Shannon Scott in a Senior Oboe Recital

This is the program for the senior oboe recital of Shannon Scott. Pianist Glenda Aldridge assisted, with Candice Burton on violin, Helen Lyon on viola, Alex Nisbet on violincello, and Ralph Rauch on flute. The recital took place on November 21, 1977, in the Mabee Fine Arts Center Recital Hall

PRIMARY CARE PROVIDER ATTITUDES TOWARDS ADOPTION OF EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE: INDICATORS OF ACCEPTANCE TOWARDS BIBLIOTHERAPY

The rising prevalence of depression is straining the skeletal mental health systems in rural communities, resulting in a majority of patients receiving management for their depression solely by their primary care providers. However, providers need to be empowered with evidence-based resources to provide adequate care beyond pharmacotherapy exclusively. Bibliotherapy, or the prescription of books for the treatment of disease, is readily used by psychologists but less incorporated into the traditional medical model of patient care. This small pilot study provided primary care providers in a rural area complimentary copies of the self-help text Feeling Good (Burns, 2009) to incorporate into their care of mild to moderately depressed patients as they saw fit. Texts were provided with brief education. This scholarly project evaluated the self-reported prescribing practices and utilized the Evidence-based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS) tool developed by Gregory Aarons. There was no correlation found in EBPAS pre intervention scores and use of bibliotherapy, or the use of bibliotherapy and post intervention EBPAS scores. Sex, age range, years in practice, educational background, and number of depressed patients/month have the largest effect on EBPAS scores and bibliotherapy use. Findings were limited due to small sample size. Future studies with a larger sample size can yield more robust results of statistical significance that can better elucidate how provider attitudes influence the adoption of bibliotherapy

The Blackfoot demonstrative system: Function, form, and meaning

This thesis presents a comprehensive analysis of the Blackfoot demonstrative system. Previous research on Blackfoot (Uhlenbeck 1938, Taylor 1969, Frantz 2009) identifies sixteen morphemes that make up demonstrative words in the language. I propose a demonstrative template that takes into account the fixed morpheme ordering observed in demonstrative forms. Based on the proposed template, I motivate the analysis of the suffix -ka as encoding motion towards the speaker as this accounts for its position together with the suffixes -ya, -ma, and -hka, each of which encode features of motion or visibility. In describing situational functions of each of the morphemes, I make use of Imai’s (2003) inventory of spatial deictic features. I present the first analysis of the morphologically analyzable, but heretofore undescribed suffix -o as encoding the geometric configuration feature [interior]. This thesis also offers the first explanation of the syntactic contexts that govern the two identificational suffixes -ayi and -ao’ka. Earlier analyses of the Blackfoot demonstrative system focus on the spatial features encoded by situational uses of demonstratives to the exclusion of other pragmatic functions. As a result, the proposals do not address variations in meaning when used in non-situational pragmatic contexts. To address this gap in the literature, I examine non-situational pragmatic functions, as well as symbolic situational demonstrative uses (e.g. deictic projection, wider-context). The result of this study is a comprehensive analysis of the Blackfoot demonstrative system which takes into account both syntactic and pragmatic functions, providing new insights into the meanings of many of the morphemes that comprise the system. It also provides support from Blackfoot for Himmelmann’s (1996) claim that there are four universal pragmatic functions of demonstratives, and support for Diessel’s (1999) claim that situational uses are the basic demonstrative uses from which the others are derived