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Self-Reported Job Satisfaction Of Latina/Latino Bilingual Social Workers And Counselors In San Bernardino County, María Valentín De Domena

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Who Will You See? A Positive Typology Of African American And Latino Men Involved In Groups Society Labels, Gangs, Margaret Jean Hughes

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

A Constructivist Study Of The Decision-Making Process In Permanency Planning, Martha Paralee Allen

Theses Digitization Project

Court-dependent children--Hermeneutic dialectic circle--Transactions--Saliencies--Need for permanence--Conflicts--Bio-psycho-social-cultural assessment--Communication--Training--Guardianship.

An Exploration Of The Non-Medical Home Care Needs Of Persons With Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Aids), Pola Lopez Bouton

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Mental Health Practitioners' Perceptions Of Touch, Kathleen Sarah Mcbride

Theses Digitization Project

Need for touch--Protection of client and practitioner--Appropriateness--Personal boundaries--Client psychopathology--Sexual and legal issues--Interpretation--Practitioner judgement.

An Investigation Of Transformational And Transactional Leadership Styles In Personal Social Service Organizations, Dieter Ernest Kays

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The dissertation examines the applicability of transformational and transactional leadership style to personal social service organizations. The Executive Directors and their subordinates from 92 Children’s Aid Societies and Children’s Mental Health Centres in Ontario participated in the study. The results indicate significant positive relationships between transformational leadership (TFL) and job satisfaction, commitment, leader effectiveness, and satisfaction with the leader. While not as robust, significant negative relationships were found between transactional leadership (TAL) and job satisfaction, commitment, leader effectiveness, and satisfaction with the leader. It is pointed out that TAL and TFL are derived by averaging eight discrete factors into two …

The Impact Of Social Support On Acculturative Stress, Depression, And Life Satisfaction Among Japanese Immigrant Women In Canada, Mariko Kimura

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Various aspects of social support appear to interact with acculturative stress, depression, and life satisfaction for Japanese post-war immigrant women. This study examined 1) the acculturation and level of stress experienced by Japanese immigrant women, 2) the mental well-being in relation to bouts of depression, 3) the life satisfaction, 4) the social support networks, and 5) the degrees to which perceived social support work to moderate the acculturative stress and depression and enhance life satisfaction in Canada. One hundred and twenty-one Japanese immigrant women, who immigrated to Canada after World War II, and living in Southern Ontario, were taken as …

Effective Administration And Implementation Of External Programs Addressing Social Issues Operating Within Schools, Roselyn R. Cole

Dissertations

Problem. It is difficult for schools to make sound decisions regarding whether to use external programs to address teenage pregnancy, AIDS, substance abuse, or any other social issue. Questions arise as to which administrative factors impact decisions to use an external program and also what indicators influence successful program implementation. The effects of central office support for a program, staff training, and ample funding are administrative factors to be examined before a program is selected.

Method. The research was conducted across several school districts within Indiana. Data collection involved the distribution of a questionnaire developed for this study. Schooladministrators comprised …

The Foster Care Crisis And Management Practices In Public Child Welfare Systems: An Issue Of Partnership. Philosophy And Practice In Temporary Foster Care, Kenneth A. Barter

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Temporary foster care is a vital and essential resource and service in facilitating the interventions on the part of public child welfare agencies when such intervention requires the temporary removal of a child from his/her natural family. Despite the necessity of having a comprehensive, viable, and responsive temporary foster care program in place, foster care continues to be fraught with problems. These problems are such that foster care is considered to be in a state of crisis. This crisis state poses critical challenges for public child welfare administrations. This thesis reviews the issues related to the crisis in foster care …

Four Decades Of Child Welfare Services To Native Indians In Ontario: A Contemporary Attempt To Understand The 'Sixties Scoop' In Historical, Socioeconomic And Political Perspective, Joyce Barbara Timpson

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This research seeks to understand the high rates of Indian children in the care of Ontario’s Childrens Aid Societies from the 1950s to the 1970s. It examines historically the interaction of public policy, child welfare services and First Nations’ social, economic and cultural change. The author uses interview data from Native persons, CAS workers and public servants. In addition, government archives and the records of one child protection agency are used as data sources. The research examines in-care rates of Reserve Status Indian children from 1955 to 1976 in Ontario and admissions rates in one agency. It uses financial reports …