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Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Continuance vs. Discontinuance in Family Counseling, Katherine Anderson, Alice Dudley, and Mayetta Rocks
An Exploratory Study of Children’s Mental Health Needs in the Pact Target Area of Southeast Portland, Richard L. Bossardt and Clifford G. Larsen
Predictors of Placement from a Juvenile Detention Facility, Diane C. Brock
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot: An Intellectual Approach, Elbert Hardy Cave
Residential child care manpower and training needs, Song K. Cho
The Effect of Antibiotics on Thermophilic Blue-Green Algae, Erleen Blanche Christenson
Teaching social studies from a global viewpoint, Janet Hays Clemmer
How Women Are Made: A Look at the Issues of the Women's Liberation Movement, Lenore Jan Coffey
Post-divorce visitation of minor children; development of a questionnaire, Viola Cotter, Lorraine Goldenberg, and Terry McGill
Life styles of methadone treatment patients: agreement of self report and informant report, Richard Cox and Gary West
Effects of Insulin, Sodium and D-Glucose on Amino Acid Absorption in the Intestine of Rats, Andre-Gerard Craan
Lactic dehydrogenase isozyme isolation by disc electrophoresis in eight species of fringillid birds, Michael Edwin Darling
The Effects of Sociological Theories of Poverty on Job Training Programs, Michael Richard DeShane
Age, Emotional Maturity and the Decision to Marry, Patricia Ann Duclos, David F. Thomas, and Joanne Zusman
Foreign Policy Decisions Which Led to United States Military Occupation of the Dominican Republic, Bert Lewis Junior Farrar
A study of families with stress related to the care of children with myelomeningocele, Janet L. Ferguson and Russel Tweed
The Environmental Crisis: The Effects of Ecology Courses on High School Students, Carol C. Fletcher
Title I Evaluation System, Maple Lane High School, Terrence A. Green
An interactional approach to weight reduction, Carole T. Gygi
A demographic study of transracial adoptive parents, Patricia Lee Hall
The Effectiveness of Environmental Control in Modifying Problem Behaviors in Mother-Child Interaction, Thomas Whalen Hamilton
Behavioral Changes Due to Overpopulation in Mice, James Robert Hammock
Patrick J. Hurley and China, 1944-1945, Robert T. Handy
The rhetoric of Sir Thomas More and Dietrich Bonhoeffer in original work and dramatic portrayal, Robert C. Harvey