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Record W861985450

Crisis of a missing person and the family's search

2015· dissertation· en· W861985450 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Kathryn Koger Jordan

Bibliographic record

VenueMontana State University ScholarWorks (Montana State University) · 2015
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicGrief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsychology
DOInot available

Abstract

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A member who has disappeared may precipitate an urgent crisis in a family , and with one million persons reported missing each year among the total population of the United States and Canada, this hurtful family problem becomes a serious social problem approaching the magnitude of a nationalcrisis.An investigation was made to determine and evaluate the existing organized agencies whose purpose is to lend assistance to families in the form of search and counseling.Based on a case study involving personal experience,1 added insights were gained into a family's experience of disorientation when a member leaves suddenly.A continuing and frustrating problem facing the family may be the question of the thoroughness of the agency because of lack of understanding of their purpose, procedures they, use, and failure of the agencies to disclose information on what has been done.Data was collected and tabulated on the aid rendered by government, professional, and charitable agencies and an analysis was made of the extent of each agency's involvement and the kinds of, cases each accepts.The emphasis in this study was on missing youth.It was found that a few agencies have realized the opportunity that is offered for -counseling the family for the return and reconciliation, besides conducting a search.They have helped both the runaway and other members recognize the causes of alienation and the need to build new empathy and understanding so a member will never, again want to "lose" his family.It was concluded that families and agencies both should be encouraged to continue a search.Some may not want to be "found" but many who have left home want to return, although they feel trapped in their decision by pride or despair.Whether or not a family should continue a search is voiced in one runaway youth's poignant letter ". . .keep looking."The investigation suggests further need for more direction-in the establishment of a national clearing house for information and in providing readily available counseling services to prevent troubled persons from us-ing disappearance as a solution to family problems.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.353
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.280
Teacher spread0.248 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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