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Assessing and Evaluating the Perfectionism Social Disconnection Model: Social Support, Loneliness, and Distress among Undergraduate, Law, and Medical Students
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Samantha Chen; Donald H. Saklofske; Gordon L. Flett; Paul L. Hewitt – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
The current research evaluates the Perfectionism Social Disconnection Model (PSDM) by considering the links between measures of trait perfectionism and perfectionistic self-presentation and measures of social support, loneliness, and distress in cross-sectional research. A particular focus is on perfectionism and levels of social support as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Law Students, Medical Students
Sins of the Father: Exploring Shame as an Ethical Pedagogy to Advance British Columbia's K-12 Settler Students towards Reconciliation
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Victor Brar – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2024
This paper reflects my journey, as a racialized settler and K-12 practitioner in British Columbia, Canada, towards developing a pedagogical understanding of how to transform the experience of inherited colonial shame among settler children in my classroom. Canada has a shameful history of colonialism, the progressive revelations of which provoke…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Elementary School Students, High School Students
Dimensions of Self-Actualization and Posttreatment Alcohol Use in Fully and in Partly Recovered Alcoholics.
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Cernovsky, Zdenek – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1983
Studied 46 alcoholics one year upon discharge from a residential treatment program based on transactional analysis. Results showed 25 were abstinent and the other 21 were not drinking heavily. Analysis suggested that the abstinent persons had somewhat higher self-esteem and were slightly freer in expression of feelings. (JAC)
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Followup Studies, Foreign Countries, Individual Differences
International and Transracial Adoptions: A Mental Health Perspective.
Bagley, Christopher; And Others – 1993
The key dependent variable in adoption research is the child's mental health, in the short and the long term. Defining mental health as the development of basic ego strength and a feeling of self-worth, which enable an individual to cope with stresses later in life, this book focuses on how well adolescents and young adults have fared in adoption.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adopted Children, Adoption, Adoptive Parents
Canada: A Source Book for Orientation, Language and Settlement Workers.
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Employment and Immigration Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1991
An information guide for people who help newcomers to Canada, this book helps second language teachers plan the content of their courses, and makes it easier for settlement agency workers to respond to newcomers' needs. The method it advocates is question and answer, with the newcomer asking the questions. The ultimate goal of the book is to…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Climate, Counseling Techniques, Counselors
Working with Newcomers: A Guide for Immigration and Settlement Workers.
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Employment and Immigration Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1992
This guide is a national reference document that gives immigration and settlement workers access to concepts and printed materials than can help them do their jobs. Its purpose is to help immigration and settlement workers respond appropriately to newcomers' problems and questions as they concern Canada's customs, institutions and public behavior.…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Counseling Techniques, Counselors, Cultural Differences