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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"theoretical orientation"”.
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How one helps: personality, theoretical orientation, and helping skill preference
… interrelationships among personality, preferred theoretical orientation to counseling, and preferences for various response modes (helping skills) in counseling, undergraduates in peer counseling and basic helping skills courses completed measures of these three constructs. Findings include four …
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An investigation of the relationship between psychologist personality and theoretical orientation
… behavioral (N = 14) or psychoanalytic (N = 13) theoretical principles.Previous studies of this nature have resulted in mixed findings regarding Personality-theory relationships. Major weaknesses in these studies were found to include the use of theoretically immature psychologist-subjects, poor …
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Counselors' Perceptions of Training, Theoretical Orientation, Cultural and Gender Bias, and Use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV-Text Revision
… diagnosis and utilization of the DSM despite its theoretical grounding in the medical model and its chronic problems with gender and cultural bias—all in direct opposition to counseling's humanistic, multicultural model of practice. Results of this study suggested that more training in …
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Psychotherapy Integration: Examination of Clinical Utilization
… found to be the modal or bimodal primary theoretical orientation explicitly reported by psychologists. Considering influences on the field of psychology, psychotherapy integration will likely remain a significant approach to psychotherapy for the foreseeable future. However, not much is …
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Theoretical Orientations to Reading and Reading Instructional Practices of Selected Home-Education Parents in Southwest Michigan
… educators in southwest Michigan. DeFord's (1985) Theoretical Orientation to Reading Profile (TORP) determined parents' theoretical orientation to reading. Nine parents were interviewed and observed teaching reading. The Moss (1980) Classroom Analysis of Teachers' Theoretical Orientation (CATTOR) …
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The assessment of behavior patterns, personality characteristics and theoretical orientations for Master's level counseling students
… conditions have given rise to a new wave of metatheoretical approaches to counseling and psychotherapy that are situationally specific and tailored to meet the needs of individual clients. Such questions have only begun to be raised in the field of counselor education. Hence, the education and …
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Subjects and the clausal structure of Chinese and English
… a number of other linguists provides the overall theoretical orientation.
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Theoretical Conceptions of Curriculum: Implications for Juvenile Correctional Education
… correctional education has not undertaken the theoretical analysis of curriculum within which current methods and programs can be evaluated. Procedures. Content analysis is employed to determine the theoretical orientation of juvenile correctional curriculum. Articles relevant to juvenile …
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An evaluation of inpatient family treatment in a child psychiatric setting
… their perceptions regarding the programme's theoretical orientation, practices and outcomes. Stage 1 findings clearly indicated improvements in perceived child, parent and family functioning between the time of admission and the time of discharge. The Stage 2 study found that the programme …
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Supported Housing Experiences of People with Serious Mental Illness
… Ecological Systems Theory (EST) was used as the theoretical orientation for the study. The major themes related to success of the supported housing that emerged were independence, involvement of owners, bonds with tenants, having access and means to resources, and positive engagement in …
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The Construction of Domestic Violence Among Police Officers
… implementation. I recommend that a feminist theoretical orientation be implemented in police training to reduce the gap between institutional and individual constructions of domestic violence. Policy makers, trainers, supervisors, victim advocates and victims must grasp the various factors …
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Hoosiers on the Hardwood: A Critical Examination of Indiana Basketball Culture and its Effect on Identity Formation
… century ‘hoosier’ bodies. Adopting a theoretical orientation rooted in critical race theory, I argue that Indiana’s basketball culture represents a normalized / normalizing structure underneath which Otherness is reified to produce hypervisible “different” outsiders (‘non-hoosiers’), …
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Therapists and their patients: Similarities and differences in attitudes between four psychotherapy orientations in Sweden
… and obstacles for therapists of different orientations to communicate and cooperate better with each other. Data was collected by a questionnaire named VEP-Q. Similarities and differences in attitudes between psychotherapists of four different orientations - working with adults in …
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Standing on the corner : aspects of contemporary Canadian sculpture
… frame of an international context, providing a theoretical orientation which I believe validates their placement in sculptural discourse as such. In general, this thesis focuses on the material components presented by the works which clearly distinguishes them from the tenets of abstract …
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Inheriting Nietzsche: The Frankfurt School and Foucault on the Foundation of Critique
My dissertation examines the theoretical ramifications that rejecting a metaphysical foundation has for providing critical and normative resources. While commentators often dismiss post-metaphysical philosophies as contradictory variants of anti-metaphysics, I demonstrate using the work of …
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People making history : the last ten thousand years of hunter-gatherer communities in the Thukela Basin
… in the upper Thukela catchment. My aims and theoretical orientation have altered substantially since the project's ,inception. They have changed from being concerned primarily with ecological phenomena to the reconstruction of a regional social history. As part of this redefinition I have …
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Variables That Predict Burnout Among Sex Offender Treatment Providers: Work Setting, Gender, Work Hours
… age, level of training, years of experience, theoretical orientation, supervision, percentage of sex offenders on caseload, individual or group therapy and primary work setting. Of the 210 ATSA listserv members that responded to this study, one hundred fifty one participants were used in the …
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Examining Therapist Experience with Resistant Clients
… perceptions of resistance depended on their own theoretical orientation. Also, therapists providing mandated counseling were more likely to encounter resistance than were those providing voluntary therapy. Results also showed resistance to therapy is not all negative, but a positive indication of …
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