July 2020 / Book Reviews
Written by Brooke Linn
Brooke Linn“An experience of patience or any other psychological resource is a state of mind, and enjoying it helps turn it into a positive trait embedded in your brain” (Hanson 20). This is the foundation of Rick Hanson’s book titled Resilient, which is a timely resource for anyone looking to harness the power we have over our own brain and mental health.
The book is structured into four parts, each of …
July 2020 / Emerging Scholars
Linda Lilian
Linda LillianNorthhouse (2007:p3) said leadership was a process in which an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal. In this definition emphasis is placed on the individuals ability to influence. In this paper it is argued that leadership is rooted in the individual (self), thus affecting the individual who in turn affect others, in such a way that an effect becomes visible.
The objective of this paper is to …
July 2020 / Emerging Scholars
Linda Lilia
Linda Lillian“Embwa ezala embwa” (a dog reproduces a dog) was a response given in a research inquiry regarding women were more ethically apt than men. The response which hinged on women’s performance as legislators received a feedback that indicated a woman being mentored in a patriarchal system would not deliver the much anticipated woman led leadership. Rather that woman would be a duplicate of that system.
Ethically leadership has the agenda to …
July 2020 / Notes from the Field
Kurt Johnson, Robert Atkinson, Diane Marie Williams and Deborah Moldow
Kurt Johnson
Robert Atkinson
Diane Marie Williams
Deborah Moldow
When discussions turn to the multifarious complexities of interconnected challenges and possible solutions, Ken Wilber is well known for sitting back, laughing, and saying “yes, it’s an all-quadrant-phenomenon—all the time!”
By this—in integral terms—he means that we all have our first person, second person, third person, and third person plural experiences of reality going on simultaneously all …
July 2020 / Feature Articles
Jaap Geerlof
Jaap GeerlofOn the last day of 2019, health officials from China reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) about a group of 41 patients with similar symptoms of an unknown type of pneumonia. The outbreak in China became world news. On January 7, 2020, Chinese authorities identified a novel coronavirus as the cause of the symptoms. Scientists believe the novel coronavirus jumped from bats to pangolins to humans at …
July 2020 / Feature Articles
Anna Frost
Anna FrostWhen COVID-19 and the subsequent quarantines broke out in the United States beginning in March 2020, the news was unsettling but not incredible. Being that I have completed years of advocacy and research for another zoonotic disease—lyme disease—it was clear to me that lyme patients have insight and tools that may inform people adjusting to this “new normal” of living in isolation and contending with a disease that may affect them, loved …
July 2020 / Feature Articles
Tracy Cooper
Tracy Cooper“I’m no artist; I can’t even draw a stick figure!” How many students have you known who say something like this? Too often students, by the time they are graduate students, have effectively sealed off creative thinking as occurring not only solely in the realm of the fine artist but also as something they are not good at, feel insecure about, and that they do not wish to learn more about. In effect, we lose …
July 2020 / Feature Articles
R. Mark Bell Toxic leadership and followership remain emerging sectors of inquiry within the overall field of leadership study. As a result of the relative paucity of research on both toxic leadership and followership, there remains a continued need for scale refinement in order to ensure valid and reliable scales are available to measure the constructs. The present study is a contribution in this vein specifically focused on refinement of Schmidt’s (2014) Toxic Leadership Scale (TLS) …
July 2020 / Feature Articles
Melita Balas Rant
Melita Balas Rant, PhDA central regularity discovered by the neo-Piagetian school of constructive human development is that adults (like children) can further evolve in their cognitive, affective and behavioral tendencies. Second, the main tendency is an evolution towards greater complexity, to reconstruct more inclusive identities, and adopt more complex meaning-making and value systems. Third, regularity is that stage of adult development’s impact on the way people interact and form relationships. Thus …
July 2020 / Feature Articles
by Daryl S. Paulson, PhD
BioScience Laboratories, Inc.
Daryl S. PaulsonThe coronavirus has been on this planet for years and changes from time to time. COVID-19 is the strain of coronavirus that is causing the current pandemic. The virus’ original host was animals, but in Wuhan, China, it switched hosts to humans. The virus mutated slightly in its replication process to become the COVID-19 strain, which is formally 2019-nCoV. It is an RNA (ribonucleic acid) virus, meaning that …