The efficacy of wilderness programs incorporating therapeutic methods has long been researched, and studies have found wilderness interventions beneficial for youth and adults suffering from various mental and behavioral...
Keyword:
Autoethnography, Field Instructor, Transition Program, and Wilderness Therapy
Subject:
Adventure therapy, Outdoor recreation, Teachers, Psychic trauma, and Cognitive therapy
Due to the higher arrest and recidivism rates of offenders with behavioral health conditions (BHCs), it is often assumed that BHCs are a direct risk factor for engaging in criminal behavior. This assumption, however, has been...
Keyword:
Behavioral Health, Offender, Risk Assessment, and Substance Use
Subject:
Recidivism, Criminal behavior, Prediction of, Health behavior, and Criminal behavior
Individual variation in behaviors such as aggression or boldness has the potential to influence the survival and reproductive success of individual animals. For example, individual variation in boldness means that some...
Keyword:
boldness, mate recognition, personality, and song sparrow
Subject:
Song sparrow, Birds—Breeding, Birds—Behavior, Birdsongs, and Pattern perception
River cane is one of three bamboos native to the United States. This species was once ubiquitous across the southeastern US but has now been reduced to less than two percent of its original coverage. This study is among...
Keyword:
Arundinaria gigantea, bamboo, culm morphology, density patterns, regeneration patterns, and river cane
Subject:
Arundinaria -- Regeneration -- North Carolina, Western and Arundinaria -- North Carolina, Western -- Morphology
Peachtree Valley in Clay county, North Carolina has a long history of diversity in plant, animal, and human habitation. The Cherokee, who have inhabited the valley for thousands of years, have a deep history of relationships...
Keyword:
Baptist, Cherokee, missionary, and rattlesnake
Subject:
Cherokee Indians -- Missions -- North Carolina -- Clay County, Cherokee Indians -- North Carolina -- Clay County -- Religion, and Baptists -- Missions -- North Carolina -- Clay County
Many factors affect how one selects a mate. Men and women both consider attractiveness to be an important characteristic in first impressions of potential mates. However, underlying factors determine how desirable an individual...
Keyword:
Bisexual, Disgust, Perceived attractiveness, Personality, and Sensation Seeking
Subject:
Bisexuals -- Public opinion, Sexual attraction, and Bisexuals -- Relations with heterosexuals
There is a vast amount of literature supporting the notion that sleep is vital for the physical and mental health of human beings. Mentally, poor sleep can interfere with cognitive processes and is a risk factor in the...
Keyword:
College Students, Ethnic Discrimination, Ethnic Minority, Hope, Rumination, and Sleep
Subject:
Sleep -- Health aspects, Stress (Physiology), Rumination (Psychology), and Hope
Survival rates for pediatric cancer have increased over recent years due to improvement and changes in cancer treatment. However, even with increased survival rates, previous research has shown that children undergoing...
Keyword:
Camp, Cancer, and Child
Subject:
Cancer in children -- Psychological aspects, Cancer in children -- Social aspects, Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships, Self-help groups, and Tumors in children
Self-determination theory (SDT) states that satisfaction of three basic psychological needs leads to intrinsic motivation. These needs are autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Satisfaction of the need for autonomy comes from...
Keyword:
Autonomy, Basic need satisfaction, Five factor model, Intrinsic motivation, Self-determination theory, and Video games
Subject:
Autonomy (Psychology), Intrinsic motivation, and Video games -- Psychological aspects
Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) has been documented in the United States dating back to 1944, when farm animals interacted with soldiers suffering from physical injuries or psychological trauma (Altschiller, 2011). Today, several...
Keyword:
AAT, animal assisted therapy, dog, dog breed, perception, and therapeutic alliance
Subject:
Animals -- Therapeutic use, Dogs, Dog breeds, Therapeutic alliance, and Perception
