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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 …

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.

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

West Virginia Law Review

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The Influence Of Experimental Stress Upon Selected Rorschach Variables, William P. Brady

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Application Of Reinforcement Principles To The Modification Of Isolate Behavior In A Withdrawn Child, Patricia C. Rinaldi

Masters Theses

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An Investigation Into The Effects Of A College Level Alcohol Education Course On The Implementation Of Alcohol Education Instruction, Ross G. Lane

Masters Theses

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A Comparison Of The Effects Of Generalized Conditioned Reinforcement And Discrete Conditioned Reinforcement On Human Lever Press Responding Under Different Deprivation Conditions, Steven I. Zlutnick

Masters Theses

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An Investigation Of The Effect Of Response-Contingent Shock On Stuttering Behavior, Kenneth Welt

Masters Theses

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Verbal Behavior Modification Of Psychotic Adults In A Group Setting, Richard J. Kale

Masters Theses

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The Effects Of Librium, Meprobamate And Phenobarbital On Shock Elicited Aggression And General Activity, Thomas R. Ziske

Masters Theses

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An Evaluation Of A Rehabilitation Program For Adolescent Psychiatric Patients, Kenneth Richard Gibson

Masters Theses

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Personality Differences Among Three Religious Denominations, Richard Gay

Masters Theses

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The Establishment And Maintenance Of Mechanical Skills With Severely And Profoundly Retarded Males, Stephen C. Thornson

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Human Ecology Of Extreme Geophysical Events, Ian Burton, Robert William Kates, Gilbert F. White

FMHI Publications

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Effects Of Poor Quality Diets With Various Dietary Factors Added And Exposure To Cigarette Smoke On The Voluntary Alcohol Intakes Of Albino Rats, Bonnie Emmerson

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Studies were conducted utilizing albino rats to determine the relationship of voluntary alcohol consumption with various dietary additives and exposure to cigarette smoke in combination with poor quality diets. Male, Sprague-Dawley rats, from weanling age to 100 grams, were given the various experimental diets and a free fluid choice of ten per cent ethanol or tap water. Fluid intakes were recorded and analyzed statistically. Individual variation was common with a generally low level of alcohol consumption when rats were fed a poor quality diet of common United States foods. The addition of caffeinated beverages and/or spices and relish caused increases …

Interview No. 14, Vincent Ravel, M.D.

Combined Interviews

Recounts immigration of family from Lithuania to U. S.; briefly sketches history of Jewish community in El Paso; father's role in founding Congregation of Mena Zion; arranged marriage of parents; opening of pawn shop in South El Paso, City Loan and Jewelry, by father and cousin Sam Ravel; shootings in El Paso at turn of century; purchase of ammunition, guns, and pistols by Pancho Villa; Columbus Raid; Pershing Expedition to Mexico; El Paso's red light district on Ninth Street in 1930s; physical examinations of prostitutes; comments on El Paso's recognition as health center for tuberculosis patients; recounts tuberculosis sanitoriums in …

Multi-Family Group Treatment Of Multi-Problem Families: Preliminary Study, Judith S. Duckman

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

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A Descriptive Analysis Of The Kalamazoo Consultation Center For Clergy, Arthur Eckert Bilyeu

Masters Theses

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A Review Of The Short Forms Of The Wechsler Intelligence Scale For Children, Edward Gerald Tava

Masters Theses

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Some Variables In Conditioned Suppression With Humans, David Wayne Mulder

Masters Theses

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A Review Of Pertinent Studies On Alcoholism With Particular Reference To The Family, Robert S. Reed

Masters Theses

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The Affect Of Activities In The Intensive Care Unit On Patients, Dorothy Millholland Mottweiler

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The purpose of this study was to find out whether there is a relationship between what the patient can see and hear of on-going activities in the intensive care unit and patient stress. The descriptive survey method was used. A checklist was developed from several sources in literature. Data were collected by observation of individual patients in two intensive care units and by recording their behavior on the checklist. Recording of stress signs was done for five minute intervals every thirty minutes for eight hours, making sixteen intervals for every eight hour period. Nineteen separate patient observations of eight hour …

Drug Addiction: A Personal View, Joseph R. Rosenblum

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Construction And Validation Of Six Mental Health Sub-Scales By Age, Sex, And Educational Status, Thomas James Boynton

Masters Theses

Chapter I

Introduction

Purpose of the Study

The topic considered in this thesis is the construction and validation of six mental health sub-scales which are based upon procedures controlling for age, sex, and educational status. Each item in a 22 item mental health scale is tested for validity by age, sex, and educational status. Six sub-scales, one for each dichotomy of the three social groups, are constructed from this procedure. The validity of these sub-scales is then tested via six different criteria of mental health. Finally, the validity of the six sub-scales, the original 22 item scale, and a related …

Anxiety And Fear In Personality Structure, Robert Robert Mickelson

Graduate Student Research Papers

The problem to be studied is the effect of anxiety and fear on the personality. Concern with this problem stems from the fact that on many occasions anxiety and fear blocks a person's free approach to experience and often anxiety and fear prevent one from building sound interpersonal and intergroup relations.

A Review Of Drug Addiction And A Study Of Its Relation To Carbohydrate Metabolism, Eppie Chung Hartsuiker

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The specter of addiction eventually involves everyone of the community. It is a three-fold problem of socio-economic, psychological, and physiological factors. The least understood is the physiological or biochemical aspect of addiction.

It has been postulated that an upset in carbohydrate metabolism may be a biochemical cause of addiction. Several avenues were employed to investigate this possible cause of addiction.

1. A diet survey was conducted and revealed a greater consumption of refined carbohydrates, confections and alcoholic beverages in addicts.

2. Five-hour oral glucose tolerance tests were performed on 7 addicts and 12 non-addicts. These tests revealed that there were decreased glucose …

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A Study Of Personal And Mental Health, Alma Foslien

Graduate Student Research Papers

It was the purpose of this study to formulate important general principles in relation to the conduct of life; to unify the physical, mental, and social factors producing health; and to develop further the understandings, attitudes, and action patterns relative to achieving health tor effective living.

An Exploratory Study Of The Effects Of The Divorce Process And Postdivorce Readjustment On The Lds Person, Everett Louis Hagerty

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the study was to gain an increased understanding of what the L.D.S. person feels during the process of divorce and postdivorce readjustment by (1) developing an interview guide to obtain the necessary data on divorce, (2) determining how strong the feelings of failure, guilt, and trauma were at different phases of the divorce process, (3) determining how the feelings of failure, guilt, and trauma were related to membership in the L.D.S. Church, its teachings, and contacts with Church authorities, and (4) gaining insights which might provide a basis for later investigation.

Psychology, Mental Illness, And The Law--A Postscript On Epilepsy, Lee Silverstein

West Virginia Law Review

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