(Re)Membering the Body: Identity Development and College Student Trauma

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 456-473
Author(s):  
Tricia R. Shalka
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
The Body ◽  
Student Trauma

Gender diversity and non-binary presentations in young people attending the United Kingdom’s National Gender Identity Development Service

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jos Twist ◽  
Nastasja M de Graaf
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Intrinsic Factors ◽  
Gender Expression ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Development Service ◽  
Binary Gender

There has been a recent rise in the number of people who hold a non-binary gender identity. However, the proportion of young people attending gender services who identify as non-binary has not yet been investigated. This article presents the findings from a pilot study of newly designed questionnaire, the Gender Diversity Questionnaire, which included questions about gender identity and gender expression. Responses from 251 adolescents attending the United Kingdom’s National Gender Identity Development Service between June 2016 and February 2017 are reported here. The majority, 56.9%, of young people identified as trans, 29.3% identified as a binary gender (male or female), 11% identified as non-binary and 1.2% as agender. There were no significant differences in self-defined identities based on assigned gender or age. However, once young people were separated into these groups, some of them were very small; thus, a larger sample is required. In terms of aspects of gender expression that were important to the young people, the data formed five themes – name and pronouns, external appearance, the body, intrinsic factors and ‘other’. Strengths and weaknesses of the research are discussed as well as future work that will be conducted.

scholarly journals Correlation between Static Balance and Core Endurance among College Student with Forward Head Posture

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-250
Author(s):  
Abhilash P.V ◽  
Priya S ◽  
Mustafa K Kheriwala
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
The Body ◽  
Muscle Endurance ◽  
Static Balance ◽  
Minimal Amount ◽  
Strong Positive Correlation ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Forward Head Posture ◽  
Head Posture

Background: Proper posture is considered to be a state of musculoskeletal balance that involves a minimal amount of stress or strain to the body. When the head is held forward in relation to the trunk, the alignment is said to be poor and is referred as, ‘forward head posture’ (FHP). If abnormal posture persists for a long time, it compromises balance because of muscular imbalance which can cause loss of proprioception sense in joint and decreased balance, and trunk endurance is significantly reduced in FHP and may lead to poor muscular control of the spine. Purpose: To find the correlation between the core muscle endurance and balance among college student with forward head posture. Methodology: A cross-sectional observational study was conducted in a tertiary care hospital. 25 healthy college student individuals within the age group of 18-30 years having forward head posture were taken. FHP was assessed by craniovertebral angle. Trunk endurance was measured by McGill core endurance test and static balance was assessed by standing stork test. Results: Karl Pearson’s correlation coefficient test was used to find the correlation between Trunk muscle endurance and static balance. Strong positive correlation was found which was statistically significant between trunk flexor endurance, trunk extensor endurance, right lateral endurance, left lateral endurance, and static balance. Conclusion: Among college students with FHP decreased core endurance can affect the static balance. Keywords: forward head posture, core endurance, static balance.

scholarly journals “A Space Where People Get It”: A Methodological Reflection of Arts-Informed Community-Based Participatory Research With Nonbinary Youth

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 160940691985853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellis Furman ◽  
Amandeep K. Singh ◽  
Ciann Wilson ◽  
Fil D’Alessandro ◽  
Zev Miller
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
The Body ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Body Mapping ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
Methodological Reflection

This article is a methodological reflection of Bye Bye Binary, a community-based participatory research project (CBPR) that explored nonbinary youths’ experiences of identity development, engagement in activism, discrimination, and mental health in Ontario, Canada. The arts-informed method of body mapping was employed in a workshop format to garner the experiences of 10 nonbinary youth (aged 16–25), in conjunction with additional qualitative methods (i.e., individual interviews and reflective notes). Findings suggest that the body-mapping workshop fostered a safe environment that promoted idea generation, affirmation, self-exploration, and connections through a shared identity, thus creating “a space where people get it.” Methodological challenges that arose throughout the process are discussed, including engagement in art as “awkward,” barriers of limited time and funding, participant recruitment, and collaboration and integration. Lastly, the authors reflect on their learnings engaging in CBPR and provide insights into how researchers can move forward and apply these methods and processes into their own work engaging in arts-informed research or with nonbinary individuals.

Audio-Visual Entrainment: A Novel Way of Boosting Grades and Socialization While Reducing Stress in the Typical College Student

Biofeedback ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave Siever
Keyword(s):  
Blood Flow ◽  
Cerebral Blood Flow ◽  
College Student ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Brain Wave ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Social Time ◽  
Reducing Stress

Attention, concentration, memory, grade-point average, and stress/worry are all primary concerns of the modern university and college student. Also, young adults are concerned about having a somewhat active social life in between exams, essays, and deadlines. The stress of school shunts cerebral blood flow away from the cortex (during stress the brain assumes the body needs blood in the core to prepare for flight or battle, which is just the opposite of what the present day student needs). This slows dominant cortical activity down into greater alpha and theta brain wave frequencies, similar to what is seen in those with ADD and ADHD, leaving the student more distractible, impulsive, and hyperactive. This behavior in turn impairs the student's ability to study and write exams, thus increasing stress, and using valuable social time needed to shake off stress and the potential of falling into depression. Audio-visual entrainment (AVE) has been shown to produce dramatic increases in cerebral blood flow, efficient brain activity, and sound mental health. Several studies involving the use of AVE for enhancing academic performance have been completed. AVE has proven to be an effective and affordable aid to better grades and improve socialization.

Ethical issues arising in the provision of medical interventions for gender diverse children and adolescents

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernadette Wren
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Treatment Decision ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Senior Clinician

The care of children and adolescents whose experience of the body is at odds with their gender feelings raises a number of questions that are as much ethical as medical or psychological. In this article I highlight some areas of ethical concern from the point of view of a senior clinician at the nationally commissioned UK Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS). I make the assumption that ethical deliberation is relational and grounded in the natural, social, political and institutional worlds in which the ethical questions arise. I try to show how matters of empirical fact, alongside an appreciation of broad social contexts, and historic and current power relations, provide an essential framework for the ways that ethical choices are framed by key groups of people as they take up different, sometimes opposing, ethical positions. I argue that practising ethically in such a service is not helpfully reduced to a single event, a treatment decision aimed at achieving the morally ‘right’ outcome, but an extended process in time. In the charged debate surrounding the recognition of these young people’s needs, we must do more to promote responsible debate about the scope of sound ethical practice.

College Student Recovery and Identity Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (170) ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Penny J. Rosenthal ◽  
Jamie Buckalew‐Hedin
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Identity Development

Avian Mite Dermatitis

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 97 (5) ◽  
pp. 743-745
Author(s):  
Eulalia Baselga ◽  
Beth A. Drolet ◽  
Nancy B. Esterly
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
College Student ◽  
The Body ◽  
Dermanyssus Gallinae ◽  
Papular Eruption

Avian mites are known to infest humans accidentally, causing a dermatitis characterized by widespread pruritic papular lesions. Because of the lack of awareness of this phenomenon and the small size of the mite, this diagnosis is often missed. We report two siblings with a papular eruption secondary to contact with avian mites identified as Dermanyssus gallinae. CASE REPORT A young college student awakened one morning in August with severe pruritus and a generalized eruption. On examination in the clinic, she was noted to have numerous wheals (50 to 100), most densely distributed on her waist, thighs, shoulders, and ankles, but involving most areas of the body.

scholarly journals Men and their groomed body

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 1015-1034 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chihling Liu
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Body ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sociology Of The Body ◽  
Meaningful Existence ◽  
Body Shapes ◽  
Definition Of

Purpose This study aims to offer insights into the embodied concerns that underpin men’s personal grooming practices through which they experience their body as the “existential ground of culture and self” and manage their everyday bodily presentation. Design/methodology/approach This study analyses 16 interviews with male consumers of age between 20 and 76. The interpretative analysis is informed by both Merleau-Ponty’s concept of the body-subject and the sociology of the body as discursively constituted. Findings This study proposes four bodily identity positions that link individual personal grooming practices to specific embodied concerns. These bodily identity positions underline the different ways the male body is called upon to carve out a meaningful existence. Research limitations/implications The research findings are not intended to generalise or to be exhaustive. Rather, it is hoped that they may stimulate readers to think more deeply about the role of the body in aiding male consumers to seek maximum grip on their life-world. Practical implications The study findings provide marketers with rich narratives for brand positioning and image development beyond the traditional sexual and/or alpha male-themed marketing and advertising. They also offer preliminary insights for mental health practitioners into how the male body shapes men’s identity development and experiences of well-being. Originality/value The study identifies the different ways personal grooming can become assimilated into an individual’s system of beliefs and practices. It also offers empirical support for a definition of the body as active and acted upon, especially with respect to male grooming.

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