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  • Substance Use Among Women Who Have Sex with Women

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    Dorn-Medeiros, Cort M.
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    Professional organizations in the fields of counseling and psychotherapy-related professions all require counselors and counseling students to work with a vast array of potential clients who may differ significantly from themselves. For example, these counselor and client differences can include one or several factors such as age, race, ethnicity, ability...
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    WSW who did not report interpersonal violence. There was no significant difference in tobacco use

  • 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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    program in the Ukraine. A parent report scale using the Behavior Dimensions Rating Scale (BDRS) was

  • Change Trajectories of Adolescents in Long-Term Residential Treatment

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    Earl, Trevor T.
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    The change process for clients in long-term adolescent residential treatment has received heightened research attention for the past 15-year (Gass, 2006). The research indicates that individuals enrolled in long-term adolescent residential treatment centers, on average, experience improved psycho-social functioning to degrees that are statistically and clinically significant (Behrens & Satterfield,...
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    treatment duration did not impact treatment outcome, meaning no statistical differences were found in

  • The Mental Health of Latinos/as in the United States : A Multisystemic Examination

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    Rodriguez, Alham F.
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    Previous reports on the state of the Latino/a-focused mental health literature suggest that the quantity of Latino/a-focused articles within the mental health field continued to be disproportionate to the growing percentage of Latino/as in the United States (Liang, Salcedo, Rivera, & Lopez, 2009). As such, Latino/a mental health experiences, needs,...
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    = 82) perceived therapeutic alliance with Latino/a adolescents. To our knowledge, no previous study

  • 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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    art making. Currently, there is no research measuring the impact of adding art therapy to a

  • Symbiosis in the Pacific Ring of Fire : evolutionary-biology of Rhizopogon subgenus Villosuli as mutualists of Pseudotsuga

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    Mujic, Alija Bajro
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    Rhizopogon is a large genus of ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi that grows in association with host trees of the family Pinaceae. We have conducted a series of studies investigating the ecology and evolutionary biology of the EM symbiosis shared between R. subgenus Villosuli and trees of the genus Pseudotsuga. Two members...
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    the genetic mechanisms that underlie this adaptation. In Chapter three we report the draft genomes

  • Student/school counselor ratios and school attendance rates : review of literature and a correlational study

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    Zimchek, Victor Charles
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    School attendance is perceived as a critical issue in today’s primary and secondary educational systems. This manuscript reviews literature that speaks to the complexity of issues related to truancy and then posits that many of the interventions typically recommended to address truancy are ones that school counselors already provide or...
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    schools (grades 9 – 12) with one or more counselors for the 2004-2005 school year. The study found no

  • Historical and current trends in counselor education dissertations

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    Richards, Judith D.
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    Doctoral training programs in counselor education require a dissertation, a capstone project in the academic training and development of graduate students seeking a PhD or an EdD. The dissertation is expected to contribute new knowledge to the profession through the researcher reporting the results of research. The counselor education literature...
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    differences in content, research methodology, or design. No decadal differences were discovered. Having a

  • Mindfulness in counseling and psychotherapy : A literature review and quantitative investigation of mindfulness competencies

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    Stauffer, Mark D.
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    There is substantial interest in the application of mindfulness in counseling and psychotherapy. The appeal of mindfulness training and mindfulness-based interventions has increased as research continues to demonstrate benefits. Mindfulness practice has not only been effective in clinical applications with clients, but has also been conceptualized as beneficial for counselors...
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    in the literature for specific mindfulness training programs and therapies, however, no set of

  • 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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    engaging in traditional, face-to-face clinical supervision. The results indicated no significant