Dissertations / Theses: 'Hearts and mind'

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Low, Kevin Mark. "The dislocated mind : in the heart of reverie." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68248.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1991.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-166).
The dislocated mind is a condition common to us all: it speaks about the innate ability of the human mind to take conscious leave of its body in dwelling in the past of memory and in contemplating the future . The effects of dislocation are minimized in children: having a limited quantity of memory, the young conscious mind spends much of its time at the instant of perception, highly aware of the fleeting sensuality of its bodily experiences, and in intense absorption of the feeling associated with perception. As memory accumulates, so does the wandering of conscious thought increase, so much so that rarely, if ever, can the conscious mind perceive as it did in childhood. Mostly, in our over-dependence on the knowledge of the past, we neglect the knowledge that our senses still provide. Sensual knowledge, however, does not merely refer to the raw, perceived information that is then assimilated by our logic, it concerns a profound relationship which our minds share with our bodies; for at the heart of this dislocated mind itself is a particular condition which relates the metaphor of poetry to the creation of architecture. This condition will be explored through a consideration of the phenomenon of reverie.
by Kevin Mark Low.
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Zambrana-Sutton, Grace. "Fostering a True Conversion of Heart and Mind." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2015. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/174.

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This thesis examines the steps which should be taken to foster a true conversion of heart and mind for those in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. The area of focus is on the individual who is looking to join the faith and then be married in the Catholic Church. Attrition within this group is observed at an early stage which leads to the pastoral issue of whether there is a true conversion to the Catholic faith, or whether this journey is seen by the convert as a means to be married in the church. Understanding the importance of adult faith formation and its impact on a person’s journey, is of great importance to the future of the Catholic Church. The journey should help the individual establish a base for further growth in the areas of prayer, scripture, and the emphasis of community.

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Nam, Sai Lok. "The conception of "heart-mind" in the Zhuangzi /." View abstract or full-text, 2009. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?HUMA%202009%20NAM.

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Höglund, Stina, and Camilla Vallström. "E-hälsotjänster i praktiken : En studie av Mina vårdkontakter och Min hälsoplan." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-73215.

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As an effect of increased living standards and improved health care, life expectancy has risen in many parts of the world. At the same time, welfare diseases such as diabetes and obesity increases. As the number of elderly and long-term sick rises, so will the medical care needs. E-health applications are often presented as a way to meet future medical and doing so within the scope of existing resources. By facilitating health communication and widen access to health services by offering them online, e-health applications encourages people to become more engaged in their own health, thus working proactively towards a healthier population. However, e-health applications often fail to reach their full potential. The purpose of this study is to explore how health care providers and health care recipients perceives e-health applications and their usefulness and thus being able to identify factors significant for successful introduction and use of e-health services. Two e-health applications have been analysed and six important aspects have been identified and discussed. In order to be successful, an e-health application must facilitate behaviour change and be integrated in the everyday life of the user. Substantial and adequate evaluation is essential to make sure that the application meet the requirements from both health care providers and health care recipients. An understanding of the possibilities technology has to offer is needed in order to fully exploit the potential of e-health applications in health care. Instructions for health care providers on how to use the applications are essential not only to ensure their proper usage but also to make sure that applications are being presented to recipients in a satisfactory way and that care providers can offer the support and help recipients may need. Finally, when discussing e-health applications it is important to remember that there are people who does not want to get involved and that there is still a demand for face-to-face interaction in health care. Therefore, e-health services must be complemented with alternatives providing different types of interaction opportunities.

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Bui, Lilian. "Mind Over Matter Telepsychiatry." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10262960.

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Each year, nearly 70,000 youth in America enter the juvenile justice system and are confined in correctional facilities. Many children younger than 18 years of age are forced to consider these institutions their home as they live out their sentence. A large body of evidence has shown that a majority of these detained adolescents commit crimes due to untreated mental health or from enduring years of constant mental abuse. These issues are often carried over into their sentences and juvenile facilities are not well equipped or properly trained, leaving many behavioral symptoms unattended. Mind Over Matter Telepsychiatry aims to utilize the emerging innovations of telehealth technology to transform mental health service delivery within the juvenile justice system. The mission is to provide accessible, effective, and quality care to vulnerable and often overlooked youth populations in order to prepare them for successful reentry into the community. Mind Over Matter Telepsychiatry’s goal is to work alongside juvenile halls located in The Greater Los Angeles area to become the primary provider of behavioral telehealth services. This proposal will provide an in-depth analysis of how Mind Over Matter Telepsychiatry aim to accomplish these objectives.

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Fuentes, Molina Daniel Alejandro, Garrido Víctor Manuel López, Castromonte Romina María Renee Melo, Blas José David Rivera, and Morzán Mathias Al Román. "Peaceful Mind." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/654726.

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Peaceful Mind, el proyecto desarrollado en el presente documento, surgió a raíz de la coyuntura actual y la nueva realidad generada a nivel mundial por la pandemia del COVID-19. Cinco meses después de iniciado el estado de emergencia sanitaria en el Perú se pudo identificar que, debido a las medidas de contingencia tomadas, especialmente el aislamiento social obligatorio, muchos familiares y amigos tuvieron que dejar de lado sus tratamientos psicológicos, perjudicando su proceso de mejora de salud mental, un problema que aqueja a muchos países del mundo y no se otorga la importancia debida. Al respecto, la Cruz Roja indicó que “el coronavirus agravó enfermedades mentales ya existentes, mientras que surgieron otras nuevas, lo que limitó aún más el acceso a servicios médicos especializados ante las restricciones económicas por las medidas de cuarentena adoptadas para contener la pandemia”. Frente a ello, nace la idea de crear una plataforma virtual que permita a los usuarios continuar con su tratamiento psicológico, recibiendo orientación psicológica personalizada y terapias alternativas de forma rápida y segura. Con el objetivo de desarrollar el proyecto se llevaron a cabo diversos experimentos que permitieron identificar la aceptación de la idea de negocio. Además, se realizó el planeamiento de los siguientes procesos: operativo, marketing, recursos humanos, responsabilidad social y planeamiento financiero. Los análisis cuantitativos indican que se necesita una inversión de S/ 90,245.98 para dar inicio al proyecto, el cual recuperará su inversión inicial en un periodo de tres años y obtendrá un Valor Actual Neto de S/ 123,469.37.
Peaceful Mind, the project developed in this document, came from the current juncture and new reality caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Five months into the declared global health emergency and mandatory social isolation, we found out many of our friends and relatives had to halt or put aside their psychological appointments and treatments, impairing the advancements or improvement of their mental health. This is a common issue in many countries that are often avoided or underestimated. In this regard, the Red Cross stated that the “Coronavirus worsen the existent mental health illnesses, while new ones emerged, which limited, even more, the access to specialized medical services before the quarantine economical restrictions enforced to containing the pandemic”. Thus was born the idea of creating a virtual platform that allows its users to continue with their psychological treatments, receive personalized psychological orientation, and practice alternative therapies in a fast and safe manner. In order to develop this project, many experiments were carried out to identify the feasibility and acceptance level of this business idea. Additionally, the planning of the following processes was carried out: operational, marketing, human resources, social responsibility, and financial planning. The quantitative analyzes show that an initial investment of S/. 90,245.98 is required to start this project with a VPN of S/123,469.37 and a payback period of three years
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Vincs, Robert, and robert vincs@deakin edu au. "African heart, eastern mind: the transcendent experience through improvised music." Deakin University. School of Communication and Creative Arts, 2002. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20061207.121703.

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Davies, Chris. "Sustained organisational change : a hearts and minds approach." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2008. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/13856.

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This thesis explores the 'Hearts & Minds' approach to managing organisational change. It is based on the author's extensive experience as a management consultant over a period of approximately ten years working with companies that range from small to medium size enterprises to large multi-national organisations. The thesis presents a coherent discourse on some of the problems associated with organisations undergoing significant changes due to a range of factors including, downsizing, restructuring, take-overs, and so on. Within the context of a rapidly changing business environment driven by a global economy, the thesis provides a number of case studies, focusing on the Hearts & Minds approach to developing an appropriate management infrastructure that is best suited to a given organisation. The thesis reports on a number of field studies that provide evidence of the Hearts & Minds approach to change management in terms of introducing an open and transparent approach to personal motivation and team building. This includes the development of a quantitative model for understanding the underlying structures which define organisations of all types irrespective of their size. The model helps to quantify the principles that are inherent in the 'dynamics' of an organisation to which change management is applied and is based on understanding an organisation in terms of a non-stationary self-affine system .for which a computational measure (the Hurst dimension) can be used to measure the coherence of information flow through an organisation. The applications of the model, results and conclusions of the thesis are wide ranging and in principle, should be applicable to a number of organisations and businesses; for industry, commerce and the financial sector. Above all, the thesis attempts to provide a unified account of the issues associated with change management that are becoming vital in industry and commerce and are of international significance as we are required increasingly to function with increased efficiency in an international arena that is undergoing continuous and rapid change.

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Adolfsson, Lovisa, and Jenny Pavlovic. "Mina kollegor är min andra familj : Ambulanssjuksköterskors upplevelse av att hantera känslomässigt sin arbetssituation." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen för Vårdvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-20897.

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Tidigare forskning visar att prehospitalt arbete upplevs stimulerande, men är också fysiskt och psykiskt påfrestande. Syftet var att beskriva hur ambulanssjuksköterskor upplever och hanterar känslomässigt sin arbetssituation. En kvalitativ ansats valdes och djupintervjuer av sex ambulanssjuksköterskor i södra Sverige genomfördes. Data analyserades med hjälp av kvalitativ innehållsanalys med inspiration av ett fenomenologiskt närmelsesätt. Ambulanssjuksköterskorna beskrev att deras arbete innebär att vara skärpt och uppfylld av sitt arbete, vilket innebär att de såg det som världens roligaste yrke, där de gör nytta och är en hjälpande hand för anhöriga men också att känna sig osäker i ett nytt vårdrum. De påtalade också hur de konfronteras med patienters tunga verklighet och att möta sorg, vilket väcker känslor av rädsla, ilska, frustration och maktlöshet. De betonade behov av stöd för att orka hantera sina egna känslor där kollegor sågs som en andra familj men även den egna familjen är ett stöd. De ifrågasatte de möjligheter till stöd som erbjöds i organisationen, men framförallt betonade de att ingen annan än kollegor kunde förstå. Ur ett framtida arbetssmiljöperspektiv är detta viktigt att uppmärksamma för att möjliggöra att hälsa bevaras bland ambulanspersonal.
Program: Specialistsjuksköterskeutbildning med inriktning mot ambulanssjukvård

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Kerr, Jeannie Anne. "Educating heart and mind : fostering ethical emotional learning in elementary schools." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31538.

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There have been calls for a renewed emphasis on balancing educating the heart and mind in elementary education in response to troubling global problems such as poverty, environmental destruction, war, and genocide. The hope is that educating the hearts as well as the minds of students will begin a process of thoughtful healing of this world. Despite calls for broader educational objectives, teachers in public school systems are under increasing pressure to narrow the curriculum to encourage better performance on standardized tests. I am engaging in this conceptual inquiry into emotional learning both to provide a defensible philosophical position on emotional learning that will help resist political pressures to narrow the curriculum and to answer theoretical questions arising out of my teaching practice. The general purpose of my study is to contribute to the conceptual research literature on ethical emotional learning of pre-adolescent children. By ethical emotional learning, I am referring to the ways in which a child acquires appropriate emotions and learns to direct both her negative and positive emotions so as to live in moral or good ways. This conceptual inquiry and related educational approach is grounded in neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics as I believe it avoids the intellectualist bias found in other prominent ethics, and provides an appropriate balance between emotional and intellectual development. The concept of habituation is often discussed in virtue ethics literature as an early form of learning of the emotional virtues. Amongst neo-Aristotelian virtue ethicists there are divergent interpretations of the concept of habituation, and I am undertaking a conceptual inquiry in order to arrive at a normative conception of the term. I also position my normative conception of habituation in a broader consideration of the achievement of practical wisdom or phronesis. To further develop this research, I have also provided the teaching methods and educational configurations that are practically effective and drawn a theoretical connection to virtue ethics. I have also brought in the topics of teacher/student relationships and teacher identity and integrity as I believe that these considerations are of fundamental importance, but not widely discussed in the conceptual literature.
Education, Faculty of
Educational Studies (EDST), Department of
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Brister, Paul D. "Beyond hearts and minds : evaluating U.S. unconventional warfare doctrine /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Dec%5FBrister.pdf.

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Suresh, Mini. "The physical work environment and employee perceived health and wellbeing." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/101579/20/Mini%20Suresh%20Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis investigated the impact of the physical work environment on health and wellbeing as perceived by employees. Utilising a mixed method approach the research developed a new model of environmental satisfaction that highlighted the central role of occupational wellbeing and its relationship to employee perceived performance and productivity. Employees perceived health and wellbeing to be optimal when they were able to use the physical environment to conduct their work activities effectively, have supportive spaces for social interaction including natural outdoor areas for recreation and relaxation, and were able to move about and set informal fitness routines.

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Priscott, Keith. "Discovering knowledge structures in mind maps of mental health risks." Thesis, Aston University, 2016. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/28909/.

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This thesis addressed the problem of risk analysis in mental healthcare, with respect to the GRiST project at Aston University. That project provides a risk-screening tool based on the knowledge of 46 experts, captured as mind maps that describe relationships between risks and patterns of behavioural cues. Mind mapping, though, fails to impose control over content, and is not considered to formally represent knowledge. In contrast, this thesis treated GRiSTs mind maps as a rich knowledge base in need of refinement; that process drew on existing techniques for designing databases and knowledge bases. Identifying well-defined mind map concepts, though, was hindered by spelling mistakes, and by ambiguity and lack of coverage in the tools used for researching words. A novel use of the Edit Distance overcame those problems, by assessing similarities between mind map texts, and between spelling mistakes and suggested corrections. That algorithm further identified stems, the shortest text string found in related word-forms. As opposed to existing approaches’ reliance on built-in linguistic knowledge, this thesis devised a novel, more flexible text-based technique. An additional tool, Correspondence Analysis, found patterns in word usage that allowed machines to determine likely intended meanings for ambiguous words. Correspondence Analysis further produced clusters of related concepts, which in turn drove the automatic generation of novel mind maps. Such maps underpinned adjuncts to the mind mapping software used by GRiST; one such new facility generated novel mind maps, to reflect the collected expert knowledge on any specified concept. Mind maps from GRiST are stored as XML, which suggested storing them in an XML database. In fact, the entire approach here is ”XML-centric”, in that all stages rely on XML as far as possible. A XML-based query language allows user to retrieve information from the mind map knowledge base. The approach, it was concluded, will prove valuable to mind mapping in general, and to detecting patterns in any type of digital information.

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Boehler, Christian Ernst Heinrich. "Mind the gap! : geographic transferability of economic evaluation in health." Thesis, Brunel University, 2013. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7170.

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Background: Transferring cost-effectiveness information between geographic domains offers the potential for more efficient use of analytical resources. However, it is difficult for decision-makers to know when they can rely on costeffectiveness evidence produced for another context. Objectives: This thesis explores the transferability of economic evaluation results produced for one geographic area to another location of interest, and develops an approach to identify factors to predict when this is appropriate. Methods: Multilevel statistical models were developed for the integration of published international costeffectiveness data to assess the impact of contextual effects on country-level; whilst controlling for baseline characteristics within, and across, a set of economic evaluation studies. Explanatory variables were derived from a list of factors suggested in the literature as possible constraints on the transferability of costeffectiveness evidence. The approach was illustrated using published estimates of the cost-effectiveness of statins for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease from 67 studies and related to 23 geographic domains, together with covariates on data, study and country-level. Results: The proportion of variation at the country-level observed depends on the appropriate multilevel model structure and never exceeds 15% for incremental effects and 21% for incremental cost. Key sources of variability are patient and disease characteristics, intervention cost and a number of methodological characteristics defined on the data-level. There were fewer significant covariates on the study and country-levels. Conclusions: Analysis suggests that variability in cost-effectiveness data is primarily due to differences between studies, not countries. Further, comparing different models suggests that data from multinational studies severely underestimates country-level variability. Additional research is needed to test the robustness of these conclusions on other sets of cost-effectiveness data, to further explore the appropriate set of covariates, and to foster the development of multilevel statistical modelling for economic evaluation data in health.

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Malda, Castillo Javier. "Asthma, caregiving and mental health : the mind keeps the score." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2018. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/126234/.

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This thesis includes a systematic literature review, a research outcome paper and a critical appraisal. The systematic literature review summarises 20 outcome papers that explore the use of Mentalisation-Based Treatment (MBT) in participants with different mental health presentations. The results suggest that MBT has strong evidence in the treatment of people with a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and that MBT has the potential of improving clinical outcomes in people with diagnoses of eating disorders and depression, adolescents who self-harm and mothers enrolled in substance misuse treatments. As compared to other interventions, MBT yielded positive outcomes that were maintained over long follow-ups and thus should be increasingly available for people with a diagnosis of BPD. Future research addressing treatment fidelity, confounding and assessor‘s blindness bias is required. The outcome paper explores the mental health of adult caregivers of asthmatic children living in the United Kingdom. Using an online designed questionnaire, the study collected information regarding participants ́ socio-demographic characteristics, mentalising ability, family functioning, anxiety, depression and hypomanic symptoms. The aim was to further explore the association between caregivers ́mentalising capacity and self-reported mental health symptoms. Sequential linear regression models showed that mentalising on its own was associated with 16%, and 14% of depressive and anxiety symptoms respectively. On the contrary, family functioning was not significantly associated with the independent variables in any of the regression models after mentalising was included. Psychological interventions targeting mentalising might be helpful in reducing anxiety and depression symptoms in this population. The critical appraisal includes the author ́s personal reflections on the journey of writing a doctorate thesis along with the implications of the findings.

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O'Brien, Annamarie L. "Mind over Matter: Expressions of Mind/Body Dualism in Thinspiration." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1369057408.

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Bicknell, Jeanette. ""The Mind Hears" an examination of some philosophical perspectives on musical experience /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ59120.pdf.

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Klontz, Mary-Hannah. "The Heart and Mind of Arnold Schoenberg?s ?De Profundis? Op. 50B." Thesis, George Mason University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3720713.

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This research provides a guide to understanding, preparing, and performing Arnold Schoenberg’s last completed opus, “De Profundis” (Psalm 130) Op. 50B, within the context of the Hebrew chant that inspired it and Schoenberg’s other religious works, sketches, archival correspondence, and interviews with conductors. Theoretical and contextual analysis reveals significant discoveries relevant to an informed and accurate performance of the work. “De Profundis” embodies Schoenberg’s mature and most flexible twelve-tone writing at the peak of his spiritual development. Op. 50B is a serial a Cappella composition scored for six-part mixed chorus with great rhythmic and melodic independence in the vocal lines, including soprano and baritone solos and choral Sprechstimme. A composer’s final opus is generally regarded as his highest achievement, yet Op. 50, and in particular “De Profundis,” has received relatively little attention from music theorists or performers. While this research includes the traditional study of the composer and the score, there is also focus on distance learning through digital media and a symbolic interpretation of “De Profundis” that provides unique opportunities to engage the performer and audience. Through these efforts, others may be encouraged to hear and perform this beautiful work and to explore this unique method of rehearsing.

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Venter, Morgan. "YouWin| Young women's mind and body therapy." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10099870.

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YouWin: Young Women’s Mind and Body Therapy (YWMBT) is a not-for-profit case management company with the mission coordinating multi-faceted, evidence-based therapy to heal the bodies and minds of adolescent women, in order to facilitate their healthy development into tomorrow’s women. The company’s top three goals are to lessen the burden of obesity and depression in the local community, help individuals meet their own weight loss and recovery goals, and establish the YWMBT treatment model as the standard of treatment for comorbid obesity and depression in young women.

This business plan will present the scope of the issue to be addressed, an analysis of the target market and a relevant market strategy, an analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to YWMBT, an overview of some of the legal and regulatory concerns associated with establishing and operating the business, and finally a review of the financial viability.

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Le, Minh Thi. "Implementation of the law on domestic violence prevention and control within the health system: A case study in Vietnam." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/201745/1/Minh%20Thi_Le_Thesis.pdf.

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This study charts the evolution of the Domestic Violence Prevention and Control Law in Vietnam over 15 years. In-depth qualitative methods were used to critically analyse the policy process from agenda-setting, framing, and formal ratification, through to implementation in two provinces. There are major gaps between international and local policies, and between law development and effective, accessible services. Currently, many victims of violence remain under-served. There is a pressing need for changes to the content of the law, and more practical action in health, justice and social services in Vietnam to improve support for survivors of domestic violence.

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Smyth, Clifford. "The contribution of Feldenkrais Method to mind-body medicine." Thesis, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1536829.

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The Feldenkrais Method generates a range of healthful or salutogenic outcomes, yet its contribution to the field of mind-body medicine (MBM) remains largely unexamined. The Feldenkrais Method is a form of somatic education offering both practices and theoretical perspectives for an integrated mind-body approach. Research shows that the Feldenkrais Method produces outcomes on a range of functional, psychophysical, and psychosocial measures. This thesis argues that the Feldenkrais Method is an awareness practice of value for mind-body and integrative approaches to health.

Possible mechanisms and dynamics of action of the Feldenkrais Method are presented. This thesis proposes that non- or preconscious intentionality and "know-how" can be an important aspect of healthy behavior. Somatics practices and somatic awareness can play an important role in creating an intentional arc toward health. This study supports the importance of research into the Feldenkrais Method in relation to MBM and health.

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Pohl, Jill Hannah. "Al Qaeda's Propaganda War: A War for Hearts and Minds." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1389654137.

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Kelley, Stephanie R. "Rumors in Iraq a guide to winning hearts and minds." Thesis, Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/1399.

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This thesis proposes the study of rumor as a guide to the battle for hearts and minds in Iraq. It reviews existing rumor theory to identify how rumors function and what we can learn from them. Rumors often serve as a window into a community, and can provide valuable information for developing a campaign to assess, monitor, and gain the support necessary to defeat insurgents. This thesis employs two distinct typologies to analyze over ten months of rumors in Baghdad, Iraq. The motivation typology provides indications of Iraqi sentiment, and suggests unrelieved anxiety and fear is likely contributing to widespread hostility towards the US-led Coalition. Indications of unrealistic expectations are also evident, potentially contributing to hostility levels as they go unrealized. The subject typology identifies overarching concerns of the Iraqi people, and suggests there are specific fears inhibiting cooperation with US counterinsurgency efforts. This thesis then examines rumor remedies. Because they rely on effective communication skills, American and Arab cultural communication styles are contrasted and integrated into tailored remedies for Iraq. The findings in this thesis could assist Coalition information campaigns by alerting them to existing Iraqi perceptions so they can tailor messages to address significant concerns and fears.
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Lundberg, Johanna. "Social status : a state of mind?" Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Hälsouniversitetet, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-15552.

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This thesis is concerned with social stratification of psychosocial factors and social position measurement in population samples collected in mid-Sweden 2000-2006. Traditional resource-based measures of social position (occupation, education) and so far less explored prestige-based measures (subjective status, status incongruence) are tested with respect to their associations with psychosocial factors, emotions, and selfrated health. Three papers in this thesis are based on data from the Life Conditions, Stress, and Health (LSH) study, using a randomly selected population sample. Data for the fourth paper is a regional sample drawn from the health-related survey “Liv och Hälsa 2000”. Statistical methods range from correlation analysis to logistic regression and repeated measures analyses. Results from studies I and IV show that psychosocial factors are unequally distributed within the population in a linear manner, so that the lower the socioeconomic position (SEP), the more unfavourable levels. This is independent of whether we study this in a highly unequal setting such as Russia, or in a more egalitarian society such as Sweden. The stability of psychometric instruments over two years tend to be lower for all instruments among low SEP groups, and differ significantly for self-esteem and perceived control among groups with high and low education, and for cynicism among groups with high and low occupational status. Results from studies II and III point to the relevance of individuals’ own thoughts about themselves, and the potential impact on the self by normative judgements of social position in a certain hierarchical setting. In paper II, the prestige-based measure of subjective status was influenced by resource-based measures, such as self-rated economy and education, but also by life satisfaction and psychosocial factors. The importance of self-evaluation was especially obvious from the study on status incongruence (study III) where the traditionally protective effecs of a high education seem to disappear when combined with a lowstatus occupation. Shaming experiences may play an important role here for our understanding of self-perception.

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Doan, Michelle C. "Mint Green LLC." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10111189.

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Mint Green is a limited liability company who provides preventative health care services to the Greater Long Beach area. Mint Green is entering the Weight Loss Services Industry which is experiencing rapid growth due to the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Mint Green has the opportunity to reach approximately 65% of firms who offer health benefits to their employees. Mint Green’s Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Plan (HELP) is the core instruction to the weight loss programs. Mint Green has four types of weight loss programs; each developed to satisfy a wide array of budgets. Mint Green is projected to yield a profitable margin.

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Green, Morgan. "Religion, health and psychological well-being." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1460758.

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McMillan, Julia Curruth. "Christian School Administration: exercising Biblical competence A consecrated heart and an educated mind /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2007. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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O'Quinn, Elaine. "Lessons of the heart: teaching and the poetic life of mind "full" possibilities." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30436.

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Education should grow the delicate flowers of our emotional hearts and souls as well as the sturdy plants of our minds; it should awaken us to depths of which the mind alone is not capable. This study presents reasoning for the necessary nurturing of students as whole people. The style in which it is written is indicative of the content itself; unrestricted and constant in motion, much like a free verse poem, the study achieves its wholeness not by wild abandonment of form, but by the embracing of a particular design that is self-generated rather than regulated. The point is to show that just as our lives cannot fruitfully be assembled then categorized, neither can teaching which is linear and disembodied provide a meaning "full" education for teacher or student. The themes of risk and vulnerability, self-knowledge, self-reflection, and self-hood, the incredible necessity to see our lives as large rather than small, and the overwhelming challenge to open up to instead of shut out the sounds of our lives are the strains that are herein taken up. Another time, another space and the issues would have presented themselves in an entirely different, but just as meaningful light. Again, the point made is how the unforeseen element of creativity rises up when thought is allowed to intertwine itself with the experiences of our lives. When allowed to self-generate, it connects all things to form a whole that once could only have been imagined. It integrates the private unfolding of a person with the concern of the public message to bear new beginnings to the conduct of things. Though this study is about teachers and teaching, in its deepest moments it is equally about students. For without the active presence of students no study can begin to ask teachers to consider the on-going need to open not just their minds, but their hearts and souls to the young people with whom they daily interact. Without the active presence of students the spirit of a "poetic" life is reduced to the singular lyrical pieces of experience rather than the encompassing epic tale that we understand is the real truth of our educations. Without the active presence of students the work of a teacher is but an accounting ledger of isolated method, a reductive energy that in the end is much about product, but little about life.
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Myers, Kelly Anne. "Changes of Mind and Heart: Navigating Emotion in an Expanded Theory of Kairos." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194163.

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According to Greek mythology, when the god of opportunity appears, there is but an instant in which a person must seize him in order to take advantage of the god's beneficence. If the moment is missed, the god passes by, finalizing the loss of opportunity. As a rhetorical concept, kairos emphasizes the importance of seizing--even creating--opportunities in a manner that is situationally effective and appropriate. Though kairos is often discussed as a single, pivotal moment of opportunity, this study argues that in order to better understand kairos and its role in rhetorical studies, the concept must be understood much more expansively.One of the central ways in which this dissertation broadens the concept of kairos is by acknowledging the long-standing conceptual and iconographic link between kairos and metanoia. In artwork and epigrams, the god of opportunity is often depicted with a female figure named Metanoia who brings elements such as repentance, reflection, regret, and transformation into the kairotic moment. Additionally, exploring the connections between kairos and metanoia introduces the concepts of metis (cunning or skill) and akairos (the inopportune) into kairos. Thus this dissertation expands the realm of kairos to include both opportune and inopportune moments that the savvy (or metis-endowed) rhetor can navigate.In addition to acknowledging the vital roles that metanoia, metis, and akairos play in the kairotic moment, this dissertation argues that an expanded theory of kairos offers new avenues for studying and employing emotion in the field of rhetoric and composition. In particular, it introduces the concept of akairos as both a rhetorical strategy (akairotic rhetoric) and an entry point into analytical discussions of the ways in which emotion functions on both individual and societal levels to alter perceptions of the possible. This dissertation argues that an expanded theory of kairos, one that recognizes the importance of akairos, extends the options for emotion as rhetorical device by challenging the etiquettes of emotion that traditional theories of kairos maintain.

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Kauhanen, Jussi. "Dealing with emotions and health a population study of alexithymia in middle-aged men /." Kuopio [Finland] : Research Institute of Public Health, Dept. of Community Health and General Practice, University of Kuopio : Distributor, Kuopio University Library, 1993. http://books.google.com/books?id=i_1rAAAAMAAJ.

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Miresco, Marc J. "Judgements of responsibility and mind brain dualism in clinical psychiatry." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=97970.

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This thesis explores the phenomenon of mind-brain dualism in contemporary Western psychiatry from an anthropological and social psychological perspective. In a first chapter, it reports on an empirical study involving 127 staff psychiatrists and psychologists at McGill University who responded to a questionnaire based on clinical vignettes. Results revealed a latent process of judging patients' responsibility for illness, where the more a behavioural problem was seen as 'psychological,' the more the patients tended to be viewed as responsible and blameworthy for their symptoms, while behaviours with 'neurobiological' causes showed the opposite tendency. A second chapter reviews the history of psychosomatic medicine and argues that specific biomedical and psychological sick roles exist for patients that determine the ways in which their actions are judged, as well as how the functions of the rational mind are commonly understood. Insights from evolutionary psychology are used in a third chapter to speculate on new models of mental illness that may provide new contexts for negotiating mind-brain dualism and judgements of responsibility.

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Jimenez, Leslie. "Native Minds, Hearts, Spirits, Beings, Knowings| Journey to Liberation, Decolonization, Reawakening." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10601390.

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This dissertation explores the experiences of Native American college students at a four-year institution. Additionally, institutional and non-institutional supports, strategies of resistance against oppression used by Native American college students, and examination of the role that spiritual activism plays in strategies of resistance at a four-year institution were explored.

Through the power of Native voices, their journeys were captured. This dissertation was conducted in accordance with a decolonized methodology, Native American knowledge systems, Native ways of knowing, and Native framework. This study explored the institutional and non-institutional supports, tools of resistance against oppression used by Native American college students, and how these tools of resistance serve as a factor in healing through application of spiritual activism.

In accordance with Indigenous knowledge systems, storytelling, and decolonized research approaches, it is likely that pedagogical tools for teaching emerged. This dissertation embodies “Indigenous traditions” referred to by Herrera, 2011 to align with an Indigenous Research Agenda. The sacred corn was used as a framework and prayer throughout this dissertation as the corn is sacred within Native communities. Well-being, as represented within the literature, encompasses Native knowledge systems, ways of knowing, and histories.

Through a decolonized methodology the following will be captured within this dissertation: the experiences of Native American college students as they navigate academia, knowledge systems brought with them, ways of knowing they practiced. Native American college students partaking in this study will: be a member of the Native American Student Support Services, be active within their Native community, self-identify as Native American, and engage in preservation of Native culture.

Grounded within the literature, each Native student within this study will be navigating through higher education, as they resist and persist through colonized settlers ways, values, and knowledge systems. Literature points to level of engagement within the Native community as a factor to persistence and resistance. As such, Native students within this dissertation will be engaged within their Native community. Each journey will exemplify the resistance, resiliency, perseverance, courage, and strength students draw from to navigate through and resist oppression, colonized settler education. As well as, the impact historical and intergeneration trauma has on their journey to healing.

Their journeys will highlight knowledge systems; ways of knowing, stories, and tools of resistance Native American college students bring with them to college settings. Native students bring these from their upbringing, the community, ceremony, and prayer.

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Tovey, Bethan. "Hearts and minds : the formation of identities in Anglo-Saxon literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.568079.

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This thesis aims to take a bottom-up approach to questions of Anglo-Saxon identity. Whereas recent studies have tended to begin with a concept such as Englishness or gender and used it as a glass through which to view Anglo-Saxon texts, I will instead begin by considering some of the basics of identity and considering how they may coalesce to construct more complex identities such as ethnicity. The first two chapters deal with the mind and intellect. They consider the bases of identity which may be found in the use of words, education and wisdom. Chapter one considers the processes of structuring identity through words, whether spoken or written. It focuses on the tensions between orality and literacy, considering the authority and status that each, in its different ways, may confer on individuals who use them well. Chapter two considers the role of communal wisdom and what it means to be wise. It asks whether wisdom is a type of identity in itself or something which is inherent in a range of different identities. Chapters three to six explore the physical aspects of identity. Chapter three identifies potential sources of conflict between secular culture and Christian ideas of bodily integrity, particularly in the area of sexuality. Chapter four examines the ways in which sexuality is subsumed in a concern with lineage, and goes on to consider the role of family in characterising an individual's reputation and virtue. Chapter five considers the results of physical impairment. Impairment is seen to be stylised and treated in a highly symbolic manner, becoming an outward sign of other kinds of identity, such as evil or holiness. Finally, chapter six considers the role of violence in constructing identity, examining the pain and suffering of saintly martyrs and the paradigms of heroism found in Beowulfand The Battle of Maldon. It asks whether it is possible for Christian and heroic identities to coexist in a single individual. The conclusion surveys the idea of "Englishness", seeking to show how this concept is informed by numerous other types of identity. It questions whether Englishness informs other types of behaviour, or is informed by them. It ends by advancing the idea that any study of Anglo-Saxon identity must take into account the multiplicity of identities available to individuals in the period.

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Bartuschka, Andrej. "US-Propaganda und counterinsurgency in Vietnam winning the hearts and minds?" Saarbrücken VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2005. http://d-nb.info/98939512X/04.

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Zugl.: Jena, Univ., Magisterarbeit, 2005 u.d.T.: Bartuschka, Andrej: Winning the hearts and minds? - amerikanische Propaganda und psychologische Kriegsführung in Vietnam 1965 - 1973
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Scullin, Robert J. "Engaging hearts and minds Ignatian spirituality and students reflecting on service /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Masur, Matthew B. "Hearts and minds cultural nation building in South Vietnam, 1954-1963 /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1091210764.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.
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Swinford, Rachel R. "Adapted dance - connecting mind, body and soul." Thesis, Indiana University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3610166.

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Using Heideggerian interpretive phenomenology, this study illuminates the lived experience of an adapted dance program for individuals with Down syndrome and their family members. The overall pattern from both dancers and family members was adapted dance: connecting mind, body and soul. The primary theme from dancer interpretations was expressing a mosaic of positive experiences, and the primary theme from family member interpretations was experiencing pride in their loved ones. The dance program provided dancers an opportunity to express their authentic self while experiencing moments of full embodiment in the connection of their mind, body and soul. While dancers experienced the connection of mind-body-soul, family members recognized the importance of this connection in their loved one. This research is instrumental in advocating for opportunities for individuals with Down syndrome to experience dance as a social, physical and intellectual activity that results in learning and increasing social interactions. The research findings from this study can support future initiatives for dance programs that may influence a population that has limited access to physical activity and dance. The study's teaching strategies, dance activities, class procedures and sequences, and feedback techniques can be used by other professionals who teach individuals with intellectual disabilities.

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Soar, Rod. ""Drugs on the mind" : dual diagnosis : the experience of mental health professionals." University of Ballarat, 2003. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/15384.

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Recent publicity has focused on the problems created by the usage of illicit drugs in the community. The growing use of illicit drugs throughout the Grampians region and the lack of resources and professional services available to regional and rural areas raise many questions as to treatment options and the accessibility and appropriateness of drug and alcohol and mental health services. Despite the fact that mental health professionals in rural/regional areas are expected to deliver the most appropriate care to individuals with a comorbid drug and alcohol and psychiatric disorder, a number of these rural/regional mental health professionals have limited preparation and experience in dealing with dual diagnosis issues. This phenomenological study focuses on the area of dual diagnosis, specifically the experiences of health professionals who care for clients diagnosed with a serious mental illness and a coexisting drug and alcohol disorder. Results are described in the form of four themes, which emerged from data collected during in-depth interviews with 13 mental health professionals who care for clients with a dual diagnosis. The themes captured in this research will be described using metaphors as headings. The first theme Sink or swim represents mental health professionals’ initial preparation to care for this group of complex clientele. Treading water symbolises mental health professionals’ endeavours to keep their head above water and reflects on their feelings while endeavouring to do so. Rowing against the tide describes mental health professionals’ understanding of clients’ drug misuse, which impacts greatly on the level of care.
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Bhandari, Ramjee. "Mind the gap : geographical inequalities in health during the age of austerity." Thesis, Durham University, 2018. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12803/.

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Background: Stockton-on-Tees has the highest geographical inequalities in health in England, with the life expectancy at birth gap between the most and deprived neighbourhoods standing at over 17 years for men and 11 years for women. It is well acknowledged that place can create inequalities in health but there is a debate within geographical research as to whether the health and wellbeing of an individual are determined by their own attributes (the compositional theory) or the political economy and environmental attributes of the area where they live (contextual approach). More recently, it has been argued that these determinants interact with each other, signifying that they are ‘mutually reinforcing’. Method This is one of the first studies that provides the detailed empirical examination of the geographical health divide by estimating the gap and trend in physical and general health (as measured by EQ5D, EQ5D-VAS and SF8PCS) between the most and least deprived areas. It uses a novel statistical technique to examine the causal role of compositional and contextual factors and their interaction during a time of economic recession and austerity. Using a longitudinal survey that recruited a stratified random sample, individual-level survey data was combined with secondary data sources and analysed using multi-level models with 95 percent confidence intervals obtained from nonparametric bootstrapping. In addition, trend analysis was performed to explore the role of austerity. Results The main findings indicate that there is a significant gap in health between the two areas, which remained constant throughout the study period, and that compositional level material factors, contextual factors and their interaction appear to explain this gap. Contrary to the dominant policy discourse in this area, individual behavioural and psychosocial factors did not make a significant contribution towards explaining health inequalities in the study area. Austerity measures are exacerbating inequalities in general and physical health by disproportionately impacting those in deprived areas. The findings are discussed in relation to geographical theories of health inequalities and the context of austerity. The study concludes by exploring the avenues for further research and key policy implications.

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Lucas, Grace. "All 'in the mind'? : towards a new model of embodied mental health." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2017. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/287/.

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The National Clinical Director of Mental Health for NHS England has said that we need to ‘dump Descartes’, and the authors of one of psychiatry’s principal diagnostic manuals have stated that the term mental disorder is a dualistic anachronism. Existing critical challenges to dualism, including affect theory, new materialism and phenomenology, have sought to reinstate meaning for the material body, and biomedical work exploring the immune system, epigenetics and the microbiome-gut-brain axis suggests that mind over matter is an untenable principle. Moreover, UK government health strategies have come to recognise the relationship between mental and physical health outcomes and are increasingly focused on connecting up care. However, mind and body dualism is deeply and habitually ingrained in medical practice, healthcare structures and research silos. Despite efforts focused on integration, the dominating influence of psychiatric discourse and the focus on mental health within the confines of the head continue to reinforce the split. Working with a transdisciplinary critical medical humanities framework, and guided by feminist criticism gesturing towards making social change, this thesis critiques dominant models of mental health focused on immaterial thoughts or brain dysfunction, both of which overwrite embodied dimensions of experience. It argues that mental health involves physical beings in constant contact with the world and that without a shift in the language, the social, corporeal and environmental aspects of mental health remain tacked on to problematically individualised and internalised constructs. To go against the grain of language, the thesis then moves on to find appropriate tools and models with which to conceptualise non-dualist ontologies and to gesture towards an embodied model of mental health. It concludes that a radical shift in mental health research and practice is urgently needed that drops out of the head and into the ‘being-body’.

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Tien, Joanne. "Colonizing Heart and Mind: The Sociopolitical Implications of the Growth of China's Underground Church." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2009. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/34.

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Introduction, the history of Christianity in China. Chapter 1, like rain falling and grass growing: the growth of China’s underground church. Chapter 2, a comparison of the theologies of K.H. Ting and Wang Mingdao. Chapter 3, marching back towards Jerusalem. Conclusion, the spread of the American kingdom.

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Munoz, Joaquin, and Joaquin Munoz. "The Circle of Mind and Heart: Integrating Waldorf Education, Indigenous Epistemologies, and Critical Pedagogy." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621063.

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This dissertation examines the potential congruencies and complementarities of Waldorf education, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP), Culturally Responsive Schooling (CRS), Critical Pedagogy and Native American and Indigenous education. Waldorf education, a German education reform developed in the early 1920s, is a little researched schooling system, and previous research on this reform has examined its impacts within its traditional contexts, namely, private schools. At the same time, significant literature exists which addresses the importance and efficacy of reforms for students of color such as those in CRP, CRS and Critical Pedagogy. There is also a body of work which points to key pedagogical components which support Native American/Indigenous students in school. This dissertation examines the interplay between all three of these complex systems by examining attempts to integrate them in the classroom. By examining Waldorf education initiatives in three distinct contexts, I demonstrate that these reforms can work in concert without diminishing the efficacy of any of them. I explore three distinct contexts of Waldorf education. The first examined the impacts of Waldorf education on students who participated in the reform in a private Waldorf school, who transitioned to more traditional, mainstream classes. I conducted participant-observation of a local Waldorf school and in-depth interviews with 14 alumni to explore the impact of this reform. In the second context, I examined how students responded to the use of Waldorf-inspired methods in a community college course I taught, and I investigated their experiences of the reform. Seven students who participated were interviewed in order to investigate the impact of these reforms on their experience as college students. These interviews were complemented by teacher-research I conducted while teaching this Waldorf-inspired course. Finally, I explored the potential of Waldorf education as a reform for Native American students, examining my own incorporation of this reform with other pedagogical tools, such as CRP, CRS, and other forms of critical pedagogy. Included in this section of research are my reflections on a course I instructed with Waldorf-inspired reforms. I also explored various accounts of Waldorf-education reforms by tribal communities, like the Lakota Waldorf School in South Dakota. Several findings from the research conducted here are encouraging. Students from Waldorf school environments demonstrate critical skills and critique schooling environments, invoking stances familiar to critical pedagogues. Students from a Waldorf-inspired community college course were also critical of the typical schooling experiences they had encountered, and spoke of the enriching feeling in their Waldorf-inspired course. Investigation into the philosophical tenets of Waldorf education and Native American/Indigenous epistemologies shows several examples of overlap and similarity, the most striking being elements of spiritual belief and practice as foundational to Native American/Indigenous well-being, and the ability of Waldorf education to address this. While these fields may appear unrelated, this study explores the praxis of these seemingly disparate bodies of work, by examining their similarities and differences. Ultimately, I argue that these reforms can work in concert to support the academic success of culturally and linguistically diverse students and Native American/Indigenous students in particular. The research in these three contexts demonstrates need for further investigation into Waldorf education and its potential to support students of all backgrounds.

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Augustine, Tami. "Habits of the heart, habits of the mind: Teacher education for a global age." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1403734827.

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Steele, A. M. "The health consequences of mild fasting hyperglycaemia." Thesis, Exeter and Plymouth Peninsula Medical School, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.701308.

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Wang, Xiuli. "Winning American hearts and minds : country characteristics, public relations and mass media." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available, full text:, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Jacobson, Mark R. ""Minds then hearts" : U.S. political and psychological warfare during the Korean War /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1108407385.

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Philpott, Chandler G. "The Labyrinth of Experience: Liminality Between Architecture and Mind." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617107106368479.

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Ban, Kee Hyun. "Winning 'hearts and minds'? : the Roman Army in the eastern provinces under the Principate (27 BCE - 284 CE)." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2015. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/winning-hearts-and-minds(a2e049d5-e147-491d-a2cb-516f5b04e597).html.

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My thesis investigates whether the Roman authorities had any policies or practices in employing and deploying their armed forces to win the hearts and minds of the population in the eastern provinces under the Principate (27 BCE - 284 CE) as kind of military strategy for exploiting their human and material resources to confront the Arsacid - Sassanid empire. Chapter 1 explains this aim with reference to previous scholarship. In chapter 2, I update and review the data for the provenance of soldiers. I argue that the hypothesis of increasing ʻlocalisation’ in the pattern of recruiting soldiers is wrong. Military units in the eastern provinces always depended largely on the recruits from Italy, Africa and the Danube, as well as from the other eastern provinces. Chapter 3 investigates the processes of recruitment and veteran settlement, and argues that the Romans had a strategic aim to strengthen social integration between soldiers and civilians. This is supported by a case study of the Roman garrison at Syene in Egypt. Chapter 4 argues that the logistics system of the Roman armed forces and their military presence within or near urban areas did not hinder the economic growth of the eastern provinces. The Roman government took action against the abuse of requisitions. As in the West, Roman military occupation brought some economic benefit. Chapter 5 shows the changing image of Roman soldiers in imperial Greek literature from invaders to guardians. Greek elites began to view themselves as part of the empire and to distinguish between insiders (Romans) and outsiders (barbarians). Provincials thought of Roman soldiers as more effective and reliable than their municipal police. Chapter 6 argues that, as part of their military strategy, the Romans used the propaganda that their emperor was a Roman Alexander who confronted the Parthian threat to protect his subjects in the East. This seems to have had some success in uniting the various eastern nations to support and serve in Rome’s military domination of their territories. All these actions would have been impossible without a strategic intention to win the hearts and minds of the population in the eastern provinces.

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Jansen, Maria Wilhelmina Jacoba. "Mind the gap: collaboration between practice, policy and research in local public health." [Maastricht] : Maastricht : Universitaire Pers Maastricht ; University Library, Universiteit Maastricht [host], 2007. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=8851.

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Moore, John. "Talk in mind : the analysis of calls to a mental health information line." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2009. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/13497.

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This thesis is an analysis of interactional practices through which the work of a mental health information line is carried out, utilising discursive psychology and conversation analysis in the analysis of a corpus of calls to MIND Infoline. The aim of MIND Infoline is to provide information on mental illness, and the services in England and Wales which support those affected by mental illness. In negotiating access to the data, the call-takers of the line were encouraged to suggest topics for analysis such that the work of this thesis would be of benefit to them. Three of these topics are the foci of the analytic chapters; how callers are asked what it is they want from the line, how courses of action are proffered to callers, and how crying callers are responded to. In the analysis of these topics, institutional restrictions are discussed as consequential for the actions engaged in by the call-takers, who are encouraged to refrain from giving advice, 'chatting' with callers, and providing emotional support. In the analytic chapters, empirically grounded observations are made about four recurrent practices engaged in by the call-takers; • The use of interrogatives which constrain callers' responses and make relevant a request for information .• The use of modal verbs and' If / Then Constructions' in the proffering of courses of action to callers • The use of ' Yes / No' interrogatives in the proffering of courses of action to callers • Empathetic formulations which are deployed following occurrences of caller crying The reporting of the findings back to the helpline staff and the application of these findings for their work are also discussed. The thesis as a whole contributes to the literature on the analysis of institutional interactions, particularly to the literature on the management of restricted practices in institutional settings.

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