Building narrative identity in a context of audience failures: Stories of resistance among young adults formerly in foster care.

Background: Child maltreatment survivors with extensive foster care involvement are tasked with building identities that allow them to make sense of difficult pasts in ways that help them build adult lives.

Objective: To use narrative identity theory to explore identities and identity-building challenges of young adults formerly in foster care.

Participants And Setting: Twelve young adults who aged out of the foster care system in Illinois.

Minimally invasive far lateral tubular microdiscectomy: surgical technique and case series of 176 patients.

Background: Far lateral (extraforaminal) disc herniations comprise approximately 10% of symptomatic lumbar disc herniations. They represent operative challenges due to accessibility and surgical unfamiliarity. Surgical strategies in the past have included open discectomy and posterior lumbar interbody fusion.

Observation of Gapped Topological Surface States and Isolated Surface Resonances in PdTe Ultrathin Films.

The superconductor PdTe is known to host bulk Dirac bands and topological surface states. The coexistence of superconductivity and topological surface states makes PdTe a promising platform for exploring topological superconductivity and Majorana bound states. In this work, we report the spectroscopic characterization of ultrathin PdTe films with thickness down to three monolayers (ML).

Implementation of a Low-Cost, Multi-component, Web-Based Training for Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.

Effective, interactive trainings in evidence-based practices remain expensive and largely inaccessible to most practicing clinicians. To address this need, the current study evaluated the impact of a low-cost, multi-component, web-based training for Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) on clinicians' TF-CBT knowledge, strategy use, adherence and skill. Clinician members of a practice-based research network were recruited via email and randomized to either an immediate training group (N = 89 assigned) or waitlist control group (N = 74 assigned) that was offered access to the same training after six months, with half of each group further randomized to receive or not receive incentives for participation.