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  title info:
    title: Camp counselors working with chronically ill children
  name:
    name part: Fiala, Samuel E., 1976-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Cepeda-Benito, Antonio
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Heffer, Robert W.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
  abstract: A growing body of empirical evidence suggests that attending specialized summer camps is beneficial for chronically ill youth (Briery & Rabian, 1999). However, there is some inconsistency across studies regarding these benefits (Hazzard & Angert,1986). One potential explanation for these differences across camps is that they may differ in how well they recruit and train effective volunteer camp counselors. This possibility cannot be explored until more research is conducted identifying what type of person volunteers to work with chronically ill children and how they differ from others. In response to this gap in the research literature, the present study was conducted to examine characteristics of volunteer camp counselors (n =72), a group of nonvolunteers (n = 325), and a group of volunteer mentors (n = 194). Guided by Omoto and Snyder's (1990) volunteer process model, the investigation explored how counselors differed from others in terms of dispositional variables, knowledge, and experience; and the relation between these individual characteristics and ratings of counselor efficacy was explored. Changes in counselors' knowledge of and/or attitudes toward chronically ill children after their camp experience were also examined. Results suggest that camp counselors differ from others in terms of dispositionalcharacteristics (e.g., attachment style), knowledge, and experience. Specifically,counselors displayed higher levels of agreeableness, greater attachment security, more knowledge of chronic illness, and greater experience with chronic illness than nonvolunteers. Efforts to predict which counselors would be rated as most effective were unsuccessful. Counselors' knowledge of illness increased over the course of their camp experience.
  note: by Samuel E. Fiala.
  note: "Major Subject: Psychology"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created on Apr. 14, 2006.)
  note: Vita.
  note: Abstract.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: System requirements: World Wide Web access and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 2005.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation).
  subject:
    topic: Major psychology
  subject:
    topic: illness
  subject:
    topic: volunteer
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3210
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 060428
    record change date: 20151103063911.0
    record identifier: in00002121913