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Decision-making in child abuse and neglect: The impact of clinician characteristics on potential reporting behaviors.
(2006)
The purpose of this study was to further clarify the impact of clinician characteristics on child abuse and neglect reporting decisions. Examined characteristics included personal attributes, training, length of practice, ...
The contribution of depression and anxiety to poor attention performance on neuropsychological assessment measures.
(2000)
Depression and anxiety are encountered on a frequent basis and their effect on cognitive processes can have significant implications for psychotherapy and neuropsychological evaluations.
The impact of perceived stress and coping behaviors on college adjustment for undergraduate students with learning disabilities.
(2002)
In view of comparatively low graduation rates of post-secondary education for students with learning disabilities, the extant literature was reviewed on stress, coping and college adjustment for this population. Undergraduate ...
Evaluating theories of sexual violence using rape offenses in the National Crime Victimization Survey and the National Incident Based Reporting System.
(2007)
Indiscriminate selection suggests, as some feminist theorists have posited, that the young age distribution is due to routine activities and offenders will select victims only in accordance with convenience and opportunity, ...
From Bedlam to therapeutic jurisprudence: Are judges adequately prepared to make civil commitment decisions?
(2002)
Historically, mentally ill individuals have been subject to inhumane treatment. However, the late 1700's and early 1800's saw major changes in the manner in which the mentally infirm were both housed and treated. Beginning ...
Concussion risk in high school athletes.
(2001)
A 2 x 2 factorial design was used to explore group differences on the three dependent measures. A MANOVA found a significant interaction between the two independent variables on the reaction time test. It also identified ...
College-age students' attitudes towards the older adult: Grandparent fit with older adult stereotypes and the closeness of the grandparent/grandchild relationship.
(2002)
The purpose of this study was to examine college students' closest living grandparent "fit" with favorable older adult stereotypes, these students' thoughts about their grandparent, and the closeness of the grandparent/grandchild ...
Coping styles and adjustment of international graduate students.
(2005)
This study examined the relationship between styles of coping and adjustment in a sample of international graduate students (n = 392) studying in the U.S.A. The Coping Responses Inventory-Adult Form, the College Adjustment ...
Academic stress and graduate student marital satisfaction: Preliminary testing of a conceptual model.
(2003)
This study tested a model relating academically related stress to marital satisfaction in married graduate students. A total of 217 participants, including 134 married and 83 unmarried graduate students, participated in ...
Validation and exploratory factor analysis of the Abuse within Intimate Relationships Scale (AIRS).
(2005)
The purpose of the present study was to provide validation for and examine the factor structure of the Abuse with Intimate Relations Scale (AIRS; Borjesson, Aarons & Dunn, 2003). The AIRS was designed for use in identifying ...