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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Yakushko, Oksana – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2010
A grounded theory was utilized to develop a model of stress and coping experienced by recent immigrants to the United States. Maximum variation sampling was used to gather data from 20 leaders within immigrant and refugee communities in a Midwest U.S. city. A theoretical model was developed by identifying causal conditions, contexts, intervening…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Coping, Refugees, Immigrants
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Yakushko, Oksana – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2009
This article provides a review of current research on human trafficking for mental health practitioners and scholars. In addition to an overview of definitions, causes and processes of trafficking, the article highlights mental health consequences of trafficking along with suggestions for treatment of survivors. Directions for counseling services,…
Descriptors: Crime, Human Relations, Mental Health Workers, Mental Health
Yakushko, Oksana; Watson, Megan; Thompson, Sarah – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2008
Recent immigrants and refugees experience great amounts of stress. Literature on immigration and stress has focused primarily on the stressors directly related to immigrants' adjustment to a new culture (i.e., acculturation stress). This manuscript discusses stress and coping in the lives of recent immigrants and refugees within a framework of…
Descriptors: Coping, Refugees, Immigrants, Stress Variables