Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4523. Adviser: Carole L. Palmer. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 292-315) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 2008. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-07, Section: A, page: 2523. Adviser: Bryan C. Taylor.

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Computer supported facilitation is a form of third party intervention that uses advanced information technology to deliver non-authoritative intervention on organizational decision making. The goal of this type of intervention is to create communication events where decision making and decision outcomes are collaboratively produced by those who have a stake in the decision. The facilitator's role is to assure decision making progress without taking sides or rendering a final decision. The obligations of facilitation form competing injunctions for practicing facilitation. Facilitative intervention must be performed so that it influences decision activity without influencing decision outcomes, facilitators must participate in decision making without becoming a party to the decision, and facilitators must enforce decision procedures without coercing participant acceptance of the procedures. The evolution of the field is marked by innovations in practice and role definitions that seek more effective means to reconcile the competing demands of the role and the changing circumstances of the intervention context. Computer supported facilitation is a technologically advanced form of intervention that combine skills of facilitators with the capacities of collaborative computing technology to more efficiently and effectively deliver decisions for organizations facing a choice. The facilitator designs and carries out interventions by using group decision support systems that enable anonymous participation, simultaneous communication of ideas, geographic and chronological distribution of participation, and the electronic storage of contributions. This investigation finds that while technical advances help facilitators overcome the numerous barriers to decision making communication, the advances in technique and technology are prescriptions for decision making communication built on inadequate descriptive assumptions about the nature of communication. The community of facilitation practice and its technologies operate on the dubious assumption that communication process and content are in fact distinct. The community of practice, however, is caught up in preserving this distinction as its solution to the paradoxes of doing non-authoritative intervention. The dissertation demonstrates this state of affairs by showing the set of premises for facilitative action embodied in the process management view of the practice, the methods of transparency work which uphold intervention neutrality, and the way the community treats an innovation on practice.

Objective. To create a theory-based framework to guide the development of interventions for assisting genetics health services clients to communicate results of genetic testing to at-risk family members. Methods. Systematic review methods were used to collect evidence on the barriers and facilitators of disclosure. After appraisal of several theories against key criteria, the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) was chosen as the theory to base the framework on. The framework was developed through a qualitative process which incorporated the all the available evidence from the literature. A preliminary examination of the utility of the framework was done through a cross-sectional survey. Results. The framework explains the act of disclosing a genetic test results to at-risk family members in terms of the TPB. Results from the cross-sectional survey, conducted in a population not previously studied, were generally consistent with the information presented in the framework and found in the literature. Conclusions. The framework has potential to be used in developing interventions; however, results need to be replicated in prospective studies with larger samples.

Since the 1980's a number of amendments have been made to the Canadian criminal justice system and Canadian police services in an effort to increase the reporting of sexual assault cases. According to the Department of Justice Canada (1997) the term sexual assault is used to refer to criminal acts, which range from any unwanted sexual touching to forced intercourse. However, despite reforms, under-reporting continues to remain drastically high. This study uses Anthony Giddens' social theory of structuration as a theoretical framework and employs semi-structured in-depth qualitative interviews as a data collection method to analyze and further an understanding of female sexual assault survivors' perceptions of police investigations and their reasons for not reporting their assaults. The data collected for this study was analyzed using thematic analysis. The findings suggest that survivor perceptions of police investigations had an impact on their decisions not to report their assaults to police. Additionally, survivors indicated that their decisions not to report were also contingent upon the overarching theme of fear of being discredited. Within this theme, the sub-themes of self-blame and guilt, previous sexual history, lack of understanding of police investigation, and distrust of the Canadian criminal justice system also impacted participants' decision-making processes in regard to that which they elected to report to police. These findings were analyzed using Anthony Giddens' theory of structuration, and can be used to further our understanding of why sexual assault survivors may choose not to report their assaults to police.