reproduction of the original in the British Library.STC (2nd ed.)Electronic reproduction