Full inclusion is a movement based upon the notion that all students, regardless of the type of disability, should be educated entirely in the same general education classrooms as their same-age peers. Advocates of a policy of full inclusion...
Increasingly, educators instruct students with special needs in general instead of special education classrooms even though little evidence exists suggesting that students with disabilities exhibit relatively increased academic responding and...
This thesis dealt with one aspect of the proposition that rural mental health care is different than urban mental health care. This aspect is the assumption that the population of children seen at a rural mental health clinic is different from the...
Despite the growing number of students with disabilities receiving an increasing share of their education in inclusive classrooms, there is little evidence that inclusion increases academic responding or social interactions. The current...
The primary focus of the current study was to explore the academic engaged time and the accelerators of academic responses of students with mental retardation in general education and resource room settings. Observations were conducted using a...
Marsha Linehan developed Dialectical Behavior Theory (DBT) for the treatment of borderline personality disorder in 1991. Because of DBT’s success, the treatment has spread to other populations and disorders. Due to the poor ratio of theoretical...
Critical care nurses work in a fast-paced and sometimes volatile work environment. Compassion fatigue is a risk that nurses and other helping professionals face. It is a secondary traumatic stress disorder similar to post-traumatic stress disorder...
This study was designed to survey Kansas authors, either by birth or residence who have had recent books published for children or adolescents. A summary of each author's work was included with a biographical sketch. In the biographical sketch of...
Inclusion is a term used to describe the placement of students with special needs in general education. A primary goal of full inclusion stresses the socialization between students with disabilities and their general education peers instead of...
The current trend in special education involves providing services for students with disabilities in general education settings instead of pull-out programs (Cheney & Muscott, 1996). Surprisingly, there is little or no evidence that indicates...
In the last several decades the field of education has moved from educating special education students in separate or self-contained classrooms to more inclusive settings. For students with mild disabilities inclusion settings have shown to be...
In recent years, speech-language pathologists and audiologists have been made more aware of the need of infection control procedures. Routine use of clinical equipment may spread infection. Audiometers and tympanometers are included in this...
The focus of the current study was to examine the academic responding and the social interactions of students with learning disabilities LD in three educational settings: resource room, inclusive classroom, and general education. Two third grade...
The current trend in special education involves providing services for students with disabilities in general education settings instead of pull-out programs (Cheney & Muscott, 1996), even students with mental retardation (MR). While inclusion may...
The research focus of inclusion in the general education programs is often directed toward the students who have been identified as eligible for special education services. The research on the effects of inclusion on typically developing students...
Historically, students with behavioral difficulties have been educated in self-contained rooms or in separate educational settings. Recently, the educational field has moved to teaching students with special needs in an inclusive setting. In such...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the concerns of middle school students in urban and rural school settings. The independent variables investigated were residential background, ethnic background, gender, grade placement, age, and...
Attribution has always been a problem for schools of nursing. Fueled by an intensifying nursing shortage, faculty are under more pressure to address attribution.
A correlational non-experimental design was used to examine the relationships...
This study examined the possible relationship between the level of education of registered nurses and their caring behaviors in home health. The purpose of this research was to help provide the nursing profession with a better understanding of the...
The goal of this study is to evaluate the public relations textbooks that are used in Saudi Arabia’s universities. The evaluation uses Public Relations Society of America suggestions and guidelines on the scope and content of undergraduate...
Invasion by nonnative plants is particularly prevalent in wetlands. While the ecological patterns in wetland plants are well known, it is less well known how flooding-related soil conditions influence the physiological success of introduced species...
This study examines infection control practices in the clinical education of university speech-language pathology and audiology programs. Responses to surveys are presented from 114 of227 accredited programs, for a 50% return. Specific questions...
In preparing for a trip to Mexico in 1983 and writing a paper about Pre-Columbian art, I discovered an art that was mysterious, spiritual, yet possessed an honesty I admired. The Pre-Columbian approach to art can best be felt in these lines from an...
Intimidation and disruptive behavior can undermine patient care and cause staff dissatisfaction and turnover of professionals in the health care setting. These behaviors have been linked to patient safety issues, nurse satisfaction, nurse...
The present research was designed to examine the relationships between co-parenting, facets of marital distress, and perceived child behaviors using participants from nonclinical settings 45 married parents of children between the ages of 6 and...
Job satisfaction is one of the most often mentioned constructs in the theoretical and descriptive literature related to nurses' burnout, commitment, and turnover. Little of the published research has focused on nurses employed in non-urban,...
The literature review indicated that many studies have been conducted regarding knowledge or attitudes toward HIV/AIDS. However, research remains inconclusive regarding knowledge and attitudes or rural nurses toward HIV/AIDS. Research reported have...
In today's healthcare providing an atmosphere that facilitates nurses to be empowered and satisfied with their job is a challenge for hospitals and nursing administrators. The nursing environment provides the elements necessary for nurses to...
Nursing job satisfaction is an important component in today's healthcare environment. Job satisfaction, nurse recruitment, and retention are related throughout current nursing literature (LaSala, 2000; Muus et at, 1993; Stratton et al., 1991;...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate opinions of recovering substance abuse counselors concerning unique dual relationships. The independent variables were length of time in recovery, length of time in field (amount of work experience),...
The way patients view the care they receive has far reaching implications for the healthcare environment. Nurses need to know what constitutes caring behaviors for their patients. Because of nurses’ constant interaction with patients and...
The purpose of this investigation was to examine patient satisfaction with nurse practitioner care and caring at two selected rural nurse-managed healthcare centers in a mid-west county. This investigation was a partial replication of a study done...
Obtaining and retaining adequate human resources has always been a major concern for rural hospitals. Present and future trends in supply of health care professionals make recruiting and retaining professionals even more critical, particularly for...
This thesis had four purposes. These were to study the: (a) information network that exists among clergy and mental health workers; (b) referral network that exists among clergy and mental health workers; (c) factors that inhibit pastors' referrals...
Current research indicates that family environment factors can affect a person's psychological well-being. However, there tends to be a paucity of research investigating whether or not these various family environment factors are associated with...
The purpose of this study was to investigate school violence and its effects on secondary teachers in rural Kansas settings. The subjects were chosen from 8 rural Kansas school districts. Demographic information was included on all surveys; this...
The present study examined the effectiveness of teaching a self-questioning semantic association strategy as a memory aid in group and individual settings. Students who had completed the first grade were utilized as subjects. Those subjects who...
The Brown-Peterson task (Brown. 1958: Peterson& Peterson. 1959) is a widely used procedure to test short term memory decay. The Brown-Peterson task presents participants with items to be recalled with short periods of distraction between the...
The past decade has seen a greater emphasis and focus on alternative medicine, fostering a more holistic approach within health care. With an increasing commitment to holistic care, conceptualization and understanding of spirituality is being...
Research has shown that clients with severe and persistent mental illness often suffer from the effects of stigma (Angermeyer, Link, & Majcher-Angermeyer, 1987; Brockington, Hall, Levings, & Murphy, 1993; Corrigan, 1998; Goodwin & Madell, 2002;...
The purpose of this study was to assess the value of the off-campus externship program in speech-language pathology at Fort Hays State University. This was done from both student and supervisor perspectives by evaluating student preparation for the...
This study investigated the perceptions of regular education teachers about the best placement of students with learning disabilities, emotional-behavioral disabilities, and mental retardation. Teachers from five suburban elementary schools were...
The primary purpose or the current study was to explore the academic engagement and social functioning that was exhibited by students with learning disabilities (LD) when instructed in the resource room and in regular education with and without the...
The experiment examined the effect of a darkness contingency upon cooperative and noncooperative play. The study was divided into four phases: first baseline, first experimental, extinction, and second experimental sessions. During the...
"Video self-modeling (VSM) is a type of intervention that has been developed to assist students in viewing themselves successfully in a wide variety of domains. Previous research regarding VSM states that it is beneficial to children with autism...
This study deals with the response of white novelists of the 1920's to the Negro Renaissance and white-promulgated Negro vogue. During the twenties there was a deluge of white-written literature about the Negro. In order to make a valid examination...
McCrae (1993-1994, 1996) recognizes the need for further research between the personality domain of Openness to Experience and the closely related field of cognitive styles. McCrae (1996) asserts that the construct measured by the Kirton...
Kirton's Adaption-Innovation Theory of cognitive style and the Kirton Adaption Innovation Inventory (KAI) have been applied to organizational settings, but they have not previously been utilized in clinical psychology. The KAI and...
Previous studies have shown that people who are asked leading or suggestive questions are affected by the way the question was asked and can make erroneous responses (Stern, 1939; Harris, 1973; Loftus & Palmer, 1974). The present study examined...
The purpose of the researcher was to determine which psychotherapies were currently used by psychiatrists and psychologist in Nebraska for the treatment of unipolar depression. The subjects were 17 psychiatrists and 14 psychologists practicing in...
A status-survey design was employed to determine the degree of anger selected client behaviors evoked within practicing therapists and practicum students in training to become therapists. Returned, usable questionnaires included response of 200...
The memory performance of four educable mentally retarded individuals was investigated using a multiple baseline across subjects design. Rehearsal training, meta-mnemonic theory from cognitive psychology, and self-instructional procedures from...
This study examined whether a person's perception of his or her wedding day was related to marital stability, and self-reported marital satisfaction. Participants were recruited in two different ways: (a) from psychology courses at Fort Hays State...
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