You're all just jealous that your dissertations can't be found by keyword searching for "goats"! Can you imagine the hassle of going through IRB and the Animal Welfare Board?
Doug Doug Peterson Associate Professor of Psychology The University of South Dakota Vermillion SD 57069 (605) 677-5295 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Scott Lilienfeld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:53 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: astonishing Psy.D. dissertation I thought that some of you might be interested in this recent remarkable dissertation from a student in a major Psy.D. program (I have deleted the student's name) which a colleague brought to my attention. This dissertation may say something about the quality of the teaching of psychology in certain (not all, I realize) freestanding professional programs in clinical psychology. This program, I believe, is fully accredited by the American Psychological Association. See: http://www.apa.org/ed/accreditation/clinpsymz.html I see from this Web site that their APA accreditation is apparently up for review this year. Perhaps the APA site visitors will want to take note of the work being produced by the graduates of this program. And in case you're wondering, no, it's not a hoax. .....Scott Author(s): (deleted) Pacific Graduate School Of Psychology USSource:Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering Keywords: dysfunctional adolescents; goats; mother infant attachment behavior; treatment; birth Abstract: This research project was designed to assess whether boys exposed to a goat giving birth would improve attachment capacity as measured by the FIRO-BC. It was assumed that the experience of viewing the birth and the subsequent interaction of the mother goat with the newborn kids would be a kind of modeling of attachment behavior that the adolescents could relate to and benefit from. The study involved comparing three groups of boys diagnosed as having Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). The experimental group actually witnessed and participated in the birth process. The video group saw a video tape of the birth process but did not actually participate in it. The third group was a control group from the same treatment facility and involved with the same daily routines but not shown the video or involved with the birth. The FIRO-BC with six subscores was used as a measure of attachment capacity. Other measures of behavioral change were a Daily Point Count, which was an ongoing assessment already in use at the facility; and a Relationship Change Scale completed by staff members of the facility for each of the boys in the study. From two-way analyses of variance and subsequent planned comparisons it was found that few differences existed among the three groups, with only two noteworthy findings. There was a marginal difference in affection scores showing a smaller disparity between expressed and wanted affection scores from pretest to posttest for the experimental group compared to the other two groups. Also the experimental group increased its Summed Expression scores to a significantly greater degree than did the other two groups. Both of these findings supported the hypothesis that boys exposed to a goat giving birth would increase their attachment capacity. No other group differences were noted. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved) -- Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Psychology, Room 206 Emory University 532 N. Kilgo Circle Atlanta, Georgia 30322 (404) 727-1125 (phone) (404) 727-0372 (FAX) Home Page: http://www.emory.edu/PSYCH/Faculty/lilienfeld.html The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice: www.srmhp.org The Master in the Art of Living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his intellectual passions. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him - he is always doing both. - Zen Buddhist text (slightly modified) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
