The purpose of this study was to determine if any relationships existed between participant perceptions of facilitator effectiveness and the qualifications of 218 facilitators in the Navy Alcohol Safety Action Program (NASAP). The ex post facto design posed four questions and cross-tabulated participant ratings of facilitator effectiveness with the education and certification levels, personal alcohol abuse history and sex of the facilitators. / Chi square results indicated that facilitators with the highest levels of education and professional preparation were perceived by participants as highly effective significantly more often than were facilitators with less education or professional preparation. Female facilitators were perceived by participants as highly effective significantly more often than were males. No significant differences in the participant perceptions of effectiveness were found to exist between facilitators who were recovering alcoholics and those who had no personal alcohol abuse history. / The study concluded that participant perceptions of the effectiveness of NASAP facilitators were positive and that more formal education and professional preparation for facilitators does result in higher participant perceptions of effectiveness. The results of this study confirmed suggestions in the literature that those facilitators who were most able to project helping relationship skills were more frequently rated as highly effective by class participants. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-09, Section: A, page: 3873. / Thesis (Educat.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.

This study, using four different communication channels, investigated the varied perceptions of 184 college freshmen of two male counselors, one black and the other white. Eight different groups of 23 persons in each, were given the following to do; two groups were exposed to a five minute counseling session with only an audio channel input. One exposed to a white counselor, the other to a black counselor, counseling the same female client. Two groups were similarly exposed to a white and black counselor through a silent video channel. Two groups were exposed using an audiovisual channel and two groups were given a written script only of the session. Prior to the experiment, expert judges, exposed only to the audio channel, rated both counselors equally; however the subjects rated the black counselor higher than the white counselor on both scales. The measurements were analyzed using Counselor Rating Form and Cash's Degree of Confidence Scale. The findings indicated the equality of the four communication channels on subjects' ratings of the CRF scale. However, the perceived effectiveness was rated significantly lower in the audiovisual channel. The two counselors were perceived differently on the audio, audiovisual and typescript, but not the video. While no significant differences across conditions were found for the black counselor, the white counselor was rated lower on the audiovisual condition. / These findings would seem to indicate that lack of experience with and knowledge of effective counseling and characteristics of counselors affect a subject's perception of a counselor. For prospective counselors, it would seem reasonable to suggest that their training should include counseling activities that provide feedback from both their peers and a group of potential clients of different educational levels and race, before engaging in actual counseling sessions. This would prepare them to deal more affectively with clients, regardless of their level or lack of sophistication. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-06, Section: A, page: 2507. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-09, Section: A, page: 4895. / Thesis (Educat.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-09, Section: A, page: 4901. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-09, Section: A, page: 4898. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-10, Section: A, page: 5322. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

The purposes of this study were to investigate the effects of a computer-based career guidance system (CBCGS) on the self-concept and career maturity of community college students and to determine the relationships of sex and locus of control on self-concept and career maturity. / The Separate-Sample Pretest Posttest design was used. The System of Interactive Guidance and Information (SIGI) was the CBCGS used. The instruments were Rotter's Internal-External Scale, the Tennessee Self Concept Scale, and the Career Maturity Inventory. The sample consisted of 104 students enrolled at the Santa Fe Community College, Florida, in the 1980 Fall term, who used SIGI on a walk-in basis. The Rotter Internal-External Scale was administered to all the subjects before beginning the SIGI program. / Two by two factorial ANOVAS were performed on career maturity and self-concept, with a group tested before SIGI use and another group tested after, and with sex as a moderator variable. At (alpha) = .10, no significant differences were found for career maturity. In conjunction with the findings of two previous studies, this investigator concluded that the effectiveness of a CBCGS on the career maturity of community college students can be significantly enhanced by stretching the time interval of interaction with the CBCGS and by utilizing the services of a human counselor or instructor along with the CBCGS. / ANOVA and the Newman-Keuls test showed a significant difference ((alpha) = .10) between the mean self-concept scores of males and females, and for the interaction between the male posttest and the female posttest groups. Although the male and female pretest groups had very similar mean self-concept scores, the female posttest group had a higher mean self-concept score than that of the female pretest. However, the mean self-concept score of the male posttest group was lower than that of the male pretest group. The possibility was pointed out that the significant interaction may be a function of simple regression effects on repeated measures away from the general mean and, therefore, not have any essential meaning. / Pearson product-moment correlations (r), at (alpha) = .05, were used to investigate the relationships between locus of control and the two dependent variables. Internality of control correlated with students' career maturity scores for all groups and for the entire sample. However, the values of r were not significantly different from zero. Another study had found a significant relationship between internality and career maturity. But these two studies differed in several factors, including again the use of counseling sessions in the earlier study. / Internality of control also correlated with students' self-concept scores for all groups (except for the male pretest group) and for the entire sample, although the values of r, again, were not significantly different from zero (except for the male posttest group). Of interest was the positive correlation between locus of contol and self-concept scores for the male pretest group. The 95% confidence interval for this group's population correlation coefficient (p) was calculated and found to be -0.014 (LESSTHEQ) p (LESSTHEQ) +0.710. Hence, the shift in the sign of r for this group could be merely due to sampling variation. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-01, Section: A, page: 0088. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.

The 1973 Rehabilitation Act called for expansion and redirection of public rehabilitation efforts to severely handicapped persons and, to achieve this goal, the increase, implementation, and evaluation of diversified manpower training and utilization practices. The Act encouraged employment of rehabilitation technicians to assume ancillary, subprofessional, technical tasks thereby freeing counselors to provide extensive and intensive counseling, planning, consulting, on-the-job training, and job placement services. The conceptual framework implied that technician utilization within a rehabilitation service team/unit context would enhance service delivery and that teams with technicians would perform differently from teams without technicians. / It was the purpose of this investigation to study comparatively technician utilization in two types of rehabilitation service delivery units in the State of Florida vocational rehabilitation program, and specifically, to examine its relationship to and differential effect upon team performance on selected rehabilitation process variables and outcome measures. / The sample included nine randomly selected experimental units to which rehabilitation technician positions were assigned in 1975 and 45 randomly selected control units. Rehabilitation counselors within these 54 units were asked to complete demographic and professional service delivery functions self-report questionnaires; 212 counselors (87 percent) responded. As no prior records pertaining to process variables had been maintained, responses to items reflecting them were accepted at face validity; responses reflecting outcome measures were validated against master lists (VR 100s) kept by the state agency. After cross-validation, 161 questionnaires (76 percent) were accepted as valid. / With alpha, beta, and effect size (.05, .60, and R('2) = .26, respectively) pre-established, multiple regression analyses were performed to test the statistical hypotheses. Results indicated technician utilization within units/teams influences their performance and productivity with regard to processes involving initial interviews and on-the-job training activities and outcomes measured by referrals. Also, results revealed that caseload type (general or special) and experience level of counselors are important contributors to these processes and to successful rehabilitations. / Findings suggest that utilization of rehabilitation technicians enhances present goals of service; however, further research is needed to describe both the configuration of workers' interpersonal relationships and the nature of tasks they perform to better assess achievements of diversified manpower deployment within the rehabilitation services system. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-01, Section: A, page: 0107. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.

Dynamic social change has influenced government's response to aid disabled persons' return to productive lives. Rehabilitation counselors are a keystone to this ambitious effort and program. Because much of rehabilitation professionals' work involves providing direction in case management and making decisions about extensive and varied problems, increasing attention is focused on their professional expertise, especially their problem solving capabilities. / From discussion of these capabilities arises the issue of measurement. Many forms of assessment exist, one of the more effective of which is the multiple choice format employed in medical client management training programs. The purpose of this study, to examine relationships between rehabilitation professionals' biographical and demographical characteristics and their sequential problem solving skills, was pursued through formulation and use of such an assessment instrument. The Applied Rehabilitative Judgment Scale-79b, consisting of 25 multiple choice, forced tetrad item statements, represented fictitious case study abstracts with four alternative selections from which subjects were to select the most appropriate, next-best-step solution. / The sample included 268 randomly selected rehabilitation supervisors and counselors from Alabama and Florida; of this number, 153 (61 percent) responded to mailed questionnaires. All returned instruments were validated for use. / With alpha set at .05 by convention, beta set at .20 yielding power of .80, and a medium effect size (partial r('2)=.13, r=.30) pre-established, multiple regression analyses were performed to test eight null hypotheses. Results revealed significant and/or important relationships as follows: For the total sample, relationships between successful closure ranges (0 through 14 and 45 through 59) and Evaluation-Diagnostic sequential problem solving scores achieved on the ARJS were both significant and important. For Alabama only, the relationship between age (under 29 years) of subjects and Evaluation-Diagnostic sequential problem solving scores achieved on the ARJS was significant but not important. For Florida only, the relationship between subjects' certification status and Composite-Summation sequential problem scores achieved on the ARJS was both significant and important as well. The relationship between professional role (supervisors or counselor) and Planning Services sequential problem solving scores achieved on the ARJS were both significant and important. Finally, the relationship between sex and Evaluation-Diagnostic scores were both significant and important. / Findings of this study suggest strong relationships exist between some biographic and demographic characteristics of rehabilitation professionals and their problem solving capabilities. Further research is needed to ascertain the nature of these relationships. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-03, Section: A, page: 0947. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of training on the recognition of facial expressions of emotion in a sample of deaf high school students at a residential school for the deaf. Three hypotheses were under investigation in this study. They were (1) Training in the recognition of facial expressions of emotion will increase the accuracy of recognition associated with matching classes of facial meaning, (2) Training in the recognition of facial expressions of emotion will increase the accuracy of recognition associated with grouping facial expressions by class of meaning, and (3) Training in the recognition of facial expressions of emotion will increase the accuracy of recognition associated with recognizing specific types of facial meaning. Subjects for this study were forty-four volunteers from the junior and senior classes at the Virginia School for the Deaf. All students in this study were able to communicate in sign language. Subjects were assigned at random to one of four groups with each group having eleven subjects. The Soloman Four Group Design was utilized as the appropriate research model. Training in the recognition of facial expressions of emotion was provided via videotape. The instructor used sign language and followed a training outline developed by Ekman and his associates. The Test of Facial Meaning was used as both pretest and posttest. The items in this test are from the Ekman series of photographs of facial expressions of emotion. The pretest and posttest were presented to the subjects via videotape while instructions for the test were given in sign language. The analysis of variance for each hypothesis failed to reveal any significant effect attributed solely to training, although training did result in an increased accuracy of recognition of facial expression of emotion for each hypothesis tested. The results of / this investigation revealed that while deaf people were able to accurately recognize classes of facial expressions of emotion and could then accurately group facial expressions of emotion by class of meaning, they were less able to accurately identify specific types of facial expressions of emotion. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-09, Section: A, page: 3883. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.