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  • Evaluation of a social-emotional and character development program

    Creator:
    Washburn, Isaac J.
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    The effects of a school-based social-emotional and character development program, Positive Action, on the developmental trajectory of character development was evaluated using data from three randomized trials. Results come from 1) 4-years of data from elementary children in 20 Hawai`i schools, 2) 3-years of data from elementary children in 14...
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    manuscripts in this dissertation, Alan Acock, Sam Vuchinich, Brian Flay, Frank Snyder, Ben Li, Peter Ji

  • Bereavement experiences following a death under Oregon's Death with Dignity Act

    Creator:
    Srinivasan, Erica G.
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    Oregon residents with a terminal illness have had the option to use aid-in-dying under the Oregon Death with Dignity Act (DWDA) since 1997. The DWDA allows terminally ill Oregonians to make a request for lethal dosages of medication, prescribed by physicians for the purpose of self-administering to end one's life....
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    . Karen Hooker, Dr. Rick Levenson, Dr. Larry Roper, and Dr. Sam Vuchinich, for their help, support

  • Predictors of participation in a prison-based parenting program

    Creator:
    Schumer, Jean Ellen
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    The focus of this study was threefold. This research examined the extent to which parenting alliance between incarcerated parents and the caregivers of their children, influences participation of inmate parents in parenting programs. This research explored the extent to which family contact influences participation of inmate parents in parenting programs....
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    , Stephanie Bernell, Viktor Bovbjerg, Mark Eddy, Jangho Yoon, Janine Trempy, and Sam Vuchinich, each of whom

  • Preference for school involvement strategies by mothers of at-risk and peer-model kindergarten children

    Creator:
    Kieff, Judith E.
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    The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the attitudes and preferences regarding home/school involvement strategies of 23 mothers of kindergarten students who had been identified as at-risk for failure in school and 18 mothers of kindergarten students who had been designated as peer models. Data were collected...
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    my committee: Dr. JoAnn Brewer, Dr. Gerald Girod, Dr. Sam Vuchinich, Dr. Chris Anderson, and Dr

  • Preschool children's motor development and perceived competence

    Creator:
    Boucher, Barbara H.
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    This study compared the effects of two conditions on the motor development of preschool children and investigated the relationship between preschool children's motor development and perceived competence. Specifically, it provided information for discerning: a) the relative effects of a sensory-motor condition and an unstructured activities condition on the motor development...
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    . Alan Sugawara and Dr. Sam Vuchinich have been extremely helpful in conceptualizing and interpreting

  • Developing responsible behavior with first-grade children through mother-child communication training

    Creator:
    Smith, Monne K.
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    The purpose of the study was to determine whether first-grade children's participation in a counselor-led intervention strategy, Mother-Child Communication Training (MCCT), would increase their responsible behavior, as assessed by mothers and teachers. Sixty first-grade children in one elementary school in Corvallis, Oregon, along with their mothers, participated in the training...
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    for their unique contributions and support: Dr. Jim Firth, Dr. Reese House, Dr. Vic Savicki, Dr. Sam

  • Personal teaching efficacy and ethnic attributions as contributors to caucasian preservice teachers' behavior toward international children

    Creator:
    Burt, Linda S.
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    Two theoretical models were examined based on the contributions of preservice teachers' personal teaching efficacy, ethnic causal attributions, past teaching, and international interaction experiences to their behaviors toward international children in multicultural small group activity sessions. Path analytic results revealed that for both models, these variables together did not significantly...
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    measurement; Dr. Sam Vuchinich for his assistance and suggestions regarding the data analysis; Dr. Catherine

  • Gender differences in the perceptions of sexual abuse

    Creator:
    Sandras, Eric
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    The purpose of this study is to explore gender differences in adult perceptions of sexual abuse encounters between an adult male and children of both genders and of various ages. Subjects were four hundred and fifty three students from a northwestern university. They were recruited from a lower-level human development...
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    . Patricia Moran, Dr. Alan Acock, Dr. Alan Sugawara, Dr. Anisa Zvonkovic and Dr. Sam Vuchinich for their

  • The experience of sibling relationships in the voices of children : systemic interviews of dyads following the trauma of sibling incest and its recovery

    Creator:
    Fontana, Lynn A.
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    This qualitative study investigated the sibling relationship as it was described through the voices of the children. Ten sibling dyads (brother-sister or brother-brother) involved in family treatment following the discovery of sibling incest were interviewed. Participants in this study were participants in an outpatient clinic in the Northwest during the...
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    dissertation committee (James Firth, chairperson, Dale Pehrsson, Ruth Harmelink, Alan Sugawara, Sam Vuchinich

  • Medicare managed care : market penetration and the resulting health outcomes

    Creator:
    Howard, Steven W.
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    Managed care plans purport to improve the health of their members with chronic diseases. How has the growing adoption of Medicare Advantage (MA), the managed care program for Medicare beneficiaries, affected the progression of chronic disease? The literature is rich with articles focusing on managed care organizations' impacts on quality...
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    , PhD, Sam Vuchinich, PhD, and David Bernell, PhD, for sharing their wisdom and guidance throughout my