Thesis (M.A.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2009. / Directed by Heidi Gazelle; submitted to the Dept. of Psychology. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jun. 4, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-59).

Dissertation (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2009. / Directed by Wesley Allan; submitted to the Dept. of Psychology. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed May 17, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-115).

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Psychology, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], vi, 69 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. 34-38).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (November 27, 2006) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2006. / Title from PDF title page screen. Advisor: Thomas R. Kwapil; submitted to the Dept. of Psychology. Includes bibliographical references (p. 38-46).

This study is meant to replicate research by O’Toole (1997), investigating the effectiveness of Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT), and REBT combined with REST, in reducing and treating social anxiety disorder (SAD). The present study used a counselling programme grounded in REBT and/or REST to re-examine the effects of REBT and/or REST on treating SAD in college students in a Saudi Arabian university. An experimental pre-test, post-test, control group design was utilised, and quantitative and content analysis data were collected and analysed using O’Toole’s measures after being ‘Arabicised’ and standardised. Social anxiety was measured using the Interaction Anxiousness Scale and the Shyness Scale. Seventy-five volunteers, who were undergraduate students at King Abdul Aziz University, participated in the study. The measures were used in placing the clients in their respective groups in the empirical study and for comparing pre-testing data with post-testing and follow-up results. Findings indicated that both treatments of REBT-only and REST plus REBT proved effective in the reduction of prior irrational beliefs, considering their reduced irrational thinking scores at the advanced stages of the study. That notwithstanding, follow-up post-comparison analyses confirmed that REST plus REBT therapy is more effective than REBT only. Content analysis data derived from the reflections and cognitions of the participants yielded findings that support and integrate with the results obtained from the quantitative study, which involved the use of numerical scales. The findings were later compared and contrasted with the basal study findings and in congruence with prior research reviewed. Finally, the present study recommended that REBT should be supported by REST to gain more effective psychotherapeutic results with SAD patients by efficaciously reducing their irrational beliefs. The study also recommended conducting future research to tap into the relationship between religiosity and REBT, harnessing REBT/REST counselling programmes.

[pt] O objeto central deste trabalho é a mulher negra lésbica: um sujeito político em construção no Brasil. O estudo busca dar visibilidade aos processos de opressão e discriminação interseccional, cotidianamente vivenciados pela mulher negra lésbica. A pesquisa deseja contribuir com a construção e afirmação desta identidade, bem como fornecer elementos para intervenções profissionais do serviço social e para a formação de novos assistentes sociais, em face às expressões contemporâneas das desigualdades sociais. Quatro mulheres colaboraram na construção deste estudo, sendo adotado como critério central nesta seleção suas autodeclarações enquanto negras e lésbicas. Adicionalmente, a pesquisadora buscou colaboradoras que fossem ativistas políticas, com representatividade no movimento de mulheres negras lésbicas, entre 35 e 65 anos, com o objetivo de garantir a percepção de diferenças geracionais. A pesquisa de campo, de natureza qualitativa, baseou-se em entrevistas semiestruturadas configuradas a partir de quatro aspectos: a) trajetória política e pessoal; b) questões raciais, de gênero e orientação sexual; c) preconceito e discriminação, e d) políticas públicas e serviço social. Cada um destes aspectos foi discutido em termos de identidade e preconceito, todos relacionados ao Serviço Social. O trabalho de pesquisa revelou que em algumas situações o peso do racismo é mais relevante e perverso do que a discriminação e o preconceito decorrentes da lesbofobia. / [en] The core object of this work is the black lesbian woman: a political subject under construction in Brazil. This study aims to give visibility to the processes of intersectional discrimination and oppression daily experienced by the black lesbian woman. The research wants to contribute with the construction and affirmation of this identity, as well as to provide elements for Social Work professional interventions and for the education of new Social Workers, in the face of contemporary expressions of social inequalities. Four women contributed to the construction of this work, and the main criteria for their selection were their self-determination as black and lesbians. Furthermore, the researcher looked for recognized political activists of the black lesbians movement, between the ages of 35 and 65, in order to enable the expression of generational differences. The field work, qualitative in nature, was based on semi-structured interviews, dealing with the following aspects: a) Personal and political history; b) Questions related to race, gender and sexuality; c) Prejudice and discrimination, and d) Public policies and Social Work. Each one of those aspects was discussed in terms of identity, race and prejudice, all of them related to Social Work. The fieldwork revealed that in some situations of racism are far more perverse and relevant than discrimination and prejudice based on lesbian phobia.

Resumo: Os universitários são expostos a uma diversidade de situações sociais que repetidas vezes são enfrentadas com dificuldade e tentativas de esquiva, o que constitui fator de risco para a fobia social. Fobia social tem sido considerada um grave problema de saúde mental em função das incapacidades no desempenho em situações socias. A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo avaliar os efeitos de um procedimento de intervenção comportamental que inclui treino de habilidades sociais para universitários com fobia social. Foi utilizado um delineamento de linha de base múltipla com quatro universitários, sendo dois homens e duas mulheres, na faixa etária entre 19 e 31 anos, com diagnóstico de fobia social, sem comerbidades, obtido a partir da Entrevista Clínica Estruturada para o DSM-IV (SCID-I). Três universitários passaram pelo processo de intervenção e um respondeu apenas aos instrumentos, em diferentes momentos da pesquisa. As habilidades sociais e o diagnóstico do transtorno dos participantes foram avaliados antes da intervenção, após, e em seguimento, quatro meses depois, com a aplicação da SCID-I, do Mini-Inventário de Fobia Social (Mini-SPIN), do Questionário de Avaliação de Comportamento e Contextos de Vida para Estudantes Universitários (Q-ACC-VU) e do Inventário de Habilidades Sociais (IHS), instrumentos que avaliaram as medidas de produto. As medidas de processo, avaliadas a cada sessão, foram obtidas com a aplicação de uma lista de Verificação de comportamentos (checklist), Questões de Avaliação do Desempenho e Tarefas de Casa. O delineamento adotado foi o de linha de base multipla com sujeito único. A intervenção foi realizada no Centro de Psicologia Aplicada de uma universidade pública, contou com 12 encontros semanais com duas horas de duração conduzidos pela própria pesquisadora. Os resultados... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo). / Abstract: The university students are exposed to a diversity of social situations that for frequent times ara confronted with difficulty and attempts of shunning, which constitute factor of risk to the social phobia. Social Phobia has been considered a serious mental health problem as a function of the disabilities in the development in social situations. The present research has as a goal to evaluate the effects of a behavioral intervention procedure which includes practice os social skills to university students with social phobia. An outline of multiple baseline was used with four university students, whose two men and two women, 19 and 31 year-old age group, diagnosed as social phobia, with no diseases, obtained from the Structured Clinical Interview to the DSM-IV (SCID-I). There univesitystudents went through the intervention process and one of them answered only to the instruments, in different moments of the research. The social skills and the diagnosis of the diasease of the participants were evaluated before the intervention, after, and in the sequence, four months later, with teh application of the SCID-I, of the Social Phobia Mini-Inventory (Mini-SPIN), of the Survey of Evaluation of Behaviors and Contexts of Life to University Students (Q-ACC-VU) and of the Inventory of Social Skills (IHS), instruments that evaluated the measurements of product. The measurements of process, evaluated in every section, were obtained with the application of a Behavior Checklist. Questions of Development and Homework Evaluation. The adopted outline was the one of a multiple base line with an only character. The intervention was held at Centro de Psicologia Aplicada in a public university, there were 12 weekly meetings for two hours each guided by the researcher herself. The results showed that the participants... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Orientador: Alessandra Turini Bolsoni-Silva / Coorientador: Ana Cláudia Moreira Almeida Verdu / Banca: Sonia Regina Loureiro / Banca: Sandra Regina Gimeniz-Paschoal / Mestre

Orientador: Alessandra Turini Bolsoni-Silva / Banca: Sonia Regina Loureiro / Banca: Sandra Regina Gimeniz-Paschoal / Resumo: Considerando a influência da fobia social em pessoas com esse diagnóstico e a grande utilização da internet como forma de interagir socialmente, objetiva-se construtir e fazer a validação preliminar de um instrumento de investigação sobre interações virtuais e presenciais. A partir desse instrumento, objetiva-se comparar o uso de interações virtuais entre pessoa com e sem indicativo de fobia social, bem como analisar as correlações entre o repertório de habilidades sociais e o uso da internet para interações sociais. Para isso, uma amostra de 64 universitários, sendo 26 com indicativo de fobia social e 38 sem indicativo responderam aos instrumentos: Inventário de Habilidades Sociais (IHS - Del Prette); Avaliação de Comportamentos e Contextos na Vida Universitária - Q-ACC-VU, mini-SPIN (Social Phobia Inventory) e o Instrumento sobre Interações Virtuais e Presenciais desenvolvido. Os resultados indicam que o instrumento cosntruído apresenta boas qualidades psicométricas, considerando os resultados das validades (preliminares) de construto, discriminante e concorrente. Os resultados também indicam que os participantes com indicativo de fobia social tendem a se comunicar com um número reduzido de pessoas tanto pessoalmente como virtualmente devido às dificuldades que encontram nas interações presenciais e que se mantém nas interações virtuais. Contudo, a internet pode ser uma ferramenta importante para essas pesssoas porque elas demonstram ter mais dificuldade de tratar de alguns temas pessoalmente do que pela Internet, sendo este um ambiente em que há menor exposição pessoal, evitando que se demonstre insegurança, ansiedade e diminuindo a exposição à reação do interlocutor, que são fortes estímulos aversivos para pessoas com indicativo de fobia social. Ao esquivarem-se desses aversivos... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Considering the influence of social phobia in patients with this diagnosis and the widespread use of the internet as a form of social interation, this work aims at constructing and validating (preliminary) a tool for personal and virtual interactions survey. With this tool, this study compares the virtual interactions among people with and without social phobia inclination and analyzes social skills repertoire and internet usage correlations for social intercations. It was selected a sample of 64 graduate students, 26 of them had social phobia inclination and 38 had not. They were asked to answer: Social Skills Inventory (IHS - Del Prette). Evaluations of Behaviours and Environments in Graduate Life (Q-ACC-VU); mini SPIN (Social Phobia Inventory) and the Virtual and Personal Interaction Survey developed. The results indicate that this survey tools has good psychometric qualities, considering the (preliminary) results of validity of construct, discriminatory and concurrent. It was found that participants with social phobia inclination tend to communicate, both virtually and personally, with less people than participants who do not have this inclination. It happens due to difficulties encountered in the face-to-face interactions that are maintained in the virtual world. However, internet can be an important tool for people inclined to social phobia because they demonostrated to have more difficulty to deal with some subjects personally than virtually, which is an environment where there is less personal exposure, avoiding the demonstration of insecurity and anxiety and decreasing exposure to the reaction of the interlocutor, that are strong aversive stimuli for people with social phobia. By avoiding these aversive stimuli, individuals are negatively reinforced. On the other hand, the possibility of talking about these subjects on... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

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