Working the System: School counselors aligning to advantage

Susan Braube Stillman, Ed.D. Abstract This study, based in the substantive area of school counselors, was conducted using classical grounded theory, an inductive, systemic method of data collection and analysis. The core variable, or the school counselors’ main concern and how they were resolving it, emerged as the need to develop and implement a comprehensive program within the complex ecology of a school. Working the system: Aligning to advantage was discovered to be the school counselors’ resolving process. The data revealed that as school counselors work the system,...

Authenticizing the Research Process

Nora Elizondo-Schmelkes, MA, Ph.D. Candidate Abstract This study reflects the main concern of students (national and international) who are trying to get a postgraduate degree in a third world (or “in means of development”) country. The emergent problem found is that students have to finish their thesis or dissertation but they do not really know how to accomplish this goal. They resolve this problem by authenticizing the process as their own. The theory of authenticizing involves compassing their way to solve the problem of advancing in the research process. Compassing...

Re-Vitalizing Worthiness: A theory of overcoming suicidality

Evelyn Gordon, RPN, Reg. Fam. Ther. & Sup. (FTAI), MSc, Ph.D.; John R. Cutcliffe, RMN, RGN, BSc (Hon), Ph.D.; and, Chris Stevenson, RMN, CPsyc., BA (Hons), MSc, Ph.D. Abstract Rates of suicide and suicidality have risen in many countries in recent years and in Ireland this trend has been particularly evident among young men (NOSP, 2005), focusing attention on how best to respond to this group. Although mental health professionals have been identified as a key group to respond to the suicidal person, it has been suggested that they are ill-prepared for working in this...

The Theory of Social Control and the Social Psychology of Dissatisfact...

Orsolya Selymes, PhD Candidate Abstract The Theory of Social Control (TSC) is grounded in satisfaction and happiness research. The study investigated the reasons behind relatively low levels of civil and personal satisfaction, subjective social well-being and experienced happiness in the post-communist Hungarian social context. The basic social process uncovered in the research is self-situating, which involves a continuous assessment of social control, which occurs on three psychological dimensions: activity, fairness and connectedness, operated via social flow. The...

Dynasting Theory: Lessons in learning grounded theory

Johnben Teik-Cheok Loy, MBA, MTS, Ph.D. Abstract This article captures the key learning lessons gleaned from the author’s experience learning and developing a grounded theory for his doctoral dissertation using the classic methodology as conceived by Barney Glaser. The theory was developed through data gathered on founders and successors of Malaysian Chinese family-own businesses. The main concern for Malaysian Chinese family businesses emerged as dynasting . the building, maintaining, and growing the power and resources of the business within the family lineage....

Stigma in Access to HIV Treatment in African Settings: The importance ...

Kingsley Oturu, MD, MBBS, MSc. [This paper partly forms basis for winning the New Investigator in Global Health Award 2011 awarded by the Global Health Council, USA] Abstract Access to antiretroviral therapy is desperately needed in Nigeria. Increased access to anti-retroviral therapy for HIV treatment contributes to improved quality of life and reduced health care costs. It may assist in reduction of stigma and risk of HIV transmission. Although a lot of global funding has been mobilised to improve access to HIV treatment, many people in Nigeria still do not have access....