During the last 50 years, there has been a transfer of care for individuals living with mental disorders from predominately institutional settings to predominately community settings. The purpose of this research was to document the closure of Brandon Mental Health Centre (BMHC) and to look at long-term outcomes for discharged individuals. These objectives were met by interviewing key people involved in the closure and through analysis of administrative data. To support individuals after BMHC closed, new services were developed in four priority areas: adult inpatient and crisis response services, adult rehabilitation and consumer support services, psychogeriatric services, and child and adolescent services. Visits to a general practitioner for a mental disorder by individuals discharged from BMHC decreased significantly over the follow-up period while visits to a psychiatrist increased significantly. Mortality rates, physician visits, and hospital admissions were higher in former BMHC residents than in a matched cohort.

Project (D. Ed. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008. / Abstract and vita. Includes final project proposal. Description based on Print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 134-140).

The goal of this paper is to explore the way the Race Card is used in the United States and how its use affects the racial climate of the country. The use of the Race Card in politics, courts, and sport is addressed. Research and examples show that the use of the Race Card in these areas has generally negative effects. In most cases the use of the Race Card in these areas not only reinforces stereotypes but also can racialize a situation, which can cause the actual issue to be ignored. Therefore, in order to improve America’s racial climate and ensure the root of issues are being addressed it is important to limit the use of the Race Card to anti-discrimination issues courts.

Today we live in a society where almost everything is or has been reduced to the quantitative state of being a commodity of some kind. We find ourselves searching for something within architecture that is not necessarily tangible or quantifiable. Searching for something more implicit to human experience This thesis is an attempt to explore and document the fundamental idea of dwelling. / Master of Architecture

The subjective experience of presence is considered to be important in the treatment of anxiety disorders using virtual reality. Presence can be defined as a psychological phenomenon through which one's cognitive processes are oriented towards another world. Most of the research on presence has focused on the roles of technological factors influencing presence, while the number of studies focusing on the personality and physiological predictors are far fewer. Thus, the present study examined the relationship between various personality variables and presence, along with physiological correlates of presence when engaged in a virtual environment. The Presence Questionnaire, to determine their experience of presence, and a small battery of personality-related questionnaires were administered to 70 young adults who participated in 3 different virtual reality scenarios. Participants' physiological responses were recorded in the form of heart rate, galvanic skin levels, and galvanic skin responses were assessed as were urges to drink (craving). Data analysis showed that expectations, levels of craving, and drinking history played a significant role in the experience of presence.

In contemporary North America, death is often responded to by means of geographical and social separation. Formally removed from the everyday lifeworld and boundaries of home and community, the cemetery landscape has depreciated greatly in its cultural significance and visible taking care. As changing death practices and perceptions towards mortality look to reintegrate the dead back into the living community, traditional ways of locating, memorializing and ritualizing the dead no longer reflect or express the meaning of death held by modern cultural ideals. This research looks to investigate how landscape architecture may re-imagine the cemetery landscape providing newfound cultural significance and presence within the modern everyday lifeworld. In the City of Brandon, Manitoba, the limited interment capacity of the current Municipal cemetery has established a need for expanded cemetery space. This practicum proposes rather, to relocate the cemetery within a place of meaningful significance to the community of Brandon. The design responds to the shifting ideals, and patterns of disposal and ritualization emerging within present western society. / May 2016

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2009. / Title from title screen (site viewed January 5, 2010). PDF text: x, 249 p. ; 2 Mb. UMI publication number: AAT 3360162. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2002. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-137).

The purpose of this study was to gain a clearer picture of how after-school-care teachers’ work with fundamental values in after-school care, both practically and theoretically based on the curriculum Lgr 11. I wanted to acquire a broader understanding of the school's core values and what kinds of tools teachers used to cope with their task. I proceeded with two questions: How does after-school care proactively work with core values based on gender, ethnicity and class? How does the work on value issues at after-school care centers compare with Lgr 11? In my study, I used literature studies and a qualitative analysis of five interviews with afterschool care teachers. I came to the conclusion that the fundamental values were difficult to interpret and that the majority of the interviewed after-school care teachers adapted the core values after the schools "needs". Keywords: values, after-school care, standards, development and learning / Syftet med den här undersökningen var att få en tydligare bild över hur fritidspedagoger arbetar med värdegrundsarbetet, både praktiskt och teoretiskt utifrån läroplanen Lgr 11. Jag ville införskaffa en bredare förståelse om skolans värdegrund och vilka verktyg som används av pedagogerna för att klara av uppgiften. Jag utgick från två frågeställningar i arbetet: Hur arbetar fritidshemen i förebyggande syfte med värdegrundsfrågor utifrån genus, etnicitet och klass? Hur förhåller sig arbetet med värdegrundsfrågor på fritidshemmen i förhållande med Lgr 11. För att få fram mitt resultat använde jag mig av litteratur och att intervjua fem fritidspedagoger. Jag kom fram till att värdegrundsarbetet är svårtolkat och att många av de intervjuade fritidspedagogerna anpassade värdegrunden ut efter skolans ”behov”. Bakgrunden till min studie uppkom under min sista VFU period då jag såg ett behov av värdegrundsarbete i en elevgrupp där jag fann vissa motsättningar. Efter eget initiativ till övningar med dessa elever insåg jag hur eleverna var mottagliga och hur de inblandade utvecklats med hjälp av värdegrundsövningarna. Det var så jag såg hur viktigt värdegrundsarbete i skolan är. Nyckelord: värdegrund, fritidshem, normer, utveckling och lärande

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2002. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-137).