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Submissions from 2024

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College Specific Depression: Analyzing the Differences Between Class Year and Racial/Ethnic Backgrounds, Pamela A. Kplivi, Jaden Deluke, Caroline O'Conell, and Virginia B. Wickline

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Does Where We Live Matter To Oral Health? Tensions Between Rural Older Adults’ Concept of Community and Health Individualism, Swaha Pattanaik, April M. Schueths Dr., Raymona H. Lawrence, Bettye A. Apenteng, and Georgia Dounis

Submissions from 2023

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Brief Historical Summary of the Tybee Lazaretto, Kara Bridgman Sweeney

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Disparities in extreme contexts: The impact of gender and mental health status on the criminal justice outcomes of extremists, Andrea Corradi

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Increasing Character Strength Knowledge, Interest, and Skill: Preliminary Evidence for a Collaborative and Multimethod Assessment Procedure, Jeff J. Klibert, Michaela D. Simpson, Brandon J. Weiss, C. Thresa Yancey, Calla Pritulsky, Amy Luna, Hayley Houseman, and Hani M. Samawi

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Essay 10.6 Motivation in the Wild: Capturing the Complex Social Ecologies of Academic Motivation, Ellen Skinner, Thomas A. Kindermann, Justin W. Vollet, and Nicolette P. Rickert

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Milling Around in Scriven**, M. Jared Wood

Submissions from 2022

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Understanding Nonprofit Leaders' Perceptions of Organizational Efficiency, Jessica L. Berrett and Jayce Sudweeks

Paleoindian and Early Archaic South Carolina, Kara Bridgman Sweeney, J. Christopher Gillam, and Christopher R. Moore

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Infirmities of Will: Good Governance, Public Service Reform, and Democratic Legitimacy in the Caribbean, Christopher M. Brown

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Perceptions of Fatigue and Safety Climate Pertaining to Residency Duty-Hour Restrictions, Michele M. Carr, Jonathan E. Friedel, Daniel O'Brien, Anne M. Foreman, and Oliver Wirth

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A Hostile Reputation: A Social Network Approach to Interstate Hostility, Andrea Corradi, Cassie McMillan, and Nick Dietrich

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Pandemic Partnerships: Community/University Experiences with Community-Based Learning in the COVID-19 Era, Ryan J. Couillou, Beth McGee, April S. Carr, and Tabitha A. Lamberth

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How Neofascism Emerges from Neoliberal Capitalism, Ronald W. Cox and Daniel Skidmore-Hess

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Irregular Warfare, Insurgencies, and Counterinsurgencies: Culture Matters, José de Arimatéia da Cruz

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Mental Health Symptoms Predicting American College Students’ Academic Performance: The Moderating Role of Peer Support, Gabrielle M. Goselin and Nicolette P. Rickert

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Back in My Day: Generational Impacts on Beliefs about School Shootings, Amanda Graham, Cheryl Lero Jonson, and Heejin Lee

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Book Review of Racial Resentment in the Political Mind By Darren W. Davis and David C. Wilson, Amanda K. Graham

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Explaining White Supremacy and Domestic Terrorism, Amanda K. Graham

Bryan County Sheriff's Office Community Survey, Amanda K. Graham, L. Somers, K. Thompson, and C. Posick

The Wrapping Paper Problem: Expediting the Peer Review Process Without Sacrificing Rigor, Cheryl L. Jonson and Amanda Graham

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Celebrity Admiration, Conspiratorial Belief, and Anti-vaccination Attitudes: Examining Relationships and Establishing Pragmatic Research, Nancy McCarley, Catherine Jones, and Joshua L. Williams

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Further Validation of the Realness Scale: Are Celebrity Worshipers Unreal?, Lynn E. McCutcheon, Lillian Donahue, Joshua L. Williams, Sarah K. Nielson, Scott Peterson, and Terry F. Pettijohn II

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“No Better Way of Selecting the Man in Whom They Place the Highest Confidence”: A Note on James Madison’s Remarks on the Electoral College at Richmond’s Ratifying Convention, Patrick J. Novotny

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Sex Trafficking and the Proliferation of HIV in Africa, Kate Perry and Sam R. Bell

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Remembering the “Human” in Human Trafficking: An Analysis of Female Leadership and Anti-Trafficking Policy Choices, Kate Perry and Courtney Burns

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The American Racial Divide in Fear of the Police, Justin T. Pickett, Amanda Graham, and Francis T. Cullen

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“Well Duh, That’s How You Raise a Kid”: Gender-Open Parenting in a (Non)Binary World, Elizabeth Rahilly

Parent and Teacher Involvement and the Development of Students' Academic Engagement: A Growth Curve Analysis Over Four Time Points, Nicolette P. Rickert and Ellen A. Skinner

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Mindfulness Training Improves Middle School Teachers’ Occupational Health, Well-Being, and Interactions with Students in Their Most Stressful Classrooms, Robert W. Roeser, Andrew J. Mashburn, Ellen A. Skinner, Jaiya R. Choles, Nicolette P. Rickert, Cynthia Taylor, Jessica Robbeloth, Emily Saxton, Emily Weiss, Margaret Cullen, and Jillayne Sorenson

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China’s Diplomatic Forays in the CARICOM-Caribbean Community in the Light of the Belt and Road Initiative, Nalanda Roy

Is India Retreating from its Act East to Act Indo-Pacific Policy?, Nalanda Roy

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One Hundred Years of the Dialectic: Reflections on “Marxism and Philosophy”, Daniel Skidmore-Hess

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Complex Social Ecologies and the Development of Academic Motivation, Ellen A. Skinner, Thomas A. Kindermann, Justin W. Vollet, and Nicolette P. Rickert

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The Complex Social Ecology of Academic Development: A Bioecological Framework and Illustration Examining the Collective Effects of Parents, Teachers, and Peers on Student Engagement, Ellen A. Skinner, Nicolette P. Rickert, Justin W. Vollet, and Thomas A. Kindermann

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Going Above and Beyond: Assessing the Characteristics of Officers Who Complete Additional in-Service Training, Logan J. Somers and Jacob T. Foster

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Bail Denied or Bail Too High? Disentangling Cumulative Disadvantage by Pretrial Detention Type, Stacie St. Louis

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Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 48: “Novo Cangaço” Style Urban Raid in Guarapuava, Paraná (PR), Brazil, John P. Sullivan, José de Arimatéia da Cruz, and Robert J. Bunker

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The Role of Fisher Engagement in the Acceptance of Turtle Excluder Devices in Georgia's Shrimping Industry, Jennifer Sweeney Tookes, Tracy Yandle, and Bryan Fluech

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Consequences of Victimization on Perceived Friend Support During Adolescence, Jillian J. Turanovic, Sonja E. Siennick, and Kristin M. Lloyd

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Comparison of Two Video Prompting Interventions to Teach Daily Living Skills to Adolescents With Autism, Jennifer Wertalik and Richard Kubina

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I’ll See Your Beautified Photo and Raise You One: An Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Edited Social Media Photo Exposure., Wendy L. Wolfe and Leah Yakabovits

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Factors in Predicting and Preventing Conspiracy Theory Endorsement: An Empirical Review, Leah Yakabovits and Joshua L. Williams

An Assessment of the Viability of a Commercial Lionfish Fishery in the US Virgin Islands, Tracy Yandle, Jennifer Sweeney Tookes, Paulita Bennett-Martin, Sherry Larkin, and Michael Page

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The Call2Care Program: Linking College Students and Older Adults, Jennifer Zorotovich and Adrienne Cohen

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Death Education among Social Science College Students: The Good, the Bad, and the Unchanged, Jennifer Zorotovich and Adrienne L. Cohen

Submissions from 2021

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The Great Equalizer? Gender, Parenting, and Scholarly Productivity during the Global Pandemic, Marijke Breuning, Christina Fattore, Jennifer M. Ramos, and Jamie E. Scalera

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Examining the Effect of Perceived Responsibility On Online Bystander Intervention, Target Hardening, and Inaction, Leah C. Butler, Amanda K. Graham, Bonnie S. Fisher, Billy Henson, and Bradford W. Reyns

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Racial Attitudes and Criminal Justice Policy, Francis T. Cullen, Leah C. Butler, and Amanda K. Graham

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Catholics and Capital Punishment: Do Pope Francis’s Teachings Matter in Policy Preferences, Francis T. Cullen, Amanda K. Graham, Kellie R. Hannan, Alexander L. Burton, Leah C. Butler, and Velmer S. Burton Jr.

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The Denier in Chief: Faith in Trump and Techniques of Neutralization in a Pandemic, Francis T. Cullen, Amanda K. Graham, Cheryl L. Jonson, Justin T. Pickett, Melissa M. Sloan, and Murat Haner

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Enhancing Student Self-reflection in College-level Diversity Courses, Nikki DiGregorio and Delores D. Liston

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Development and Validation of an Intimate Partner Cyber Abuse Measure in an Adult-based Sample, Erica R. Fissel, Amanda K. Graham, Leah C. Butler, and Bonnie S. Fisher

A New Generation of Survey Research in Criminology: Online Opt-In Surveys., Amanda K. Graham

Police Use of Force, Particularly Police Brutality and Lethal Force, Amanda K. Graham

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Beyond a Crime Gene: Genetic Literacy and Correctional Orientation, Amanda K. Graham, J. C. Barnes, Hexuan Liu, and Francis T. Cullen

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Who Wears the MAGA Hat? Racial Beliefs and Faith in Trump, Amanda K. Graham, Francis T. Cullen, Leah C. Butler, Alexander L. Burton, and Velmer S. Burton Jr.

Procedural Justice: In Theory and Practice, Amanda Graham, Travis C. Pratt, and Kyle McLean

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Instructional Scaffolding in Internships: Supporting future professionals in Family Science, Katy Gregg, Meghan K. Dove, and Nikki DiGregorio

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Racial Sympathy and Support for Capital Punishment: A Case Study in Concept Transfer, Kellie R. Hannan, Francis T. Cullen, Leah C. Butler, Amanda K. Graham, Alexander L. Burton, and Velmer S. Burton Jr.

Polish Non-violent Resistance against Foreign Occupation 1795-1918: A Post-revisionist Perspective, Jacek Lubecki

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Beyond Plants: Biophilic Design as a Pedagogical Tool, Beth McGee and Nam Kyu Park

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Brotherhood and sexism as manhood acts for trans men in the Southeastern United States, Megan Y. Phillips and Baker Rogers

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Anxiety and the Onset of COVID-19: Examining Concerns of Historically Excluded Scholars, Jennifer M. Ramos, Jamie E. Scalera, Christina Fattore, and Marijke Breuning

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Parent and Teacher Warm Involvement and Student's Academic Engagement: The Mediating Role of Self-System Processes, Nicolette P. Rickert and Ellen A. Skinner

Kurdish Identity, Resistance, and Agenda Setting in a Time of Renewed Turkish Hostility: Social Media and the HDP, Ned Rinalducci

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Inequitable Power Comes from and Creates Inequitable Structure: The Continued Relevance of Feminist Theory for Understanding Intimate Partner Violence in Transgender Lives, Baker Rogers

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Drag Kings, Baker A. Rogers

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Evidence for Hope?: Mississippi Christians’ Views Toward Gay and Lesbian Equality Post Obergefell v. Hodges, Baker A. Rogers

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Wearable Accessory Designers’ Perceptions Using 3D Printing Technology, Virginia Rolling

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Beholding: the Neuroaesthetic Experience of a Synesthetic Dress, Virginia Rolling and Karla Teel

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A Qualitative Analysis of the South China Sea Dispute, Nalanda Roy

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor – Is It the Road to the Future?, Nalanda Roy

Global Climate Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Nalanda Roy

Exploring the Culture of Digital Resistance in India: The Nirbhaya effect, Nalanda Roy and Stephanie Mae-Pedron

Understanding the Face of Humanity- The Rohingya Genocide, Nalanda Roy and Stephanie Mae Pedron

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Family Preservation Strategies: Regendering Labor in Mixed-Status Marriage After Co-Deportation, April M. Schueths Dr. and Nathan S. Palmer

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Pandemic Emotions: The Extent, Correlates and Mental Health Consequences of Personal and Altruistic Fear of COVID-19, Melissa M. Sloan, Murat Haner, Amanda K. Graham, Francis T. Cullen, Justine T. Pickett, and Cheryl L. Jonson

The Opt-In Internet Survey, Angela J. Thielo, Amanda K. Graham, and Francis T. Cullen

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“You Can’t Catch ‘Em and Sell ‘Em”: Perceptions of Obstacles to Direct Marketing among Georgia Fishers, Jennifer Tookes and Tracy Yandle

Submissions from 2020

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A Consensus-Based Transparency Checklist, Balazs Aczel, Barnabas Szaszi, Alexandra Sarafoglou, Zoltan Kekecs, Šimon Kucharský, Daniel Benjamin, Christopher D. Chambers, Agenta Fisher, Andrew Gelman, Morton A. Gernsbacher, John P. Ioannidis, Eric Johnson, Kai Jonas, Stavroula Kousta, Scott O. Lilienfeld, D. Stephen Lindsay, Candice C. Morey, Marcus Munafò, Benjamin R. Newell, Harold Pashler, David R. Shanks, Daniel J. Simons, Jelte M. Wicherts, Dolores Albarracin, Nicole D. Anderson, John Antonakis, Hal R. Arkes, Mitja D. Back, George C. Banks, Christopher Beevers, Andrew A. Bennett, Wiebke Bleidorn, Ty W. Boyer, Cristina Cacciari, Alice S. Carter, Joseph Cesario, Charles Clifton, Ronán M. Conroy, Mike Cortese, Fiammetta Cosci, Nelson Cowan, Jarret Crawford, Eveline A. Crone, John Curtin, Randall Engle, Simon Farrell, Pasco Fearon, Mark Fichman, Willem Frankenhuis, Alexandra M. Freund, M. Gareth Gaskell, Roger Giner-Sorolla, Don P. Green, Robert L. Greene, Lisa L. Harlow, Fernando Hoces de la Guardia, Derek Isaacowitz, Janet Kolodner, Debra Lieberman, Gordon D. Logan, Wendy B. Mendes, Lea Moersdorf, Brendan Nyhan, Jeffrey Pollack, Christopher Sullivan, Simine Vazire, and Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

Exploring Regenerative Co-benefits of Biophilic Design for People and the Environment, Maria Beatrice Andreucci, Angela Loder, Beth McGee, Jelena Brajković, and M. Brown

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Chapter 5: U.S. Foreign Policy in the South China Sea, Barry J. Balleck

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The Temporal Dynamics of Infants' Joint Attention: Effects of Others' Gaze Cues and Manual Actions, Ty W. Boyer, Samuel Harding, and Bennett I. Bertenthal

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Belief in Redeemability and Punitive Public Opinion: “Once a Criminal, Always a Criminal” Revisited, Alexander L. Burton, Francis T. Cullen, Velmer S. Burton Jr., Amanda Graham, Leah C. Butler, and Angela J. Thielo

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The securitization of Post-9/11 reception patterns of refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants: deconstructing the Venezuelan Exodus (A case study), Georgina Chami, Christopher M. Brown, and Nalanda Roy

La légitimation du Rassemblement national et la lutte pour une Franceeuropéenne, Alison Clifton and Jamie E. Scalera

The Comedian, Nikki DiGregorio

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Reflecting Upon Teaching Diversity-centered Courses: Dialogues Between Novice and Veteran Professors, Nikki DiGregorio and Delores D. Liston

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Working Toward Reducing Violence Against LGBTQQIA+ Populations, Nikki DiGregorio and Bahira Sherif Trask

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Democracy (Still) on the Edge: An Analysis of Brazil's Political Response to the Covid-19 Crisis, Matthew B. Flynn, André Pereira Neto, and Letícia Barbosa

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Book Review of Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City , Amanda Graham

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Race and Worrying About Police Brutality: The Hidden Injuries of Minority Status in America, Amanda Graham, Murat Haner, Melissa M. Sloan, Francis T. Cullen, and Teresa C. Kulig

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Faith in Trump, Moral Foundations, and Social Distancing Defiance during the Coronavirus Pandemic, Amanda K. Graham, Francis T. Cullen, Justin T. Pickett, Cheryl Lero Jonson, Murat Haner, and Melissa M. Sloan

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Advantages of Matched Over Unmatched Opt-in Samples for Studying Criminal Justice Attitudes: A Research Note, Amanda Graham, Justin T. Pickett, and Francis T. Cullen

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Making America Safe Again: Public Support for Policies to Reduce Terrorism, Murat Haner, Melissa M. Sloan, Francis T. Cullen, Amanda Graham, Cheryl Lero Jonson, Teresa C. Kulig, and Ömer Aydın

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Chapter 15: Building a healthy community: the Coastal Georgia Indicators Coalition, Patsy B. Kraeger

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“Bad hombres” at the Southern US border? White nationalism and the perceived dangerousness of immigrants, Teresa C. Kulig, Amanda Graham, Francis T. Cullen, Alex R. Piquero, and Murat Haner

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Child Victim Services in the Time of COVID-19: New Challenges and Innovative Solutions, Chad Posick, April Schueths, P. Cary Christian, Jonathan A. Grubb, and Suzanne E. Christian

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Trauma-informed Care in the Context of Intellectual and Developmental Disability Services: Perceptions of Service Providers, Amanda J. Rich, Nikki DiGregorio, and Carla G. Strassle