Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Building Queer Families: Supports and Barriers, Annie Bright
Academic Stress and Prosocial Outcomes: The Role of Maternal Support, Lynda J. Cruz
A CULTURAL RESPONSIVENESS MODEL TO SUPPORT PARENT'S PRACTICES IN FAMILIES WITH AUTISTIC CHILDREN: A CULTURALLY RELEVANT SELF- COMPASSION PROGRAM FOR NIGERIAN MOTHERS, Ekene Anastesia Odumegwu
Mindful Parenting and Harsh Parenting: The Indirect Role of Maternal Stress, Heidi M. Sanders
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
The Influence of Custodial Grandparental Figures’ Cultural Backgrounds on their Grandchildren’s Educational Outcomes: A Systematic Review, Gabriela B. Gonzalez
Examining the Relationship Between Teacher Candidate Characteristics and Teacher Workforce Entry, Amy Korzekwa
Academic Self-Efficacy in College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Veronica Lane
The Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences And Risky Health Behaviors: Avenues For Prevention In New Mexico, Arianna Trott
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN CORPORAL PUNISHMENT AND CHILDREN'S AGGRESSION: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF SELF-REGULATION, Jeremy T. Armijo, Cara Streit, Ryan J. Kelly, and Ashley Martin-Cuellar
Lived Experiences of Parents with Transgender and Gender Expansive Children, Mary Kathryn Brammer
GROUNDED THEORY BLACK WOMXN LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCES IN NATIONAL ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL, Dèsa Karye Daniel
The Relationship of Biliteracy with Math Achievement for Students in Dual Language Elementary School Programs, Hope A. Gill
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
EXAMINING SELF-CARE PRACTICES FROM A SYTEMIC PERSPECTIVE: UNDERSTANDING THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF HISPANIC FEMALE COUNSELORS IN RURAL NEW MEXICO, Melissa C. Henry
EXPERIENCES OF LATINO FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS UTILIZING A WELLNESS MODEL FOR ANALYSIS AT A FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTION IN THE SOUTHWEST, Chriselle Martinez
EXPLORING THE ROLE OF CORE POSITIVE SELVES WITH MEN CONVICTED OF CHILD SEXUAL OFFENSES: A CHARACTER STRENGTHS INITIATIVE, Tiffany A. Miner
Correlates of Co-Rumination Among Married Women and Men in Pakistan, Mohib Rehman
A Thin Line of Social Justice: Challenges and Changes in Navigating Relations of Power in Graduate Schools of Education, Heather Catherine Sands
Goal Orientation, Regulation of Motivation, and Academic Achievement in Pharmacy Students, Krystal L. Ward
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Mothers’ Satisfaction with Childcare Choices and Its Links to Family Involvement and Community Support, Hadeel Shamlan Al-Essa
The Experience of Being Gender Nonbinary: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Gene Crofts
Food Insecurity among Undergraduate Students in the College of Education at the University of New Mexico, Qamar Hadi
Social Cognitive Predictors of Academic Success in First-Year College Students, Mary A. Hershberger
A Multicultural Study of the Experience of Grief Following Involuntary Job Loss, Diane Lacen
Referring Patients with Type 2 Diabetes to a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist in New Mexico, Rebecca A. Lamoreux
Caregivers' Perceptions towards Medical Nutritional Supplements, Nancy Perez, Kathryn E Coakley, Diana Gonzales-Pacheco, Deborah Luffey, and Deborah Cohen
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MIND MAPS AS A STUDY TOOL IN AN UNDERGRADUATE HUMAN NUTRITION CLASS TO INCREASE KNOWLEDGE, EXAM SCORES, AND FINAL GRADES, Suzanne Porter-Bolton
Exploring Differential Effects of Therapeutic Alliance Across Treatment Therapies, Alexandra T. Tonigan
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Social Determinants of Health and Variability in Weight Trends of Children of Low Income Families Living in New Mexico, Molly Aileen Morrison
Affecting Social Change for Transgender and Gender-Expansive Children: Exploring Advocates' Perspectives, Cortny Stark
Supporting Pre-service Teachers with Skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Almut K. Zieher
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Perceptions and Clinical Applications of Feedback Type if Dental Hygiene, Elmer Eleazar Gonzalez
The Role of Mothers and Fathers in Predicting Adolescents' Peer Affiliation and Behavioral Adjustment, Becky Grelle, Alexandra N. Davis, Ryan J. Kelly, and Cara Streit
Emotion and Metacognitive Monitoring: The Role of Emotion in the Development of Learning Beliefs, Robert Craig Hoy
American Indian Student Motivation at a Tribal College, Rebecca L. Izzo
How Brief Motivational Interventions Impact Math Beliefs in Undergraduate University Students, Ayesha Lynn Livingston PhD
A Phenomenological Study of a Combined Mindfulness and Social-and-Emotional Learning Intervention as Delivered by a Counselor-Consultant to Early-Childhood Educators, Alfredo F. Palacios
COMPARISON OF CALCULATED ENERGY EXPENDITURE TO MEASURED ENERGY EXPENDITURE IN OVERWEIGHT AND OBESE BURN PATIENTS IN AN ICU SETTING: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY, Elle Maree Skinner, Deborah A. Cohen, Orrin B. Myers, and Diana Gonzales-Pacheco
EXPERIENCES OF WESTERN CLINICAL PRACTICE AND TRADITIONAL MEXICAN AMERICAN HEALING WHEN THE PROVIDER IS THE SAME PERSON, Helen Marie Tafoya
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Experiencing Peer Victimization in Secondary School: Are We Missing The Mental Health Effects in College Students?, Giovanna Eisberg
The Effect of the Sophomore Slump on Students’ Persistence, Vanessa Harris
WHEN THE CLINICIAN IS BURDENED: CLINICIAN’S TRAUMA HISTORY, RESILIENCY AND THE IMPACT ON COMPASSION FATIGUE, Ashley Martin-Cuellar
The Influence of Personal Threat, Personal Loss, Age, Practice Characteristics, and Death Education on Counselors' Death Anxiety and Death Acceptance, Michael Morad-McCoy
BLACK AND WHITE, FROM RACE TO HAPPILY EVER AFTER: A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF RACE ON BLACK-WHITE INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES, Christine Ross 9807219
A humanistic examination of Posttraumatic Growth in United States Military Veterans, Aaron J. Smith
Twice-Exceptional College Students Identified as Gifted and Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Comparative Case Study, Connie J. Tagtmeyer
EFFECTIVE TRAINING MODALITIES TO TEACH THE USE OF NALOXONE NASAL SPRAY, Dominick V. Zurlo
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF COUNSELING PROFESSIONALS CONDUCTING SUICIDE RISK ASSESSMENTS FOR YOUTH: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH, Christine Abassary
A Grounded Theory Pilot Study Exploring the Female Process of Becoming a Survivor after Experiencing Sexual Assault, Angela Catena
A Chance for Change: Treating Disorganized Attachment With The Attachment Healing Center Model of Treatment, Michele Coleman
OBAMACARE IN NEW MEXICO: THE NEW MEXICO HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE: WHO OR WHAT INFLUENCES AND MOTIVATES HISPANIC INDIVIDUALS TO ENROLL?, Joseph Sanchez
VALIDITY EVIDENCE FOR THE INTERPRETATION AND USE OF ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF COMMUNICATION GLOBAL RATING SCALE SCORES, Nancy Rhoda Schneider
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
USING WORKED EXAMPLES FOR TRAINING NUTRITION PROFESSIONALS TO DIAGNOSE NUTRITION PROBLEMS AND USE INTERNATIONAL DIETETICS AND NUTRITION TERMINOLOGY, Kirsten Bennett
Effects of the Student Success Skill Program on Feelings of Connectedness, Parent-Child Relationship, and Success Skill Engagement in Middle School Students, Phyllis Hannah Bowers
COLLEGE STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF LEARNER-CENTEREDNESS IN THEIR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES, Jerome Gomez
Pre-service Teachers' Self-efficacy for Teaching Mathematics, Shannon McCampbell
Suicide Assessment Training in Counselor Education, Neil Rigsbee
A Before-School Counselor Intervention that Promotes Peer Relational Skills and Influences Prosocial Behavior, Jennifer Rogers
Sex, Violence and the Female Sex Offender, Christine Romero-DeBell
A Multiple Case Examination of Sexuality in Counselor Education: Pedagogy, Ideology, and Discourse, Megan Speciale
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Migraine Headache: A family affair., Karen Bacher
The Voices of Passion: An Exploratory Phenomenological Analysis of Passion in Undergraduate Teaching, Jennifer Crabb
Mirando Hacia el Futuro: Using Multilevel Growth Models to Examine the Achievement Gap Between White and Hispanic Students, Renee Delgado
A Differential Item Functioning Analysis of The New Mexico English Language Proficiency Assessment, Walter Gilmore
A NARRATIVE STUDY OF THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF FAMILY CAREGIVERS THROUGH DIFFERENT STAGES OF MENTAL ILLNESS, Reshma Kamal
Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Maternal Reflective Functioning and Attachment Relationship in Hispanic/Latina Women and Their Preschool-Age Children: A Qualitative Study, Patricia Martinez Burr
Initial Development of a Medical Information Literacy Questionnaire, Sarah Knox Morley
Counselor Educators' Teaching Practices in a Multicultural Society: A Multicase Study, Don Trahan Jr
Can High School Assessments Predict Developmental Education Enrollment in New Mexico?, Tyler Weldon
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Crohn's disease : enteral nutrition practices of registered dietitians in New Mexico, Nicole Sara Horvath
EFFECTS OF THE SANTA FE FARMERS' MARKET CHILDREN'S NUTRITION PROGRAM ON STUDENTS' WILLINGNESS TO TRY FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, Laura McCann
Career Decision Self-Efficacy of Pre-Service Teachers, Lori Miller
Why Blame Me? Interpreting Counselor Student Resistance to Racially Themed Course Content as Complicity with White Racial Hegemony, Evonne Denise Olson
Relationships among Retrospective Perceptions of Parents and Current Perceptions of Partner to Psychological Distress of Middle-Age Adults, Leslie Rose Peterson
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Student Culture and Classroom Assessment Practices, Tilia Giron
EXAMINING THE INFLUENCE OF INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY ON STUDENT LEARNING AND SELF-EFFICACY IN SCIENCE, Carolyn Hushman
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF PERCEIVED FACULTY DISCRIMINATION AND NATIVE AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS INTRINSIC MOTIVATION, Jamie Lynn Joe
The Challenges And Discoveries In Using Equine Assisted Psychotherapy Approaches By Counseling Practitioners In The Southwest, Katrina Lujan
Motivational Triggers of Faculty Members: The process of teaching practice transformation, Julie Sanchez
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Examining the Influence of Seductive Details in Case-Based Instruction on Pre-Service Teachers' Learning and Learning Perceptions, Sara Abercrombie
The Effect of Various Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Weighting Schemes on the Medical School Admissions Rates of Under Represented Minorities, Marlene Ballejos
CONNECTEDNESS AND PERCEIVED INSTRUMENTALITY IN PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS: A COMPARISON OF TWO MEASURES, William Jackson
Evaluating mitochondrial uncoupling potentials of A7E and DNP in Saccharomyces cerevisiae : implications for human obesity, Roger Vaughan
Demystifying the Lens of Color: Examining the Relationship Between Academic Achievement and Racial Identity, Marla Wyche-Hall
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Attitudes of Undergraduate Students Towards Same-Sex Couples Adopting, Melissa Gaa
An Examination of the Predictive Validity of National Survey of Student Engagement Benchmarks and Scalelets, Amy M. Korzekwa
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Examination of the Reliability and Validity of the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale (ATSPPHS) among Jamaican Americans, Geoffrey J. Palmer
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Attachment and Bonding: Correlations between Relationship and Anxiety among Adult College Students, Ellen Witter Armbruster
Mothers with Chronic Physical Illness and the Parentification of Their Children, Marie M. Duryea
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
The Relationships Among Trauma, Self-Concept, Dissociation, Cluster B Personality Disorders and Adult Attachment Style in Incarcerated Women, Beatrice Narcisco
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
LOGO Programming Language in a Mexican Primary School: Relationships to Cognition, Geometric Skills, and Computer Attitudes, Daniel Clark Orey
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Evaluation of the Adjustment to Separation and Divorce: For Individauls Participating in a Psychodramatic or an Educational Divorce Adjustment Group, Harvey Michael Barker
Missionization and Hispanicization of Santo Thomas Apóstol de Abiquiú, 1750-1770, Gilberto Benito Cordova
