15 results match your criteria: "Northern Virginia Center[Affiliation]"
Heliyon
April 2024
Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Northern Virginia Center, USA.
Statement Of Problem: AI technology presents a variety of benefits and challenges for educators.
Purpose: To investigate whether ChatGPT and Google Bard (now is named Gemini) are valuable resources for generating multiple-choice questions for educators of dental caries.
Material And Methods: A book on dental caries was used.
Mil Med
May 2016
Michigan State University, 522 West Circle Drive, 3B Human Ecology, East Lansing, MI 48824.
An injury during deployment disrupts family and life functioning. The purpose of the present study was to provide an in-depth examination of three injured National Guard soldiers showing how differential experiences of navigating multiple systems to obtain treatment for injury resulted in different adjustment trajectories for these soldiers and their families. A comparative case study examined three families where a soldier's injury was a central theme of family adjustment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCurr Epidemiol Rep
March 2015
Social System Design Lab, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.
The worldwide increase in obesity has led to changes in what is considered "normal" or desirable weight, especially among populations at higher risk. We show that social norms are key to understanding the obesity epidemic, and that social influence mechanisms provide a necessary linkage between individual obesity-related behaviors and population-level characteristics. Because influence mechanisms cannot be directly observed, we show how three complex systems tools may be used to gain insights into observed epidemiologic patterns: social network analysis, agent-based modeling, and systems dynamics modeling.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFViolence Vict
September 2008
Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Virginia Tech-Northern Virginia Center, Falls Church 22043, USA.
Conjoint couples treatment for interpersonal partner violence (IPV) remains controversial despite a growing body of research and practice experience indicating that it can be effective and safe. In addition, developing typologies of couples who are violent suggest that a "one-size-fits-all" treatment approach to IPV is not appropriate and conjoint treatment may have a place in the treatment of at least some couples. In this article, we review the experimental studies and clinical practices of conjoint treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Marital Fam Ther
January 2008
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Northern Virginia Center, USA.
The present study compared solution-focused group therapy (SFGT) with a traditional problem-focused treatment for level 1 substance abusers. Outcome research on the effectiveness of solution-focused group therapy is minimal, especially in treating substance abusers. In the present study, clients were measured before and after treatment to determine therapeutic effectiveness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArch Facial Plast Surg
March 2007
Northern Virginia Center for Facial Plastic Surgery, PC, Reston, VA, USA.
Objective: The aging of the neck is a combination of accumulated submental fat, platysmal banding, and redundant skin. Traditional face- and neck-lifting procedures successfully address these components. Unfortunately, the cost, both in terms of downtime and expense, often becomes prohibitive for a large section of the interested patient population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAddict Behav
January 2005
Department of Human Development, Virginia Tech, Northern Virginia Center, 7054 Haycock Road, Room 202G, Falls Church, VA 22043, USA.
We examined multiple ecological factors (individual, family, peer, school, and community) associated with female adolescent former smokers (FS), current smokers (CS), and never smokers (NS) in a sample of 2029 seventh to twelfth grade girls living in a rural area of Virginia. We were particularly interesting in examining variables related to FS. Compared to CS, FS reported lower levels of delinquency, less coping by taking drugs, less availability of cigarettes, and less alcohol and marijuana use.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Marital Fam Ther
July 2004
Human Development Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Northern Virginia Center, Falls Church 20043, USA.
An experimental design was used to determine outcomes of a domestic violence-focused treatment program for couples that choose to stay together after mild-to-moderate violence has occurred. Forty-two couples were randomly assigned to either individual couple or multi-couple group treatment. Nine couples served as the comparison group.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Marital Fam Ther
July 2003
Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Department of Human Development, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Northern Virginia Center, USA.
Many state domestic violence intervention standards mandate that treatment for offenders should be separate from any treatment offered to victims. In this article we advocate that in cases of low-level violence, when couples choose to remain together, certain aspects of treatment should be offered conjointly. Specifically, our feedback from victims and offenders suggests that one tool generally taught to offenders-time-out--is often ineffective and can be used abusively when partners are not taught the tool concurrently.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Marital Fam Ther
January 2002
Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Department of Human Development, Virginia Tech University-Northern Virginia Center, 7054 Haycock Rd., Falls Church, VA 22043, USA.
J Marital Fam Ther
January 2002
Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Northern Virginia Center, 7054 Haycock Rd., Falls Church, Va. 22043, USA.
This paper describes challenges faced in a four-year project to develop a manualized couples treatment program for domestic violence. The couples treatment program is an add-on to a male batterer program where the male partner has perpetrated mild-to-moderate violence, yet both partners want to remain together. The project involved the cooperation of a variety of community agencies and referrals from key domestic violence programs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLaryngoscope
July 2001
Northern Virginia Center for Facial Plastic Surgery, Reston, Virginia 20191, USA.
Objective: Facial osseous defects remain a major functional and esthetic challenge for the head and neck surgeon. Tissue engineering may provide advantageous alternatives to conventional therapies. The objective of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of gene therapy in the repair of osseous facial defects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Marital Fam Ther
January 2001
Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Virginia Tech-Northern Virginia Center, Human Development Department, 7054 Haycock Road, Falls Church, VA 22043, USA.
In this study we examined clients' perceptions of live supervision and their satisfaction with therapy in a university-based training clinic for marriage and family therapists. A total of 108 clients completed the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire-8 and a modified version of the Purdue Live Observation Satisfaction Scale. Clients' comments on the advantages and disadvantages of live supervision were also solicited through short-answer questions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNurs Spectr (Wash D C)
June 1998
University of Virginia, Northern Virginia Center, Falls Church, USA.
Fam Process
September 1999
Department of Human Development, Virginia Tech University, Northern Virginia Center, Falls Church 22043, USA.
The client's home is emerging as a typical site in which family therapy is delivered, yet training programs tend to train students in an office-based model. This qualitative study examines the process that three student interns went through as they learned to do home-based therapy after having been trained in a clinic setting. All three found that the experience of working in the clients' homes challenged their beliefs about therapy as well as the models of a professional relationship; all reformulated their views on therapy because of this challenge.
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