Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis, PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references.

The present study sought to investigate the impact of a specific approach to death education on parental attitudes toward death education of young children. A seconf purpose was to determine if parents' self-reported level of anxiety about discussing death with their children would be affected by their participation in a specific approach to death education. And a third purpose was to determine if parents would validate the use of the educational program in which they participated as a model for other parents to learn how to better understand and be helpful to children coping with loss as a consequence of death.A total of 54 parents of children who were currently enrolled in the Rochester, Minnesota public elementary schools were randomly assigned to participate in one of three educational-discussion groups. A one-group pretest posttest design was used in the study, and the assessment instruments consisted of a Demographic Data and Attitude Questionnaire and a Parent Questionnaire Related to Children and Death.Results of the statistical investigation indicated that there was no significant difference in pre- and post group analysis regarding parents' attitudes toward death education of young children. There was a statistically significant difference (p < .01) between the pre and post comparisons on subjects' self-reported level of anxiety about discussing death with their children, and the vast majority (96.3%) agreed or strongly agreed that the educational program in which they participated could serve as a model for other parents to learn how to better understand and be helpful to children at a time of loss.On the basis of these data, conclusions were drawn and speculations were made concerning the use of the educational model in community death education programs.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity Lutheran Seminary, 1983. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-127).

Thesis (M.A.)--Liberty Baptist Seminary, 1982. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-129).

The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of a death education laboratory approach on the participants. Measures of death anxiety, general anxiety, and self-concept were thought to be of particular importance and thus were used as dependent variables. The study was designed to obtain measures of the variables through appropriate testing administered immediately following participation in a death lab and one month after participation in the 16-hour death lab. This design was selected because the possibility exists that anxiety levels may increase during a workshop on death and dying. None of the eight hypotheses in this study were statistically validated. Thus the assumption that the death lab as used in this study would have a positive impact on the participants was rejected. However, non-statistical observations and inferences from analysis of covariance and t-test data suggested that the use of a waiting list control group may have biased the results of the study. A second observation made in this study was that high death anxious treatment group members tended to have reduced anxiety scores on post-testing and low death anxious treatment group members tended to have increased death anxiety scores on post-testing. It is not known if this regression toward the mean effect is a recurring phenomenon in the death lab experience.

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The principal purpose of this study was to compare similarities and differences in selected personal variables and death attitudes between university students enrolled in a death education course and students not enrolled in a death education course. Secondary attention was directed towards an analysis of the relationship of personal characteristics and death-related experiences with attitudes towards death. Three groups of university students, a death education-enrolled or completed group (n = 90), a death education-enrolled only subgroup (n = 47), and a non-enrolled control group (n = 46) were compared using the Health and Illness Survey. The HIS measures a wide range of variables including personal characteristics, death-related experiences and attitudes towards death. A correlational, ex post facto research design was utilized in order to compare the relationship of each of these variables with group membership. Additional correlational analyses were computed to reveal the degree of relationship between the personal variables and attitudes towards death. Findings revealed that the death education students reported experiencing their first significant personal involvement with death at a younger age, and desire more open discussion of death during childhood than the non enrolled comparison group. Death education students rated themselves significantly higher than the non death education students on present physical health and also on self esteem following completion of the HIS. With regard to the death attitudes findings, the death education-enrolled group reported higher levels of fear of personal death than those not enrolled. Additional results indicated that significant relationships did exist between death attitudes and several personal characteristics and death-related experiences. Particularly noteworthy were relationships indicating that a more favorable childhood environment regarding death-related experiences correlated with increased levels of coping with death and dying and decreased levels of fear of death and dying. Implications of these findings directed toward parents, counselors and educators were discussed, and recommendations were made to assist future research efforts in this area.

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Orientador: Eduardo Daruge / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T16:59:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Scaglia_JorgeAlejandroPaulete_M.pdf: 3759817 bytes, checksum: c24d4be1f820d68f596b05dcaac0a60f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: A aplicação do estudo dos insetos, ácaros e outros artrópodes, a assuntos legais, é denominada de Entomologia Forense. A entomologia forense se aplica a inúmeras situações do cotidiano, que vão desde um simples caruncho em um saco de milho de pipoca, passam pelas traças devastando coleções de livros, que por sua vez se aliam às baratas e findam com os cupins destruindo documentos e antiguidades. Sem se falar, ainda, no seu uso em relação a produtos armazenados, grãos estocados, na lavoura; enfim, em todo e qualquer lugar, em que o dano ou a aparição de um inseto seja motivo de prejuízo, direto ou indireto, ou que, de certa maneira possa ser comprovadamente o nexo causal. Também se deve destacar, uma das mais importantes aplicações atuais da entomologia, através da qual determina-se o tempo de morte de um cadáver, independente de seu estado de decomposição. Nesse caso, os insetos (ou outros artrópodes) relacionados com um cadáver ou parte dele, atuam como indicador de tempo de morte (PMI). Nesse contexto, o presente trabalho de pesquisa teve por objetivo verificar quais são os insetos mais encontrados nos cadáveres, determinar em que fase da decomposição cadavérica os mesmos ocorrem, bem como analisar a viabilidade de uso dos mesmos para a determinação do tempo decorrido da morte. Para a investigação desse fato biológico, no presente trabalho foram utilizadas amostras coletadas sobre 200 cadáveres em diferentes estados de decomposição, que passaram pelo Instituto Médico Legal de Cuiabá, Estado do Mato Grosso, com causas da morte ¿não naturais¿. Para a inclusão dos cadáveres neste trabalho, não houve necessidade de se adotar quaisquer critérios específicos quanto à idade, sexo, altura, cor ou outro morfológico, visto que estes não influenciariam nos resul tados da pesquisa. As amostras consistem em ovos, estágios imaturos e adultos de diversos insetos. Para a análise das amostras em questão, utilizaram-se as tabelas de bioritmicidade e as técnicas do Grau- Hora-Acumulada (ADH). Todo material foi cuidadosamente coletado e processado no Laboratório de Odontolo-gia Legal da Faculdade de Odontologia de Pi racicaba - UNICAMP, bem como analisado tanto nos seus aspectos qual itativo quanto quantitativo, o que permitiu evidenciar as conclusões pretendidas. Atingido o seu termo, este trabalho de pesquisa científica permitiu concluir, através da metodologia empregada que, através da sucessão entomológica, é possível determinar em que fase a decomposição cadavérica se encontra, permitindo assim, determinar o tempo decorrido da morte / Abstract: The application of the study of the insects, acarids and other arthropods, to legal subjects, is denominated of Forensic Entomology. The forensic entomology is applies itself to countless situations of the daily life, since a simple little beetle in a sack of popcorn, they go by the moths desolating collections of books, that form an alliance with the cockroaches and join the termites destroying documents and antiquities for its time. Not to mention, therefore, its use in relation to stored products and grains, in the crop. Finally, in whole and any place, in which the damage or the appearance of an insect is reason for a damage, direct or indirect, or that, in a certain way can be really the causal connection. It should also highlight one of the most important current applications of the entomology, through which the time of death of a cadaver is determined, independent of its decomposition. In that case, the insects (or other arthropods) related to a cadaver or the leaves of it act as an indicator of the time of the death (PMI). In that context, the present research work has had for objective to verify which insects are mostly found in the cadavers, to determine in which phase of the cadaverous decomposition the same ones happen as wel l as to analyze the viabi lity of using of the same ones for the determining of the elapsed time of the death. For the investigation of that biological fact, in the present work samples collected on 200 cadavers in different decomposition phases, that have passed by the Legal Medical Institute of Cuiabá, State of Mato Grosso were used. To include the corpse in this work, there were not any necessities of criteria like age, sex, high, color or other morphological evidence, because this one does not chance the results of the research. The samples consist of eggs, immature and adult apprenticeships of several insects. All material was collected carefully and processed in the Laboratory of Legal Dentistry of the Ability of Dentistry of Piracicaba¿UNICAMP, as well as analyzed not only in its qualitative but also in its quantitative aspects, what has allowed evidencing the intended conclusions. Reached its term, this work of scientific research has allowed ending, through the methodology used that, through the entomological succession, it is possible to determine in which phase the cadaverous decomposition is, allowing this way, to determine the elapsed time of the death / Mestrado / Mestre em Odontologia Legal e Deontologia