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I'm Learning How To Be Me and Loving It: A critical case study of support groups for abused women. Participants perspectives at a women's counseling agency in Philadelphia, PA.
(1991)For my senior thesis, I chose a project that joins together three very important aspects of my undergraduate experience: Psychology, Sociology, and Women's Issues. I designed a research project in which all three interests ... -
A Study on the Partnership of the School, Community, and Family in an Effort to Address the Needs and Prevention of At-Risk, Potential School Drop-outs: Emphasis on The Middle School Years
(1992)The following literature-based paper reports on the topic of At-Risk Potential School Dropouts; who is at risk, why, and and what can be done to stop this unfortunate and potentially, destructive increase. This topic ... -
A Critique of the Incentive Awards Program in the Veterans Health Administration Central Region Office
(1993)This project will compare the VHA's incentive award program with recent theory. Alfie Kohn asserts in his theory that rewards punish. The manipulation of behavior is not a good thing and more specifically, those based ... -
A Study of the Effects of Labelling, Drug Therapy, and Behavior Modification on Children with Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Emphasis on Children through Mid Childhood
(1993)The following paper reports on the effects of labeling, drug therapy, and behavior modification on children who suffer symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This topic originated through my work ... -
A Theoretical and Practical Approach to Volunteer Management
(1994)Volunteerism has been an essential partner in America's growth and progress; it is a source of our country's enduring strength. Americans have always volunteered in great numbers: in community services, politics, religious ... -
Dealing with Domestic Violence: The Kalamazoo Assault Intervention
(1994)In order to examine the counseling program and in order to better understand the problem of domestic violence and the men that batter, it will be helpful to discuss current literature on these subjects. Exploring the ... -
The Faces of Choice: An Ethnography of the Counseling Department at Planned Parenthood of South Central Michigan
(1994)In this paper I examine the organization of Planned Parenthood through participant observation with the help of the counselors, as I explain in the Methodology. In the Review of Literature, I propose a social evolution of ... -
The History of The New England Home for Little Wanderers The Behavior Modification and Milieu Therapy Program at Orchard Home
(1995)Philosophies, strategies, and implementation of treatment services for children are constantly changing to make improvements. There is no one perfect solution to eliminate the crises of children. There are many schools ... -
The Relationship Between Eating Disorders and the Use of Alcohol and Drugs Among First Year Students at Kalamazoo College
(1995)This project explores the relationship between eating disorders and alcohol and drug use in a sample of first year women at Kalamazoo College (n=1 04). A disordered eating risk scale was devised based on the collected ... -
A Case Study of the Characteristics that Shape Learning Disabled Policy in Higher Learning Institutions
(1995)Upon researching the subjects of policy implementation and college policy and the college hierarchy, I began to notice a great lack of information. Almost nowhere was there information readily available on the subject ... -
Upward Evaluation Systems: A Critical Investigation of Upward Evaluation Systems Using the Wayne County Probate Court Supervisory Evaluation Program as a Case Study
(1995)Performance appraisals have been considered an effective management tool for many years by the private sector. It is therefore not surprising that the government sector has embraced the concept. Wayne County instituted ... -
Unity Amid Plurality: Towards Inclusive Theories of Sexual Violence
(1998)For most Kalamazoo College students, their study abroad experience is not one they will soon forget, and I am no exception to this rule. My time in Ecuador was incredible and tumultuous, spanning spectrums of mood, ... -
Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Case Study in Integration
(2001)I have been aware of allopathic medicine and medical philosophies for as long as I can remember. Part of my familiarity with medicine and hospitals is due to the fact that my father is a medical doctor. An even stronger ... -
Expanding freedoms: Applying Amartya Sen's theory of "Development as Freedom" to poor urban women in Oaxaca, Mexico
(2001)The research presented in this paper illustrates poor, urban women's lives in Oaxaca, Mexico. Women in Oaxaca, the poorest state in Mexico, have a life expectancy rate of 77.1 years, versus men's 71.0 years, but have ... -
Quakerism and the Social Construction of Reality; An Exploration of the Variations of Universe Maintenance within Quakerism
(2001)A large portion of human existence is dedicated to the way we understand and relate to the world or, more specifically, our present environment. Whether this process occurs consciously or subconsciously, we rely on certain ... -
Developmentally Disabled Children In the Foster Care System
(2001)"Foster care is intended to offer a supportive family environment to children whose natural parents cannot raise them because of the parents' physical or mental illness, the child's behavioral difficulties, or problems ... -
It's Who I Am: Defining Jewish-American Identity in an Era of Choice
(2002)I am proud of my identity, both as an American and a Jew, but this project has forced me to acknowledge my own issues of ambivalence. The reason I chose this project in the first place was because my immediate reaction ...
