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Lindsay T. Murn; Laura C. Schultz – Journal of College Student Mental Health, 2024
Group therapy is an effective modality to treat various mental health concerns and is proven to have significant interpersonal benefits. Despite the high prevalence of sexual violence amongst college-aged women, there are limited contemporary models for providing a trauma-specific group for this population. This article describes an innovative…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Rape, Sexual Abuse
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Mukherjee Das, Ankan; Shrivastav, Kumar Dron; Taneja, Neha; Awasthi, Aanchal Anant; Rashid, Shazia; Gogia, Ajay; Janardhanan, Rajiv – Health Education, 2022
Purpose: Breast cancer (BC) presents a major public health challenge world-over including India. While several risk-factors, early signs and symptoms of BC are known, the knowledge and awareness of this disease remains poor among the population. The present study aimed to determine the extent of knowledge and awareness of BC, its risk factors,…
Descriptors: Cancer, Public Health, Risk, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Harper, Erin A.; James, Anthony G.; Curtis, Chamina; Ramey, Demoni' – Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 2021
This article describes the first year of a partnership between a university and a community organization working to improve and expand a community-based multigenerational mentoring program for African American adolescent girls ages 12-17. The mentoring program, set in an urban Midwestern city, is a collaboration between university…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Adolescents, Mentors
Sara Safari – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Adolescent girls in developing countries, especially those from impoverished backgrounds, face many challenges, such as cultural preference for sons, child marriage, and gender-based violence and harassment, which limit their access, opportunities, and leadership skills. The purpose of this study was to create a virtual empowerment and leadership…
Descriptors: Leadership, Aspiration, Females, Adolescents
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Lin, Hsiu-Fen – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2018
In a northeastern university, an "invisible" non-funded group has provided cross-cultural programs for international non-matriculated accompanying women partners for 30 years. This study employed interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore the acculturation experiences of group participants based on Berry's acculturation theory.…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Females, Program Development, Cross Cultural Training
Leacock, Jamie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Sexual violence in the United States continues to be a growing problem. Collegiate women face some of the highest rates of sexual violence, with statistics estimating one in four women will have this unwanted experience sometime during their college career. With Title IX administrators required to provide sexual violence awareness, more colleges…
Descriptors: Rape, Males, Prevention, Audiences
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Kemp, Theresa D. – Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 2016
In 2009, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire's (UWEC) women's studies program offered its first iteration of the faculty-led international immersion course Women's Lives and Experiences in Nicaragua. This program was created and initially led by Dr. Rose-Marie Avin, a faculty member in the economics department and an affiliate member of both…
Descriptors: Feminism, Foreign Countries, Womens Studies, International Programs
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Meyer, Cheryl L.; Harned, Megan; Schaad, Amanda; Sunder, Katherine; Palmer, Judson; Tinch, Christy – Teaching of Psychology, 2016
There is mounting evidence that prison inmates benefit from educational opportunities but may not be offered to them. In addition, when they are offered, priority is given to prisoners who will be released in the near future, and those serving long-term or life sentences are less likely to have access to classes. A service learning opportunity was…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Service Learning
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Schry, Amie R.; White, Susan W. – Behavior Therapy, 2013
Sexual victimization is prevalent among college women and is associated with adverse psychological consequences. Social anxiety, particularly related to interpersonal interaction, may increase risk of sexual victimization among college women by decreasing sexual assertiveness and decreasing the likelihood of using assertive resistance techniques.…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Females, Risk, Interpersonal Relationship
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Moncur, Breckann; Bailey, Bruce W.; Lockhart, Barbara D.; LeCheminant, James D.; Perkins, Annette E. – American Journal of Health Education, 2013
Background: Studies looking at self-esteem and body size or adiposity generally demonstrate a negative relationship. However, the relationship between the source of self-esteem and body size has not been examined in college women. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship of body size and adiposity to source of…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, College Students, Body Composition, Self Concept
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Simpson Rowe, Lorelei; Jouriles, Ernest N.; McDonald, Renee; Platt, Cora G.; Gomez, Gabriella S. – Journal of American College Health, 2012
Objective: Despite extensive efforts to develop sexual assault prevention programs for college women, few have been rigorously evaluated, and fewer have demonstrable effects on victimization. This study pilots the Dating Assertiveness Training Experience (DATE), designed to train young women in assertiveness skills for responding to sexual…
Descriptors: Females, Prevention, Assertiveness, Control Groups
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McCauley, Jenna L.; Calhoun, Karen S.; Gidycz, Christine A. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
The current study prospectively examined the longitudinal relationships between binge drinking behavior and rape experiences among a multisite sample of college women with a history of prior attempted or completed rape (N = 228). Rates of binge drinking among this high-risk sample were high. Prospective analyses indicated that binge drinking…
Descriptors: College Students, Rape, Females, Drinking
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Kommers, Piet, Ed.; Issa, Tomayess, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed.; Hol, Ana, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
These proceedings contain the papers and posters of the 5th International Conference on Educational Technologies 2017 (ICEduTech 2017), which has been organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and co-organised by the Western Sydney University, held in Sydney, Australia, 11-13 December 2017. ICEduTech is…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Bibliometrics
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Hipple, John L.; Hill, A. Jean – NASPA Journal, 1972
A discussion of an investigation initiated at the University of Idaho which was designed to determine the current status of women students and faculty and to then develop programs that would help to maximize the educational opportunities available to women on that campus. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Program Development, Research
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Nichols, Laura; Lumley, Linda – Journal of College Student Development, 1999
Describes how students were actively involved in constructing a survey that was used to determine the types of programs female residential students would be most interested in attending. Presents both methodologies used to understand the level of student interest in the program as well as how the data collected were used to recruit potential peer…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Higher Education, On Campus Students
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