This study explored the use of rituals in substance abuse counseling. Data were obtained from a total of 25 mental health workers in the substance abuse field from the northern region of Utah. Four research questions were asked about rituals and their use in substance abuse counseling: (I) Are addictions therapists using rituals? (2) How did therapists determine when to use rituals? (3) What types of rituals do they use? and (4) How do therapists assess ritual effectiveness? Results indicated that about three fourths of the mental health workers questioned were using rituals in their treatment protocol with substance abuse clients. The most common methods used for determining when to implement rituals into treatment were (a) clients were emotionally stuck, (b) client's cognitive ability, and (c) therapist's perception. The findings also suggested that therapists presented means of assessing the effectiveness of the rituals they implemented, but the data also supported past literature findings that showed little empirical means of assessment.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Western Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1988. / Abstract. Bibliography: leaves 262-264.

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Thesis PlanA (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Hong Kong, 1982.

Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1981.

Family is the base of every nation, historical and everyday life of society. Lithuanian family obtains features typical for all developed countries. Marriages are delayed for later time, more pairs are in common – law marriage, more children are born in such families and birthrate decreases. The doubt about strength of marriage appears with increasing of number of common – law marriage. Though children living in town argue for marriage (39,25%) the negative opinion about marriage increases. Negative opinion about marriage has the best part of pupils living in the city (40%). Though mixed opinion of marriage, family as wealth is the most important and significant, according pupils’ opinion. It is very important to understand importance of family and its functions before marriage. According pupils’ opinion the main function of family is to grow children. Such answer had 43% of pupils living in the city and 35,48% living in town. Very important functions are birth of children and recreation as well. Many problems such as quarrel, divorces or even violence appear in families because of devaluation of spiritual wealth and misunderstanding of familial functions. According results of investigation pupils have negative opinion of divorces (in city - 60%, in town – 60,75%). Pupils almost do not sustain violence in the family (in city - 1%, in town - 4%), but this data are not reliable, as children do not like to speak up about problems in the family. It is very important to prepare... [to full text]

This study explored the use of rituals in substance abuse counseling. Data were obtained from a total of 25 mental health workers in the substance abuse field from the northern region of Utah. Four research questions were asked about rituals and their use in substance abuse counseling: (I) Are addictions therapists using rituals? (2) How did therapists determine when to use rituals? (3) What types of rituals do they use? and (4) How do therapists assess ritual effectiveness? Results indicated that about three fourths of the mental health workers questioned were using rituals in their treatment protocol with substance abuse clients. The most common methods used for determining when to implement rituals into treatment were (a) clients were emotionally stuck, (b) client's cognitive ability, and (c) therapist's perception. The findings also suggested that therapists presented means of assessing the effectiveness of the rituals they implemented, but the data also supported past literature findings that showed little empirical means of assessment.

The problem which was investigated in this study was the influence of a child development laboratory experience and the child's discriminatory abilities on the developmental level of children's art productions. Forty-eight children, three and four years of age, of whom 24 had no prior experience, and 24 others had completed approximately six months as participants in a child development laboratory, were included in the study. All children were given a discrimination task to establish their individual levels of discriminatory abilities. Each child painted four pictures, two with easel paint and two with crayons. Each painting was analyzed to determine art content and level of development. The findings indicated that discrimination ability does not appear to be an influential factor on the developmental level of children 's art creations among children of this age. Children demonstrated more advanced art stages when using crayons than when painting with tempra at the easel. Experience in the Child Development Laboratory exerted its strongest influence on the child's production of learned art forms, alphabet letters and numerals. It was concluded that art experiences for three and four year old children tend to be motoric and exploratory responses to the various media in use by them. However, experience is also a factor in the development of children's art, in that the child's use of learned art forms is influenced by an enriched learning environment.