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Item A Phenomenological Study of the Experiences of Supervisors working with Crisis Counselors(2017-07-10) Tran, Quoc Dung V. L.; Lawson, DavidA phenomenological study was conducted at a Southwestern United States University to examine the experience of nine supervisors who work with crisis counselors. This study examined the training, topics, and difficulties experienced as they sought to support and perform their supervisory duties. Nine themes emerge and described as Learning the job, Crisis topics, Effective Communication, Skills development, Maintaining flexibility, Setting boundaries, Maintaining support, Stress, burnout, and self-care, and Balance. Best practices were identified by supervisors to build resiliency and promote growth for both supervisors and their supervisees. Implications for practice and research are included to further enhance effective supervision of crisis counselors.Item Japan - the lasting effects of the Asian crisis(Texas Tech University, 2005-05) Fallin, Michael James; Rahnama, Masha; McComb, Robert P.In the 1980’s Japan was the second largest economy in the world that was experiencing growth and gains in assets that were greater than that of the U.S. However the recession that occurred in the late 1980s, along with the large impact felt by the Asian Crisis, Japan currently remains financially unstable. Monetary and fiscal policies that have been used to combat the problem remain unsuccessful as the economy continues to stagnate. Could this be due to inadequate policy, or is something else causing the economy to lag in the worlds longest recession? This thesis covers and explores the different factors that have effected this economy from a governmental, monetary, economic, and sociological standpoint in an effort to explain why Japan’s economy has still not recovered.Item Japan - the lasting effects of the Asian crisis(2005-08) Fallin, Michael James; Rahnama, Masha; McComb, Robert P.In the 1980’s Japan was the second largest economy in the world that was experiencing growth and gains in assets that were greater than that of the U.S. However the recession that occurred in the late 1980s, along with the large impact felt by the Asian Crisis, Japan currently remains financially unstable. Monetary and fiscal policies that have been used to combat the problem remain unsuccessful as the economy continues to stagnate. Could this be due to inadequate policy, or is something else causing the economy to lag in the worlds longest recession? This thesis covers and explores the different factors that have effected this economy from a governmental, monetary, economic, and sociological standpoint in an effort to explain why Japan’s economy has still not recovered.Item Master of none : my adventures in the realm of greater academia(2010-05) Gentry, Donovan Lee; Stone, Allucquére Rosanne; Radio-Television-Film; Straubhaar, Joseph D.This report attempts to trace a path through my time in higher education, from an undergraduate degree in English to the completion of my Master's degree in Media studies. The report will focus on examining how school has differed from my expectations, and how my difficulties and struggles therein led me through various class models and modes of learning. In the course of retelling the projects and studies I worked on, I will compare different methods of pedagogy, from the typical grad school class to the free-form space of the ACTLab. I close by reflecting on how a report on my own time here at UT might be useful to others unsure of how grad school is supposed to go, much I was when I started out.Item Strategic communication issues for nonprofits : targeting donors, utilizing new media, and planning for crises(2012-12) Garcia, Lauren Elizabeth; Drumwright, Minette E.; Eastin, MatthewThe purpose of this paper is to examine the growing nonprofit sector in the marketplace and the challenges and opportunities involved with attracting and maintaining donor relations and charitable giving. Nonprofit organizations have a number challenges relating to marketing and communications but I have chosen to focus on three dominant areas: targeting donors for support and greatly needed funds, the use of emerging media tools, and crisis management. These issues have a significant impact on an organization’s ability to effectively communicate their brand as compelling to their public. First, I will briefly go over the branding process and what makes a nonprofit brand so unique. I will discuss the target market of donors, the importance of understanding them and their mindset, and finally provide some variables that relate to successful recruiting and maintaining of those relations. Additionally, my research will cover not only methods that could best attract donors but also why many nonprofits do not have marketing or communications plans in place already and the consequences for such a choice. Following that research, I will go into the actual marketing and communication tactics that can be used, not only through traditional but also in new or emerging media communications. Then, I will transition into research of crisis management, linking to the necessity of implementation of marketing plans and the consequences that can occur when nonprofits deal with crises ineffectively. Based on the research, I will conclude my own set of guidelines for how nonprofits should proceed should they want to be successful in a competitive marketplace.Item The subprime object of ideology(2010-05) McDonald, Robert Olen, 1986-; Cloud, Dana L.; Gunn, JoshuaThis investigation combines contemporary Marxian political economy with Lacanian psychoanalysis to understand the discourse of finance capitalism, and to understand the dialectical seeds of the industry’s eventual destruction that were inherent within the hegemonic commodities of the era. These commodities, which include derivatives, futures, collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps and subprime mortgage loans, were ideological and communicative as well as profitable, and thus do a double duty under finance capitalism’s dominance. Lacan’s concepts of metaphor, fantasy, the quilting point, and the master signifier are extended in order to understand how subjects come to know themselves and their world through the terms given to them by capital. In addition, the rhetorical interventions of two chief ideologists for finance capitalism in the 1990s, Thomas Friedman and Alan Greenspan, are interrogated as exemplifications of the fantastical nature of late capitalism.Item Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America : a framework for non-profits beginning and ending a relationship with another organization(2013-05) Clemons, Althea Nicole; Anderson, Ronald B.; Greiner, Corinne LThis Professional Report explores the history of the relationship between Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and ways in which this can inform other non-profits attempting to enter into a relationship. The report starts with an analysis of the history of both organizations, their relationship, as well as the environment for non-profits at the time. The report then outlines the details of the Public Relations crisis faced by Susan G. Komen for the Cure when they attempted to end their relationship with Planned Parenthood on January 31, 2012. The report concludes with recommendations for steps to follow for any organization attempting to commence or terminate a relationship with another organization.