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The aim of this study was to explore preservice teachers' religion self-efficacy beliefs and the relationship those beliefs have with regard to their internship experiences. In this paper, we examined participants who are education majors at a religious university. The measure selected for this study included a reflection journal. Qualitative methods were used to evaluate how internships impacted the participants' perceptions of their abilities to teach religion. Results indicated that preservice teachers at religious universities should be given opportunities to teach pedagogical methods in religion.

The goal of this study was to explore middle aged mothers' and young adult daughters' perceptions of the impact of non-death loss. This qualitative study explored perceptions of loss and boundary ambiguity of 24 mother-daughter dyads through individual interviews. All mothers and daughters described losses such as illness, the daughters' launching, and dissolution of relationships that impacted the mother-daughter relationship. Comparison of mothers' and daughters' descriptions of the impacts of loss revealed convergence and divergence in their descriptions of associated levels of boundary ambiguity. Although experiences of loss do seem to be a universal human experience, perceptions regarding the impact of loss on both the individual and the mother-daughter dyad vary greatly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]