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Review Of Dividing The Child: Social And Legal Dilemmas Of Custody. Eleanor E. Macoby And Robert H. Mnookin With Charlene E. Depner And H. Elizabeth Peters. Reviewed By Terri Combs-Orme, University Of Tennessee., Terri Combs-Orme

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review. E. Maccoby and Robert H. Mnookin with Charlene E. Depner and H. Elizabeth Peters. Dividing the Child: Social and Legal Dilemmas of Custody. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. $39.95 hardcover.

Review Of Vision And Aging: Crossroads For Service Delivery. Albert L. Orr. Reviewed By James A. Leja, Western Michigan University., James A. Leja

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Orr, Alberta L., Vision and Aging: Crossroads for Service Delivery. New York: American Foundation for the Blind. 1992. $29.95 papercover.

Review Of Adolescents And Aids. Ralph J. Diclemente. Reviewed By Ronald Mancoske, Southern University., Ronald Mancoske

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Ralph J. DiClemente. Adolescents and AIDS. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992. $17.95 papercover.

Review Of The Coming Health Crisis: Who Will Pay For Care For The Aged In The 21st Century. John R. Wolfe. Reviewed By James Midgley, Louisiana State University, James Midgley

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

John R. Wolfe. The Coining Health Crisis: Who Will Pay for Care for the Aged in the 21st Century. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993. $22.50 hardcover.

Review Of Old Age Security In Comparative Perspective. John B. Williamson And Fred C. Pampel., James Midgley

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

John B. Williamson and Fred C. Pampel. Old Age Security in Comparative Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. $49.95 hardcover.

International And Transracial Adoptions. Christopher Bagley With Loretta Young And Anne Scully.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Christopher Bagley with Loretta Young and Anne Scully. International and Transracial Adoptions. Aldershot, England: Avebury, 1993. $66.95 hardcover. (Distributed in the United States by Ashgate Publishing Co. Brookfield, VT).

Child Abuse: Towards A Knowledge Base. Brian Corby.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Brian Corby. Child Abuse: Towards a Knowledge Base. Buckingham, England: Open University Press, 1993. $32.50 papercover. (Distributed in the United States by Taylor and Francis, 1900 Frost Road, Bristol, PA 19007).

Leaving Home Before Marriage: Ethnicity, Familism And Generational Relationships. Francis K. Goldscheider And Calvin Goldscheider.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Frances K. Goldscheider and Calvin Goldscheider. Leaving Home Before Marriage: Ethnicity, Familism and Generational Relationships. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. $27.50 hardcover.

The Politics Of Readjustment: Vietnam Veterans Since The War. Wilbur J. Scott.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Wilbur J. Scott. The Politics of Readjustment: Vietnam Veterans Since the War. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1993. $47.95 hardcover, $23.95 papercover.

Women And The American Legal System: All Men Are Created Equal, Jennifer L. Emma

Honors Theses

In the melting pot of American society, the concept of law cannot be underestimated. American society is based upon racial, ethnic, and religious diversity, all converged under one legal system. The premise of the American legal system is that everyone, regardless of their status in society, is held accountable under the same laws of the land. Since everyone is represented in the law, it is their civic duty to abide by these laws. The basis of a constitutional society is law; it replaced the old monarchy systems of Europe with one of equality. In the United States of the 1990's, …

Direction—Continuity—Accomplishment—A Friends’ Personality, Gordon Eriksen

Gatherings: Friends of the University Libraries Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Information Literacy And Hypermedia, Lance Query

Gatherings: Friends of the University Libraries Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Gatherings No. 6 Spring 1994, Friends Of The University Libraries

Gatherings: Friends of the University Libraries Newsletter

Complete issue of Gatherings no. 6. Edited by Laurel Grotzinger.

"I’Ll Do It Tomorrow." A Radical Behavioral Analysis Of Procrastination, Cassandra Ann Braam

Dissertations

This study examined the problem of procrastination or the failure to complete tasks. Five similar rules were presented to five, four-year-old children, using a multielement design. The rules described contingencies varying in the specification of delays in the delivery of consequences and deadlines. In addition, a general statement of disapproval of procrastination was presented one time, in addition to a rule specifying a delayed consequence with no deadline, to determine its effect on an established pattern of procrastination. The results showed (a) rules specifying delayed consequences (indirect-acting contingencies) with no deadlines did not reliably control behavior, (b) rules specifying immediate …

The Effects Of A Therapy Review Board Procedure On Denial And Self-Disclosure Of Incarcerated Sex Offenders, Richard Martin Happel

Dissertations

The clinical practice of assessing sex offenders was the focus of this study. Using a pretest-posttest, nonrandomized control-group design, the research compared two groups of incarcerated sex offenders. The study investigated whether or not a one-hour assessment inter— view, conducted by prison psychologists, reduced denial and increased self-disclosure. Also the study investigated whether both groups differed on the basis of the sex deviance patterns of rape, pedophilia, and exhibitionism .

The study's independent variable was the one-hour interview. The dependent variable was the Multiphasic Sex Inventory (MSI): a 300-item true/false inventory administered to sex offenders after discovery (Nichols and Molinder, …

Music To Our Ears, Greg Fitzgerald

Gatherings: Friends of the University Libraries Newsletter

No abstract provided.

At Your Service: Waldo's Federal Depository, Michael Mcdonnell

Gatherings: Friends of the University Libraries Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Investigation Of Past Performance And Sources Of Motivation On Team And Self-Efficacy Of Collegiate Soccer Players, Kevin P. Demers

Masters Theses

This study investigated the relationship between past performance and sources of motivation on team and self-efficacy of collegiate soccer players. The subjects of this study were 92 male collegiate soccer players who participated in MIAA competition in the fall of 1992. Data were collected from team and self-efficacy questionnaires modified for this study. A sport motivation scale from Butt's (1987) Sport Protocol was also used to collect data. The findings of this study indicated that (a) past performance is the primary variable in predicting team efficacy; (b) the coach's rating of player ability was a stronger source of self-efficacy than …

The Effects Of Utilitarianism On Performance Appraisal And Selected Output Measures In A Weberian Bureaucracy, Donald Wayne Wright

Dissertations

The research explored whether or not a relationship existed between the performance appraisal criteria used by the Social Security Administration and actual performance between 1984 and 1990. The issue was whether or not either of the diverse sets of performance appraisal criteria was more effective in improving performance than the other and whether or not base pay should be tied to the results of the performance appraisal system.

The methodology for this study was both quantitative and qualitative. The qualitative technique of content analysis was done on the sets of performance appraisal criteria to assess the extent to which each …

Using Differential Outcome To Teach Medication Discriminations To Head Injured Adults, Scott C. Votava

Masters Theses

In attempt to replicate the DOE in teaching medication discriminations, the efficiency of differential outcomes and nondifferential outcomes procedures was compared. Additionally, the effects of the differential outcome procedures and nondifferential outcomes procedures upon generalization probes to novel medications were investigated. Finally, the effects of differential and nondifferential outcome procedures on probes to real medications were investigated. The results showed the differential outcome procedure employed produced the desired discrimination more rapidly than the nondifferential outcome procedure. No conclusive statement can be made regarding data obtained in generalization probes or in probes with real medications.

Guiding The Wild Heart: Steering The State Safely Between Scylla And Charybdis, Robert P. Brown

Dissertations

Organizational life and social culture compel individuals toward more radical manifestations of individualism as bureaucracy and society increasingly define personal relationships by rules, regulations and rights. Otherwise incompatible with individualism, this actually contributes to individual and group differentiation when individuals function simply as technicians without the opportunity to gain fulfillment, and they experience existential isolation, becoming detached from their moral and spiritual side. For identity in and control over their own lives, people engage in even more individualistic behavior: working, planning, attaining, or rebelling. The true meanings of freedom and individual rights are perverted and trivialized by this radical individualism …

Mystical And Out-Of-Body Experiences As Perceived By Counselors: Difference In Attitude Toward Self And Client, Douglas W. Bentley

Dissertations

The major purpose of this three-part study was to contribute to the body of knowledge concerned with mystical and out-of-body experiences (OBE) in the counselor relationship. The first part of the study was descriptive in nature. The study evaluated through a survey, designed by the researcher, the likelihood of client reporting to a counselor having had a mystical or out-of-body experience. Additionally, the descriptive part of the study asked counselors to report their own personal mystical and out-of-body experiences. Next, the study counted important demographic variables of both the counselor and the clients of the counselor.

The second part of …

The Relationships Among One's Beliefs Regarding Divine Sovereignty Versus Human Freedom, Procedures For Discerning The Will Of God, And Internal-External Locus Of Control, Timothy M. Robinson

Dissertations

Using the Category and Regression Trees (CART) analysis, some correlative distinctions were detected, but there were no significant differences found in the hypothesized directions concerning the relationships among the three main variables of the study.

For the validation, the DGW instrument was field tested with mature Christian leaders, students from a community college, a Christian liberal arts college, and an Evangelical seminary. The items on mature discernment scale of the DGW were validated, and using multiple comparisons, expected significant differences were found between the two college groups and the seminary students on both the mature discernment subscale and the supernatural …

Review Of Reinventing Government: How The Entrepreneurial Spirit Is Transforming The Public Sector. David Osborne And Ted Gaebler. Reviewed By Mark Lusk, Boise State University., Mark W. Lusk

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

For most, the concept of a public entrepreneur is an oxymoron much like military music. But for a new generation of thinkers, such as those at the Progressive Policy Institute, government can be held accountable to its constituency by combining democratic representation with lessons learned in the marketplace. Therein lies the essence of a series of publications of which the present volume is among the better recent examples. Beginning with Peter Drucker's Age of Discontinuity in 1968 and culminating in the 1991 publication of Susan Rose- Ackerman's Rethinking the Progressive Agenda, non-conservatives have been considering the importance of market forces …

Structural Social Work: Ideology, Theory And Practice. Robert Mullaly.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Robert Mullaly. Structural Social Work: Ideology, Theory and Practice. Toronto, Canada: McClelland and Stewart, 1993. $19.95 papercover.

Effectively Teaching African American Social Welfare Historical Developments, Wilma Peebles-Wilkins

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

A select group of African American and other educators continue to develop literature on African American social welfare. As this literature increases and is subjected to scholarly exchange and debate, educators are beginning to raise questions about effective teaching strategies for integrating the content into the curriculum and effectively delivering the content through classroom lectures and discussions. In addition to concerns about the content being "heard", black educators are concerned that African Americans not always be depicted historically as helpless individuals who were the "white man's burden" and are also concerned about the broad characterization of African American Social Welfare …

Introduction - The Legacy Of African-American Leadership In Social Welfare, Iris Carlton-Laney

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The legacy of African-American leadership in social welfare history is only recently finding space in social work literature. The small number of professional journals in social work that publish historical articles, along with institutionalized resistance to the acknowledgement of African-Americans contributions to the development of the profession, have contributed to this dearth of scholarship. The results have been that many professionals are disinclined to perceive of African-Americans as resourceful, skilled and powerful. Instead, the theme of pathology permeates social work literature, teaching, and ultimately social work practice. The social work profession emphasizes the importance of diversity, yet fails to acknowledge …