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Sun City Youth Opera Broadway Scenes, Elisa Fraser Wilson May 2006

Sun City Youth Opera Broadway Scenes, Elisa Fraser Wilson

Elisa Fraser Wilson

Dr. Wilson coached local grade-school, middle-school, and high school singers from the Sun City Youth Opera in their summer musical production Broadway Scenes. This production was hosted by Dr. Wilson on the UTEP campus, and involved Music Theatre Company students as mentors and technical staff.


Episd Voices Of The Future, Elisa Fraser Wilson Apr 2006

Episd Voices Of The Future, Elisa Fraser Wilson

Elisa Fraser Wilson

Over a two-day period, Dr. Wilson worked with the EPISD 5th and 6th grade honor choir in preparation for its annual concert, which she conducted.


Clinician Optimism: Development And Psychometric Analysis Of A Scale For Mental Health Clinicians, Mitchell K. Byrne, Nichole L. Sullivan, Stephen J. Elsom Jan 2006

Clinician Optimism: Development And Psychometric Analysis Of A Scale For Mental Health Clinicians, Mitchell K. Byrne, Nichole L. Sullivan, Stephen J. Elsom

Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Clinician optimism is an important factor in achieving treatment outcomes in psychotherapy. Currently there are no measures of mental health clinician optimism which report substantial psychometric validation. This study sought to assesses the validity and reliability of the Therapeutic Optimism Scale (TOS). 223 mental health clinicians working in a range of clinical settings were administered the TOS and convergent and discriminate validity were established. Test-retest reliability was established over a period of one month. The Therapeutic Optimism Scale was found to achieve acceptable reliability (Chronbach's alpha = .68) and yielded consistent scores over a one month period (r = .68, …