As part of its broader Student Parent Success Initiative, Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) conducted original research focusing specifically on Black single mother students. This report summarizes findings from 25 interviews IWPR conducted with Black single mother community college students, consisting of both students who were…

Chinese students represent the largest group of international students in the United States and have been reported to experience various challenges and stressors including transitional stress, academic stress, language barriers, financial difficulties, perceived discrimination, loss of social support, and homesickness. This study drew from…

This study examined the feasibility of implementing a peer-facilitated mental health and substance use video-based program delivered by psychology students as part of service learning. The program was delivered on-site and online. Findings reveal improvements in knowledge, attitudes, refusal self-efficacy, and adaptive coping among on-site…

Teacher wellbeing has received widespread and increasing global attention over the last decade due to high teacher turnover, growing teacher shortages, and the goal of improving the quality of teaching and student performance. No review has yet sought to undertake a cumulative quantitative assessment of the literature pertaining to teacher…

This article explores how academic buoyancy, a concept from the educational psychology literature, can be used to understand the experiences of Indigenous secondary students' schooling. Academic buoyancy refers to students' ability to overcome everyday challenges of schooling. In this project, 11 Indigenous secondary students in a remote school…

Newcomers to Canada may initially resist learning through the arts, but it may be an ideal entry point as they begin to learn English and adjust to a new culture. The authors explored the value of learning through the arts in three settings: a settlement agency, Welcome Center and elementary school. Making art with adults was shown to overcome…

This article describes how literature works therapeutically to help children cope with feelings of fear and other strong emotions. The author highlights three examples of children's literature that helped her reframe her own experiences and use the characters as models for personal development. The article highlights the research of Robert Brooks…

The social environment, which plays a critical role, is an important factor for self-development during adolescence. On the other hand, gifted adolescents may be relatively at risk in social relationships. Therefore, the first objective of the current research is to examine the relationship between social anxiety and emotional eating in normative…

The parents of adolescents with autism spectrum disorder have a vital and proactive role in encouraging healthy physical activity habits, and they possess important knowledge about the adolescents' needs when it comes to enhancing participation in physical activity. But promoting healthy physical activity habits in adolescents can be difficult.…

The present study investigated the phenomenon of being a father of a child who is deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) and attending an early intervention service in the Turkish context. The research was designed as a transcendental phenomenological study. The participants were seven fathers of children who were DHH. Data were collected through…

This essay examines teaching failure in the context of COVID-19. It uses autoethnography to convey and explore the impact the pandemic has on teaching, as situated against and within my life-long dream to be a teacher. I explore four performances as a teacher that resulted from the transition at my institution from on the ground to fully remote…

This article provides an overview of the literature on Arnett's emerging adulthood theory with a focus on emerging adult collegians job search process. Emerging adulthood theory and Schlossberg's transition theory are important conceptual underpinnings to study how recent college graduates handled transitions as graduates navigated from…

Mental health problems are increasingly common risk factors for chronic pain, while stressors in school are associated with persistent and recurrent pain among students, and negatively associated with educational achievements. Clearly, it is important to identify elements that influence frequencies or intensities of mental health problems. To…

Infants and toddlers account for a disproportionate percentage of children diagnosed with cancer. These young children and their families benefit when infant and early childhood mental health is recognized as vital and integrated with medical treatment. Such interventions are beneficial for supporting families in coping when cancer is the only…

Male primary teachers make up a minority of the primary teaching profession in countries such as Australia, England and the United States of America. This minority status can result in male primary teachers feeling socially isolated within their schools, and consequently choosing to leave the profession. This gender-related challenge is known, yet…