Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and suicidality are highly prevalent and increasing social problems among the college and university student population, thereby underscoring a need to better understand the relationship between ACEs and suicidal risk, ideation, and attempts during college. There is also a need to examine current suicide…

Adverse childhood experiences, or ACE, have been shown to cause long-term difficulties in an individual's physical health, impacting their chances of developing diabetes, high blood pressure, heart conditions, and various other medical conditions that can affect day-to-day life. Adversities experienced during childhood, such as physical,…

Compassion fatigue is a phenomenon that can occur when individuals who work in helping professions become overwhelmed by the emotional demands of their work. School counselors, in particular, are at risk for compassion fatigue when working with students who have experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can include experiences such as…

This dissertation examined disparities in initial placements and Length of Stay in Custody of children in North Carolina experiencing child maltreatment. This research examined how the Length of Stay in Custody and type of initial placement was associated with the age, race, and gender of children who had been removed from the care of their…

Cognitive behavioral therapy and other forms of rehabilitative programming are currently available for nearly all criminogenic needs. However, there is limited rehabilitative programming available for sexual offenders with minor victims. In order to develop effective programming within future research, the underlying motivations must be explored.…

Children tracked into special education services or support systems in public and private classrooms in the United States face many adversities with family, school, friends, and peers; this combination of tracking and adversity can lead to negative outcomes in adulthood. Resilience is often seen as a protective measure against adversity, but there…

The purpose of this qualitative study was to collect in-depth information from school psychologists regarding their perceptions toward expressive therapies and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as interventions when working with students who are exposed to trauma. Individual Zoom interviews were conducted with seven practicing school psychologists who…

Approximately 11 million women and five million men in the United States report experiencing interpersonal violence (e.g., sexual violence, physical violence, psychological harassment, or stalking) before the age of 18 (CDC, n.d. -a). Victims may face a decline in grades, depression, anxiety, unwanted pregnancy, substance abuse, sexually…

The purpose of this study was to determine if groups of educators differed in their ability to adequately recognize and report cases of child abuse. Furthermore, if there were any differences in the perception of preparedness level (pre-service training and in-service training) among the educators. This study applied a quantitative method which…

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the perception of educators that moved away from a traditional learning environment with little movement and high academic stress through the introduction of project-based learning activities noting (a) the perception on behaviors specifically for students, ranging in age from 8 to 17…

The problem is school systems may lack detailed guidelines on how teachers make physical contact with their students and protect themselves from false accusations of inappropriate behaviors. The purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study was to explore the perceptions of K-8 administrators and teachers on school and school districts…

The overarching goal of this quantitative study was to explore factors that were associated with the prevalence in reading intervention programs. Specifically, the purpose of this study was to explore Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) among adults along with various demographics to determine factors connected with the involvement in a reading…

This narrative study seeks to elucidate survivors' experiences of academic and social emotional learning during the high school years within the troubled teen industry, which includes privately operated wilderness therapy programs and residential treatment centers. The study illuminates how the loss of a traditional high school experience can have…

Trauma is not a novel phenomenon within the world or society. Kilpatrick et al. (2013) postulated that most individuals will experience at least one traumatic event in their life. Possibly the more disturbing truth about trauma is it can occur throughout all stages of a person's life, sometimes even before the person is born (Narayan et al.,…

This dissertation addressed the problem of low graduation rates among African American (AA) males, a minority population characterized by the lowest graduation rates of any racial group in the United States. Specifically, the research questions asked how the independent variables of social and academic integration, childhood trauma, and…