Denison University

About: Denison University is a education organization based out in Granville, Ohio, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Politics. The organization has 921 authors who have published 1828 publications receiving 41060 citations. The organization is also known as: Denison & DU.

Recovery Among Youths Referred to Outpatient Psychotherapy: Reliable Change, Clinical Significance, and Predictors of Outcome

Abstract: Although psychotherapy for children and adolescents is efficacious when administered in university-based research settings, relatively little data support its effectiveness in the community. This study examined the outcomes of 35,429 youths (5–17 years of age) referred to public outpatient psychotherapy programs in Ohio. All youths showed statistical elevations in symptom severity and were assigned at least one DSM-IV diagnosis at intake. Parents, therapists, and adolescents completed the same norm-referenced symptom severity measure at intake and at 3 month intervals until termination. One year after intake, approximately 55% of youths showed statistically reliable symptom reduction whereas 8% showed reliable symptom exacerbation. Approximately one-third of the sample showed both reliable and clinically significant improvement. Outcomes varied significantly by informant, client age, and client gender. Results indicate that many youths improve during the course of therapy but most remain symptomatic 1 year after intake.

The Effects of Descriptive Associational Leadership on Civic Engagement: The Case of Clergy and Gender in Protestant Denominations

Abstract: Given the attention that has been paid to the presence of women in leadership positions throughout the economy and society as well as the role that associations play in shaping citizen political participation, it is surprising that their confluence has not been systematically studied. What effect does men's versus women's associational leadership have on the political engagement of women and men members? Using a set of surveys drawn from Protestant denominations that ordain women as part of the 2001 U.S. Congregational Life Study, I investigate clergy gender effects on church leadership and political participation conditional on member gender using hierarchical models. Across four denominations, I find descriptive evidence but little systematic evidence supporting an effect due to clergy gender, though somewhat more evidence on church leadership than on political activity.

Demography of Race and Ethnicity in South Africa

Abstract: The purpose of this chapter is to provide a demographic profile of South Africa. First, we focus on the Cape because we suggest that the Cape experience has general implications for other settlements in South Africa such as Natal, Transvaal, and Orange Free State, and helps in understanding the emerging national context of racial classification in the census. Secondly, we turn to the use of Race in the efforts to conduct censuses by the Colonial administrators. These enumerations are different from the census, in that they were not as systematic, nor did they have the same authoritative mandate as censuses. Next, we turn our attention to how the system of racial classification developed in the Cape Colony was expanded and extended to other regions of South Africa. The colonial history provides a foundation for a discussion of race and ethnicity in the segregation period. Finally, we move to an examination of apartheid and post apartheid periods and provide an outlook of the future in post apartheid South Africa. We conclude by mentioning how these enumerations were related to European colonial domination and racial classification more generally and are associated the racial stratification system.

Modeling The Nuclear Arms Race: A Search for Bounded Stability

Abstract: The field of quantitative arms race modeling is rich in tradition when compared t o most social science paradigms. It has a history that can be traced back to 1939, when Lewis F. Richardson published his first monograph relating arms competition between nations to the outbreak of war. In this paper an attempt is made to carry forth three additions to the many modifications on Richardson’s original models: (1) a new way of locating the presence or absence of stability in a dyadic arms race; (2) a focus on teclzizological change in weapons characteristics as such change impacts on arms race stability, and (3) a more extensive consideration of the costcoizstraiiztfririctioiz than has been accomplished previously.