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- Creator:
- Macchiarella, Julie
- Description:
- The purpose of this project is to provide an accurate and accessible resource for the education of parents of Deaf children about child sexual abuse prevention and awareness. While there is limited research on the Deaf community and child sexual abuse, researchers have found a higher vulnerability to child sexual abuse in the Deaf population. The best prevention for child sexual abuse is education, awareness, and communication between caregivers and children. For Deaf children communication with those around them can be difficult. It is vital that parents and caregivers are educated about the need for conversations with their children about the possibility of abuse, and how to handle it. Many parents, hearing or Deaf, struggle to understand how to have these conversations, yet the hearing population has more access, resources, and support. It is crucial that projects such as this exist to provide full and culturally sensitive information about child sexual abuse to the parents or caregivers of Deaf children.
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Educational Psychology and Counseling
- Creator:
- Giron, Vanessa
- Description:
- The purpose of this graduate project was to design a professional development workshop with specified guidance for career and college readiness for undocumented ninth grade students. It is meant to inform and educate professional school counselors about the different topics relevant to undocumented ninth-grade students, such as federal laws and policies, social/emotional effects, creative counseling strategies, and post-secondary planning. Early college and career planning in the ninth grade can significantly impact the journey and post-secondary outcome for undocumented students. Professional school counselors are in a vital position to help undocumented students acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to thrive personally and academically. This facilitator's guide is meant to assist the leading professional school counselor to navigate the different sections of the provided professional development workshop for an audience of professional school counselors. The workshop, Enhancing Post-Secondary Readiness for Ninth Grade Undocumented Students, is designed to inform and provide recommendations for useful school counseling practices relevant to undocumented adolescents in the ninth grade.
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Educational Psychology and Counseling
- Creator:
- Macchiarella, Julie
- Description:
- The purpose of this project is to provide an accurate and accessible resource for the education of parents of Deaf children about child sexual abuse prevention and awareness. While there is limited research on the Deaf community and child sexual abuse, researchers have found a higher vulnerability to child sexual abuse in the Deaf population. The best prevention for child sexual abuse is education, awareness, and communication between caregivers and children. For Deaf children communication with those around them can be difficult. It is vital that parents and caregivers are educated about the need for conversations with their children about the possibility of abuse, and how to handle it. Many parents, hearing or Deaf, struggle to understand how to have these conversations, yet the hearing population has more access, resources, and support. It is crucial that projects such as this exist to provide full and culturally sensitive information about child sexual abuse to the parents or caregivers of Deaf children.
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Educational Psychology and Counseling
- Creator:
- Argabright, Jennifer
- Description:
- Roughly 3 million children within the United States have hearing loss and approximately 1.3 million of these children are diagnosed under 3 years old (Center for Hearing and Communication, n.d.). A Workshop for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Awareness and Inclusion in Early Childhood Education is a workshop for professionals working with deaf and hard of hearing children and the importance of inclusion within the classroom. The workshop will provide educators with information about (1) the differences between deaf and hard of hearing including types of diagnosis and the number of children and families that are affected along with how to identify children who may be deaf or hard of hearing in the classroom (2) information on the options for deaf and hard of hearing children to be educated including the benefits of each option (3) support required for the professionals including information on inclusion and supporting the families within the classroom and school. This project is set in the understanding that deaf and hard of hearing children and typically hearing children benefit from inclusion and supporting both the children and professionals to ensure the child is given equal access to the materials and information from an early age (Most & Ingber, 2016; Scott et al., 2019).
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Educational Psychology and Counseling
- Creator:
- Christensen, Candice
- Description:
- The purpose of this project is to address shame and the fear of disconnection in P-12 schools and how that disconnection has the power to negatively impact students. Research by Brown, 2016 has demonstrated that shame and disconnection in school leads to a decline in grades and academics, decline in attitude and mental health, and an increase in depression and school violence. Early experiences of shame can become the basis for negative self-experience and negative self-evaluation. Shame arises when a student has been criticized, judged or viewed negatively by others. Shame responses can display as withdrawal designed to self-protect by limiting possible attacks or rejection from peers. Research by Xavier, Pinto Gouveia, and Cunha, 2016 has shown that when a student experiences themselves as existing in a negative context in the minds of others, they may engage in internal shaming and self-blaming resulting in a hostile relationship with themselves. Students with an internal relationship that is characterized by external shame, self-hatred and fear of self-compassion present increased trouble with peers, increased levels of depressive symptoms and more frequent instances of non-suicidal self-injury (Xavier, Pinto Gouveia, & Cunha, 2016).
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Educational Psychology and Counseling