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Life and Lived Experiences of Adults With Chronic Mental Illness
Northwest University, July 22, 2021
93 pagesChronic mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorders can have lasting impacts and challenges for those who live with them. These challenges consist of routine difficulty, structured support, and how this ... -
Life and Lived Experiences of Adults With Chronic Mental Illness
Northwest University, 2022
93 pagesChronic mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorders can have lasting impacts and challenges for those who live with them. These challenges consist of routine difficulty, structured support, and how this ... -
Life Satisfaction and Happiness Concepts: Frequent Facebook Use and Infrequent Facebook Use
Northwest University, 2022
63 pagesWhen individuals conceptualize happiness, they have been indicated to select one of the few common aspects of life associated with life satisfaction. This study was aimed at establishing a relationship between Facebook use ... -
Lifespan Integration Effectiveness in Traumatized Women
Northwest University, 2012
49 pagesIn the research study, Lifespan Integration (LI) is studied in order to determine its effectiveness in treating women who have trauma related symptoms. The participants were gathered at a shelter in Seattle that specializes ... -
The Lived Experience of Divorce for Catholic Women
Northwest University, November 19, 2018
125 pagesAccording to Catholic teaching, marriage is permanent and divorce is not an option. The nine Catholic women in this phenomenological study experienced divorce despite their beliefs in the indissolubility of marriage and ... -
Major Depressive Disorder Treatments in Community Mental Health Clinics
Northwest University, 2018
65 pagesDepression affects many individuals worldwide, indiscriminant of race, gender or age (Burnett-Zeigler, Zivin, Islam, & Ilgen, 2012; Cuijpers & Schoevers, 2004; Watters, 2010). In 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) ... -
Mild Aerobic Exercise Impact on Cognitive Symptoms of Depression
Northwest University, June 22, 2020
86 pagesThe author of this paper researched the effect that mild aerobic exercise, as measured in average steps per day, had on cognitive symptoms of depression including attention/concentration, planning/organization, retrospective ... -
Parents’ Experience and Needs After ADHD Diagnosis
Northwest University, 2022
101 pagesWith a focus on exploring how the mental health field could better assist parents throughout their journey in raising a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder this phenomenological study comprised six study ... -
Political Ideology and Black-and-White Thinking
Northwest University, November 30, 2020
66 pagesThe political ideology of the American people has become increasingly polarized over the last decade; this trend corresponds with increasingly negative views of people with different values. Black-and-white thinking is a ... -
A Program Evaluation of a Partial Hospitalization Program Applying a Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Model
Northwest University, 2016
62 pagesThis study evaluated the efficacy of a partial hospitalization (PH) program based in the Meier Clinic’s private counseling center in Bothell, Washington, which was originally developed in the late 1980s. PH programs became ... -
A Qualitative Study on Treatment Approaches and Culturally Sensitive Mental Health Care for African Immigrants in the US
Northwest University, July 16, 2018
178 pagesAlthough the population of African immigrants in the U.S. continues to increase (Anderson, 2017), there is limited research on effective mental health treatment for this group. The purpose of this study was to understand ... -
The Relationship Between Mindfulness, Anxiety, And Time Lost In Sport Due To Injury Among Collegiate Athletes
Northwest University, February 26, 2018
83 pagesAs an athlete, acquiring an injury is one of the leading factors impeding performance, and studies show anxiety to be a predictor of sport injury occurrence. Mindfulness is becoming increasingly popular in Western psychology ... -
The Role of Religious Orientation on Adult Alcohol Use
Northwest University, 2022
80 pagesData from a sample of 117 adult Christians were used to determine if levels of religious orientation predicted quantity and frequency of alcohol use. The predictive relationship between alcohol expectancies and quantity ... -
The Role of Stigma and Acculturation in Mental Health Services Utilization Among Foreign-Born and U.S.-Born Latinos
Northwest University, 2015
127 pagesForeign-born Latinos are at particular risk for underutilizing mental health services (Alegria et al., 2007b). The purpose of this study was to examine the roles of acculturation and stigma about mental disorder in the use ... -
Seclusion and Restraint Reduction in a Psychiatric Hospital
Northwest University, April 1, 2019
63 pagesThe primary research question is as follows: is having an early de-escalation support team readily available a valid option for successfully reducing the frequency of mechanical restraint, physical restraint and seclusion ... -
Selfies, Personality, and Narcissism
Northwest University, July 18, 2019
79 pagesThe purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a statistically significant relationship between the frequency of capturing selfies and extraversion, agreeableness, and self-esteem and whether these measures ... -
Seven Participants’ Facebook Experiences of Loss & Mourning
Northwest University, 2017
x, 115 pagesSocial media, and for many, specifically, Facebook, has emerged as an integral part of daily routine and is often the primary medium for sharing news with one’s community. With the emergence of this technologically integrated ... -
Sexual Addiction Among Evangelical Pastors: A Hierarchical Regression Analysis of Predictive Factors
Northwest University, July 19, 2018
xi, 165 pagesThere are a limited number of empirical studies about sexual addiction in general, and among evangelical pastors, information is extremely scarce. Yet the uniqueness of this population in terms of spirituality and religion ... -
Social Self-Efficacy and Depression Among Children Living in the Kangemi Slum of Nairobi, Kenya
Northwest University, 2014
80 pagesSocial self-efficacy plays an important role in one’s psychological well-being, and a low sense of social self-efficacy is often associated with depression. But, does the relationship between social self-efficacy and ... -
Spiritual Well-Being as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Spiritual Behavior and Emotional Exhaustion in Pastors
Northwest University, 2017
vii, 74 pagesThe purpose of this study is to elucidate the relationship between spiritual discipline, spiritual well-being, and emotional exhaustion in pastors. Past research has indicated that pastors rely on a variety of systems, ...