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2a:T505,

The aim of this study was to test whether interracial stress and psychological distress mediate the relationship between ethnic microaggression and integration through 506 Syrian students (M_age = 22.05) enrolled in universities in Türkiye. Data were appropriately obtained using a cross-sectional design. PROCESS macro analyses were conducted, including measures of ethnic microaggression, interracial stress, psychological distress, and integration. The results indicated that interracial stress, but not psychological distress, mediated the relationship between ethnic microaggression and integration. Moreover, interracial stress and psychological distress were found to have a serial mediating effect on the relationship between ethnic microaggression and integration. These results showed that researchers can contribute to the literature on racial minority groups by investigating the psychosocial dynamics that may be effective in ethnic microaggression -induced integration processes. As a clinical implication, counselors working in university counseling centers can suggest protective and awareness-raising ways by using the basic dynamics of the negative effects of ethnic microaggression on integration that Syrian students may face.

2b:T4a1,

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that opioids are involved in almost 71% of all drug overdose deaths. Although there is increased attention on the lethal potential of opioid addiction, narratives about healing, wherein people have sustained long-term health and well-being from opioid addiction, are few. Our purpose with this study was to develop a biopsychosocial understanding of how people heal from opioid addiction, not only maintain abstinence. The Theory of Healing from Opioid Addiction yielded five categories, 15 themes, and seven subthemes. Results showed four phases of healing (i.e., Inactive Healing, Early Active Healing, Middle Active Healing, and Late Active Healing), four Continuous Core Components of healing (i.e., 12-Step Programs, Psychotherapy, Spirituality, and Relationships with Others), and 15 themes ranging from Substance Use Treatment to Effectively Processing Trauma to Self-Love. Participants’ (N = 11) healing journey began during opioid addiction itself and continued through to the last phase of healing, wherein participants had transformed their lives and concretized a sense of personal empowerment.

2c:T4c2,

This article argues that an existential-humanistic approach to anxiety provides crucial insight to certain dissociative disorders, namely, depersonalization/derealization disorder (DPR/DRZ). Although reports suggest that nearly 200,000 people in the United States experience DPR/DRZ episodes each day, DPR/DRZ has remained understudied and misunderstood by the psychiatric community. This article argues that an existential-humanistic approach to the disorder informed by the work of Sartre, Heidegger, and May allows DPR/DRZ sufferers to understand their dissociative episodes as ontological engagements with the human condition that provides a shared sense of being-in-the-world. As rates of anxiety disorders continue to reach unprecedented levels and treatment plans have become increasingly equated with medication, the second portion of this article argues that an existential-humanistic approach might produce better therapeutic results while allowing DPR/DRZ sufferers to generate meaning out of their anxiety. The argument extends outside of the therapeutic setting and suggests that existential modes of thinking can be employed by the broader public when dealing with everyday experiences of anxiety.

2d:T4d0, Background:

Existential philosophy and psychotherapy focuses on the “givens” of human experience, including feelings of meaninglessness, isolation, death anxiety, and concerns surrounding identity and freedom. Although borderline personality disorder (BPD) is arguably characterized by issues in a number of th