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  • Cybersupervision of counselors : perceptions and impact

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    Bender, Sara C.
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    Clinical supervision serves a key component in ensuring practitioners' competency and professional identity. This practice also allows more skilled clinicians to serve as gatekeepers to the field, which helps protect clients and the profession. As the use of the Internet increases, many clinical services, including supervision, are more common in...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Sara C. Bender for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

  • Adolescent sexual initiation : a predictor of adult female romantic attachment?

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    Waggoner, April R.
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    There is a knowledge gap concerning the outcomes of early adolescent sexual initiation (ASI). In particular, the influence of early ASI upon adult attachment is unknown. A multiple regression study was conducted to address this knowledge gap. Adult partner/spouse attachment was the criterion variable, and the predictor variables included both...
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    adolescence, (b) an end to a relationship with their first coital partner, and (c) dating or marrying

  • School counselors' self-efficacy and training needs when working with the Latino student population

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    Cázares-Cervantes, Abraham
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    Latinos have the lowest high school completion rates in the United States (United States Census, 2010). School counselors are well positioned to lead the efforts to increase these rates. Indeed, such leadership is mandated by both the ethical and program standards of the American School Counselor Association. However, little is...
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    biases may influence my work with Latino students;” (c) “Understand the impact of discrimination and

  • Age-specific features of generalized anxiety disorder in older adults

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    Salaz, Joselyn D.
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    Older adults are the fastest growing population in the United States, and their numbers are expected to continue rising over the next few decades. The number of older adults with psychiatric disorders such as anxiety is also increasing. Increases in the population of older adults and in the incidence of...
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    unrecognized, (b) frequently the presentation and experience of GAD in older adults has somatic origins, (c

  • Indicators of Success in Hispanic College Students

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    Schulthes, Gretchen M.
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    Over the last few decades, Hispanic enrollment in postsecondary education has increased significantly. Despite increased access to higher education, there are still clear issues of educational equity when graduation and persistence rates are evaluated. While these alone are imperfect measures, they shed light on a burgeoning issue within the American...
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    credential expected, (b) perceived likelihood of attaining a credential, (c) level of connectedness with

  • A Linguistic Analysis of the Content, Context, and Demographic Variables Related to Clinician Professional Misconduct

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    Ström, Eric L.
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    The professions of counseling, marriage and family therapy, and social work are highly controlled with regulators frequently issuing findings of professional misconduct against clinicians. Although much research has been conducted with regard to clinician professional misconduct in general, there is a scarcity of research investigating the relationship between gender and...
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    categories: (a) family words, (b) substance words, (c) finance words, (d) sex words, (e) friend words, and

  • The change in alcohol consumption of important people to clients

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    Doerksen, Dana B.
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    The Change in Alcohol Consumption of Important People to Clients measures the relationship between outcomes of clients’ alcohol treatment and the changes in alcohol consumption by important people (IP) in clients’ social networks. The prevalence of alcoholism in America continues to negatively impact individuals and society, yet few people with...
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    Townlin, Tim Bergquist, Wayne Courtney, Cass Dykeman, Gene Eakin, Anuncia Escala, Paula McMillen, Dale

  • The treatment of criminal recidivism : corpus-based analyses

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    Texidor Maldonado, Carlos Obed
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    The dehumanization of Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) and marginalized communities does not end once an individual is released from an institution. The dehumanization process is kept alive with ineffective community supervision and the stigma associated with an individual’s incarnation history. Evidence of this continual dehumanization process is reflected...
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    governance, (b) mental health and substance abuse interventions in correctional systems, (c) risk

  • The effects of client status as Atheist/Agnostic on the counseling Working Alliance

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    Jaron, Bonnie Lee
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    The purpose of this dissertation is to ascertain if there is a significant difference in the counselor rating of the bond component of the Working Alliance between Theist clients and their counselors and Atheist/Agnostic clients and their counselors. Measures of client religiosity, Working Alliance, and Treatment Arm from the Project...
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    of Client Status as Atheist/Agnostic on the Counseling Working Alliance. Abstract approved: James C

  • Linguistic, Personological Features, and Collocations of the Doka & Martin Grieving Style Continuum

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    Geisler, James G.
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    Research on grief has been studied for nearly a century to understand its many facets, expressiveness, and timing. In the field of counseling, many changes in theories, models, and the lenses through which loss is responded to have been accomplished. However, one constant in the U.S. culture is that definitions...
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    grief? (b) What is the level of use of linguistic processes known to be related to grief? (c) What