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Fathers' Level Of Involvement In The Lives Of Their Special Needs Children, Lorraine Jimenez Jan 2010

Fathers' Level Of Involvement In The Lives Of Their Special Needs Children, Lorraine Jimenez

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to explore the level of father involvement in the upbringing of their special needs child. For most parents, raising children is filled with great moments, milestones and achievements as well as being highly stressful and overwhelming, especially if the upbringing involves a special needs child. The levels of stress involved in the upbringing of a developmentally disabled child are intense and can often times hinder the healthy growth and development of the family unit. The results in this study indicated that fathers were highly involved with their special needs children.

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Practitioners' Views On Access To Therapeutic Services For Juvenile Sex Offenders, Dorothy Lizabeth Traudt Jan 2010

Practitioners' Views On Access To Therapeutic Services For Juvenile Sex Offenders, Dorothy Lizabeth Traudt

Theses Digitization Project

Sexual abuse has taken on epidemic proportions. Social workers have to work with families, victims, and the offenders who are part of this cycle. This study was conducted to find out what the social work practitioner's views on the juvenile sex offender was and their view on therapeutic services for the juvenile sex offender.

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Social Workers And Human Sexuality Knowledge And Comfort, Larann Rene Henderson Jan 2010

Social Workers And Human Sexuality Knowledge And Comfort, Larann Rene Henderson

Theses Digitization Project

Human sexuality is a major aspect of everyone's existence. Social workers need to have access to information enabling them to be knowledgeable, unbiased, and effective in their professional dealings with individual clients, families, groups, communities, and society at large. The premise of this research is that social workers would be more effective in practice when provided with sufficient human sexuality training and education.

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The African American Male: Examining Resiliency, Success, And Family, Takenya Chimene Mcmihelk Jan 2010

The African American Male: Examining Resiliency, Success, And Family, Takenya Chimene Mcmihelk

Theses Digitization Project

This study is an examination of resiliency, success and family among African American Males. It is purposed to empower the individual that it affects and soften the hearts of the individuals who continue to consciously and unconsciously oppress these men. The purpose was not to restate what was already known but to create a system to eliminate the re-occurrence of the problem.

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The Effects Of Language On The Reunification Of Mexican Families, Luisana Sanchez-Ramirez Jan 2010

The Effects Of Language On The Reunification Of Mexican Families, Luisana Sanchez-Ramirez

Theses Digitization Project

The study examined the effects of language commonalities between Riverside County Children Services Division (CSD) social workers and parents in their reunification process. The study focused on gathering data to depict whether or not having a social worker that speaks the same language as the parents speak influences reunification success. This study strived to gather data from Mexican parents, as this seems to be a fast growing population that CSD serves. Data were extracted from 93 cases tht opened in the year 2008 to determine the impact of having a common language between the parents and the family reunification worker …

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Individual Performance In Solving The Zin Obelisk Problem Solving Task: An Examination Of The Influence Of Cognitive And Personal Factors, Dalia Michelle Arellano Labrada Jan 2010

Individual Performance In Solving The Zin Obelisk Problem Solving Task: An Examination Of The Influence Of Cognitive And Personal Factors, Dalia Michelle Arellano Labrada

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to bring together the findings to date regarding individual problem solving and to extend previous research in order to add to our understanding of problem solving by examining the factors that lead to effective individual problem solving on an analytical, timed task.

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An Ounce Of Prevention: The Effects Of A Kindergarten Visual Motor Integration Intervention, Lori Anne Barnes-Laney Jan 2010

An Ounce Of Prevention: The Effects Of A Kindergarten Visual Motor Integration Intervention, Lori Anne Barnes-Laney

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a short-term, developmental, visual-motor integration intervention conducted at the beginning of the school year to improve visual motor integration skills, basic school functioning skills, and school adjustment for kindergarten children with low or below average, visual motor integration skills.

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Does Child Sexual Abuse Affect Long-Term Intimacy Development And Functioning, Michelle Debra Kelley Jan 2010

Does Child Sexual Abuse Affect Long-Term Intimacy Development And Functioning, Michelle Debra Kelley

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to examine practitioners' views of the long-term effects of child sexual abuse on intimacy development and to determine if child sexual abuse leads to an underdeveloped sense of intimacy in the adult. Problems with intimacy development are defined as trouble forming close interpersonal relationships, not being able to trust others, being sexually promiscuous, and avoiding emotion.

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The Experiences Of Foster Parents And How It Can Benefit Future Foster Children, Arthur Hiro Natsume Jan 2010

The Experiences Of Foster Parents And How It Can Benefit Future Foster Children, Arthur Hiro Natsume

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to examine how the reported experiences of foster parents might benefit future foster parents in raising a foster child. All of the participants in the study reported that they would raise another foster child if they were young because it leads to positive outcomes.

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A Practitioner Perspective On Working With Drug-Exposed Infants, Hindi Rebecca Zeidman Jan 2010

A Practitioner Perspective On Working With Drug-Exposed Infants, Hindi Rebecca Zeidman

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of the study is to bring to light the desperate need and attention substance-exposed infants require currently but are not receiving. This study will show cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and social deficits substance-exposure produces in these dependent powerless infants. This study will focus on the perspective of practioners who work with this population on a daily basis. The practitioner perspective will be collected from three SART (Screen, Assess, Referral, Treatment) Programs spanning the country's largest county, San Bernardino County. The Sart Program is an early intervention program designed for children between the ages of zero through five years old, …

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Effects Of Chronic Paroxetine And Fluoxetine Treatment On Markers Of Suicidal Behavior In Adolescent Rats, Leslie Renee Horn Jan 2010

Effects Of Chronic Paroxetine And Fluoxetine Treatment On Markers Of Suicidal Behavior In Adolescent Rats, Leslie Renee Horn

Theses Digitization Project

Major depression is a common problem in adolescents. Unfortunately, one of the most effective antidepressants in adults, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) paroxetine, is not clinically effective in pediatric populations. There are many variables that increase the risk of suicide including genetic, social, psychological, and biological factors, making the evaluation of the effect of SSRIs on suicidal behavior difficult to assess in human adolescents. The goal of the present investigation was to compare the effects of paroxetine and fluoxetine in adolescent rats on markers associated with depression and suicidal behavior in humans.

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Effects Of Functional Background In Human Resources On Employee Outcomes, Monica Diane Freed Jan 2010

Effects Of Functional Background In Human Resources On Employee Outcomes, Monica Diane Freed

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to explore a Human Resources (HR) leader's functional background and how it may influence performance outcome such as job satisfaction, attrition, and satisfaction with HR processes.

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The Effects Of Competiton On Adult Circumstantial Efficacy, Matthew Aaron Bender Jan 2010

The Effects Of Competiton On Adult Circumstantial Efficacy, Matthew Aaron Bender

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to expand the knowledge and understanding of circumstantial efficacy and replicate and expand on the findings of Ganzach et al (2008). The author designed a computer dice game specifically for this study to examine how the size of a win or loss moderates the effects performance on curcumstantial and internal efficacy beliefs.

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The Effect Of Cold Calling And Culture On Communication Apprehension, Kimberly Noreen Aguilar Jan 2010

The Effect Of Cold Calling And Culture On Communication Apprehension, Kimberly Noreen Aguilar

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether cold calling improved, maintained, or worsened students' levels of communication apprehension (CA) and sought to understand the effects that culture and cold calling may have on students with CA within the framework of Uncertainty Reduction Theory.

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A Study Of Democracy In Africa: The Senegalese Experience, Ryan Robert Riley Jan 2010

A Study Of Democracy In Africa: The Senegalese Experience, Ryan Robert Riley

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis examines the development of democracy in Senegal, one of the few democracies in Africa. In order to understand why democracy has been such a challenge to establish and maintain in Africa, it is necessary to account for the broad effects of European colonization. European powers in their attempts to "modernize" the people of Africa disrupted their natural cultural progress.

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Assessment Of Early Maladaptive Schemas Via A Modified Stroop Task, Yelena Kholodenko Jan 2010

Assessment Of Early Maladaptive Schemas Via A Modified Stroop Task, Yelena Kholodenko

Theses Digitization Project

Processing biases play a major role in the understanding of anxiety disorders. The Schema theory hypothesizes that belief systems, early maladaptive schemas (EMS), cause selective processing of confirmatory information to the exclusion of disconfirmatory information. The current study was the first report attempting to provide empirical support for the measurement of EMS with a subtle cognitive processing assessment such as the Stoop task. A Schema Stroop task was constructed for the purposes of the current study.

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Degrees Of Complexity And Flexibility In The Belief System And The Strength Of Identity Attachment To Belief Claims, Craig Allen Bray Jan 2010

Degrees Of Complexity And Flexibility In The Belief System And The Strength Of Identity Attachment To Belief Claims, Craig Allen Bray

Theses Digitization Project

Complexity and flexibility make unique but related contributions to the connection between belief system structure and self structure. This study was concerned with how individuals structure their beliefs. Three scales were combined to provide a measure of belief system complexity and flexibility and then correlated with the card sort results.

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Factors Associated With Intimate Partner Violence Among College Students, Shareela Marie Allen, Danielle Diane Moore Jan 2010

Factors Associated With Intimate Partner Violence Among College Students, Shareela Marie Allen, Danielle Diane Moore

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study is to explore what individual factors are associated with intimate partner violence (IPV) experiences among college students. Intimate partner violence is a huge problem among college students both male and female of all ethnicities, socio-economic classes, sexual orientation, and social class. This study focused on alcohol consumption and attitudes and beliefs of students to see it those two variables played a role in contributing to the rate of IPV occurring among college students.

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Social Workers Perception Of Kinship Care Givers Unmet Needs, Carol Ann Rakestraw, Fallon Elaine Greene Jan 2010

Social Workers Perception Of Kinship Care Givers Unmet Needs, Carol Ann Rakestraw, Fallon Elaine Greene

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to assess the social workers perceptions of unmet need of kinship care providers. The study examined why the needs are not met for these kinship care providers in San Bernardino County.

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The Effect Of Ethnic-Identity Salience And Negative Performance Feedback On African Americans' Explicit And Implicit Self-Evaluations, Delisa Nicole Young Jan 2010

The Effect Of Ethnic-Identity Salience And Negative Performance Feedback On African Americans' Explicit And Implicit Self-Evaluations, Delisa Nicole Young

Theses Digitization Project

The processes that underlie African Americans explicit versus implicit self-evaluations are examined by using the Associative Propositional Evaluative model (APE).

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The Continuation Of Social Work Outreach With The Purhé́Pecha People, Carlos Luis Lamadrid Jan 2010

The Continuation Of Social Work Outreach With The Purhé́Pecha People, Carlos Luis Lamadrid

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to continue with the action research done by Bernice Aguirre in 2008 with the Purépecha indigenous population, living in the Eastern Coachella Valley Community, as a direct call to action to better serve the needs of a people who have been severely challenged by language, cultural barriers, poverty, and underrepresented service delivery systems.

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Increasing Subjective Well-Being Through Writing About Future Challenges While Constructing Creative Solutions For The Anticipated Challenge, Samaneh Pourjalali Jan 2010

Increasing Subjective Well-Being Through Writing About Future Challenges While Constructing Creative Solutions For The Anticipated Challenge, Samaneh Pourjalali

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis assesses the benefits of expressive writing about anticipated challenges, and problems rather than past tribulations. It is in essense affect labeling about worries, concerns, and fears regarding foreseen challenges rather than those previously experienced. Therefore, it affords one a proactive rather than a reactive method for dealing with the trials of life.

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The House In The Market: How Q’Eqchi’ Market Women Convert Money And Commodities Into Persons And Personhood, Sarah Ashley Kistler Jan 2010

The House In The Market: How Q’Eqchi’ Market Women Convert Money And Commodities Into Persons And Personhood, Sarah Ashley Kistler

Faculty Publications

Recent research argues that globalization in Latin America sometimes results in the homogenization of culture and loss of indigenous identity. This paper, however, explores how Q’eqchi’-Maya market women in San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala, generate Q’eqchi’ personhood by embracing the conflicts of value introduced by the confrontation of globalization with longstanding Q’eqchi’ values. I argue that in Chamelco, market women are mediators of value who participate in global capitalism to reinforce the categories that structure indigenous life. Q’eqchi’ women engage in marketing activities not only to accrue capital resources, but also to maintain local values, centered on the junkab’al or “house,” …

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Regional Economic Development: Current Issues 2010-11, Department Of Economics Jan 2010

Regional Economic Development: Current Issues 2010-11, Department Of Economics

Werner Sichel Lecture Series

The Sichel Series is codirected by Professors Wei-Chiao Huang and Huizhong Zhou, and is cosponsored by the W. E. Up john Institute for Employment Research, College of Arts and Sciences, and Timothy Light Center for Chinese Studies at the Diether H. Haenicke Institute for Global Education at WMU. It is named for longtime WMU economics professor, Dr. Werner Sichel, who retired in 2004. This series also coincides timely with the founding of Timothy Light Center for Chinese Studies at Western Michigan University.

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Nominal Schemas For Integrating Rules And Ontologies, Frederick Maier, Adila A. Krisnadhi, Pascal Hitzler Jan 2010

Nominal Schemas For Integrating Rules And Ontologies, Frederick Maier, Adila A. Krisnadhi, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

We propose a description-logic style extension of OWL DL, which includes DL-safe variable SWRL and seamlessly integrates datalog rules. Our language also sports a tractable fragment, which we call ELP 2, covering OWL EL, OWL RL, most of OWL QL, and variable restricted datalog.

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Women And Globalization: Challenges And Opportunities Facing Construction Workers In Contemporary India, Bipasha Baruah Jan 2010

Women And Globalization: Challenges And Opportunities Facing Construction Workers In Contemporary India, Bipasha Baruah

Data and Test Instruments

This article identifies the opportunities and constraints faced by female construction workers in urban India, citing empirical research conducted in the city of Ahmedabad. The Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) conducted three surveys in 1998, 2003, and 2007 to learn more about the needs and priorities of construction workers in the context of economic globalisation. While enthusiastically endorsing the role that training and certification can play in providing skilled women with opportunities for quality employment, the author emphasises the need for wider policy intervention at the state and national levels to ensure that such programmes have replicable, sustainable, and gender-equitable results.

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Women And Property In Urban India, Bipasha Baruah Jan 2010

Women And Property In Urban India, Bipasha Baruah

Data and Test Instruments

Women make up half of the world’s population, perform two-thirds of the world’s working hours, receive one-tenth of the world’s income and own only one-hundredth of the world’s property. Much of the research on gender and development has focused on inequalities between men and women of wages, educational opportunities, schooling outcomes, mortality and morbidity, and more recently, political participation and representation. While the gap between women’s and men’s education and income levels are narrowing gradually almost everywhere in the developing world, the disparity in property ownership remains stark and persistent even in countries where women consistently outperform men in educational …

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Sustainability Initiatives In East Bayside Neighborhood Portland, Maine, Garvan Donegan, Henry Heyburn, Caitlyn Horose, Matt Klebes, Jennifer Riley, Damon Yakovleff, New England Environmental Finance Center Jan 2010

Sustainability Initiatives In East Bayside Neighborhood Portland, Maine, Garvan Donegan, Henry Heyburn, Caitlyn Horose, Matt Klebes, Jennifer Riley, Damon Yakovleff, New England Environmental Finance Center

Planning

This is a bundle containing research on sustainability initiatives that could be implemented in the East Bayside neighborhood of Portland, ME. These six essays were prepared by the Spring, 2010 Sustainable Communities Class known as CPD 602 at the University of Southern Maine. The class is part of the core curriculum of the Community Planning and Development program of the Muskie School of Public Service at the university. The instructor for the class was Samuel Merrill, Ph. D. who is also director of the New England Environmental Finance Center at the University. These papers were prepared in conjunction with Alan …

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Mechanisms (Oxford), Stuart Glennan Jan 2010

Mechanisms (Oxford), Stuart Glennan

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Mechanism is undoubtedly a causal concept, in the sense that ordinary definitions and philosophical analyses explicate the concept in terms of other causal concepts such as production and interaction. Given this fact, many philosophers have supposed that analyses of the concept of mechanism, while they might appeal to philosophical theories about the nature of causation, could do little to inform such theories. On the other hand, methods of causal inference and explanation appeal to mechanisms. Discovering a mechanism is the gold standard for establishing and explaining causal connections. This fact suggests that it might be possible to provide an analysis …

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Measurable Gender Differences In Moral Standards, Jenee Sikma, Kate Warhol Jan 2010

Measurable Gender Differences In Moral Standards, Jenee Sikma, Kate Warhol

Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal

In 1982, Carol Gilligan tested Kohlberg’s theory of moral reasoning claiming that his research favored men. Lawrence Kohlberg limited his research to studying 75 boys from adolescents through young adulthood (Kohlberg, 1981). His theory of moral reasoning stemmed from that research. The purpose of this project was to test Carol Gilligan’s claims that women have different moral tendencies than men. The hypothesis for this study was that there would be measurable differences between the way men and women judge different scenarios. The survey used for this study was the Defining Issues Test 2 which included demographic information created by James …

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