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Adjusting Clinical Fee Scales: First Session Intake Fees Moderating Couple’s Total Number of Sessions Attended in Couple’s Therapy
(2019-08-09)
Psychotherapy research has acknowledged the importance of examining attrition in therapy. However, researchers consistently neglect to look to the effect of additional fees beyond the every session fee for services on ...
Administrator Job Satisfaction in Higher Education
(2009-12-15)
The purpose of the study was to investigate the job satisfaction of men and women administrators in higher education in four-year public institutions in Alabama. In addition, the study examined whether there was a ...
Administrators' Perceptions of the Impact of No Child Left Behind Compliance on High Poverty, Rural School Systems
(2010-08-04)
Since the publication of a Nation at Risk in 1983, public schools have been through many waves of reform claiming that the enhancement of educational quality provided for all students in public schools was the major goal. ...
Adolescent Action-taking: Associations with Identity Style, Possible Selves, and Parental Support
(2006-05-15)
Action-taking is the intentional behavior in which adolescents engage. Productive
action-taking promotes positive youth outcomes and future goal-achievement. The aims of the current study were to examine variation in ...
Adolescent artistic caricatures and the sharing of art
(2016-05-05)
The assumptions and stereotypes that form the basis of adolescent social groups include caricatures of artists and artistic peers. This exploratory qualitative study is a bricolage in educational psychology with elements ...
Adolescent co-parenting relationships and their effect on parental self-efficacy
(2005-12-15)
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of the structure and quality of the co-residential co-parenting relationships on the self-efficacy of adolescent and young adult unmarried mothers. Forty one predominately ...
ADOLESCENT DEVIANT BEHAVIOR EXAMINED FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE
(2021-08-10)
Researchers have been trying to understand the causes of deviant behaviors for decades. While there is a solid foundation in the past work done in the fields of psychology and criminology, there is also significant work ...
Adolescent Methylmercury Exposure: Behavioral Mechanisms and Protective Effects of Sodium Butyrate and Environmental Enrichment
(2018-04-02)
Whether exposure to methylmercury (MeHg), an environmental neurotoxicant, during adolescence alters the brain and behavior is only beginning to be explored. The continued maturation of mechanisms that control neuronal gene ...
Adolescent Perceived Parenting as a Moderator of the Be SAFE Bullying Prevention Program: Examining the Influence of Parenting on Adolescent Program Outcomes
(2017-07-27)
Evaluations of universal bullying prevention programs often find modest effects on adolescent bullying outcomes. It may be advantageous for those in bullying research to test differential effects of program outcomes via ...
Adolescent Romantic Relationships: Comfort with Intimacy, Parental Warmth and Support, and Exploration of Dating Partner Identity
(2009-05-06)
Adolescent romantic relationships may have a significant and long-lasting impact on important developmental processes and outcomes. The goal of this study was to examine how parental warmth/ support and comfort with intimacy ...
Adolescents' Attitudes towards Counseling by Demographic Group: Before and After a Youth Relationship Education Curriculum
(2008-12-15)
Although marriage relationship education and counseling programs have been shown to be effective in promoting healthy relationships, participants are typically not from diverse backgrounds. Adolescent attitudes towards ...
Adolescents’ Sexual Risk Behaviors: What Roles Do Parental Warmth, Parental Psychological Control, Adolescent Psychological Well-Being and Demographics Play?
(2009-05-15)
Although adolescents’ relationships with their parents have been widely studied, how adolescents’ relationships with their parents are associated with adolescents’ sexuality is one area of research that is beginning to ...
Adoption and Implementation of the Health Watch Screening Program in Community Pharmacies
(2012-11-06)
Biometric screenings are an important first step in the prevention of heart disease, cerebrovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes but accessibility to these screenings can be limited. Community pharmacies are in a unique ...
Adoption of Soil Conservation Practices and Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for Soil Testing in Northern Haiti
(2017-01-27)
This dissertation is organized in three chapters that deal with issues on agricultural development in Haiti. The first chapter presents results from adoption of soil conservation practices in Northern Haiti. Using data ...
Adult Learners in Higher Education: An Examination of Academic, Social and Environmental Needs as Perceived by Adult Learners and Faculty.
(2017-11-27)
In recent years, colleges and universities have witnessed an increase in the number of adult learners entering higher education (Hardin, 2008; Osgood-Treston, 2001). The growth in adult students attending college encourages ...
Adult males with childhood sexual experiences: The role of attachment and coping in psychological adjustment
(2006-12-15)
In the past three decades, the existing literature pertaining to the sexual abuse of boys has expanded. Much of the current male sexual abuse research is directed toward understanding how abused boys later become offenders. ...
Advanced Analytical Treatment of Shapes and Shifts of Hydrogenic Spectral Lines in Plasmas and its Applications
(2018-04-24)
This work presents a detailed analysis and improvement of various aspects of the theory of the Stark broadening of hydrogen and hydrogen-like ions for a broad range of dense plasma parameters, while looking at both the ...
Advanced Characterization of Shape Memory Polymers and Electrospun Conducting Polymers for Engineering Applications
(2023-12-06)
Smart materials are an attractive solution to low cost, low weight and high performance applications. They have multifunctional properties that can be controlled by external stimuli such as light, heat and electricity. ...
Advanced Clustering Methods and Applications for Data Visualization
(2018-04-13)
Categorizing all sorts of data without any label information is one of the most important tasks in preprocessing raw data. To achieve that, an unsupervised learning technique, called clustering, is utilized. Generally, ...
Advanced Computing Techniques in Structural Evaluation of Flexible Pavements Using the Falling Weight Deflectometer
(2012-07-25)
The use of nondestructive deflection testing has become an integral part of the structural evaluation and rehabilitation process of pavements in recent years. The falling weight deflectometer (FWD) is commonly used to ...