Medical knowledge and functional assessment are analyzed with scaled measurement instruments and qualitative data from interview narratives. Focusing on functional ability after an acute stroke event, this dissertation presents an account of functional independence in self-care …
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Research has suggested that family functioning is a critical proximal outcome in family-based interventions and mediates the long-term outcomes of youth. However, it is rarely studied and not fully understood as a proximal treatment outcome. Based on the clear need to further un…
In 2002 Functional Family Parole (FFP), a family-based approach to parole based on Functional Family Therapy (FFT), was implemented across the state of Washington due to questions regarding the effectiveness of traditional parole services in reducing recidivism among juvenile pa…
There is a strong need for family focused, effective, and reproducible treatment options to help deal with the multiple consequences of a disruptive disorder. Limited funds require communities to carefully investigate evidenced based treatment options. When a selection is made, …
A central theoretical framework in person perception research characterizes changes in children's person descriptions across age as a concrete-to-abstract shift. Empirical support exists for this shift; physical characteristics predominate in young children's descriptions, while…
Models of marital and family therapy have developed almost exclusively within General Systems Theory (GST), where distressed families are thought of as mutually causative systems. Structural Family Therapy (SFT) evolved out of GST, and views the family as the "patient" and the p…
Conflict between parents and adolescent children is a problem in many families. This practicum report describes the use of an integrated structural/functional family therapy framework with this population. The report reviews the adolescent phase of the individual life cycle, the…
This study assessed the effectiveness of Hoffman's (1987) Initial Engagement Stage (IES) adaptation of the functional family therapy (FFT) model in engaging single-parent families in family therapy. Twenty-four single-parent families were randomly assigned to two groups. IES pho…
Filial obligations are moral requirements that adult children have for the well-being of their parents. These obligations are non-voluntary special obligations. An examination of selected cultural (classical Greek and imperial Chinese), religious (Judaic, Islamic and Christian) …
Partner violence is a widespread problem with consequences reaching far beyond the immediate family members. It has devastating effects on the victims, their children, their families, and their communities. Researchers have long studied the economic, situational, sociopsychologi…
A child health production function is presented with the key feature being an interaction term between a caregiver's schooling and their exposure time to the child. I estimate the production function using a 2SLS fixed effects model with lagged child care time, resource allocati…
This research explored how Arab American couples found the strength and resilience that empowered them to overcome the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the aftereffects that followed. Utilizing a family resiliency model grounded in systems theory and social constructionis…
The global trend of economic liberalization is yielding unexpected results. Instead of increasing cross-national uniformity and the development of formal civil and political organizations, international interdependence has been accompanied by the rise of a plethora of ascriptive…
Fresh Blood, A Consideration of Belonging is the script and theoretical treatment of a critical video essay by the same title and under my preferred name, b.h. Yael. Fresh Blood is an autobiographically derived examination of subjectivity in the intersections of racialized ident…
This study investigated factors that affect parents' decisions to send their girls to school, in contrast to their boys, in a rural area of The Gambia, West Africa. Though arguments for girls' education are compelling, more girls are still out of school in most developing countr…
The reactions of people toward persons living with AIDS have been studied from different theoretical perspectives. Most of these studies have been conducted in the United States and Western Europe. A small number of studies, however, have been conducted in developing countries. …
Globally we are becoming increasingly multicultural. An understandable result of this would be more marriages between cultures and religions. To date, there has not been a tremendous amount of research in the area of cross-cultural marriages. Therefore couples involved in these …
The dissertation consists of essays entitled "Changes in Female Labor Force Participation in Brazil 1976-1990: Pushed by Need or Pulled by Opportunity?"; "How Do Family Planning Worker Visits Affect Women's Behavior in Bangladesh?" and "Is Doorstep Delivery of Contraceptives Equ…
There is considerable evidence that dowry payments in India have not only increased over the last five decades, but that the custom has spread into regions and communities where it was never practiced before. The aim of this thesis is to understand why these changes have occurre…