Browsing by Subject "Emerging adults"

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    Art Therapy Treatment Model for Rural LGBTQ+ Emerging Adults
    (2020) Kimbrough, Libby; Leigh, Heather
    LGBTQ+ individuals living in rural areas who are aging into adulthood face specific challenges, such as isolation, discrimination, bullying, and hate crimes, leading to mental health issues that often go untreated due to lack of services, stigma, fear of being outed, as well as distrust of mental health clinicians. Art therapy is an emerging treatment modality that may help to address these barriers to treatment. An integrative literature-based review was conducted to study the treatment needs of LGBTQ+ rural emerging adults in order to design a model for an art therapy program for queer emerging adults in rural communities. Created from an antioppressive perspective, the model focuses on using art therapy with clients to assist them in building and exploring their identity, empowering them in the face of discrimination, and decreasing isolation through a therapeutic group experience. The model may also serve to train and educate clinicians to treat this population ethically.
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    Designing an Internet Intervention for Emerging Adults Who Experience Troubled Relationships
    (Elsevier, 2017-06) Burke Draucker, Claire; Martsolf, Donna S.; Crane, Stacey; Romero, Lindsey; Leigh McCord, Allison; School of Nursing
    This article describes how the Internet Intervention Model (IIM) was used as an organizing framework to design a theoretically based Internet intervention for emerging adults who experience troubled intimate partner relationships. In the design process, the team addressed six fundamental questions related to the several components of the IIM. Decisions made regarding the design of the intervention based on the six questions are described. We focus in particular on how the intervention is based on the Theory of Emerging Adulthood and the Theory of Narrative Identity.
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    Diabetes-related quality of life and the demands and burdens of diabetes care among emerging adults with type 1 diabetes in the year after high school graduation
    (Wiley Online Library, 2014-10) Hanna, Kathleen M.; Weaver, Michael T.; Fortenberry, J. Dennis; DiMeglio, Linda A.; Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health
    The roles of glycemic control, diabetes management, diabetes care responsibility, living independently of parents, and time since high school graduation in predicting diabetes-related quality of life (DQOL) were examined in 184 emerging adults with type 1 diabetes. Data were collected at graduation and 1 year later. Analyses controlling for selected covariates were completed using generalized linear mixed models. Better diabetes management was associated with more positive responses on all four dimensions of DQOL. Impact and worry of DQOL were greater in the presence of depressive symptoms, and life satisfaction was lower. DQOL life satisfaction was lower in those living independently of parents. Young women reported poorer diabetes-related health status than did young men. Time since graduation was not linked to DQOL. Further research is needed on ways to improve DQOL in conjunction with diabetes management and on ways that families can support DQOL when youth live independently.
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    A feasibility test of an online intervention to prevention dating violence in emerging adults
    (Elsevier:, 2019-02) Burke Draucker, Claire; Martsolf, Donna S.; Crane, Stacey; McCord, Allison L.; Romero, Lindsey; Al-Khattab, Halima A.; School of Nursing
    Dating violence in emerging adults is a significant problem and few prevention programs based on the developmental needs of this age group have been developed. Our research team developed an online dating violence prevention program called WISER (Writing to Improve Self-in-Relationships) for emerging adults. The program is based on narrative therapy principles and uses structured writing techniques. A single group pre-post feasibility test of WISER was conducted with 14 college women. WISER was demonstrated to be feasible and acceptable and to show promise as an effective program to decrease dating violence in this population.