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Some Factors Influencing Case Classification In A Public Welfare Agency, Miriam Berry

Dissertations and Theses

This group project represented an attempt to study some factors pertaining to the formation of a system of case classification in a county public welfare agency, Multnomah County Public Welfare Commission, Portland, Oregon. The classification tool was a Case Planning Schedule intended to encourage diagnostic thinking on the part of the caseworker and to enhance planning and service for the client.

The focus of the study was limited to two areas: (1) whether or not the use of the Schedule resulted in agreement among caseworkers in classification and in consistency on prognoses, (2) the attitudes of the caseworkers in various …

"What Price Utopia?", B. F. Skinner

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

Use Of The Depth Interview In Examining Attitudes Of Delinquent Boys: An Exploratory Study, Alice Allen

Dissertations and Theses

This exploratory study designed to disclose new directions for further research and practice in the field of juvenile delinquency.

By exploring through limited depth interview the attitudinal areas of authority, fear, aspirations for the future, obstacles to be overcome, capabilities, societal ideals and therapy the project attempted: (1) to elicit, from adjudged juvenile delinquents, information different from that usually sought by public societal agencies and (2) to evaluate the depth interview as a means of eliciting such material.

Specific criteria were established for choosing fifteen interviewees, selected from three methods of dealing with juvenile delinquency: probation, institutionalization and parole. Depth …

Extended Report Of The Impact Of Fantasy On A Treatment Program, Richard H. Dana

Regional Research Institute for Human Services

It is axiomatic in milieu therapy that the man on top is responsible for success or failure of the program. However, little research attention has been given to the impact of a superintendent upon an institution. One reason may be that only rarely is an institution's stewardship uncomplicated by a past history. This case report is of the first-year operation of a correctional institution for adolescent delinquent girls. The superintendent literally created policy and program and trained staff in an attempt to satisfy goals of custody and rehabilitation. In this relatively unique enterprise the values, dynamics and motives of the …

Extended Report Of Construct Validation Of The Barron Ego Strength Scale, Richard H. Dana, Jean T. Teter

Regional Research Institute for Human Services

One component of an MMPI Ego Strength Scale (Es) definition, personal adaptability, was investigated by behavioral, conscious, and fantasy measures of persistence. Male and female, high and low Es subjects, did not differ on these measures. Measures of persistence alone may be inadequate samples of the personal adaptability component of Es.

Report On Personal And Corporation Income Tax Bill (House Bill 1846; Chapter 627, Oregon Laws, 1963) State Ballot Measure No. 1, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

City Club Of Portland Bulletin Vol. 43, No. 50 (1963-5-10), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Extended Report Of Intraindividual Verbal-Numerical Discrepancies And Personality, Richard H. Dana, Arnold E. Dahlke

Regional Research Institute for Human Services

This study examined the differences in verbal and numerical ability according to the extreme Verbal (V) and Quantitative (Q) SCAT scores. Validity and clinical scales were analyzed as separate profiles. The results supported previous studies.

"Form And Content Of The Icelandic Saga", Pauli Veikko Vehvilainen

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

Report On Daylight Saving Time (State Measure No. 6), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Report On Constitutional Debt Limitation Amendments (Forest Rehabilitation, Permanent Roads, Power Development) (State Measure Nos. 2, 3, & 4), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

"The Effects Of Radioactive Fallout And Disarmament", Linus Carl Pauling

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

There is a slight lapse of about 5 seconds where re-recorded overlap didn't quite cover. Recorded on a Berlout 33 stereo recorded using both tracks in one direction.

Viking 1962, Portland State University

The Viking (Yearbooks)

Portland State University 1962 yearbook

Objective Tat Scores And Personality Characteristics: Hypothesis Formulation. Statistical Summary, Richard H. Dana

Regional Research Institute for Human Services

This paper contains the statistical results of a "buckshot" congruent validation study of one objective TAT scoring variable, Perceptual Organization (PO). PO was developed from personality theory and from an explicit rationale for the construction of scoring systems for projective techniques. PO is scored from a five card, short-form, TAT set which yields scores comparable to a 20 card set. A series of concurrent validation studies culminated in a manual for application of the scoring system in which PO is one variable. PO is a reliable score (scorer reliability; test-retest) and valid for prediction of clinical diagnosis (current validity). That …

Intraindividual Verbal-Numerical Discrepancies: Dichotomy Or Continuum, Personality Characteristic Or Psychopathology?, Richard H. Dana, Arnold E. Dahlke

Regional Research Institute for Human Services

IntraindlviduaI differences in verbal and numerical abilities have been observed since the inception of appropriate measuring Instruments. Whether verbal and numerical ability occur in the form of a continuous distribution or as dichotomous categories has both theoretical and practical importance. That such variation has meaning in terms of predictable college academic success is recognized. Less apparent, but equally important, are relationships between Intraindividual verbal and numerical variation and personality characteristics and/or psychopathology. In college situations the American Council on Education Psychological Examinatipn (ACE), with Linguistic (l) and Quantitative (Q) components, and the School and College Ability Tests (SCAT), with Verbal …

George Berkeley On Moral Demonstration, Graham P. Conroy

Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations

An essay in which the author attempts to illustrate how Berkeley's moral philosophy shows him to be a transitional figure between 17th century rationalistic ethics and the empirical moral philosophy of the 18th century,

“Improving Instruction In The Secondary School: Using The Disciplines To Produce A Liberal Education", Fred Theodore Wilhelms

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

Psychology: Art Or Science?, Richard H. Dana

Regional Research Institute for Human Services

This article explores psychology through the lens of science and art and discusses the history and impact.

Viking 1961, Portland State University

The Viking (Yearbooks)

Portland State University 1961 yearbook

Report On Compulsory Retirement For Judges (State Ballot Measure No. 9); Report On Special City Tax Levy For Civil Defense And Disaster Relief (Municipal Measure No. 51); Report On Special Tax For Zoo Expansion, Operation (Municipal Measure No. 56); Report On Sewer User Service Charge (Municipal Ballot Measure No. 55); Report On Bonds For State Buildings (State Ballot Measure No. 8); Report On Partial Charter Revision (Municipal Measure No. 60), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Report On Housing For The Aging, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

City Club Of Portland Bulletin Vol. 41, No. 04 (1960-6-24), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

"The Rise Of Southeast Asia", Cyril Northcote Parkinson

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"Foreign Policy And Military Planning", Henry Alfred Kissinger, John Swarthout

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"A Novelist On Novels", Alec Waugh

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"The Written Word: Antidote To Number", Jacques Barzun

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"The Origins And Nature Of American Nationalism", Henry Steele Commager

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"Discipline And Dedication", Margaret Mead

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"Meaning And Reading", William Henry Burton

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

Viking 1957, Portland State University

The Viking (Yearbooks)

Portland State University 1957 yearbook