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Showing 1 to 20 of 150 for “"what works"”.
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Beliefs About Substance Abuse Among Adolescents: What Works?
… of this study was to explore beliefs about what works in substance abuse treatment among adolescents. This was a qualitative study that was comprised of fourteen counselors who were interviewed regarding what works in substance treatment with adolescents. The study identified four themes …
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Substance Abuse Among the Elderly: What Works in Treatment
… effectively treat the elderly substance abuser? What are, if any, special considerations a social worker should be aware of when working with the geriatric population? What treatment modalities seem to be more effective with the elderly client? This study utilized a qualitative analysis …
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What works? Teaching African American students in urban schools
<p>The academic achievement gap for African American students compared to their White counterparts has historically and currently remained significant. Many researchers have been prompted to address this issue by examining the practices utilized to teach African American students. The findings from …
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TREATING POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AMONG AGING VETERANS: WHAT WORKS?
<p>Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a serious condition with debilitating symptoms which affects military veterans and has been understudied in the older population. Aside from treating the veterans of the Vietnam War and World War II, as service members from more recent conflicts age, the …
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What Works Well at the Interface of Midwifery Care Handover
… the Obstetrician. This research is focusing on what works well at the interface of that midwifery care handover. It is paramount that we get the midwifery care handover right, not only for the midwives involved in the process but also for the women, their babies and family/ whanau. Childbirth is …
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Understanding 'what works': Evidence based regional policy making in England.
CONCLUSIONS: A central finding of the thesis is the need for a more nuanced approach to the generation and use of evidence. This is in contrast to imposing a quality criteria specific to one type of study design (e.g. experimental methods) or allowing for cherry-picked and unsystematic evidence use …
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Airport access via rail transit : what works and what doesn't
Despite their potential for providing efficient and reliable airport access, rail connections to U.S. airports have consistently had trouble attracting a significant percentage of airport passengers. This thesis attempts find out which characteristics of airport rail links most strongly influence …
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Achieving Equity After SCALE: What Works, and Where Are We Now?
<p dir="ltr">The purpose of this research was to explore how community coalitions that participated in the Spreading Community Accelerators through Learning and Evaluation (SCALE) initiative use strategies, methods, and tools from the initiative, including the Community of Solutions (COS), in their …
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Outcome feedback in physiotherapy: What works for whom in which circumstances?
A realist evaluation study researching the impact of feeding back patient reported outcome measures to patients with shoulder pain and the impact on behaviour.
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What works to increase access to assistive technology in southern Africa
… My PhD research was guided by the core question: What works to increase access to assistive technology in Southern Africa? Organized into three sub-studies, my research aimed to identify and describe the facilitators and barriers to access AT and develop a theoretical model to inform strategies to …
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What works? A grounded theory of effective peer mentoring in secondary schools
… to the forefront, by exploring their view of what works. The study aimed to offer a framework for understanding and developing peer mentoring relationships and inform safe and effective peer mentoring practice in secondary schools. This study was conducted using grounded theory methodology as …
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What works? Supporting students from urban school districts at a Midwestern university
<p>Postsecondary administrators across the nation are in search for effective policies and practices that lead to higher rates of student academic performance, persistence, and completion rates. In a time of increased accountability and diminished resources, the empirical findings of this study …
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Services to Homeless Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Youth: What Works
<p>Health and behavior risks among homeless Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer youth, are now part of nation wide conversation however, evidenced based practices and strategies for working with the youth remain very limited. This explorative study examined housing services, …
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What works in academic email: A genre analysis with teacher and student perspectives
Writing email requests to teachers is a necessary part of academic life for most students at Western universities, however it is a difficult undertaking as such email is an occluded genre (Swales, 1990). Students are therefore often unfamiliar with the expectations of academic email, particularly …
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Doing what ‘Works Best’: Exploring the Narratives of Mothers who Work as Strippers
Despite a large body of research exploring the experiences of working mothers today, there is little literature focusing on mothers who take part in stigmatized and unconventional forms of paid labour. Taking up this line of inquiry, my MA thesis project explores both micro and macro-level …
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Perspectives on effectiveness: what works in a juvenile fire awareness and intervention program?
Deliberate lighting of fires by juveniles is both a public health concern and a community issue. This collaborative multiagency project aimed to establish best practice guidelines for child and youth firesetter programs in Australia. The study proceeded in two parts. Firstly, the practices and …
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Radicalisation and deradicalisation in Nigeria: an analysis of what works and what doesn't
… interventions. The research looked at what works and what doesn’t work in the two interventions with a view to evaluate their effectiveness and effects that caused the outcome. The thesis also aimed at providing guide on designing an innovative framework that utilizes the evidence base …
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What Works: Principal Leadership Behaviors that Positively Impact Student Achievement in Elementary Schools
… More specifically, it raised the question about what specific leadership behaviors are used to increase student achievement. This study further clarified that the principal is the primary person for instituting leadership among all within the school which ultimately contribute to student success. …
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