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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Please consider participating in this research project being conducted by one of our incoming PhD students!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Madeleine M Stevens [mailto:mmstevens@student.ysu.edu]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 5, 2018 4:45 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bhat, Christine <bhatc@ohio.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Permission to Survey OU Counseling Students<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">My name is Madeleine Stevens, a graduate student within the CACREP-accredited counseling program at Youngstown State University (YSU). This email is meant
to request permission from the director and/or chair of your Master's-level, CACREP-accredited counseling program in Ohio to study your students attitudes and beliefs about the benefits of engaging in personal counseling.
<b>If I have contacted the wrong person in your program, please provide the correct contact!
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">This study has been approved by YSU's Institutional Review Board -- see attached for the proposed survey. Should you grant permission, I will email faculty
in your program asking that they forward a Qualtrics survey link to students. The attached informed consent document will be presented once students click on the link. Please respond directly to me with a ‘yes’ if you will permit me to recruit participants
from your program. Please respond with a ‘no’ if you choose to abstain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">I am eager to learn more about the topic in question and am hoping you will assist me in my data collection. Should you have questions/concerns, feel free
to contact me or Dr. Amy Williams, co-investigator and faculty advisor for this project:
<a href="mailto:aewilliams02@ysu.edu">aewilliams02@ysu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Thank you for your consideration,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Madeleine (Maddie) Stevens, M.S.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Maddie Stevens</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:red">M.S. Ed. Candidate, Counseling
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<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:red">Graduate Assistant | Beeghly College of Education, Department of Counseling, School Psychology & Educational Leadership </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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