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The Counseling Center As A Healing Community : The Development Of A Model, Talitha Day Fair

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In a pluralistic society alternative models for delivery of mental health services are needed to enhance theeffectiveness of professional therapy, to provide appropriate care for persons from various subcultures, and to increase job satisfaction and reduce the level of stress for therapists. This study proposes an alternative modelbased on the concept of a healing community.

Five alternative mental health programs qualifying as healing communities were observed to identify thetherapeutic dynamics in such settings. Communities observed were a self-contained village with mentally handicapped and normal adults, a church that functions as a community, a juvenile center, a self-help group, and a …

Impeccability In 1 John: An Evaluation, Leon Eloy Wade

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The First Epistle of John confronts us with a dilemma which, since its inception, has challenged many students of the Bible. On the other hand, the Christian must not deny his sinfulness -- for which, however, there is a ready solution in the expiation wrought by Jesus Christ. On the other hand, the one who abides in God and is born of him does not sin and, indeed, cannot sin.

Many solutions, discussed and evaluated in chapter 1 have been attempted to harmonize this apparent contradiction. Though some are more satisfying than others, a common weakness exhibited among them all …

Premarital Preparation Within The Home, School, And Church As Perceived By Adolescents In The Lake Union Conference Of Seventh-Day Adventists, Ernest James Stevens

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Problem. In today's society increasing stress and problems face the traditional Judeo-Christian marriage and family. Adolescents are being confronted with these problems as a result of the continuing rate of divorce and internal stress within family relations. The Seventh-day Adventist church has historically emphasized the importance of marriage and the family. However, as the Christian marriage and family face changes in today's society, there is a need for greater awareness of the factors which influence the premarital preparation of adolescents. The purpose of this study was to research adolescents' perceptions of their premarital preparation. The primary hypothesis of this …

Mitotic Recombination And Dna Metabolismn In Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Merl F. Hoekstra

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The Minimum Competency Testing Program Of The Gary, Indiana Community School Corporation: A Case Study, William S. Demby

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First-, Second-, And Third-Grade Children's Picture Preference Of Caldecott Award Winners And Runners-Up 1972-1984 In Selected Schools, Joan K. Oksas

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The Effects Of Adding A Somatic Intervention To The Gestalt Two-Chair Technique On Career Decision-Making, Daniel F. O'Grady

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A Survey Of Changes In Teacher Preservice: Five Years After Implementation Of Illinois Hb 150, Randal L. Becker

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Religiosity, Rituals And Patterns In Anorexic And Bulimic Families, Patricia A. Lavallee

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The Role Of The Family Dog In The Preadolescent's Psychosocial Development Relative To Selected Dimensions Of The Self-Concept, Sex And Age, Janet Haggerty Davis

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A Study Of The Administrative Role Of Directors Of Education Departments In Non-School Cultural Organizations, Albertine N. Burget

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A Descriptive And Explanatory Case Study Of The Expansion Of The Educational System In Jordan 1950-1980, Rushdi Yousef Qawasmeh

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An Examination Of The Organizational Effectiveness Of High Schools Who Have Model Microcomputer Instructional Programs, Chester A. Pulaski

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A Study Of The Evaluation Procedures Used With Tenured Special Education Teachers And Tenured Speech And Language Pathologists In The Public Schools Of Suburban Cook County, Illinois, M. Bernadette Kissel

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A Study Of Administrative Decisions Made In Response To Problems Governed By The Negotiated Teacher Contract, Ronald J. O'Brien

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The Grammars Of The Old Age Problem: From Activity Theory To Alzheimer's Disease, Robert Joseph Lynott

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The Origins And Development Of The Fabian Society, 1884-1900, Stephen J. O'Neil

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A Study Of The Background Characteristics, Current Lifestyles, And Career Patterns Of High Achieving Women, Gahan Ann Jacobs

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A Study Of The Relationship Between Personality Traits As Measured By Cattel’S 16 Personality Factors And Aspirations For Leadership, Diane Pressel

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An Investigation Of School Climate, Context, And Composition Variables On The Achievement Of Hispanic High School Students Of Limited-English Ability, Pedro L. Martinez-Addarich

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An Ethnographic Investigation Of The Self-Esteem And Occupational Aspirations Of Hispanic Students Within The Context Of An Urban Junior College, Ines M. Bocanegra Gordon

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An Investigation Of The Adolescent Sibling Bereavement Process And Adaptation, Nancy Schildberg Hogan

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The Implementation Of Deterrence: A Multi-Approach Assessment Of The Impact Of Recent Changes In Anti-Drunk Driving Legislation On Reducing Alcohol-Involved Fatalities, Josef R. Soper

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The objective of this study is to determine if anti-drunk driving legislation, enacted between January 1979 and December 1983, has significantly reduced the number of alcohol-involved traffic fatalities.

At the macro-level, 60 consecutive months of alcohol-involved fatality data were requested from the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Sixteen states supplied the requested data. The Box-Jenkins technique for interrupted time-series analysis was used to determine if a change in the state's drunk driving law impacted the frequency of alcohol-involved fatalities in that state. Results are discussed in relation to the statewide impact of anti-drunk driver legislation.

At the micro-level, …

A Study Of The Relationship Between Church Sponsored K-12 Education And Church Membership In The Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Warren Earl Minder

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Church growth continues to be a concern for religious sects. Writers on church growth hold that all the various ministries of the church must assist the church in accomplishing church growth.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not persons who had been students in the Adventist school system had greater probability of joining the church and staying in the church than those who did not attend an Adventist school but were from homes where at least one parent was a Seventh-day Adventist.

There were two dependent variables in the study: initial baptism to join the church …

The Effect Of Task Responsibilities On Assistant Principals' Roles, Sandra B. Sirotti

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect that increased responsibilities had on the assistant principal's role. Because of increased responsibilities, it was believed that the assistant principals had been forced to become more task and less person oriented as a result of inadequate time to deal with both tasks and people. The study was designed to ascertain whether there had been growth in task responsibilities and, if so, whether the growth had caused the role to become more task than person oriented.

The sample consisted of 400 Michigan assistant principals. From this sample, 67% of the administrators …

A History Of The “Hattiesburg American”, Patt Foster Roberson

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This dissertation is a study of the history of the Hattiesburg American , a local newspaper in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It is also a study of the development of local newspapers in the United States.

A Study Of The Relationship Between High School Graduation Requirements And Student A.C.T. Assessment Scores In Public High Schools In The State Of Michigan, William M. Pritchard

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The literature has pointed toward changes in high school curriculum as a contributor to the decline of standardized test scores during the 1960's and 1970's. During the past few years, many schools have increased graduation requirements in various subject areas in an effort to increase learning on the part of students. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the number of years of required study in various subject areas on student achievement.

The population that was studied included all public high schools in the State of Michigan. Two hundred thirty-eight schools were sampled from the population, …

An Investigation Into The Effects Of Learner Control Options On Patterns Of Learning Strategies, Debra Small Nelson

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A body of literature termed learner control research examined the efficacy of allowing learners' control over the type, rate, amount, and sequence of content to be covered in an instructional program. The growing impact of computer based education has enhanced the possibility of providing learners greater autonomy in the learning process. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of providing learner control options in a computer-assisted instruction (CAI) microcomputer program on patterns of learning strategies and content mastery.

The sample consisted of 98 adult learners involved in the fields of general or special education in the State …

Diagnosis Of Dyslexia: The Utility Of The Boder Test Of Reading-Spelling Patterns, A Representative Case Study Approach, Donna Montei

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The first purpose of the dissertation was to study the relationship between Boder test diagnosis (dysphonetic dyslexia) and hemisphere arousal with a representative subject. The relationship between standard methods of diagnosis and Boder diagnosis was studied with five additional subjects. The "dysphonetic" subject was measured with electroencephalogram biofeedback equipment and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) and demonstrated higher arousal in the left hemisphere than the right hemisphere. Four of the five other subjects were diagnosed differently by the Boder test from diagnoses obtained through standard psychological test batteries. The results suggest that the Boder typology constructs may be …

A Study Of The Academic Problems Encountered By Saudi Students At Western Michigan University, Ali Hajjan Mustafa

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The purpose of this study was to identify perceptions of Saudi students studying at Western Michigan University (WMU), faculty and administrators at WMU, and academic advisors in the Saudi Arabian Educational Mission in Chicago regarding academic problems encountered by Saudi students enrolled at WMU, and to determine any differences in perceptions of Saudi students regarding their academic problems based on age, marital status, academic level, and length of stay in the United States.

Respondents to this study included 47 Saudi students, 22 faculty, 24 administrators, and 8 academic advisors. The data for this study were obtained by means of a …