Mirrors, video cameras, and live supervision are used throughout the country to train psychologists. Although this training equipment has been shown to increase self-focused attention, little is known about how this might affect the client's perceptions of the therapeutic relationship. In order to do so, subjects were divided into two different setting groups: Full Training group in which the participant is exposed to all equipment (i.e., two-way mirror, video-recording equipment, and observa...
Amy E Ford.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Robertson, Donald U. Committee members: Maureen McHugh; John Mills.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

In nineteenth-century America, the Biblical figure of Hagar appears frequently, in both art and literature. In literature, Hagar serves as the main character in many sentimental or domestic novels written by and/or about women of the South during the mid-nineteenth-century, where the racial climate from the 1830s through the 1850s became extremely tense over the institution of slavery, as evidenced in many sentimental novels from the 1850s to the latter part of the century. This study will ...
Lynne T Jefferson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Dandurand, Karen Committee members: Ronald Emerick; Joyce Russell.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

The purpose of this study was to gain a greater understanding of the health access and utilization, health risk and preventive behaviors, chronic diseases, and selected public health issues for rural and urban residents of Pennsylvania. Only by the examination of these factors of health can policy makers and health providers make connections and understand the recommendations of implementing health education to prevent the onset of chronic diseases. It is not enough to recognize the data alon...
Kristine Marie Zaragoza Anderson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Yan, Wenfan Committee members: George Bieger; Monte Tidwell.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) involves a goal-directed intervention in which an animal is an integral part of the treatment process. The use of AAT is becoming increasingly popular in a variety of fields, including mental health care. Anxiety is one of the primary psychological constructs that has been addressed through the use of AAT in the mental health field. Although there is a wealth of anecdotal information and supposition to support the use of AAT, as well as some research, there remai...
Tiffani Dawn Morgan.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Husenits, Kimberely Committee members: Mary Jalongo; Cora Lou Sherburne.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

The arrival of countless young North Americans into post-Cold War Central and Eastern Europe coincided with a U.S. recession, the collapse of Soviet influence in the former Warsaw Pact countries, and the consequential easing of travel restrictions. I show how overlooked narrative representations of sojourning Western twentysomethings carving out a space for themselves and negotiating their role in a newly internationalized place demonstrate a redefining of the American expat identity as a per...
Burgsbee Lee Hobbs.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Cahalan, James M. Committee members: Gail Berlin; David Downing.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the motifs of seeing and hearing in the novels of Anne Tyler. Tyler recurrently exposes her characters' strengths and weaknesses through his/her ability, or inability, to see and/or hear. All of Tyler's main characters possess a deficiency that obstructs both his/her view of him/herself and the world that he/she resides in. As each character struggles in the search for self, the search is often obstructed by family history, the structure of th...
Angelique Hobbs Medvesky.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Emerick, Ronald Committee members: Susan Comfort; Karen Dandurand.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

Film in composition: Developing critical thinking skills through the study of film in first-year composition presents an investigation of the application of film study in college writing instruction. The first two chapters argue for the inclusion of film in the teaching of writing; explore the cultural, social, and political relevance of film for the field of composition; and present a review of the theoretical and pedagogical applications of film study in secondary English and first-year wri...
Beatriz Amaya-Anderson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rafoth, Bennett A. Committee members: Linda Norris; Thomas Slater.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

The current study addressed the issues of gender and racial differences in judicial waiver decisions in one state. The study provides an examination of existing juvenile justice research, and augments a neglected area of research regarding girls and judicial waiver. The present research examines the variables that influence the judicial waiver decision for girls and explores the differences between girls and boys who were judicially waived to adult court. This study analyzed Arizona Juveni...
Alison S Burke.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Merlo, Alida V. Committee members: Erika Frenzel; Kathleen Hanrahan; John Lewis.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

This study is an analytical critique of English as a second language (ESL) staff development based on an informed understanding of the field of teacher training that considers the diversity within perceptions and perspectives of the stakeholders. The importance of context will be explored in the district's ESL staff development programs from 2000-2005; in order to evaluate the future needs in mainstream teacher training. The research sites include an elementary, middle and a high school loc...
Holly Sue Hudspath-Niemi.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hanauer, David I. Committee members: Richard McCallum; Gian Pagnucci.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

The purpose of this study was to determine the utility of the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised (HVLT-R), as a brief neuropsychological screening measure of immediate and delayed verbal memory in a mild traumatic brain injury sample. From an archival database, the neuropsychological test scores of a total of 698 subjects with a recent mild-TBI were selected for the study. Age and education effects were analyzed with nonparametric measures. Correlations between the neuropsychological tas...
Stephen Fink.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: LaPorte, David J. Committee members: Michael Franzen; Dasen Luo.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

Accountability has become a major focus in educational reform and an increasing number of states and school districts are adopting policies to end social promotion. These policies generally include mandatory retention for students who fail to meet cut-off scores on high-stakes tests. Despite compelling evidence to the contrary, educators believe that underachieving students need, or deserve, to be retained and will benefit from repeating a grade. Using archival data from a large urban sch...
Deborah Anne Houck.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rafoth, MaryAnn Committee members: William Barker; Joseph Kovaleski; Edward Levinson.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

This experimental study examined the effect of direct instruction in critical thinking on the critical thinking ability and academic achievement of Freshman students being tutored in repeat courses at a rural southeastern Pennsylvania university. This study used the Thinker's Guides, based on Richard Paul's model of critical thinking, and the Rationale Argument Mapping Program, based on the research of Tim van Gelder. Subjects' abstract reasoning and problem solving skills were measured by th...
Sherlynn C Bessick.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rafoth, Mary Ann Committee members: William Barker; Betty Finney; Edward Levinson.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

Utilizing an autobiographical approach by comparing and contrasting my story with other scholars' stories whose social-class backgrounds are similar to mine, and by analyzing this information through the works of scholars whose research has helped others working in the fields of composition and teaching, I explore the crisscrossing of the female sex, working class, and academia. This exploration attempts to uncover the influences of social class and gender on an academic from a working-class ...
Elaine M Kelly.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hurlbert, Claude M. Committee members: Lynne Alvine; Gian Pagnucci.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

The current study sought to examine the theoretical field of intimate partner and domestic violence research. The research focused on integrated social learning, power-control, and fundamental components of intergenerational transmission and male-support theories. The use of the Conflict Tactic Scale (CTS 2), Seller's (2003) social learning subscale, and a combination of measures of power-control theory were used to determine the relative strength of learning, power, and male social networks ...
Keith J Bell.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Gido, Rosemary Committee members: Erika Frenzel; Maureen McHugh; Alida Merlo.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

Academically vulnerable students are becoming a larger than expected component in college classrooms across the country (Perin, 2006; Spann, 2000). These students often show poor performance on class assignments and exams due to a lack of reading and writing skills at a level needed to succeed in a college classroom. Support centers and tutoring services are not equipped to handle the increased volume of academically vulnerable students nor the types of needs these students demand, causing th...
Robin L Quick.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Bieger, George R. Committee members: Anne Creany; Susan Fello.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

This dissertation will analyze Salinger's three main protagonists, Holden Caulfield, Sergeant X, and Seymour Glass, who could not endure the pain of living a spiritual life in America and achieved symbolic or physical death at the end of their stories. It will challenge existential critic William Wiegand, who uses Kierkegaard's concept of "Angst." This dissertation acknowledges Wiegand's use of the concept of "Angst," but it opposes his conclusion because it is not acceptable from an existent...
Esra Kilicci.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Slater, Thomas J. Committee members: Karen Dandurand; Malcolm Hayward.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

The majority of our nation's academic institutions fall short in their efforts to ensure that African American students successfully persist from admission to graduation. Since the majority of African American students attend Predominately White Institutions (PWIs), these institutions must be held to the highest standard of accountability for African American student retention. Therefore, PWIs must explore alternative retention mechanisms that will increase the African American student's inte...
Kahan Sablo.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Yan, Wenfan Committee members: Cathy Kaufman; Monte Tidwell.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

In most urban schools, the number of minority students currently does or is expected to exceed the current number of majority, or Caucasian, students. Training programs need information that can help them diversify the field of school psychology. National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) - accredited programs completed a questionnaire to determine the existence of recruitment policies and to measure the emphasis being placed on specific recruitment strategies. Other factors thou...
Audene Harvey Johnson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Barker, William F. Committee members: Victoria Damiani; Joseph Kovaleski; Edward Levinson.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

The education of children has been a long-standing issue for stakeholders over numerous years. Various literatures recommend that formal learning should begin during the preschool years of a child's life, and must include home-school partnerships. Empirical data has shown that parents and teachers who work together can positively impact a child's success in school. This study sought to gain insight into the phenomenon of parent-teacher interactions in preschools, via the lens of symbolic inte...
Gail Marie Noel.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Darling, Rosalyn Committee members: Susan Boser; Richard Fiene; Kay Snyder.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

"Mother Utters: Struggle and Subversion in the works of Gwendolyn Brooks" explores how Brooks uses women's speech and traditional classical poetic forms to struggle with and subvert the predominant social, moral, and political systems which impede class mobility and impress African Americans in general and African American women in particular. To transform the identity and role of African American women, Brooks assigns central roles to women, particularly to mothers, in most of her early work...
Kamal Ud Din.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Sherwood, Kenneth Committee members: Veronica Watson; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

Employee attrition is disproportionately higher in the field of education, especially among novice teachers (Liu & Meyer, 2005). A recent survey of American teachers, conducted by MetLife (2005), found that 20% reported, "maintaining order and discipline in the classroom is the greatest challenge" (p. 5). The focus of this study was the problem of increased teacher attrition rates due to classroom management issues. The participants in the study attended six classroom management workshops ...
Rebecca D Rockey.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Jalongo, Mary Committee members: Valeri Helterbran; Kelli Paquette.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English