The primary aim of this study was to explore the existence of Occupationally-Related Stress Response Syndromes (OSRS) in a population of counseling graduate students in an attempt to better understand how novice clinicians respond to working with trauma. The second goal was to utilize the data...
This work performs a critical discourse analysis of federally-funded abstinence-only and comprehensive sex education curricula in order to understand how, through the implementation process, sex education policies construct gender and sexuality. Both the policy debates and the policy...
The designers of our built environment have created public facilities that are segregated by gender for their use. Common examples of such spaces are public restrooms, locker rooms, prisons, and shelters. While these gendered structures may exist to promote safety and modesty in our culture,...
The United States has been a global leader in the international population arena for nearly fifty years, but the domestic policy debate around international population and reproductive health issues has been increasingly characterized by politicization and partisanship. This study explores the...
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 eliminated a social safety net for families maintained by single mothers. The aim of this research was to understand how welfare reform affected income packaging and economic well-being among families headed by...
Previous research applying representative bureaucracy as a theoretical framework has emphasized the link between passive and active representation to identify how or when non-dominant groups, Blacks or women, actively engage in actions or behaviors that benefit the Black or women citizens they...
Campus sexual assault is a significant problem in the United States, affecting a large proportion of college students, most of whom are women. Recognizing the widespread nature of campus sexual assault and its negative impacts on students’ education, the Dept. of Education under the Obama...