Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2003. / Supervisor: Neal M. Burns. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.

Thesis (M.S.)--Colorado State University, 1985. / Typescript (photocopy). eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [37]-39).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.

The purpose of the present study is to examine group differences between Hispanic adolescent females participating in a mental health focused obesity intervention and those in a treatment-as-usual (control) condition on Body Mass Index (BMI), self-esteem, coping strategies, and binge eating symptoms. The intervention teaches skills useful in managing emotions and situations impacting weight. Treatment-as-usual entails attending weight management clinic appointments. Participants will be obese Hispanic adolescent females attending a weight management clinic at a children's hospital in Texas. BMI will be taken and self-report questionnaires addressing self-esteem, coping strategies, and binge eating symptoms will be completed by participants pre- and post-intervention. Analysis of covariance, controlling for scores pre-intervention, will be utilized to examine group differences. It is hypothesized that participants in the ACES PLUS condition will demonstrate greater gains in self-esteem, coping strategies, and decreased binge eating symptoms and BMI relative to their treatment as usual counterparts. Implications for future research include additional focus on skills-building addressing psychosocial challenges faced by obese adolescent females in the treatment of pediatric obesity within this population. / text

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My doctoral research constitutes three case studies dealing with the work of the painter Remedios Varo and the writers Elena Garro and Carmen Boullosa. Their works incorporate a mixed imagery and iconography to which criticism has attached the label of surrealist, fantastic or magical realist respectively and sometimes even indiscriminately. Uncertain about the usefulness of defining this artist and these writers as ‘surrealist’ or ‘marvelous realist’, I would rather suggest that their work enters into dialogue with surrealism, as well with the specific American vocabulary Carpentier attributed to lo real maravilloso americano. The fundamental objective of this thesis is to prove how this dialogue creates a counter aesthetic of ‘revisionist mythmaking’ that foregrounds the existing gender problematic within these two discourses, while strategically reassessing the role woman has played in relationship to love, myth, history and creativity. It is my belief that a different account of surrealism and lo real maravilloso lies within the work of these women and that to start writing the story of such account will reveal important connections between Varo’s assimilation of Latin American narratives and Garro’s and Boullosa’s absorption of surrealism. On the one hand, this study provides a new insight from which to comprehend the transcendence of surrealism in the ambit of Mexican culture, amplifying the already existing critical work on the field. On the other, it provides a new lens through which to understand and read the specific work of Remedios Varo, Elena Garro and Carmen Boullosa while discerning a common strategy of response between them.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-169).

Thesis (M.A.)--Columbia Biblical Seminary and Graduate School of Missions, Columbia, S.C., 1988. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-57).

Thesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-56). Also available via Humboldt Digital Scholar.

Dissertation (Ph.D.) -- The Institute for Clinical Social Work, 2004. / A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Institute of Clinical Social Work in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.