The purpose of this survey study was to evaluate the current practice of inpatient group therapy in general hospital psychiatric units in a southeastern state and to determine whether there was a need for a more systematic method of designing, implementing, and evaluating general hospital group therapy. A second major purpose was to test a model to determine if it could be used to evaluate current practices of general hospital psychiatric group therapy on a more global basis. The history of group therapy and current nationwide statistical data relating to general hospital psychiatric units were summarized. A survey which addressed unit operations, unit staffing patterns, types of patients, and general practices regarding psychiatric unit group therapy was administered to 35 general hospital psychiatric unit administrators in a southeastern state. A standard interview protocol was developed and administered on-site to six group therapy practitioners. These interviews gathered information relative to specific unit group therapy practices, evaluated whether Group Pentagon components were utilized in group therapy practices, and identified factors influencing unit group therapy practice. An analysis of the available literature indicated there was little information relative to the practice of group therapy on general hospital psychiatric units. The literature analysis also revealed no consistent model or procedures for the design, implementation, and evaluation of group therapy in general hospital psychiatric units. The survey and interviews demonstrated that group therapy programs appeared fragmented, varied across units, and did not appear to be designed, implemented, or evaluated in a consistent manner. During the interviews, the practitioners described the lack of many of the conditions necessary for the provision of effective group therapy on their general hospital psychiatric units. The literature review analysis, survey, and interviews indicated the components of the Group Pentagon were not utilized in general hospital group therapy programs. The Group Pentagon provided a useful model for evaluating overall group therapy programs, as well as reviewing specific group therapy procedures. Finally, this research established a protocol for evaluating general hospital and potentially other group therapy practices. / Ed. D.

CHDS State/Local / The War on Terror, as the outcome of the al Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, promises to be the effort of a generation. If it is to win, the United States must approach it in a manner reminiscent of successes in past wars: with clearly defined and obtainable national objectives, and a unified national strategy to obtain those objectives. In addition, it must establish a clear long-term vision for transforming its efforts and its institutions from the industrial age to the information age as the new domain for waging war. This thesis examines the War on Terror from several perspectives. First, is the strategic context in which the war is being conducted, particularly the issues involved in its prosecution. Second, the Vietnam War and the War on Terror are examined in historical context to determine if the United States is repeating the strategic mistakes that led to its defeat in Vietnam. Third, transformation imperatives are identified which require the Nation to consider what it must do to win the War on Terror while simultaneously preparing for the emergence of greater forms of information age warfare. Finally, an adaptive capabilities-based approach is suggested for the United States to deal with the new strategic reality it faces. / Chief - G3 Military Support Division, First U.S. Army / U.S. Army (USA) author

Thesis (D. Min.)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006. / "December 2006." Includes bibliographical references (ℓ.172-181)

Thesis (D. Min.)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-181).

This study investigates the resilience of coffee cooperatives and producer organizations in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and explores their adaptations to the context in relation to their livelihood capitals. The changes to their operations are analyzed through the contexts of shocks, trends and stresses and how they perceived these threats. The topic of research is relevant given the economic and social importance of cooperatives in these communities and potential impacts to their operations during COVID-19, which is likely to have long-term impacts locally and within the global setting.There is a lack of consensus regarding the classification of cooperatives as resilient organizations, with much of the previous research focusing on financial crisis or natural disasters. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented event on a global scale with far-reaching impacts into social, economic and political spheres, and examining these effects is still a developing realm within academic research. The relationship of coffee producers and their organizations within the global commodity chains renders such organizations particularly vulnerable to the effects of COVID-19 and government policy interventions. Investigating how coffee cooperatives in Honduras have been operating throughout the COVID-19 pandemic assesses their potential capacity for resilience by examining how they have been impacted and the manners in which they have overcome these challenges. This further allows for increased understanding of cooperative resilience and ways in which cooperatives’ capital have the potential to impact their resilience.This research follows an abductive qualitative case study and utilizes semi-structured interviews from various coffee cooperatives and organizations in Honduras as primary sources with existing literature as secondary sources. The interviews were conducted remotely. The findings include accounts from cooperatives and producer organizations, which focus primarily on coffee production, in addition to reports from a privately owned coffee production enterprise and a cooperative member. The Vulnerability Context and Asset Pentagon, components of the Sustainable Rural Livelihoods Framework as described by the Department for International Development, were used to analyze the data, along with variables to assess organizational resilience. The study finds that investments to organizations’ human and social capital were prioritized and heavily relied upon during this crisis and the more established organizations had a larger range of resources from which to draw upon. Nevertheless, by continuing to develop and expand on human and social capital, cooperative organizations can increase their capacity for resilience.

This thesis embodies a comprehensive analysis of the assimilation of Southern and Eastern European immigrant groups in the United States. Despite being considered racially distinct upon arrival en masse in the period 1880-1920, assimilation theorists posited that these white ethnic groups would be quickly absorbed into the prevailing white population. With the aid of Americanization campaigns targeting immigrants and their offspring, it appeared as though ethnic attachments had progressively declined with each successive generation. However, an explosion of white ethnic sentiment and activity in the 1960s and 1970s suggested otherwise, and led many to believe that white ethnic identities had not been entirely forsaken and were in fact being revived by the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the immigrants. This view is fundamentally questioned within this thesis which argues that, due to a multitude of forces and factors, white ethnicities could not have been revived in any meaningful sense. Significant attention is drawn to America’s racialised history and racebased social framework within which white ethnics categorically benefited from being classified as ‘white’. Also examined are factors such as generational distance from the point of immigration, language loss, upward mobility, and intermarriage, which together facilitated the comprehensive assimilation of white ethnic groups into the majority white population in the decades leading up to the alleged “ethnic revival.” The upsurge in white ethnic sentiment in the 1960s and 1970s is therefore argued to have transpired due to the chance convergence of a number of different factors, and given the continued classification of Americans as belonging to one of five racial groups, this thesis concludes that white ethnicities stand little chance of surviving in the long-run within a society in which race continues to hold significant sway.

在迪菲方塊中，我們將正方形的四個頂點皆填入數值，再利用相鄰兩頂點相減，再取絕對值的方式觀察其數列行為，發現四個頂點的數字最後皆會收斂至0。在本文中，我們將之推廣至五邊形，我們稱它為迪菲五邊形。我們套用同樣的運算模式後，發現亦有特殊的收斂行為。 / In Diffy box, we write down numbers on the four vertices of square, and then on the midpoint of each side write the difference between the two numbers at its endpoints. It is known that the numbers on the four vertices of a square will converge to zero finally. In this article, we use the same operations as Diffy box to discuss pentagons which we call" Diffy pentagon ". We find it will converge, too.

Rhetoric and Rupture: A Theory of the Event This thesis engages the problematic of agency and interiority in rhetorical studies by proposing a theory of evental rhetoric. The event is a rupture in the continuities of the symbolic, revealing the distance between the forces of symbolization and their phantasmagorical effects. This theory is built upon the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Jacques Lacan, engaging questions of truth, being, and the relationship of the subject to herself and the world. The rhetorics of legal practice, particularly the per curiam opinions of the United States Supreme Court, I argue, provide the institutional and epistemological formations necessary to transcend the bonds of situated rhetoric and become truly evental. I turn to the Supreme Court decision in New York Times Co. v. United States as an example of such an evental rhetoric. These rhetorics clear the way for the introduction of the new, and found a conversation in which democracy can begin.

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Aux États-Unis, le « pentagone ethnoracial » s’impose comme un outil majeur de la conception identitaire. Son caractère hautement normatif participe à une mise en catégories du monde social en cinq nuances immuables : blanc, afro-américain, hispanique, asiatique et amérindien. Aussi approximatif soit-il, rien ne semble remettre en question sa validité, ni les exceptions identitaires, ni les tensions qu’il induit. Parce que le campus américain s’apparente à bien des égards à une microsociété, nous avons cherché à savoir comment ces normes identitaires se manifestaient à l'Université et à travers la vie associative ethnique. Notre attention s’est portée sur le développement, l’expression, la gestion de l’identité ethnoraciale ainsi que sur la question des liens de sociabilité qui en découle. Au terme d’une enquête de terrain menée sur cinq campus de l’État de New York, d’une série d’entretiens et de sondages, nos résultats montrent que l’association constitue souvent un terrain sur lequel se développent les mécanismes définissant les « frontières ethniques » dont les contours ont souvent été esquissés avant l’Université. L’inscription dans le contexte new-yorkais se justifie par l’impact de ses fortes inégalités raciales sur les schémas interactionnels et les mécanismes identitaires. New York, ou l’État de tous les paradoxes, permet de rendre compte des problématiques liées à l’appartenance raciale et ethnique à l’échelle de la société. Lieux privilégiés de (ré)confort, le rôle des associations ethniques s’interprète comme la preuve que la dichotomie Noirs/Blancs n’a pas totalement disparu et que l’historique color-line existe encore dans les faits et dans les esprits. / In the United States, the “ethno-racial pentagon” has established itself as a major tool to define identity. Its normative aspect contributes to the process of categorizing the American social sphere into a fixed number of categories: White, African-American, Hispanic, Asian and Native American. As imprecise as the ethno-racial pentagon is, identity particularisms as well as the tensions it triggers do not seem to be enough to question its validity. As American college campuses may be described in terms of a micro-society, we looked into how identity norms manifest themselves in college and more specifically in ethnic student organizations. We primarily focused on the development, the expression, and the management of ethno-racial identity as well as the question of socialization that this topic encompasses. After conducting a field research of five campuses from New York State and a series of interviews and surveys with ethnic minority students, our findings indicate that ethnic associations tend to provide a ground for defining “ethnic boundaries” whose contours have often been outlined before college. The designation of New York State as a case study is justified by the possible impact of its racial inequalities on social interaction patterns and identity development. As a state of countless paradoxes, New York allows us to consider the issues related to racial and ethnic identity at a national level. As unique comfort zones on campus, the role that they play has proven that the Black/White dichotomy which has been structuring the American society since slavery, has not completely disappeared and that the historical color-line still exists in both mind and reality.