Faculty Advisor Name
Elizabeth Richardson
Department
Department of Graduate Psychology
Description
Due to the need for an occupation-focused intervention for childhood cancer survivors, we will be conducting a five week group occupation-based program to explore its impact on self-concept and self-esteem in childhood cancer survivors through occupational exploration and participation. The purpose of our study is to determine the efficacy of a group occupation-based intervention on enhancing areas of psychological well-being such as self-esteem and self-concept in childhood cancer survivors in order to support their transition from childhood to adolescence. Each week we will guide the participants through various activities with creative and self-expressive components such as poetry writing, creative movement, and painting. This will give the participants the opportunity to explore a variety of activities that could become an avenue of self-expression and self-concept apart from their cancer diagnosis. We will be conducting a mixed methods research design in which we will be collecting both quantitative and qualitative data. To collect the quantitative data, we will be administering a pre-test at the beginning of the five week intervention and a post-test at the conclusion of the fifth intervention meeting. The assessments we will use as our pre- and post-test are the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale 2nd Edition (TSCS:2), and the Sorensen Self Esteem Test. A phenomenological approach will be used to collect qualitative data that will be thematically analyzed at the conclusion of the study. The qualitative data will be collected from weekly journal prompts completed by participants at the end of every intervention meeting.
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Exploring the Impact of an Occupation-based Group on Self-Esteem and Self-Concept
Due to the need for an occupation-focused intervention for childhood cancer survivors, we will be conducting a five week group occupation-based program to explore its impact on self-concept and self-esteem in childhood cancer survivors through occupational exploration and participation. The purpose of our study is to determine the efficacy of a group occupation-based intervention on enhancing areas of psychological well-being such as self-esteem and self-concept in childhood cancer survivors in order to support their transition from childhood to adolescence. Each week we will guide the participants through various activities with creative and self-expressive components such as poetry writing, creative movement, and painting. This will give the participants the opportunity to explore a variety of activities that could become an avenue of self-expression and self-concept apart from their cancer diagnosis. We will be conducting a mixed methods research design in which we will be collecting both quantitative and qualitative data. To collect the quantitative data, we will be administering a pre-test at the beginning of the five week intervention and a post-test at the conclusion of the fifth intervention meeting. The assessments we will use as our pre- and post-test are the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale 2nd Edition (TSCS:2), and the Sorensen Self Esteem Test. A phenomenological approach will be used to collect qualitative data that will be thematically analyzed at the conclusion of the study. The qualitative data will be collected from weekly journal prompts completed by participants at the end of every intervention meeting.
