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ERIC Number: ED604677
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 106
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 978-1-3922-5610-7
ISSN: EISSN-
EISSN: N/A
Teaching Resilience and Differentiation of Self to Undergraduate Education Majors
Balderas, Elizabeth S. T.
ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, University of South Dakota
This study investigated how postsecondary professionals could create a holistic psychological education curriculum in a non-therapeutic setting with undergraduate students, specifically education majors. The relevance of this study is that applications of psychological education are beneficial not only in the helping professions but in non-therapeutic-settings such as undergraduate programs. The study asserts that earlier application of psycho-education, such as Resilience and Family Systems Theory, can be a panacea to the youth and young adult suicide epidemic. It further asserts that it can train future educators on how to handle the complex family contextual issues they will be challenged within the classroom. This quantitative quasi-experiment study investigated the increase or decrease in Resilience and Differentiation of Self as reported on two empirically validated instruments, pre and posttests of a psycho-educational exposure curriculum. The psycho-educational exposure (intervention) was implemented between two different test points (pre-intervention and post-intervention). The intervention used a holistic psycho-educational exposure curriculum that consisted of a brief overview of Resilience (Garmezy, 1984) and Bowen Family Systems (1972) theories. The intervention was implemented in an undergraduate course at a medium-sized liberal arts university in the Midwest. The results of this study indicate that participants in the intervention and control groups average mean score increased on each scale (DoS and R) from pretest-posttest (intervention group had the greatest increase of score), however, when the data was analyzed through a Mixed-Model ANOVA did not show statistically significant increases on either scale over the progression of the experiment. The researcher cannot say with confidence that the psycho-educational intervention of learning Resilience Theory and Bowen Family Systems had a significant causal relationship with the increase of Resilience or Differentiation of Self. When investigating the independent variables of this study (time and group), the researcher found that time is a variable to examine more closely. This researcher hypothesized that there is a need to lengthen the time of exposure in order to achieve statistical significance of results. The researcher deems that psycho-educational exposure should manifest in undergraduate postsecondary coursework and curriculums throughout the US and beyond and that this topic merits further study. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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