Browsing Wurzweiler School of Social Work: Dissertations by Issue Date
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WIDOWS DE FACTO AND DE JURE: AFDC AND OASDI
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1982)Women heads of families of dependent children are treated differently by the government programs established to assist them. Aid has been given to widows considered deserving of assistance through the OASDI program and aid ... -
INFORMAL DECISION-MAKING AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1982)This study examines a hospital as a special form of bureaucratic structure. When the structure is quasihierarchical with multiple centers of authority, it gives rise to an ad hoc process of decision making. The ad hoc ... -
THE WILLOWBROOK CONSENT DECREE: A STUDY OF A SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENT (NEW YORK)
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1982)The Willowbrook Consent Decree: A Study of a Social Reform Movement analyzes the rise and eventual fragmentation of a movement for reform of retardation care in New York State that centered on the Willowbrook Consent Decree ... -
THE ADJUSTMENT OF THE ELDERLY BLIND FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ROLE THEORY
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1982)This dissertation focused on the relationship between the expectations of significant others and the adjustment of the elderly blind. Adjustment was viewed in terms of the level of independent functioning achieved in daily ... -
STUDY OF PERCEIVED CARING IN THE VITAL-TOTAL RELATIONSHIP
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1982)The purpose of this study is to gain an understanding of both the character and subjective meaning of caring as it is actually expressed and experienced by couples in vital-total relationships. The prime objective in ... -
CASEWORK PRACTICE ORIENTATIONS AMONG CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKERS
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1982)The purpose of the present study is to explore the casework practice orientations of clinical social workers in terms of their underlying philosophies of science. The thesis explored in this research is that different, ... -
STUDENT PEER GROUPS: SOCIALIZATION IN GRADUATE SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1983)Student peer groups is an area of professional socialization that has received limited study in graduate social work education. This informal social organization, which is part of the student subculture of the social system ... -
THE ATTITUDES OF ORTHODOX JEWISH MOTHERS TOWARDS THEIR MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1983)This investigation examined the attitude of orthodox Jewish mothers with reference to various aspects relating to raising and living with a mentally retarded child. Data was collected regarding the differences between ... -
ISRAELI SOCIAL WORKERS AND SEX ROLES: A STUDY ON VALUES AND ATTITUDES TOWARD SEX ROLES AND THEIR IMPACT UPON PRACTICE
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1983)This study was undertaken to examine the values and attitudes of Israeli social workers regarding sex roles and the extent to which such values influence practice.;This research project, conducted on over a hundred Israeli ... -
THE PROFESSIONAL FUNDRAISER: AN INVESTMENT IN LONG TERM DEVELOPMENT
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1983)The study examined the practices of professional fundraising personnel. It identified the degree to which professional fundraising knowledge is integrated into campaign practice.;An historical review of fundraising and an ... -
THE MEANING OF THE THERAPIST'S RELIGIOUS IDENTITY TO ORTHODOX JEWISH CLIENTS
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1983)This exploratory and descriptive study examined religious difference between therapist and client as a factor in mental health treatment. The primary research questions were: (1) What is the significance of the therapist's ... -
SOCIAL WORKERS AND THE TERMINALLY ILL: SOCIAL WORKERS' FEELINGS ABOUT CLIENTS, JOB SATISFACTION, AND ORGANIZATIONAL SETTINGS
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1983)This study was undertaken to investigate how working with terminally ill clients affects social workers. An ideal model of care was postulated which included the elements of open communication, flexibility, interdisciplinary ... -
COGNITIVE DIMENSIONS OF PROBLEM LEARNING IN FIELD INSTRUCTION
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1983)Student problems in field instruction are of serious concern to social work educators. In the past, personality theory has been the major approach to understanding these difficulties. This study presents the thesis that ... -
THE REACTIONS AND RESPONSES OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL WORKERS TO CHRONICALLY PHYSICALLY DISABLED CLIENTS
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1983)The purpose of this study was to investigate the reactions and responses of professional social workers to chronically physically disabled adult clients and the ways in which the reactions and responses were translated ... -
FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HOSTILITY AND PUNITIVENESS AMONG MOTHERS OF RETARDED CHILDREN (ANGER)
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1984)This is a descriptive study whose purpose is to identify the factors associated with hostility and a tendency towards punitiveness in a group of mothers of retarded children.;The two major hypotheses of the study are: that ... -
ALFRED ADLER'S INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THEORY OF DEPRESSION: A SYNTHESIS IN RETROSPECT
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1984)Three contemporary theorists, Sylvano Arieti (Cognitive-Volitional-Interpersonal), Aaron T. Beck (Cognitive), and Walter Bonime (Culturalist-Interpersonal) emphasize the role of cognitive, volitional, interpersonal and ... -
A STUDY OF CASEWORKERS' VALUES AND ATTITUDES IN RELATION TO THEIR ACTIVITY WITH BIOLOGICAL PARENTS (FOSTER CARE)
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1984)An exploratory formulative study was conducted into the relationship between caseworkers' values and attitudes toward biological parents and their activity with biological parents. The primary hypothesis was that positive ... -
ISRAELIS IN AMERICA: MIGRATION DECISION MAKING AND ITS CONSEQUENCES UPON ADAPTATION TO THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY (SOJOURNERS, SETTLERS, AMBIVALENCE)
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1984)This study attempted to understand the migration experience of Israelis now living in the United States. It sought to systematically explore the anomaly that many Israelis here appear to maintain a sojourner future ... -
PERCEPTIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CONTROL AND CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER AUTONOMY: IMPLICATIONS FOR CONFLICT, ORGANIZATIONAL ALIENATION AND BURNOUT
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1984)This quantitative-descriptive study examines the issue of professional autonomy and its relationship to organizational alienation and burnout among 105 clinical social workers in residential treatment organizations. It ... -
THE DYING PROCESS: IMPACT ON THE SOCIAL WORKER
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1984)Based on direct practice and supervisory experience with families and children coping with leukemia, the study begins with the conviction that working with the terminally ill has a special impact on the social worker, and ...