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A Comparison Between Differences Of Body-Image And Self-Concept For Pre- And Post-Treatment Orthodontic Patients, Roy D. Atkin

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The primary objective of this study was to quantitatively address the three following questions:

1. Does orthodontic treatment when administered to the adolescent patient produce changes in his or her body-image and self-concept?

2. In which areas of the body does the patient experience changes in body image after orthodontic treatment?

3. What significance or value does the patient place on orthodontic treatment relative to changes in the subject's life?

In seeking answers to the above questions, a questionnaire was given to a group of 138 male and female orthodontic patients.

Results of the study indicate that (1) total body-image and self-concept are …

Histopathological Response Of The Human Tooth To An Intrapulpal Pin Implantation, Raymond W. Dolph

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

This investigation was designed to serve as a research project directed toward the study of histopathological response of human teeth to the intentional implantation of threaded, stainless steel, gold plated pins into the vital pulp.

Pins of several types are currently used in several aspects of restorative and periodontal dentistry. In some cases there may be unintentional perforation of the dental pulp. In other cases it may be advantageous to purposely perforate the pulp for added retention. The purpose of this research is to help determine the reaction, possibilities, and prognosis of such technique.

Human teeth selected for experimental and …

Newsletter, Volume 14, Number 02, June 1969

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• Lutheran Hospital To Be Built In Texas Medical Center – Facility to be MDAH and University of Texas Affiliate
• Texas Physicians Invited to Dedication Ceremonies
• Symposium Monograph Off Press
• Cancer Research Meetings
• Clinical Abstracts
• University Buys Apartment-Hotel
• Progress Report – Accelerator To Be Ready By Late 1969
• Painter Receivers Anderson Award for Scientific Creativity and Teaching
• Tenth International Cancer Congress Set for Houston in 1970
• Stanley to Preside At Tenth Congress
• Special facilities Will Accommodate Houston Visitors
• New Staff
• Dr. Gallager Holds Advisory Positions
• Grants for research Staff Publications
• Staff Publications
• Suit is Visiting Professor
• Gastroenterologist Lectures

Analgesic Effectiveness As Measured By A New Algesiometer, J. Raymond Wahlen

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

A method of measuring the effectiveness of analgesics using a new instrument, known as the Algesiometer,* is described. The instrument, utilizing an electrical stimulus, produced an experimental pain when attached to the skin over the mid shaft of the tibia. The patient, who was experiencing a pathological pain, gradually increased the experimental stimulus, by turning a control rheostat, until it was equal in intensity to the pathological, or clinical, pain. The intensity of the stimulus was calculated in milliwatts and consisted of a rectangular wave pulsating direct current of approximately one millisecond duration and an interval of nineteen milliseconds.

Following …

The Effect Of Selected Nurse-Patient Contacts On The Attendance Of Non-Private Patients At Preparation For Childbirth Classes, Judith A. Hart

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The purpose of this study was to determine whether selected nurse-patient contacts effected the attendance of non-private patients at Preparation for Childbirth classes. During the data collection period only six of the eight patients who met the criteria for this study were available. Each of the six patients was reached by at least one of the three types of nurse-patient contacts-- a letter of invitation to the Preparation for Childbirth classes, weekly contacts with the patients at the classes and three home visits to each patient. Tools used to collect data for this study were a personal information questionnaire, home …

The Reaction Of Dog Tongue To Syrijet Injections, Donald L. Peters

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Tissue response toward injection by a "fluid-pressure" type apparatus, the Mizzy Syrijet, was evaluated by using dogs as the experimental animal.

The tongue was the organ of choice because it's size is sufficient to allow for several injections without overlapping tissue responses. In addition the two halves of the tongue are anatomically separated by a median raphe, providing for further isolation of injections.

The animals were injected at 12, 24, 48, 72 and 96 hour intervals utilizing the Syrijet on the right side of the tongue and needle on the left. Needle injection served as control for the microscopic comparison. …

Commencement Program 1969, Loma Linda University

Commencement Programs

CONTENTS

4 | The Vesper Service (La Sierra Campus)

6 | The Vesper Service (Loma Linda Campus)

8 | The Sermon (La Sierra Campus)

10 | The Sermon (Loma Linda Campus)

12 | Conferring of Degrees

15 | Candidates for Degrees

30 | Awards

33 | Academic Costume

Verbal Accessibility And Authoritarian Family Ideology: A Study Of 50 Graduate Social Work Students And Their Spouses, Linda Louise Metz

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis is the fourth in a series of empirical investigations concerned with symbolic interaction in marriage. Its basic assumption is that personal predispositions of marital partners as well as the social context of their marriage influences marital intimacy particularly the partner's readiness to communicate verbally with each other about important attitudes and feelings.

Fifty married graduate students attending Portland State University School of Social Work and their spouses comprised the sample. The subjects responded to three instruments: (1) a personality scale (Authoritarian Family Ideology – AFI) developed by Jane Loevinger, (2) a measure of verbal accessibility (VA), and (3) …

Evaluation Of The Role Of Neighborhood Health Coordinators In A Comprehensive Neighborhood Health Services Project, Sharron Faye Easley

Dissertations and Theses

This study evaluates the role of the Neighborhood Health Coordinators (NHC's) within Kaiser Foundation's Comprehensive Neighborhood Health Services (CNHS) Project. This project was established in September 1967, under the provisions of the 1966 amendments to the Economic Opportunity Act, to provide and make readily available comprehensive medical care to low-income persons. In compliance with the stipulations of this Act, persons who reside in target areas, designated as depressed neighborhoods, were hired to serve as NHC's. These indigenous non-professionals serve as links or "gatekeepers" between the low-income persons enrolled in this program, and the Kaiser medical care facilities which include the …

An Application Of Crisis Theory: The Suicide Prevention Center, Karen Drummet

Honors Projects

Preventive measures which can be utilized and some of the alternatives to hospitalization to alleviate crises include diagnosis and evaluation services, emergency psychiatric units, outpatient services, inpatient services, day and night care, foster home care, rehabilitation, consultative services to other community agencies, and mental health information and education. This paper will concern itself primarily with one of these services, that of crisis-oriented immediate-access outpatient treatment.

Emergency Medical Treatment, Earle T. Hale

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Ua68/10/1 Sociological Symposium No. 2 – The Sociology Of The Elderly, Wku Sociology

WKU Administration Documents

Table of Contents:

• Ahsan, S. Reza. The Ecological Distribution of the Elderly in the Florida Counties
• Albrecht, Ruth E. Pre-Retirement Training in the United States
• Beard, Belle Boone. Longevity & Fertility: A Study of Centenarians
• Ellison, David L. Will to Live: A Link Between Social Structure & Health Among the Elderly
• Gray, Robert M. & Josephine M. Kasteler. An Investigation of the Effects of the Involuntary Relocation on the Health of Older Persons
• Guemple, D. Lee. Human Resource Management: The Dilemma of the Aging Eskimo
• Harper, D. Wood Jr. & Joseph M. Garza. Ethnicity, Family Generational Structure & Intergenerational Solidarity …

A Program For Teaching Self-Care Techniques To Severely Retarded Residents Of An Institution For The Retarded, Timothy S. Nelson

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Differentiation Between Suicidal And Non-Suicidal Schizophrenic Patients, Gerald H. Smith

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Derotation Osteotomy Of The Femur In Cerebral Palsy, James R. Glessner Jr.

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Generally satisfactory experience is reported in a 10-year study and evaluation of a modified surgical technique for correction of anteversion and associated gait abnormalities in cerebral palsy. The 25 patients so treated represent only 2% of those seen during the period.

Newsletter, Volume 14, Number 01, March 1969

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• Southern Pacific Donates Hospital To MDAH for Rehab Center
• Dr. Schellhas Wins Award
• Clinical Abstracts
• Holleb Named VP
• Freireich Joins Leukemia Society Board
• Linear Accelerator to be Largest For Clinical Use
• Genetics and Cancer is Subject of 23rd Symposium
• Breast Cancer discussed at 13th Clinical Conference
• Pathology and Breast Cancer
• 12th Year Book of Cancer Published
• MDAH Hosts Physicians From the Far East and Oceania
• Staff Publications
• New Staff
• MDAH Staffer Qualifies on EEG Society National Exam
• Science Students Work With Staff
• Three MDAH Fellows
• Radiology Fellows

A History Of Criminal Procedures As Related To Mental Disorders, Ralph Slovenko

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Commencement Program 1969 (Winter Graduation), Loma Linda University

Commencement Programs

CONTENTS

2 | Program

3 | Candidates

Changing Concepts Of Deviance, Douglas D. Bond

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

As I look at the list of distinguished Stoneburner Lecturers, I see I am honored by being the first psychiatrist. This is a tribute to the Department of Psychiatry. In thinking about this paper, I at first considered giving a kind of history of psychiatry. What seemed to me more interesting, however, was an examination of our whole perspective on deviance, in general, and what we call “illness”—an example of a certain kind of deviance, or, perhaps more accurately, a certain way of looking at deviance.

Perspectives In The Behavioral Sciences, Douglas D. Bond

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

It is clear at this moment that we have two major thrusts. The first is the unlocking of the biological secrets surrounding the potential for development and the fixing of learned material in the biological matrix. The second is the careful examination of the culture that will be learned. Here, not only every social scientist but every citizen need be concerned. The present emphasis upon the importance of culture can hardly be exaggerated unless it crowds out our interest in the biological. Man remains an enigma; reason, a personal control of prejudice, and a continuing spirit of disciplined inquiry are …

Whom, Why And How To Refer, Zigmond M. Lebensohn

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

When a medical practitioner decides that the time has come to refer his patient to a specialist, certain psychological problems arise which may, at times, interfere with the smooth accomplishment of the referral. These problems can and do occur daily in medical practice, and it often makes little difference whether the specialist is a thoracic surgeon, a neurosurgeon or a psychiatrist. Referrals create certain anxieties and fears in the mind of the patient. Some of these anxieties are common to all referrals. The patient asks himself, "What's going on? What does the doctor think I really have? How serious is …

Family Tension And Psychophysiological Illness, Milton Rosenbaum

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

The title of this talk, "Family Tension and Psychophysiological Illness," in itself implies that physiological changes may result from psychological forces connected with interpersonal as well as intrapersonal factors. This I firmly believe. For the most part, people do not become ill solely as the result of physiological changes. Illness usually occurs within the context of difficulties in interpersonal relations which, in the majority of instances, means the family. This does not mean that, once the patient becomes ill, he cannot be treated individually, or that, once the illness starts, the intrapsychic conflicts unleashed by it will not run their …

Volume Five Subject Index

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Subject index for MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly, Volume Five.

Psychopharmacological Procedures, Heinz E. Lehmann

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Psychopharmacology has opened the door to many previously blocked parts of psychiatric therapy. It has been a welcome catalyst for a long awaited rapprochement between psychiatry and the rest of medicine. Even if psychopharmacological research is not likely to produce another revolutionary "breakthrough" type of drug in the near future, there is good reason to expect many more useful therapeutic tools to issue from such research in the years to come.

Psychiatry In Medical Practice, George Kriegman

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

The Twenty-Second Annual Stoneburner Lecture Series was designed to share with our medical colleagues some of the psychological knowledge applicable to their own medical interests which the field of psychiatry has accumulated.

Physical Illness: The Family And The Physician, Marc H. Hollender

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

When confronted by the specific stress of a close relative's illness, the family members' reactions may be schematically divided into three stages: 1) disorganization; 2) reintegration; and 3) adjustment. Either disorganization can be intensified or adjustment can be fostered, depending on the physician's understanding of the feelings the family members experience and his willingness and ability to be helpful. The family members' responses, in turn, will influence the patient's reaction to illness or his recovery and rehabilitation. Accordingly, good medical practice requires that the physician include the family in his total treatment plan whenever possible.

The Older Population And The Aged Patient, Ewald W. Busse

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Modern medical practice requires that the physician and other members of the health team have full appreciation of the impact of disease and disability upon identifiable groups of patients and recognize how nonmedical factors affect treatment and prognosis. It is important for the physician to have some idea of the patient's socioeconomic status and the actual and potential number of patients with not only a common diagnosis, but also similarities in their living conditions. With such knowledge, the physician can be much more realistic and efficient in his therapeutic efforts. Persons 65 years of age and over are commonly referred …

Anxiety, Defense And Cognition: A Theoretical Basis For Practical Handling Of The Surgical Patient, Stanley L. Block

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Both the anxiety-defense model and the cognitive model provide a scientific basis for practical handling of the surgical patient. Emerging from both models is a humanistic approach to the patient based on understanding and a nonjudgmental attitude as well as on a knowledge of where the patient is psychologically and a willingness to meet him on his ground. The rewards in terms of a reduction of anxiety, depression, and human suffering can be enormous.

Sexual Counseling In Medical Practice, George Kriegman

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

In summary, sexual relationships involve two factors: lustful gratification and emotional and physical closeness. Lustful gratification involves sexual identity which is determined by: 1) biological sex; 2) gender identity; 3) child-parent relationships; 4) cultural value systems; and 5) sexological knowledge. Sexual problems are due to ignorance of the sexual facts of life and/or to contamination of the sexual area by other needs, wishes, or fears. A detailed understanding of the presenting complaints and the sexual history of the patient will enable the physician to make a differential diagnosis. The physician can then clarify the problem and assist the patient in …

What Referring Physicians Can Expect From The Psychiatrist, David R. Hawkins

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

I hope that I have persuaded you that the psychiatrist can be a very useful colleague to non-psychiatric physicians. He can be most useful if the referring physician works at developing a mutual learning relationship with him and keeping all lines of communication open.