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Portfolio of doctorate in health psychology
Introduction - The purpose of the research was to explore coping and relapse strategies used by pregnant and postpartum women to avoid smoking and to investigate the process of lapses and why this leads to relapse with pregnant and postpartum women. The purpose was to evaluate service delivery by …
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Doctorate unemployment as rent-seeking behavior
This dissertation provides an economic explanation for Ph.D. unemployment. The discussion begins with a theoretical investigation of policy making in nonprofit colleges. The predictions of this analysis are that colleges will operate less efficiently than for-profit firms; that faculty salaries …
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Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology: Competence Assessments
Smoking is a deep-rooted and complex psychological, behavioural, social and physiological practice. Smoking is reinforced by positive reinforcement outcomes and negative withdrawals symptoms experienced during abstinence (Marks et al., 2006). Furthermore smoking is a primary contributing factor in …
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Professional doctorate in health psychology thesis portfolio (Wehling : 2019)
… formulate the Health Psychology Professional Doctorate. The competencies are outlined by the British Psychological Society (BPS, 2009) and include the following: research via the completion of an original piece of research and a systematic review of existing literature; the development and …
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Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology thesis portfolio (Palmer : 2020)
This professional doctorate is made up of a systematic review, a research project, consultancy report, professional skills report, teaching and training plan, teaching and training evaluation, teaching and training recording, and an intervention report , as detailed in the course handbook for the …
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Professional doctorate in health psychology : thesis portfolio (Whippey : 2018)
… the required competencies for the Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology. In the form of four case studies, one systematic review and a research thesis conducted over a period of two years, it shows my range of knowledge and skills gained within Health Psychology. Both the portfolio and the …
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Thesis Portfolio for the Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology
Background: Breastfeeding rates continue to remain low in the UK even though a number of initiatives have been delivered in an attempt to increase them. Evidence suggests a large proportion of mothers now perceive breastfeeding as the best feeding practice for their baby and many wish to do so, but …
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Professional doctorate students' stories of experiential learning : a discourse analysis
… complete a work based inquiry of professional doctorate students' stories of experiential learning. The expected outcomes included: the development and construction of a discourse of experiential learning, based on the experiences of those who 'story' them; the development and evaluation of an …
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Outcomes, perceptions, and experiences in one CPED-aligned educational doctorate (EdD) program
1 PDF file (viii, 129 pages)
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What predicts whether foreign doctorate recipients from U.S. institutions stay in the United States
This study examines the trend of foreign doctorate recipients from U.S. higher education institutions who decided to stay in the United States after their degree completion, and it explores individual, institutional, and country factors predicting whether the foreign doctorate recipients stay in …
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Motivating factors for the professional development of a cohort of professional doctorate students in education
… with a cohort of students in a professional Doctorate in Education at a Victorian university, the current study identified the students’ perceptions of their own professional development. It found that the extrinsic and intrinsic factors which motivated these students were numerous and often …
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Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology thesis portfolio (Edwards : 2019) : Obesity and uncontrolled eating from a health psychology perspective
… the required competencies for the Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology. In the form of four case studies, one systematic review and a research thesis conducted over a period of two years, it shows my range of knowledge and skills gained within Health Psychology. Further to this, it …
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Affirmative action for women: an assessment of progress at doctorate-granting universities and an analysis of successful approaches
Implementation of affirmative action policies at doctorate-granting universities was examined using quantitative and qualitative research methods. The first phase included a quantitative assessment of the collective and individual progress made in hiring and promoting women faculty during the …
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Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology thesis portfolio (Clarke : 2015) : Adolescents' views of the electronic cigarette: a new gateway to addiction?
Background: In the UK alone it is estimated that there are 2.1 million adult electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) users (Action on Smoking and Health, 2014). Introduced to the UK in 2006, ecigarette use has grown rapidly from 700,000 users in 2012 (Kmietowicz, 2014). Given that smoking initiation …
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"I feel ... I feel different": A Psychosocial Exploration of Trainee Educational Psychologists' Experiences of Personal and Professional Change Over their Doctorate Training.
The available literature has shown that the topic of trainee educational psychologists’ (TEPs) experiences of training has been explored predominately through the structures of course content reviews, supervision and evaluations of frameworks and tools. This research chose to take a different …
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A Mixed-Method Study of the Environmental and Personal Factors That Influence Faculty Research Productivity at Small-Medium, Private, Doctorate-Granting Universities
… small- to medium-sized not-for-profit, private, doctorate-granting universities.</p> <p><em>Method</em>. A mixed methodology was used that included an online survey, follow-up email surveys, and two face-to-face interviews. The main statistical tools used were multivariate analysis of variance …
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Admission and employment patterns of women matriculating in educational administration at selected midwestern universities
… to, are admitted to, and complete specialist or doctorate degree programs in educational administration at selected midwestern universities, and (2) to determine the types of positions secured by women who completed the specialist or doctorate degree or who left the doctorate degree program prior …
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