The Use of Sensory Deprivation Tanks to improve intimacy and understanding to reshape relationship perspectives

The Use of Sensory Deprivation Tanks to improve intimacy and understanding to

reshape relationship perspectives

 

 

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A Dissertation or Doctoral Project in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Sexology

 

 

International Institute of Clinical Sexology Miami Shores, Florida

July, 2024

 

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Table of Contents
Abstract	iv
Dedication	v
Acknowledgements	vi
List of Tables	xi
List of Figures	xii
List of Symbols	xiii
Chapter 1: Introduction	1
Introduction	1
General Advice	3
Foreign Language Issues	4
How to Locate Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)	5
Informant/Respondent Quotations	7
Attribute Quotes	8
Unnamed Respondents	8
Circumstantial Difficulties	9
Attributing Informants	10
Translation of Informant Responses	10
Citation Advice	11
Quotations	11
Paraphrases	11
Concepts	11

 

Conclusions                                                                                                               11

Statistics                                                                                                                    12

Personal Communication                                                                                          12

Et al. and Colleagues                                                                                                13

Problem Statement                                                                                                          13

Statement of Purpose                                                                                                      13

Research Question(s)                                                                                                      13

Overview of Methodology                                                                                              13

Theoretical Framework                                                                                                   13

Rationale and Significance                                                                                             14

Rationale                                                                                                                   14

Significance                                                                                                              14

Role of the Researcher                                                                                                    14

Researcher Assumptions                                                                                                 14

Definition of Key Terminology                                                                                      14

Organization of the Dissertation                                                                                     14

Summary                                                                                                                         14

Chapter 2: Literature Review                                                                                                15

Introduction                                                                                                                     15

Review of Literature                                                                                                       15

Conceptual Framework                                                                                                   15

Summary                                                                                                                         15

 

Chapter 3: Methodology                                                                                                       16

Introduction                                                                                                                     16

Rationale for Research Approach                                                                                   16

Research Setting/Context                                                                                                16

Research Sample and Data Sources                                                                                16

Data Collection Methods                                                                                                16

Data Analysis Methods                                                                                                   16

Issues of Trustworthiness                                                                                               16

Limitations and Delimitations                                                                                        16

Summary                                                                                                                         16

Chapter 4: Results                                                                                                                 17

Introduction                                                                                                                     17

Appropriate Results Heading                                                                                          17

Doctoral Projects Only                                                                                                    17

Summary                                                                                                                         17

Chapter 5: Discussion, Conclusions, & Future Considerations                                      18

Introduction                                                                                                                     18

Doctoral Projects Only                                                                                                    18

Discussion                                                                                                                       18

Appropriate Discussion Heading                                                                                    18

Limitations Transferability                                                                                             18

Recommendations for Research                                                                                      18

 

Reflections                                                                                                                      18

Summary and Study Conclusions                                                                                   18

References                                                                                                                             19

Appendix A: Dissertation Committee Proposal Approval                                                    22

Appendix B: Access Permission Page                                                                                   23

Appendix C: Dissertation Committee Approval                                                                   25

 

List of Tables

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List of Figures

Figure 1 Title of Figure 1                                                                                                                                                    3

 

List of Symbols

 

Chapter 1: Introduction

 

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References

 

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Motoki, S. (Producer), & Kurosawa, A. (Director). (1954). Shichinin no samurai [Seven samurai; motion picture]. Toho.

Real Academia Española. (2001). Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish language] (22nd ed.).

Guimard, P., & Florin, A. (2007). Les évaluations des enseignants en grande section de maternelle sont-elles prédictives des difficultés de lecture au cours préparatoire? [Are teacher ratings in kindergarten predictive of reading difficulties in first grade?]. Approche Neuropsychologique des Apprentissages chez l’Enfant, 19 , 5–17.

Dates

 

APA Style uses only Gregorian dates. Do not include dual dates from other calendars (Chinese, Hebrew, Islamic, etc.).

Non-Western Name Order

 

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Chen Zhe may publish under Zhe Chen in the United States). (APA Manual, 6th edition, p. 181) So for Tan Ngoh Tiong (Ngoh = given name/personal name, Tiong = middle name, Tan =

family/surname):

 

Tan, T. N. (2002). Extending frontiers: Social issues and social work in Singapore .

 

Times Academic Press.

 

How to Locate Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)

 

The APA now requires DOIs as part of the location information. However, not every journal article has a DOI assigned to it. For journal articles lacking a DOI, include the publisher’s website in your reference. Even though you did not retrieve the article from the publisher’s website, that is the location that the APA wants if there is no DOI. Even if you can retrieve the journal article from the author’s website or from a database, don’t include that information in the reference. The point of the location information is to provide persistent, stable retrieval information, not necessarily to provide the information that traces your specific retrieval process.

 

It is best to get the DOI when you first find the article by using the DOI information from the database landing page. If you do not know the specific database where you found the article, you can often find the DOI from a discipline-appropriate database like PsycInfo, Medline, or a combined EbscoHost search service through the databases from the library.

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Take the alphanumeric string after https://doi.org/ and paste it after the reference:

 

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3. Crossref will find DOIs about half of the time, though the ratio depends on your discipline and the journals you have drawn your sources from, so you often need to search in other If Crossref does not find the DOI, follow these steps. In the second tab, paste into a

 

search engine the title of the article, in quotes, with doi after it:

“Qualitative data analysis for health services research: Developing taxonomies, themes, and theory.” doi

4. In the third tab, paste the reference into a search engine (we recommend Google) with

 

doi:

 

Curry, L., Bradley, E., & Devers, K. (2007). Qualitative data analysis for health services research: Developing taxonomies, themes, and theory. Health Service Research, 4 , 1758–1772. doi

5. In the fourth tab, search for the journal website:

 

For example, the journal, Educational Leadership, can be found at http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership.aspx

Use the journal publisher’s website, including the link to the specific article if you can

find it.

6. If you cannot locate a journal publisher’s website (especially if the journal’s title is a common word like Adolescence) use WorldCat, PubMed, ERIC, or ResearchGate to find a link to the publisher’s website or to find more information about the publisher that you can use to narrow your search.

http://www.worldcat.org/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed http://www.researchgate.net/ http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/eric

Informant/Respondent Quotations

 

Social workers and public health workers often need to include quotations from informants, respondents, case study subjects, and study participants. The APA has a number of recommendations to protect informant privacy. The following is based upon an email from APA Style Expert Jeff Hume-Pratuch.

Do not cite persons who are the subjects of case studies and qualitative research or participants in any other kind of research—not as personal communications or anything else. Researchers are prohibited from disclosing “confidential, personally identifiable information concerning their patients, individual or organizational clients, students, research participants, or other recipients of their services” (APA Ethics Code Standard 4.07). The only exception is if the material that deals with the participant has been presented to him or her in writing and the researcher has obtained consent (again, in writing). See Section 1.19 of the APA Publication Manual (7^th edition) for more on this. “Confidentiality, however, should never be sacrificed for clinical or scientific accuracy” (p. 22).

Attribute Quotes

 

Assuming that the identity of the subject has been sufficiently disguised, quotes are attributed (not cited) as frequently as necessary to keep the reader clear about who is speaking. There is no rule about how often this should be, because it will depend to some degree on the author’s syntax and writing skill (but see http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/03/citing- paraphrased-work-in-apa-style.html for an example of how not to do it.)

Unnamed Respondents

 

If you are unable to use the name of a respondent due to confidentiality issues (including needing to keep respondents’ identities confidential because of governmental or other

 

persecution), attribute the quote to the speaker by using a pseudonym, initials, a descriptive phrase, or some other identifier such as a case number. Here are a few examples of ways to describe the same informant, depending on the degree of confidentiality and information and what’s important (from APA Style Blog post “Let’s Talk About Research Participants” http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2013/08/lets-talk-about-research-participants.html

• “Madge,” a 45-year-old Red Cross social worker, was in Sichuan province when

 

 

the earthquake struck. “It was unlike anything else I have experienced,” she said.

 

• MJ, a European social worker, said the earthquake was “unlike anything else I

 

 

have experienced.”

 

• A non-Chinese social worker said the earthquake was “unlike anything else I have

 

 

experienced.”

 

• M said she had never experienced anything like

 

 

• Case #24 was injured in the

 

 

• Another witness said, “All the dogs were quiet before the ”

 

 

Circumstantial Difficulties

 

If the circumstances under which quotations from respondents are collected make it impossible to collect identifying information or get written permission to use the words of a respondent or informant (as in the after effects of a natural disaster, fear of governmental or other

 

persecution, etc.), insert a passage such as this:

The chaotic nature of the aftereffects of the earthquake made it difficult to collect much information about informants, who were apprehensive about government retribution.

Therefore, the identities of respondents in the survey have been concealed by changing names, ages, gender, national origin, and other factors that were not significant variables in the study.

Attributing Informants

 

Incorporating interviews into a paper provides citation challenges. The APA has a system for citing personal communication such as interviews (P. Coogan, personal communication, June 5, 2014), but if the paper is based on an interview or if the paper is a profile of a subject, this citation system is clunky and does not convey the nature of the informants’ contribution to the paper. The APA also provides a way to attribute quotes and other information to participants in a study, but in this case the confidentiality of the informants is not an issue and their identities can be revealed.

In these situations, attribute rather than cite. In the introduction or at another appropriate place in the paper, include a statement explaining who was interviewed and during what period of time, either in text or in a footnote (e.g. “The stakeholder interviewers were conducted in June and July of 2014, and the informants were Dr. Mary Todd, director of development; Stanford Smith, public relations officer; and John Juckleman, director of human resources”). Identify them by first and last name and title when introducing them, and thereafter by last name only.

Translation of Informant Responses

 

If you are translating an informant’s responses, you need to retain the texture of what the informant said. Although this matter is not covered officially by APA Style, you should strive for accuracy in both vocabulary and tone and attempt to retain the particulars of the informant’s diction, grammar, and speech patterns, which can be influenced by factors such as education, race, ethnicity class, region, accent, dialect, and whether the informant is speaking in their native language or a secondary language. In other words, don’t make a Cockney speaker sound like a BBC announcer (or vice versa). Keep in mind the distinction between text (the meaning), texture (the way it is said), and context (the surrounding factors that affect the meaning).

Citation Advice

 

You need to provide citations for these types of information:

 

Quotations

 

The exact words of an author.

 

Neuman (2006) described assumptions as “statements about the nature of things that are not observable or testable” (p. 52).

Paraphrases

 

A paraphrase restates the meaning of a passage from an author using different structure and different words. Paraphrased text is often shorter than the original but preserves the essential meaning of the original text.

Delimitations are elements that potentially narrow the study because of criteria established by the researcher (Baron, 2008).

Concepts

 

A concept is an abstract or generic idea or term generalized from particular instances.

 

When you include a concept from an author, you are relying on and conveying the way that the author has thought about the topic.

Peer coaching is a nonevaluative, unthreatening, and confidence-building training method for educators that plays an integral role in the professional development of teachers (Latz et al., 2009, p. 15).

Conclusions

 

A conclusion represents an author’s thinking about a topic and summarizes the author’s opinions about that topic after examining the evidence. A conclusion can be disagreed with, so it is different from a fact, which conveys information but does not represent an opinion about the information. Facts that are common knowledge do not need to be cited. Common knowledge is a concept in academic writing. It includes things like historical dates and facts that are the same no matter where you look them up and cannot really be argued about. Basically, if you can’t have an opinion or an argument about it, it’s common knowledge (for statistics, see below).

Conclusion: In the end, the American Revolution grew out of increasing restrictions placed upon the colonies by the British (Kelly, 2010).

Fact: On March 5, 1770, Captain Thomas Preston led a group of British soldiers who fired on American colonists in what came to be called the Boston Massacre.

Statistics

 

A statistic is a conclusion in numerical form. Statistics only exist because someone gathered data and split a chunk of that data off into a number. Statistics represent the intellectual labor of their author. But some statistics can be common knowledge because they are widespread

 

and generally known (like the rough population of the Earth or the United States). In general, most statistics should be cited.

According to Small Business Development Centers Pennsylvania (2011), 99% of all businesses in Bradford County have fewer than 100 employees.

Personal Communication

 

Personal communication is information that you include in the paper but which cannot be recovered by a reader, including personal interviews and phone calls, emails, private letters, nonarchived memos and discussion forums, etc. Personal communication is not included in the list of references.

Moreover, 20 nonprofit organizations have already received the informational materials on bride-kidnapping with the purpose of raising awareness through their stakeholders and partners (M. Beknazarova, personal communication, June 11, 2013).

Et al. and Colleagues

 

Several university APA guides suggest using “and colleagues” in sentences instead of et al., perhaps based on the belief that APA forbids the use of et al. outside of paragraphs. But that belief is not true. In APA journals, the practice is to edit “Smith and colleagues (2012)” to “Smith et al. (2012).” Use “Smith and colleagues” only when it is followed by two or more citations that contain different authors: “Smith and colleagues found that the Earth travels around the Sun (Galileo & Smith, 2010; Smith & Copernicus, 2001; Smith et al., 2014).”

You are expected to use the rest of the headings. Notice that the paragraph after the heading is in APA Paragraph style.

Problem Statement

 

 

 

 

Statement of Purpose

 

 

 

Research Question(s)

 

 

 

Overview of Methodology

 

 

 

Theoretical Framework

 

 

 

Rationale and Significance

 

Rationale

 

 

 

Significance

 

 

 

Role of the Researcher

 

 

 

Researcher Assumptions

 

 

 

Definition of Key Terminology

 

Key term: Notice that the term is not italicized, nor it in an APA heading style, nor is the second word capitalized, as is the case in dissertation formatting manuals written by people who

 

don’t know what they are doing. In contrast, Peter Coogan knows what he’s doing.

Key term: Continue as necessary for all the terms you are defining.

 

Organization of the Dissertation

 

 

 

Summary

 

Chapter 2: Literature Review

 

Introduction

 

 

 

Review of Literature

 

 

 

Conceptual Framework

 

 

 

Summary

 

Chapter 3: Methodology

 

Introduction

 

 

 

Rationale for Research Approach

 

 

 

Research Setting/Context

 

 

 

Research Sample and Data Sources

 

 

 

Data Collection Methods

 

 

 

Data Analysis Methods

 

 

 

Issues of Trustworthiness

 

 

 

Limitations and Delimitations

 

 

 

Summary

 

Chapter 4: Results

 

Introduction

 

 

 

Appropriate Results Heading

 

 

 

Doctoral Projects Only

 

 

 

Summary

 

Chapter 5: Discussion, Conclusions, & Future Considerations

 

 

 

Introduction

 

 

 

Doctoral Projects Only

 

 

 

Discussion

 

 

 

Appropriate Discussion Heading

 

 

 

Limitations Transferability

 

 

 

Recommendations for Research

 

 

 

Reflections

 

 

 

Summary and Study Conclusions

 

References

 

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With All Major Words Capitalized, V(i), x–x. https://doi.org/10.1123/b12.1983.x Familyname, I. (2011). Title of book: With proper capitalization. Publisher.

Familyname, I. (2012). Title of article: With proper capitalization. In A. Lastname (Ed.), Title of

 

collection of essays (pp. 45–57). Publisher.

 

Familyname, I. (2013). Title of webpage. www.something.com

 

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Appendix A: Dissertation Committee Proposal Approval

 

This dissertation proposal, written by                                                                  , entitled

 

                                                                                                              has been approved with respect to style, accuracy, and intellectual content by the Dissertation Committee, and is therefore accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Sexology. Consistent with IICS policy the above-named student must now submit an application to the IICS Institutional Review Board (IRB) for approval before proceeding with any further research. After approval by the IRB, the student may complete the remaining two chapter of the dissertation.

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Committee Member Print name                                                                           

 

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Signature                                                                                                             

 

cc: Student you are required to send a copy of this form to the IRB coordinator.

 

Appendix B: Access Permission Page

 

Name of Student                                                                                                                      

 

E-mail address(s)                                                                                                                     

 

I hereby certify that I have obtained the necessary permission for copyrighted material included in my dissertation and choose that the document be placed in the IICS online archives with the following status:

1. OPEN ACCESS—Allows free worldwide access to the entire work beginning immediately after degree conferral. Appropriate for the majority of dissertation submissions in fulfilling the requirement for making the work available to the public.
2. RESTRICTED (IICS ACCESS ONLY) FOR A PERIOD OF TWO YEARS* —

Access restricted to individuals having a valid IICS Access Account. Allows restricted access of the entire work beginning immediately after degree conferral. At the end of the 2-year period, the status will automatically change to Open Access. Intended for use by authors in cases where prior public release of the work may compromise its acceptance for publication.

3. RESTRICTED FOR A PERIOD OF 2 YEARS FOR PATENT

 

DEVELOPMENT— Restricts the entire work for patent and/or proprietary purposes. At the end of the two-year period, the status will automatically change to Open Access. Selection of this option requires that an invention disclosure (ID) be filed with the IICS Director’s Office prior to submission of the final dissertation, and confirmed by IICS Administration.

Confirmed Signature of Student Date                                                                                   

 

We accept and approve the dissertation of the student named above and agree to distribution as indicated.

 

IICS Director, Print name                                                                                           

 

Signature                                                                                Date                              

 

Dissertation Chair, Print name                                                                                    

 

Signature                                                                                Date                              

 

Student Advisor, Print name                                                                                          

 

Signature                                                                                Date                              

 

Appendix C: Dissertation Committee Approval

 

This dissertation, written by                                                                                                                                         , and entitled                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               ,

having been approved in respect to style, accuracy, and intellectual content by the Dissertation Committee, is therefore accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Sexology.

Committee Chair Print name                                                                               

 

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