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Delivery Of Community Mental Health Services Through A 5-Session Group Therapy Module, Annie Lee Jones

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore one possible way to facilitate change in low-income groups through the use of a time-limited group therapy program. It was hoped that through the documentation of change with each case in the study it would be shown that change was possible for low-income persons utilizing psychotherapy, especially with realistic assessment of problems and the setting of realistic goals by the client and therapist.

The assessment data was obtained for each case through these instruments: A. Problems Checklist; B. Personal Data Sheet; C. The Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale; D. The Levenson Internal-External Scale; …

A Zooarchaeological Analysis Of Vertebrate Remains From Chota-Tanasi, A Historic Cherokee Village In East Tennessee, Arthur E. Bogan

Masters Theses

This study involves the examination and analysis of a faunal sample from the historic Overhill Cherokee village of Chota-Tanasi (4MR2-40MR62), Monroe County, Tennessee. A total of 33,385 pieces of bone was examined in an effort to determine which animals were utilized by the Cherokee and the probably importance of each species in the Cherokee diet. Analyses of this material showed that deer, bear, and turkey were the most important animals contributing to the meat diet. Ethnographic and historic sources suggest that the introduction of trade guns may have led to increased exploitation of the bear. Available data indicate that bison …

Technical Bulletins: U.S. Supreme Court Voids Flsa Amendments Affecting Local And State Governments, Eugene Puett

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

On June 24, 1976, the Supreme Court of the United States decided the case of National League of Cities, et al. v. Usery, Secretary of Labor. The League and a number of cities and states had challenged the validity of the 1974 amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act extending the Act's minimum wage and maximum hours provisions to almost all employees of states and their political subdivisions.

Technical Bulletins: Improving Productivity In The Smaller City, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Because of the growing interest in productivity improvement (getting the most for your money), MTAS District Consultant E. W. Meisenhelder developed a basic checklist for officials in cities under 10,000 population to use as a starting point in evaluating their own operations. It is divided among the four general subjects of finance, public works, public safety, and general administration.

A Comparative Investigation Of Fantasy In Normal And Behaviorally Deviant Latency-Aged Boys, Elgan L. Baker

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to compare the fantasies of normal and deviant males between the ages of 8 and 10 in order to determine if systematic differences exist between the two groups. Further, the study attempted to delineate differences between the two deviant subgroups: Withdrawn children and Acting-Out children. The fantasies were examined both in terms of structure and content.

Thirty boys were selected from the Fayette County, Ky. public school system on the basis of normal intelligence, average school performance, middle class socioeconomic status and freedom from overt behavior problems. These children formed the Normal group. The …

The Morphology Of The Axillary Border Of The Scapula With Special Reference To The Neandertal Problem, Carol B. Dittner

Masters Theses

Controversy concerning Neandertal man’s place in anatomically modern man’s ancestry continues today, 120 years after the discovery of the first Neandertal at Dusseldorf. The major emphasis of this controversy concerns the cranium. In the postcranial material, however, there are two areas which exhibit morphological differences from modern man, all other postcranial features being within the ranges of variation of modern man. These two different postcranial features are: the morphology of the superior pubic ramus of the innominate and the morphology of the axillary border of the scapula. This thesis is concerned with the latter feature.

While the axillary borders of …

Religious Broadcasting In America: A Regulatory History And Consideration Of Issues, Gary R. Drum

Masters Theses

The purpose of the research gathered in this thesis was to bring together an ordered history of federal regulation of religious-affiliated broadcast licensees and to consider the issues raised in such regulation.

The work consists of (1) a detailed analysis of the thirty-five sectarian licensees that were in operation during the regulatory period of the Federal Radio Commission from 1927 to 1934; (2) a chronology of cases involving sectarian licensees considered by the Federal Communications Commission from 1934 to 1976; (3) a discussion of landmark cases relating to the issues of private property, limitation of access, freedom of speech, and …

Stimulus, Vol. 1, No. 3, Ut College Of Social Work

Stimulus Alumni Newsletter

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of The 1953 Tennessee Home Rule Amendment (2nd Edition), Victor C. Hobday

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

Since the first edition of this work was published in 1956 a number of pertinent cases have been decided by the Tennessee courts. This edition includes these cases along with the original material still considered to be relevant.

Technical Bulletins: Estimate Of 1982-83 State Shared Funds For Cities, Ken Joines

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

A summary of what cities were expected to receive from the state shared funds for the 1982-83 fiscal year.

Technical Bulletins: Davis-Bacon Fact Sheet, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin goes over the wage rate requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act and its regulations, 29 CFR Parts 1, 3, 5, and 7.

Technical Bulletins: Effects Of New State Sales Tax Law On Tennessee Cities, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses the effects of the act increasing the state sales tax rate from 3.5% to 4.5%, effective April 1, 1976.

An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Extrinsic And Intrinsic Outcomes And Anticipated Job Satisfaction, Attitudes Toward Management, And Attitudes Toward Unions, Douglas P. Massengill

Doctoral Dissertations

One hundred sixty-seven trainees at a vocational training school were provided with job descriptions in which the levels of intrinsic and extrinsic outcomes along with whether or not the jobs were unionized were varied. Ss then completed questionnaires to assess anticipated reactions to the jobs.

It was predicted that both intrinsic and extrinsic outcomes would be related to anticipated job satisfaction, that whether or not a job was unionized would moderate the relationship between extrinsic outcomes and anticipated attitudes towards management, that only extrinsic outcomes would be related to anticipated attitudes toward a union, and that only extrinsic outcomes would …

Stimulus, Vol. 1, No. 2, Ut College Of Social Work

Stimulus Alumni Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Technical Bulletins: Update On Technical Report No. 2 - State Street Aid Fund: Proper And Improper Uses, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

William J. Haynes, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, issued Opinion No. 119 on May 22, 1975. Because of this opinion it now appears that a municipality may use State Street Aid revenue to pay the electric bills for street lighting. This was item No. 8 on the list of improper uses of State Street Aid Funds (MTAS's Technical Report No. 2).

Governor James K. Polk Of Tennessee: An Administrative Appraisal, Joseph M. Pukl Jr.

History Publications and Other Works

While James K. Polk’s administrative record as governor of Tennessee from 1839 to 1841 has been over shadowed by the more interesting partisan bickering of the era, his term in office saw continued legislative activity in the areas of banking, internal improvements and education. Throughout his single-term as governor, Polk was interested more in national affairs and was satisfied to correct abuses rather than to pursue new initiatives. He was active, however, in advancing ideas to get the state out from under the effects of the Panic of 1837. Polk adequately fulfilled his duties as governor but was not an …

Stimulus, Vol. 2, No. 1, Ut College Of Social Work

Stimulus Alumni Newsletter

No abstract provided.

An Energy Program For Tennessee Cities, Municipal Technical Advisory Service

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This Energy Program has been designed and developed to provide specific guidance to cities in implementing an energy management program. Much information is produced today from a myriad of sources on the need to conserve our energy resources, but little information is given on how to systematically deal with the problem. What follows is intended to be an outline of "how to do it."

University Of Tennessee Library Lectures, 1973-1975 (No. 25-27)

University of Tennessee Library Lecture Series

In 1973, the University of Tennessee Library departed from the tradition of inviting a distinguished librarian or library educator to deliver the annual Library Lecture. To mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the series, a distinguished library user was asked to address the library community from the viewpoint of one whom the library serves. Historian Robin W. Winks of Yale University presents an eloquent, even classic argument for the library's role as collector and repository of society's records.

Dr. Morris Philipson, publisher and scholar, assesses the complex economic and intellectual interdependencies of scholar, publisher, and university administrator in the twenty-sixth lecture. …

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials 1976-77, Mtas

Municipal Directories

A directory of Tennessee cities that includes personnel and municipal data, such as number of employees, population, charter form, size in square miles, and election date, for 1976-77.

Technical Bulletins: Flsa Amendments Being Enforced For All Municipal Employees, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin clarifies aspects of the Fair Labor Standards Act, making Tennessee cities aware that the Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor, includes all city employees except fire and police personnel in audits of hours worked and wages paid.

Technical Bulletins: How Well Do You Talk To Your Troops?, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

At the 1975 Public Relations Society of America national conference in New York City, several keys to good employee communications were discussed. These key points are outlined in this Technical Bulletin.

Investigation Of The Interaction Of D-Amphetamine And Amantadine Hydrochloride Using Repeated Acquisitions With Serial Reversal Discriminations, Elizabeth Dozier Jones

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this series of studies was to investigate the interaction of d-amphetamine and amantadine hydrochloride employing serial discrimination reversals with repeated acquisitions. Specifically, the blockade of the effects of d-amphetamine by amantadine hydrochloride was investigated.

In meeting this goal, dose-response curves were determined independently for d-amphetamine and amantadine hydrochloride. The dose-response curve for d-amphetamine indicated that the 0.5 mg/kg dosage provided for optimal discrimination of SDR, while dosages of 1.0 mg/kg and 2.0 mg/kg proved to be disruptive. The experiments investigating amantadine hydrochloride indicated that dosages above 10 mg/kg were detrimental to the discrimination task, while dosages below …

Stimulus, Vol. 1, No. 1, Ut College Of Social Work

Stimulus Alumni Newsletter

No abstract provided.

A Synthesis And Interpretation Of The Hamilton Mortuary Pattern In East Tennessee, Patricia Ellen Cole

Masters Theses

The goals of this investigation are to investigate status and rank and to suggest a possible model of the social organization of the builders of Late Woodland burial mounds on the basis of intrasite burial patterning, to determine the pattern of relationships among a sample of East Tennessee burial mounds, and to provide a general characterization of the Hamilton burial complex. Despite previous investigations of this burial complex, earlier works have failed to provide satisfactory treatment of these problems.

Data on individual burials from site 40RE124 were analyzed using tests of significance, a crosstabulatinn. of variable correlations, and a factor …

A Demographic Analysis Of Skeletons From The Larson Site (39ww2), Walworth County, South Dakota, Douglas William Owsley

Masters Theses

Paleodemographic analysis of 706 skeletons recovered from the Larson site (39WW2), Walworth County, South Dakota, is presented. The site was a protohistoric Arikara village and cemetery dating to approximately A. O. 1750-1781. Major objectives of this study were to reconstruct vital statistics of the Larson population and to determine population size of the village which contributed to the cemetery.

Analysis was accomplished using a life table methodology assuming a stationary population model. Vital statistics examined include data on mortality, survivorship, age-specific probability of death, life expectancy, and crude mortality rates. Interpopulation comparisons were made with other American Indian and world …

A Method Of The Determination Of Sex From Artificially Deformed American Indian Crania, Sharon A. Bolt

Masters Theses

Birkby (1966) cautions against the use of discriminant functions based on American Whites and Negroes to determine the sex of American Indian skeletal material. Two problems become apparent in the application of these methods to American Indian crania; (1) the existence of population differences in craniometric means and ranges of variation between American Indians and American Whites and Negroes; (2) the influence of artificial cranial deformation characteristic of many series of American Indian skeletal material. This study develops a multivariate discriminant function for the determination of sex in Arikara Indian crania and demonstrates its applicability to artificially deformed crania from …

Sources Of Political Instability And Stability In Iran, 1779-1973, Ahmad Pishva

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to define and examine the main sources of political instability and stability which existed in Iran between 1779 and 1973. The magnitude of the political, social, and economic changes in Iran during this period fostered an atmosphere in which the elements of both instability and stability prevailed.

The study dealt with four distinct political periods. The first period examined was that of the Qajar Dynasty (1779-1925). The second period dealt with was the modernization of Iran under Reza Shah (1926-1941). The third period discussed was the early segment of the reign of Mohammad Reza …

The Role Of Ferry Crossings In The Development Of The Transportation Network In East Tennessee, 1790-1974, Tyrel Gilce Moore Jr.

Masters Theses

This thesis examines the role of ferry crossings in the development of East Tennessee's transportation network. Because of the number of streams in the area, ferries were widely used and this study traces their changing location and influence from the 1790's to 1974.

The study revealed that ferry crossings were among the area's earliest internal improvements and that they were the principal method of stream crossing on regularly traveled routes from the 1790's to the late 1920's. In addition to serving as a relatively reliable means of stream crossing, ferry sites took on a variety of functions during this period. …

Technical Bulletins: Special Unemployment Assistance Update, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletins provides updates to the Special Unemployment Assistance (SUA) program as applied to Tennessee municipal employees.