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Flirtation With Autobiography, Jonathan A. Freedman

Clinical Sociology Review

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Understanding Writer's Block: A Therapist's Guide To Diagnosis And Treatment, L. John Brinkerhoff

Clinical Sociology Review

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Law In A Therapudic Key, Sarena W. Mayer

Clinical Sociology Review

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Full Issue: Volume 15, Csr Editors

Clinical Sociology Review

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Selected Factors Influencing Academic Success Of First-Year Students In Seventh-Day Adventist Secondary Schools In Rwanda, Salomon Maniraguha

Dissertations

Problem. Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools recruit students through a severe entrance examination. However, after 9 months of schooling, more than 20% fail without possibility of repeating the grade or pursuing studies in less academically challenging schools. They are pushed out without means of coping with real life. This situation has multiple negative impacts on families who sell all their belongings in order to send their children to school where they can be prepared for a better life. It is for the interest of the Rwandese to learn which factors may contribute to maintaining these students in school.

Method. Data were …

The Effects Of A Pre-Therapy Information Audiotape On Client Satisfaction, Anxiety Level, Expectations, And Symptom Reduction, Mark A. Davison

Dissertations

Problem. The effectiveness of pre-therapy information techniques on clients' satisfaction at termination of therapy, increased accuracy of clients' knowledge and expectations, reduction of anxiety, and total symptom reduction remains unclear. No single pre-therapy information preparatory technique has demonstrated positive universal effects.

This research was an attempt to determine the effectiveness of a pre-therapy information audiotape on client satisfaction, accurate knowledge/expectations, reduction of anxiety, and symptom reduction.

Method. The population included 52 voluntary clients who were utilizing the Andrews University Counseling and Testing Center. The clients in the experimental group listened to the pre-therapy information audiotape and were then asked to …

A Comparative Study Of Stressors Among Undergraduate Students At Grand Valley State University, Lennox Forrest

Dissertations

Problem. Past research provides limited information on stress among college students. A significant number of undergraduate students find their college experience very stressful. This present study was to investigate the frequency and severity of stressors among undergraduate students according to class, gender, race, major, living status, student status, work status, and religion.

Method. The subjects for this study were 420 undergraduate students attending Grand Valley State University.A brief demographic questionnaire was utilized, followed by the Undergraduate Stress Questionnaire (USQ). Chi-square, one-way ANOVA, and t-test analyses were used to analyze the relationship of class, gender, race, major, living status, student status, …

A Critical Study Of Carl F. H. Henry's Portrayal Of The Human Role In Revelation And Inspiration, Boxter Kharbteng

Dissertations

This dissertation investigated Carl F. H. Henry's portrayal of the human role in his doctrines of revelation and inspiration. The study queried whether his depiction of that role in revelation is harmonious or consistent with the one given in inspiration. This question arises from a consideration of Henry's own formulation of his doctrines of revelation, inspiration, and man. The thesis of this dissertation is that inasmuch as man has the innate ability to receive, understand, and impart revelation without divine help, he should likewise be expected to exercise that ability at the level of inspiration without detailed or comprehensive superintendence …

The Laying On Of Hands On Joshua: An Exegetical Study Of Numbers 27:12-23 And Deuteronomy 34:9, Keith Edward Mattingly

Dissertations

This study investigates the procedural techniques, symbolic meanings, and tangible effects of the laying on of hands (samach yad) in the installation of Joshua to the position of Israel's leader as presented in Num 27:12-23 and Deut 34:9.

The Introduction reviews the purpose, delimitations, and methodology of the dissertation and also provides a review of the different and sometimes conflicting opinions regarding the significance of Joshua's installation and of the significance of his receiving the laying on of hands.

Chapter 1 offers a study of the ancient Near Eastern cognates and related terms of samach and yad in a representative …

Eschatological Paradigm And Moral Theory In Contemporary Christian Ethics: Stephen Charles Mott And Thomas W. Ogletree, Larry Lee Lichtenwalter

Dissertations

Twentieth-century re-interpreted eschatology introduces a paradigm for Christian ethics that engenders significant divergence among Christian ethicists in the way its application influences moral theory. These divergences indicate the need to clarify the issues revolving around its methodological application in order to bring credible structure for applying the eschatological paradigm in Christian ethics.

A set of analytical distinctions and procedural suggestions in this study provide an extensive framework for comparatively observing where ethicists begin, move, and end in terms of using eschatology as paradigm in their moral theory: (1) role and function of paradigms, (2) levels of paradigm operation (macro, meso, …

Negative Consequences Of Undergraduate Alcohol Usage : A Multivariate Gender Comparison, Leonald Dean Robinson

Dissertations

Problem. While the literature indicates that many male undergraduates suffer numerous negative consequences from alcohol usage, little is known about what, if any, consequences female undergraduates experience. Therefore, this study empirically tested if female undergraduates, ages 17-24, who share similar demographics, perceptions, and alcohol use locations as male undergraduates, also share similar alcohol usage patterns, negative consequences, and predictors for both.

Method. Secondary analysis was conducted on 1992 and 1993 United States Department of Education CORE Survey data collected from 345 male and 584 female undergraduates at two Midwestern private liberal arts colleges. Frequency, chi-square (p

Results. Both genders' …

Urban Infrastructure: Transportation, Public Utilities, Waste Management And Pollution Control, A. Bruce Bishop

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Paris, tube under the channel -- London, satellite spinning above cables on the ocean floor -- New York, concrete ribbons across undulating land -- San Francisco, silver wings soaring across the Pacific -- Tokyo and Seoul. Etched against the sky are the graceful towers of mighty bridges, the broad glass and steel fronts to massive buildings, the tall slender stacks of industries exhaling; and traced on the surface are the intricate patterns of people and their machines; and buried below are the tubes and tunnels, water pipes and power conduits and communication networks along with concrete caissons and piles that …

Reflections [Complete Issue : First Quarter 1997, Vol. 23, 1], Sigma Theta Tau International, Ora L. Strickland, Cornelia K. Beck, Valorie M. Shue, Donna O. Mccarthy, Janet F. Wang, Jo Ann Brooks-Brunn, William L. Holzemer, Jerilyn K. Allen, Bonnie Rogers, Joan E. Haase, Anne W. Garcia, Mary Ann Norton Broda, Marilyn Frenn, Cynthia Coviak, Nola J. Pender, David L. Ronis, Keri K. Medina, Bonnie Holaday, Madeleine Ruth Elliott, Pam Hubley, Mi Ja Kim, Janice K. Janken, Dorothy L. Powell, Denise Pope

Sigma Past Publishing - Reflections Magazine

Publishing History: Print issues of Reflections magazine were published from 1975 to 1999 and its successor, Reflections on Nursing Leadership (RNL) began publication in 2000. RNL migrated to an online format, http://www.reflectionsonnursingleadership.org, in 2006 and continues today.

RNL is a member benefit of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). The historical print issues have been made openly available.

Publishing Frequency: Quarterly until its transition to online. It’s now updated virtually every day.

Format: Print, 1975 - 2005; Online, 2006 - present

Feature Articles in this Issue:

Are We Rigorous Enough?

Ora Strickland and Her Work …

Minor Physical Anomalies: Modifiers Of Environmental Risk For Psychopathology, Daniel S. Pine, David Shaffer, Irvin Sam Schonfeld, Mark Davies

Publications and Research

Tested the hypothesis that minor physical anomalies (MPAs) modify an adolescent's vulnerability to environmental risk factors for psychopathology. 118 male 17-yr-olds who had been evaluated as 7-year-olds received a comprehensive neuropsychiatric evaluation. The evaluation included standardized assessments of environmental risk factors for psychiatric impairment, neurological signs, IQ, MPAs, and psychiatric impairment. The relationship between psychiatric status and environmental risk was examined as a function of the MPA profile. There was a significant interaction between MPAs and environmental risk in predicting psychiatric status. Environmental risk was more predictive of psychiatric impairment at age 17 in Ss with high scores on the …

Bionic Eye: The Resources And Limits Of The Cinematic Apparatus, Paul Douglass

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

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Physiologic Studies Of Immune Cell-Derived Peptide Modulation Of Chromaffin Cell Epinephrine Secretion, Jennifer Curran Roberts

Dissertations

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Covariance Structure Analysis Of Self-Efficacy And Participation In Chemical Dependence Treatment, David P. Parrella

Dissertations

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More Than Red Ribbons: Student Affairs Professionals Who Advocate For Hiv/Aids Issues In Higher Education, John Michael Durnil

Dissertations

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Factors Influencing Psychologists' Reporting Of Child Sexual Abuse: Gender, Age, And Theoretical Orientation, Richard Kennel

Dissertations

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Global Training And Education: An Examination Of Context, Cultural Toughness, And Minimum Necessary Change In Internationally Diverse Organizational Settings, Leslie E. Dennis

Dissertations

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Predictions Of Urban, Ethnically Diverse, Early School-Age Children's Academic Achievement Using A Neuropsychological Screening Battery, Stephen R. Clingerman

Dissertations

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Perception And Context: A Contextual Theory Of Perception Based Upon Husserl's Theory Of Horizons And James's Theory Of Fringes, Christopher John Broniak

Dissertations

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Concerns Of First-Year Teachers In Selected Public Schools, Delores A. Price

Dissertations

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Patterns Of Attachment And Caregiving Among Low-Income African American Families, Belinda E. Sims-Stanford

Dissertations

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A New Community In An Old Neighborhood: Common Territory, Jing Zhang

Dissertations

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Bedlam, Charity, And Renaissance Drama: Reconfiguring The Relationship Between Institutions In History, Kenneth S. Jackson

Dissertations

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Women's Self-Defense Training: An Applied Analysis Of Self-Efficacy Theory, Margit Cox Henderson

Dissertations

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An Analysis Of The Effects Of Cooperative Learning Vs. Individual Learning In Dealing With High Risk Learners, Robby R. Singer

Dissertations

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Social Support, Self-Efficacy And Their Relationship To The Academic Performance Of African-American Students Attending An Historically Black University, Torrey Wilson

Dissertations

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Integrity And Personhood Looking At Patients From Abio/Psycho/Social Perspective, Roberta Springer Loewy

Dissertations

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