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Externalization and Victim-Blaming among a Sample of Incarcerated Females
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Jackson, Arrick L.; Lucas, Schannae L.; Blackburn, Ashley G. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2009
The present study utilizes a pre- and post-test design to examine the effectiveness of an Impact of Crime on Victims Class (ICVC) on decreasing an offender's propensity to externalize responsibility for their behavior and its subsequent impact on an offender's level of victim- and society-blaming. The multiple analysis of covariance (MANCOVA)…
Descriptors: Victims of Crime, Academic Achievement, Institutionalized Persons, Females
Cool Girls, Inc.: Promoting the Positive Development of Urban Preadolescent and Early Adolescent Girls
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Kuperminc, Gabriel P.; Thomason, Jessica; DiMeo, Michelle; Broomfield-Massey, Kimberley – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2011
The past two decades have seen a transformation in youth programming toward a comprehensive positive youth development (YD) framework. Cool Girls, Inc., a YD program, focuses on improving girls' life chances by promoting positive behaviors and attitudes in multiple domains. These include self-concept, academic orientation, future orientation, and…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Females, Self Concept, Drug Use
Using a Toolbox of Tailored Educational Lessons to Improve Fruit, Vegetable, and Physical Activity Behaviors among African American Women in California
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Backman, Desiree; Scruggs, Valarie; Atiedu, Akpene Ama; Bowie, Shene; Bye, Larry; Dennis, Angela; Hall, Melanie; Ossa, Alexandra; Wertlieb, Stacy; Foerster, Susan B. – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2011
Objective: Evaluate the effectiveness of the "Fruit, Vegetable, and Physical Activity Toolbox for Community Educators" ("Toolbox"), an intervention originally designed for Spanish- and English-speaking audiences, in changing knowledge, attitudes, and behavior among low-income African American women. Design: Quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Health Services, Quasiexperimental Design, Intervention, Low Income
Effects of Enhanced Psychological Test Feedback on Treatment Outcome: Therapeutic Implications of the Barnum Effect.
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Halperin, Keith M.; Snyder, C.R. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
Ascertained whether diagnostic feedback had a positive influence on treatment outcome. Snake-fearful females took psychological tests and were randomly assigned to treatment conditions. The greatest therapeutic improvement resulted for the enhanced-personality-feedback-with-treatment group as compared to the treatment-only group. The…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Feedback
Therapist and Group Contact as Variables in the Behavioral Treatment of Obesity.
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And Others; Brownell, Kelly D. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
Obese females were assigned to a standard behavioral treatment (SBT) group, a group receiving weight control manuals via mail (MMC), or a waiting list control condition. Results revealed superiority of both treatments over control condition. SBT subjects did better than MMC subjects. Weight loss for MMC subjects was minimal. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Modification, Behavioral Objectives, Females
Length of Group Treatment and Changes in Women with Bulimia.
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Gerstein, Lawrence H.; Hotelling, Kathy – Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 1987
Examined effects of 4-month or 9-month multidimensional therapy group on bulimic women. Results suggest that participants altered behaviors, attitudes, feelings, and thoughts related to bingeing, purging, and physical appearance and developed more adaptive life skills. Decreases in bingeing and purging were maintained after treatment; no…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attitude Change, Behavior Modification, Bulimia