Master of Music / Department of Music / Frank Tracz / The following report is a comprehensive analysis of two works for wind band and one work for brass ensemble, prepared by Adam Ladd. The report was completed during the Spring semester of 2014 and culminated with live performances of each piece by the Kansas State University Concert Band and Brass Ensemble with Adam Ladd conducting. Audio and video recordings of the conducted performances can be found within the K-State Research Exchange database. The following report includes three comprehensive Unit Studies or Teacher Research Guides in the format that is described in the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band book series. The report also includes three Tracz Analysis Grids in the format that is found in The Art of Interpretation of Band Music. The examined pieces are as follows. Toccatta for Band, by Frank Erickson, Mutations from Bach, by Samuel Barber, and Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, by John Philip Sousa, arranged by Philip Sparke.

Master of Music / Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance / Frank C. Tracz / Three essential components of wind band conducting are as follows: music selection, score study, and rehearsal planning. This report contains an analysis and rehearsal plan for two band works and a discussion on quality literature selection for band as well as a personal philosophy of music education and student learning. The two works presented are Dances of Innocence by Jan van der Roost and Air for Band by Frank Erickson.

If you move from Sweden to Portugal to work as an Art Director at an Ad agency, there are certain things you ought to know. Perhaps even before you decide to move. There are a lot of things that are quite different if you compare Portugal to Sweden, not only the language, but also the design, software, working hours and much more. You have for example two month with double salary, you work till six p.m. and when it comes to maternity leave, you have 100% compensation with no taxes the first four months of every pregnancy. The tasks you have to handle as an Art Director in Portugal may, as in Sweden, be various. The difference is more how you solve your task and what the design looks like. As a Swede in Portugal the solution will probably look like a mixture between the Portuguese “expressive” and the Swedish “clean” design. This degree project discusses questions that might turn up when a Swede gets employed as an Art Director in Portugal. What will the salary be? When, in the morning, is it time to show up at the office? How many weeks of vacations are entitled? There are a lot of distinctions, but also a lot of similarities. The report is mainly based upon the author’s own experiences of the Ad agency McCann-Erickson in Lisbon. The history of McCann-Erickson starts in New York, 1930 and grew rapidly into one of the leading corporation with agencies all over the world. It is still today one of the world’s largest Ad company with clients like Coca-Cola and General Motors, and the slogan “truth well told” still lights up all their agencies after almost a century, just like a leading star.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [49]-54).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [49]-54).

D.Litt. et Phil. / The objective of this study was to describe, apply and evaluate the effect of an integrated Ericksonian and ego state therapy intervention approach for the treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Sexual abuse rips away an invaluable inner resource from the victim and this needs to be restored during the healing process. Every adult survivor presents a unique pattern of symptoms and effects of having experienced childhood sexual abuse. Therefore, it was necessary to plan an intervention strategy individualised according to each sexually abused person's unique experience. Therapeutic models and approaches developed to assist in the treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse are available but not always comprehensive and often not evaluated. Thus, evaluated studies that determine the effectiveness of distinct strategies and procedures for treating sexual abuse, are required. Psychological research regarding sexual abuse has tended to focus on aspects related to pathology. This study aimed to explore the possibilities for treatment plans for sexually abused individuals from the salutogenic/fortigenic perspective. This focus emphasises the promotion of strengths, well-being and wholeness. Accordingly, both the Ericksonian and ego state therapy approaches acknowledge the existence of resources within an individual, and therefore focus on the utilisation and mobilisation of strengths and resources during psychotherapy. In 2002, Hartman integrated these two approaches and proposed the Utilisation Model of Ego State Therapy, which included principles of the SARI Model (Frederick & McNeal, 1999; Phillips & Frederick, 11 1995), which was primarily developed for the treatment of trauma and dissociative disorders. Therefore, this study described, applied and evaluated the application of the Utilisation Model of Ego State Therapy as a broad and integrated approach for intervention with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

Master of Music / Department of Music / Frank C. Tracz / This document was written after examination, research, score analysis, and lesson planning in preparation for the Graduate Conducting Recital of Travis M. Johnson. This recital was held on Monday, March 8, 2010 at the Cheney High School Auditorium at 6:00 pm. A philosophy of Music Education and criteria for quality literature selection is followed by the theoretical and historical analysis of four works; Flourish for Wind Band by Ralph Vaughn Williams, Air for Band by Frank Erickson, An American Elegy by Frank Ticheli, and Rough Riders by Karl King arranged by James Swearingen. Lesson plans, rehearsal aids, warm up exercises, and student assignments are included in the examination of this process.

Carson McCullers's neglected short stories "Sucker", "Like That", and "The Haunted Boy" depict stark adolescent crises. Her character analyses dramatize important elements of many theories of adolescent psychology. Each of these stories depicts what happens when something goes horribly wrong in the course of an already difficult stage of life. In "Sucker" two different stages of adolescent development collide. Pete and Sucker go through different psychological adjustments. The two boys discover the difficulties of adolescent romance, hero-worship, peer group formation and exclusion, and power reversal. The narrator in "Like That" struggles with her Peter-Pan complex as she witnesses her sister go through an adolescent romance. She despises - and fears - the changes that adolescence and adulthood bring to her life and her family. "The Haunted Boy" explores the struggles of Hugh as he deals with issues of adult imitation, lack of a strong male role model, peer loyalty, and emotional repression.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:40:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Licia Ferreira Caire.pdf: 1034574 bytes, checksum: 09b9f70995105a8373219082f77e4b8c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-21 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The fact that almost all the studies returned through the systematic review concerned the keywords cancer and hypnosis‟ aimed just relate statistical data, as so the rare number of researches associating psychologic aspects and the hypnotic self-experience reported instigate a qualitative method for the atual study. The goal of this research was interpreting and understanding the impact of self-experienced during the hypnotic state by each prostate cancer patient about his self realize of health, thrust in treatment and improvement of strategies to make a future better. Without to forget the anguish which starts with the diagnosis and interventions possible. 12 prostate cancer patients were companied along 5 sessions of hypnotherapy weakly each one during around one hour. The instruments consisted individuals interview before the start of the five hypnotherapy sessions, another one before each weakly session so as after each one; Hypnotic Interventions and registration of the interview. It was choose the Thematic Technique to select the subjects to be analyzed under the theoretical considerations of Psychosomatic, Psychobiology and Erickson Hypnotherapy. Subjects which demonstrated be relevant to analyze and discussion because the recurrence and anguish that brings were: Feelings and Impulses about the Impact with the Diagnosis, Meanings of Cancer and Thrust in Cure; Self-realize about Cancer Health, Improvement about Capacity of believe that makes a Future is possible. Conclusion indicated that 100% of the followers patients mentioned fell themselves better about the health, thrust in cure, improvement in the humor and increases on the strategies with the stress situations / Considerando o reduzido número de pesquisas realizadas sobre o tema câncer e hipnose que associassem aspectos psicológicos vivenciais e existenciais advindos da experiência do sujeito frente a técnica de hipnose e, tendo em vista que a quase totalidade de pesquisas retornadas a partir da revisão bibliográfica objetivava conjugar dados estatísticos, justificou-se uma pesquisa qualitativa com objetivo de interpretar e compreender o impacto das re-significações vivenciais experienciadas em estado hipnótico por cada paciente com câncer de próstata frente sua auto-percepção de saúde, crença no tratamento e capacidade de prospectar o futuro; sem negligenciar as angústias existenciais deflagradas desde o diagnóstico e intervenções. Foram acompanhados 12 sujeitos com câncer de próstata durante 5 sessões de hipnoterapia escalonadas semanalmente com duração de 1 hora. Os instrumentos consistiram em entrevistas individuais semi-dirigidas realizadas antes do início do tratamento hipnoterápico, antes de cada sessão semanal e após cada sessão; Intervenções hipnóticas e Registros das entrevistas. Foi eleita a Técnica de Análise Temática para a seleção de temas a serem analisados à luz dos preceitos teóricos psicossomáticos, da Psicobiologia e da Hipnoterapia Ericksoniana. Os Temas que mereceram destaque para análise e discussão de conteúdo devido à recorrência e angústia que despertaram foram: Sentimentos e Impulsos ao Impacto do Diagnóstico; Significado do Câncer e Crença na Cura; Auto-percepção da Melhora do Câncer; Retomada da Capacidade de Prospectar o Futuro. A conclusão indicou que 100% dos pacientes acompanhados referiram melhora na saúde, certeza da cura, retomada do humor e incremento nas estratégias de enfrentamento às situações estressógenas

This project describes the role of ritual in the basic entrainment processes of Canadian soldiers. Building on the ecological systems theories of Urie Bronfenbrenner and Roy Rappaport, this project construes human adaptation to occur within multiple interdependent planes of ordered biological, sociostructural, psychosocial and symbolic (even transcendent) meanings and interactions within integrated social ecologies or “living systems.” Rappaport’s theory supports the argument that invariant, embodied actions and impulses not encoded by ritual performers establish social order, values, motivations, competencies, dispositions and representational or symbolic meanings—understood within this project as worldview—circulating within and regulating integrated human ecologies. Ordered sequences of invariant actions and impulses have also come to be conveyed within human phylogenic and ontogenetic developmental processes. This project specifically explores the hypothesis that embodied ritual dynamics pervade the basic entrainment rite of Canadian soldiers. The analysis draws on the ritual theory of Rappaport and the psychosocial developmental theory of Erik Erikson to describe the manner in which innate social regulating impulses and liturgically ordered ritual processes are exploited, in conjunction with predictable human psychosocial developmental imperatives, to build foundational martial dispositions, a spontaneous impulse to radical solidarity and a robust, homogeneous and multivocalic worldview in Canadian soldiers. Such a worldview is adaptive to all aspects of service within the Canadian Armed Forces. The rudimentary martial worldview inscribed upon recruit soldiers and officer candidates forms the foundational background to all subsequent martial meaning and adaptation in so far as it is collectively maintained throughout the military career. This argument maintains that a ritual analysis of adaptive meaning and solidarity among soldiers has profound implications for the structure and direction of future research investigating the persistent and well documented rates of distress, maladaptation and health pathology among serving members of the Canadian Armed Forces.