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Uniformed Military Counselors: Effects of Counselor Attire on Potential Client Initial Perceptions and Preferences

Description: This study was undertaken to investigate the influence of a military counselor s attire on potential clients expressed perceptions of and preferences for a counselor. Ninety volunteer participants were selected from a large southwestern Air Force base. Participants ranged in age from 18 to 46 years, with 68 male and 22 female volunteers. Rank was divided into 69 enlisted personnel (56 males and 13 females) and 21 officers (12 males and 9 females). Three videotapes were made depicting a counselo… more
Date: May 1985
Creator: Huddleston, James Ellsworth
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The Student Service Related Problems of International and English as a Second Language Students in a Selected Community College

Description: The study focused on the student service related problems of culturally distinct groups of students attending a community college. The groups selected for the study were sixty international students and sixty English as a Second Language students. The researcher administered the Michigan International Student Problem Inventory, an instrument which has been widely used to indicate foreign students' problems. Combining the use of naturalistic research methodology, the researcher utilized an indep… more
Date: December 1985
Creator: Paez, Georgia Somerville
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Identified Learning Style Characteristics and Academic Performance of Selected Freshman Students

Description: This study investigated: the impact of addition of learning styles identification and interpretation on an existing academic skills improvement program, the effect of student's learning new material at preferred or non-preferred times of day, and learning style characteristics for different sexes, ethnic groups, and college majors. Student GPAs and probationary status were compared for 144 freshman students admitted on Individual Approval status, i.e., 71 students who completed the Academic Ski… more
Date: August 1985
Creator: Rossman, Mary H. (Mary Honts)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Interactional Patterns in Families of Patients with Breast Cancer

Description: This study utilized ethnographic methodology to describe the communicative interactional patterns in families with a member who has breast cancer. Three breast cancer patients whose families were between the adolescent and launching of children developmental lifestage (McGoldrick & Carter, 1982) were chosen for the study. Data were collected from a series of three interview sessions over a period of four weeks with a two week time lapse between each of the interview sessions. Interview sessions… more
Date: August 1985
Creator: Bailey, A. Kathleen (Ann Kathleen)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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