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A Comparative Analysis of the Symbolic Interaction and Parsonian Theoretical Orientations
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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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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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Teachers' reading theories and preferred practices with varied pupil abilities
… study was to examine issues related to teachers' theoretical orientations to reading and teachers' preferred strategies for good, poor and very poor readers. A questionnaire was completed by 140 primary teachers in 10 schools. Teachers were asked to rate 6 bottom-up strategies and top-down …
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Technoscientific Knowledge Practices of Adolescent Mental Health Care Work
… science, resist biomedicine and embrace eclectic theoretical orientations to treatment. Psychotherapists utilize Evidence Based Practices (EBPs) in their treatment plans but critique how EBPs privilege scientific evidence over patient subjectivity, social contexts and the therapeutic relationship. …
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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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Tailor-made: therapist to patient ‘responsivity’ in counselling and psychotherapy
… psychotherapists and psychologists, of varying theoretical orientations and training backgrounds, were recruited via email, and subsequently interviewed about UIs. 2 pilot interviews with trainees were included in the final sample, which, otherwise, consisted of practitioners with a minimum of …
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An investigation into a local education authority's inclusion strategy : the construction and management of change
… the discourse, relating this to different theoretical orientations, cognitive psychology, social psychology, management theory and school improvement. Foucault (1977), especially the concept of episteme/paradigms, provided the most useful theoretical framework for analysing data. It is …
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An Exploration of Motivational Interviewing and Strengths-Based Supervision to Improve Client Session Attendance
… demographics have in attendance, using different theoretical orientations to group supervision (cognitive behavioral therapy, psychodynamic, feminist, developmental, etc.), and conducting MI supervision over longer periods of time and having supervision less frequently.</p>
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An examination of positioning in editorials, business and sports commentaries in the Lesotho weekly newspaper, Public Eye
… brief mention of CDA and media theory as the theoretical orientations of the study. Chapter 2 details the conceptual and theoretical context of the study. The chapter focuses on the approaches to media production and media genres, Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), CDA, and strategies of …
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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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Exploring Culture of Poverty and Life Options Perspectives: The Relationship of Neighborhood, Family, and Individual Socioeconomic Factors to Teen Childbearing
… Family Life Study, the dissertation explores two theoretical orientations (culture of poverty and life options) which seek to explain the prevalence of teen childbearing among poor, urban populations. Logistic regression models are analyzed to examine the influence of control and independent …
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Artist, art-educator and reflective inquiry : a phenomenological research that investigates creative and pedagogical experiences
… introspection, I integrated practical and theoretical orientations within myself as an artist. In the art classroom, I adopted participant observation and action research strategies for my research. The data from the studio was in the form of a journal/diary, along with the actual art …
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Institutional experiences of female child migrants in Western Australia between 1947 - 1955
… Western Australia. My study was guided by the theoretical orientations of Symbolic Interaction and Constructivism. Data were gathered through a series of individual and group interviews with the Female Child Migrants, who are now in their seventies and had spent at least three years in the …
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The transition to parenthood in New Zealand and a developmental conceptual framework for the study of family change
… attention was refocussed on more conceptual, theoretical and epistemological issues. A conceptual framework or ‘model’ for handling developmental changes in families was devised. This framework brings together a variety of concepts and ideas from ‘the literature’ together with some original …
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WHAT DO CLINICIANS DO? ADDRESSING WHITE CLIENTS' RACIST COMMENTS IN THE THERAPY ROOM
… therapy. As of this writing, very little theoretical literature and no empirical literature had been published on the topic. To address this gap in the literature, the current study used a mixed-methods design to investigate the topics. The investigation queried clinicians trained 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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A critical analysis of theories of agricultural development and agrarian reform, with reference to agrarian reform policies in Chile (1962-1973).
… into three parts. In the first part three main theoretical orientations to the study of capitalist agrarian development are discussed, both abstractly and with reference to their accounts of Latin American rural society in the 1960's. It is argued that all three are unable to explain adequately …
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Ageing, Gender and Dancers' Bodies : An Interdisciplinary Perspective
… ageing, and therefore, I draw on non-dualistic theoretical orientations through which to reframe the gendered body-self of the mature dancer.
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