The majority of veterans entering college today have served during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Coming from an all-volunteer military, this population has expressed feelings of social isolation and challenges adjusting to the changes in structure outside of the military. For combat veterans, there can be physical and psychological wounds which present additional challenges. Therefore, institutions of higher education are developing programs and services to support veteran’s transition and facilitate their social integration into college. This research studied the individual and social processes of a creative arts workshop for six student veterans at Florida State University. Using qualitative methods from a phenomenological philosophical perspective, this study examines how the workshop facilitated the transition for student veterans and how they interpreted their life experiences through the creative arts. Being a group workshop, symbolic interactionism was used as a conceptual framework in assessing their individual experiences. Military uniforms were reprocessed into pulp and participants learned to make handmade paper from their cloth of personal significance. They also used stencils made from personal images, transferring the image to their paper. Following the workshop, their artwork was publicly exhibited in the university library with a personal statement written by each participant. The participants responded positively to the experience, noting the meaningful connections they made with other student veterans and the personal significance of the work they created. Learning a new craft, expressing themselves creatively, and displaying their work professionally strengthened their self-efficacy and sense of belonging and connection to the university. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Art Education in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Summer Semester 2016. / May 31, 2016. / Art Therapy, Group Therapy, Papermaking, Phenomenology, Student Veterans, Symbolic Interactionism / Includes bibliographical references. / Marcia Rosal, Professor Directing Dissertation; Douglas Schrock, University Representative; David Gussak, Committee Member; Jeff Broome, Committee Member.

Adolescent depression is a common health problem. Despite the cost of treatment for adolescent depression continually increasing, the majority of adolescents who experience a depressive episode will experience another episode before the age of 30. As family therapists, the parent-adolescent relationship is particularly salient because it can be a point of intervention for improving adolescent depression symptoms. The parent-adolescent relationship is complex. However, much of the research examining the parent-adolescent relationship focuses on quality of the relationship. Using data form the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, this study examined: 1) whether closeness, communication, conflict, and autonomy were distinct dimensions of the parent-adolescent relationship; 2) whether these dimensions can be used to create meaningful profiles of the parent-adolescent relationship; 3) whether closeness, communication, conflict, and autonomy differ in early adolescent and middle adolescent relationships; and 4) if adolescents within specific relationship profiles are more likely to exhibit depression symptoms and change in depression symptoms compared to other relationship profiles. Results demonstrated that closeness, communication, conflict, and autonomy were distinct dimensions of the parent-adolescent relationship that can be used to create four meaningful profiles. Using attachment theory, the profiles were labeled secure, avoidant, anxious, and detached. Adolescents in the avoidant profile for cohort 12 reported more depression symptoms at wave 1 and a larger decrease in depression symptoms after two years when compared to all other profiles. The results of this study suggest areas of assessment and intervention for clinicians working with adolescents presenting with depression symptoms. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Family and Child Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Spring Semester 2017. / March 21, 2017. / Adolescence, Depression, Parent-Child, Relationships / Includes bibliographical references. / Lenore McWey, Professor Directing Dissertation; Carter Hay, University Representative; Ming Cui, Committee Member; Melinda Gonzales-Backen, Committee Member.

Over 50% of marriages in the United States end in divorce. Researchers have attempted to identify factors that help marriages endure by studying personality, attachment styles, and gender. However, few researchers have examined how dyadic interactions of personality types and attachment types influence marital satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of enneagram personality types on marital satisfaction within 3 groups of attachment types: couples who (a) both demonstrate a secure attachment style, (b) contain one member who demonstrates an insecure attachment style and the other who demonstrates a secure attachment style, and (c) both demonstrate an insecure attachment style. Grounded in attachment theory, interpersonal theory, and the enneagram, complementary personality types should relate to greater global marital satisfaction, independent from attachment style. This cross-sectional study used the Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator, the Satisfaction With Married Life Scale, and the Revised Adult Attachment Scale to collect data from 324 married couples. A factorial ANOVA indicated that couples having one or both partners who exhibit a secure attachment style have significantly greater global marital satisfaction scores than if both partners have an insecure attachment style. Furthermore, there were no statistically significant differences in global marital satisfaction scores among couples who exhibit any enneagram personality type. Additionally, the interaction effect of enneagram personality types and attachment types were not statistically significant for global marital satisfaction. Therapists can integrate these results with their current model of treatment when working with couples toward forming an earned secure attachment, thereby, improving the effectiveness of couple therapy which may create systemic social change.

The purpose of this study was to examine and compare some of the personality characteristics of junior high school students as they related to the students' later vocational choices. More specifically selected personality characteristics observed in girls who later made typical or atypical vocational selection were compared. Both typical and atypical girls were also compared to boys on these selected personality characteristics. Te s t s used in this study to measure cognitive need and flexibility "ere Anderson Self-Reporting Need Achievement Questionnaire, Berlak School Work Habit Questionnaire and Resnick Self- Reporting Need Cognition Questionnaire. Tests used to measure social attitudes and ideology were "Have"--"Have not" Questionnaire, Submissiveness Test, F-Scale, and Humanitarian Concern. Comprehensive Personality Inventories used in this study were Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey and Cattell's High School Personality Questionnaire. Scores from the Differential Aptitude Test were also used. Using the above measures, it was found that the girls defined by this study as atypical have some personality characteristics similar to those of boys and dissimilar to those of girls defined by this study as typical. The atypical girls of this study also have some personality characteristics different from both boys and typical girl s . But as a whole and contrary to the stereo typed career - oriented girl , the atypical girls of this study have more personality characteristics in common with other girls than with boys.

This book-length manuscript is a collection of poems. They and it examine ecology as a state of being in and outside the body (or how, if at all, there is a secure distinction), species-based boundaries of the body, obsessions with immunity and chronic illness in biopolitical and gendered societal and perhaps inevitably thus linguistic structures, and what it means to participate in close reading while writing to contribute to the question of ecology as poetry. The central questions are in fact questions: what is the relationship between a deconstructive approach to identity creation and erasure through participation in poetry as a medium, a set of forms, and the site of the body's dilemma?

This study examined the effects of sensitivity, specificity and result of diagnostic tests on the uses which physicians make of those results. These were compared with the Bayesian model of probability adjustment, which is generally accepted for medical diagnosis. Ninety six active members of the Oregon Academy of Family Physicians were interviewed by telephone, using a case scenario describing a patient with a newly discovered breast lump. Subjects estimated prior probability of malignancy, based on history and physical findings, and then estimated posterior probability following results of a mammogram. Mammograms varied by result (positive or negative) and by high and low values for sensitivity and specificity. Subjects were asked to indicate their confidence in each probability estimate. About one third of the subjects were also asked for their treatment threshold -- that point at which they would change from a policy of watchful waiting to one of taking some action, which was usually biopsy of the lesion.

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