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Experiences and concerns of students during music therapy practica.

This phenomenological research study investigated experiences and concerns that music therapy students have during their preclinical or practicum experiences. Interviews with students were intended to lead to an understanding of these experiences as the ...
Barbara L Wheeler (J Music Ther, 2002WINTER)
experiences-concerns-students-music-therapy-practica.asp

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Internal versus external locus of control: an analysis of music populations.

This study investigated the relationship between locus of control and chosen field of music specialization. The Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale was designed to assess the construct of locus of control and reinforcement, which is defined as the ...
Clifford K Madsen, Wayne E Goins (J Music Ther, 2002WINTER)
internal-versus-external-locus-control-analysis-music-populations.asp

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Measuring gambling outcomes among college students.

The present research describes the proposal and validation of three gambling outcome measures, the Gambling Quantity and Perceived Norms Scale (GQPN), the Gambling Problem Index (GPI), and the Gambling Readiness to Change Questionnaire (GRTC). The study ...
Clayton Neighbors, Ty W Lostutter, Mary E Larimer, Ruby Y Takushi (J Gambl Stud, 2002WINTER)
measuring-gambling-outcomes-college-students.asp

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The medical examination and biological selection of university students in Nazi Germany.

This article looks at the history of the medical inspection and biological selection of students in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. It discusses the emergence of regular medical inspection of various social groups, including students, in the 1920s ...
Béla Bodó (Bull Hist Med, 2002WINTER)
medical-examination-biological-selection-university-students-nazi.asp

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Psychosocial determinants of cigarette smoking among college students.

Although the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adolescents and adults consistently declined in the past decade, smoking among college students rose sharply. To reduce the morbidity and premature mortality caused by smoking, antismoking interventions ...
Mavra E Kear (J Community Health Nurs, 2002WINTER)
psychosocial-determinants-cigarette-smoking-college-students.asp

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Modelling student age-groups in the subnational population projections for England: an investigation into potential improvements.

This article describes research aimed at improving modeling of student age-groups in the ONS subnational population projections for England. A number of data-sources were investigated, and the research focused on Higher Education Statistics Agency data. ...
Giles Horsfield, Jenny Wood (Popul Trends, 2002WINTER)
modelling-student-age-groups-subnational-population-projections.asp

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The differential effectiveness of psychosocial and biogenetic causal explanations in reducing negative attitudes toward "mental illness".

Given the apparent failure of the "mental illness is an illness like any other" approach to reducing negative stereotypes of people with mental health problems, the differential effects of biogenetic and psychosocial explanations of psychiatric symptoms ...
Ian Walker, John Read (Psychiatry, 2002WINTER)
differential-effectiveness-psychosocial-biogenetic-causal.asp

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Collaborative assessment and healing in schools after large-scale terrorist attacks.

The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, DC, as well as the strong possibility of future similar attacks have obliged school crisis responders in our country to rethink usual ways of helping. In ...
Joanne Tortorici Luna (Int J Emerg Ment Health, 2002SUMMER)
collaborative-assessment-healing-schools-after-large-scale-terrorist.asp

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Explaining the gender difference in self-reported suicide attempts: a nationally representative study of Norwegian adolescents.

Predictors of self-reported suicide attempts were studied cross-sectionally and prospectively in order to discern which variables may account for the gender difference in such reports. A representative sample of Norwegian students (N= 9,679) in grades ...
Lars Wichstrøm, Ingeborg Rossow (Suicide Life Threat Behav, 2002SUMMER)
explaining-gender-difference-self-reported-suicide-attempts.asp

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Screening for adolescent depression: comparison of the Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale with the Beck depression inventory.

Self-report instruments commonly used to assess depression in adolescents have limited or unknown reliability and validity in this age group. We describe a new self-report scale, the Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale (KADS), designed specifically to ...
John C LeBlanc, Anthony Almudevar, Sarah J Brooks, Stan Kutcher (J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol, 2002SUMMER)
screening-adolescent-depression-comparison-kutcher-adolescent.asp