Data was previously collected on 228 incarcerated pregnant women during their MIRACLE project intake interview. During the intake interview demographic data, criminal histories, social histories, and personal and family trauma histories were collected . . .

This project focuses upon designing an intentionally structured group for college men about the multiple expressions of masculinity. Within the project, there is information and exercises that are included to prepare a college professional to facilita . . .

The adolescent years of life are typically a time when normal physical, emotional and mental development can become turbulent. The identified role of a teenager is to gain independence from his or her parent(s) as they develop their own interests towa . . .

In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in HIV infection rates among women. Young females in particular have been disproportionately affected. Current HIV prevention interventions fail to meet the needs of those young females who are at highe . . .

The purpose of this study is to examine protective factors of adolescent resiliency with a focus on educationally supportive parenting behaviors. It is a correlational study examining the effects of perceived academically supportive behaviors by paren . . .

Consciousness as a construct continues to have utility in society; legally, medically and interpersonally. Repression is an often-studied mechanism to explain how some things are kept out of consciousness. The Constructive Repression Approach emphasiz . . .

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of significant others' academic support on adolescents' academic identity and educational aspirations in Latino adolescents. Self-report data was collected from 164 Latino adolescents from one . . .

In recent years, colleges and universities have attempted to increase the effectiveness of their educational programs in order to better assure student success. An integral tool that needs to be improved in the educational system of higher education i . . .

Immigration has been an integral part of American history as a nation, since the beginning. In the past few decades, new immigrants in this country have been from a more diverse culture and ethnicity than the immigrants before them who were mostly Eur . . .

The relationship between psychotherapy and religion has been often stormy and consistently ambivalent. Issues' concerning counseling and psychotherapy of the orthodox Jewish client is no exception. The present study is designed to understand the strug . . .