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Assimilation And Acculturation In The Middle Eastern Community Of Jacksonville, Florida, Gladys David Howell Jan 1980

Assimilation And Acculturation In The Middle Eastern Community Of Jacksonville, Florida, Gladys David Howell

Correspondence and Textual Material

No abstract provided.


Training Abusive Parents In The Use Of Anger Control Procedures For Improving Parent-Child Interactions, Sharlyne M. Nomellini Jan 1980

Training Abusive Parents In The Use Of Anger Control Procedures For Improving Parent-Child Interactions, Sharlyne M. Nomellini

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a home-based multicomponent anger management program utilizing self-control procedures for: (a) decreasing frequencies of aversive parent behaviors directed toward target children and (b) altering parents'; angry feelings and subjective urges to physically harm their children in provocation situations. Abusive parents from three at-risk families were trained in the use of anger management skills tb aid them in coping with arousal on cognitive, somatic, and behavioral levels, simultaneously. Results indicated that the training procedures were successful in significantly reducing rates of aversive parent behavior exhibited in the home across …


Loose Coupling And Parallel Interaction In Family Systems, Kay Phillips Jan 1980

Loose Coupling And Parallel Interaction In Family Systems, Kay Phillips

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


A Study Of The Crisis Nature Of The Preparenthood Period And Implications For Preventative Social Work Practice, Julie Jean Colton Jan 1980

A Study Of The Crisis Nature Of The Preparenthood Period And Implications For Preventative Social Work Practice, Julie Jean Colton

Dissertations and Theses

This study addresses the preparenthood period of family life, that period from conception to six weeks after the infant is born. This period was of great interest because in nine years of social work practice I have recognized that families resist change after their particular family system process, even destructive process, is established. I also believe that the order, or disorder, of society depends upon the order of the institution of the family. Other institutions of society depend upon the family for their existence.


The Relationship Of Reported Sexual Activity And Reported Sexual Daydreaming In Unmarried College Men And Women, Barbara Stansell Lavery Jan 1980

The Relationship Of Reported Sexual Activity And Reported Sexual Daydreaming In Unmarried College Men And Women, Barbara Stansell Lavery

Masters Theses

Past research has suggested that cognitive imagery may serve to either enhance or diminish a subsequent overt behavior. In fact, imagery techniques are commonly used in therapy with the idea that these techniques affect behavior in a predictable way.

The present study was designed to determine whether measured frequencies of sexual daydreaming would correlate with measured frequencies of sexual activity. Gender groups were also compared to examine possible gender differences in the frequency of sexual daydreaming and sexual activity.

Thirty-eight male and 113 female students at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois were asked to respond to two self-report questionnaires. …


Stressful Life Periods And The Mediating Effect Of Sex Role, Mark S. Rafter Jan 1980

Stressful Life Periods And The Mediating Effect Of Sex Role, Mark S. Rafter

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Male Responses To Jealousy As A Function Of Sex-Role Identity In Gay Male And Heterosexual Couple Relationships, Ron Alexander Jan 1980

Male Responses To Jealousy As A Function Of Sex-Role Identity In Gay Male And Heterosexual Couple Relationships, Ron Alexander

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.