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  • A Corpus Assisted Analysis of Eating Disorders

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    Cantu, Sara A.
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    The number of deaths by suicide each year in the United States is rising. Men, women, and people of all ages die by suicide at high rates. Someone diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia is at significantly greater risk of completing or attempting suicide, making clear the importance of understanding how...
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    the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling presented on December 13, 2019. Title: A Corpus

  • The predictive relationship of religiosity to readiness to change in addiction recovery

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    Mandsager, Naomi A.
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    The prevalence of addiction in society has called researchers, educators, policy makers, and clinicians to examine and research causes and treatment approaches to address the manifold problems addictions present individuals and society alike. There are many theoretical approaches to understanding addiction and the behavior change processes that lead from addiction...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Naomi A. Mandsager for the

  • Psychological and Linguistic Processes in Treatment Related Text Messages

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    Partch, Megan A.
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    Treatment providers seek low-cost, high-impact means of engaging clients in care with the aim to enhance treatment delivery and outcomes. With improvements to mobile technology making cell phone accessibility and usage rates high across all socio-economic levels, text messaging is becoming more frequently utilized as a means of promoting provider-client...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Megan A. Partch for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

  • Discursive and Psychological Processes in Project MATCH Treatment Manuals and 12-Step Program Literature

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    O'Hara, Margaret A.
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    Addiction is a word that represents a condition that, at best, causes minor disruptions to one’s life and, at worst, is lethal. The current definition was developed by 80 neuroscientists. It references substance use and other behaviors and includes food and sex. Addictions do not seem to be lessening but...
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    help of a friend, as well as subscribed to the disease concept of alcoholism. Smith was not able to

  • The Relationship between Student Health Behaviors, Demographic Variables and Suicide: A Secondary Analysis of Health Behaviors in School-Age Children (HBSC 2009-2010)

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    Hoffman, Lora K.
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    Counselors, therapists and other mental health professionals are dedicated to finding more useful ways to prevent, assess and treat adolescents experiencing suicidal ideation. Recent research has shown that the use of Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide (IPTS) components in suicidal assessment and treatment have been effective for treating adults. However, a...
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    , 2020. Title: The Relationship between Student Health Behaviors, Demographic Variables and Suicide: A

  • The Relationship between Feedback and Outcome in Psychotherapy

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    Partridge, Rebecca, L.
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    Mental health professionals are dedicated to improving outcomes in therapy. Research over the past 50 years has shown psychotherapy to be effective in both improving the functioning of and diminishing the overall distress experienced by clients. Several factors have been constant predictors of outcome in therapy, including length of treatment,...
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    rating of alliance. Even so, mental health professionals do not often formally elicit feedback about a

  • Teacher Math Anxiety and Math Instructional Time

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    Morton, Heidi L.
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    The scientific way of knowing, which results in tremendous advancements in our society, heavily depends on the use of mathematics. Given that math touches nearly every aspect of peoples’ lives in different ways, it is critical that today’s students and tomorrow’s citizens have a solid understanding of math. Unfortunately, a...
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    citizens have a solid understanding of math. Unfortunately, a sizeable percentage of the population

  • An Investigation of the Impact of Adding Art Therapy to Mindfulness Enhancement Training

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    Douglas, Eileen K.
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    Attention to the benefits of mindfulness practice transcends the fields of mental health and medicine. Extensive research has explored the use of mindfulness-based practices in counseling and psychotherapy. Benefits of mindfulness practice, both during session and in cases in which mindfulness was only practiced by the therapist outside of session,...
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    for participating subjects. However, there is a distinct gap in the literature exploring the impact

  • A summative evaluation of a dolphin assisted therapy program for children with special needs

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    Dilts, Rachel M.
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    This dissertation reviews the literature on the specialty area of dolphin assisted therapy (DAT), a subfield of animal assisted therapy (AAT). To date the literature on the effectiveness of DAT has been mixed although a majority of it is positive. The study was conducted with 40 parents whose children were...
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    December 3, 2008. Title: A Summative Evaluation of a Dolphin Assisted Therapy Program for Children with

  • A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Counseling Alliance Ruptures: A Pilot Study

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    Jacques, Justin
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    Establishing a therapeutic alliance or a therapeutic bond has long been seen as an essential component of obtaining positive treatment outcomes in clinical practice. More recently, the idea of recognizing therapeutic alliance ruptures (disagreements about the tasks or goals of therapy or a problem in the therapeutic bond) during counseling...
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    . Title: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Counseling Alliance Ruptures: A Pilot Study Abstract approved