Reported are issues considered at a professional symposium on child abuse case identification and reporting. The general information needs, considerations, and decision-making processes that seem to be held in common across professional disciplines are identified. The ways in which a particular professional's background, training, and work setting…

Provided are papers resulting from an Invisible College on Child Abuse and Neglect conducted by the Council for Exceptional Children which focused on what schools can and should be doing in the treatment of child abuse and neglect. Entries are included with the following titles and authors: "The Sensitive Teacher" by D. Howell; "The Abuse of…

Summarized are conference presentations on the following topics: relevant research (in areas such as mother/child interaction); eight demonstration projects (such as the Portage Project); case finding, screening, diagnosis, and tracking; the University of North Carolina's intervention programs; and the state of the art of early intervention.…

This study sought to determine the relationship between the values of adolescents and the corresponding values of their parents. The values were divided into six basic interests or evaluative attitudes; theoretical, economic, aesthetic, social, political, and religious. The sample consisted of 50 female Catholic high school students and their…

Presented is the report of a 1974 planning conference on raising public consciousness about the needs of the gifted and talented (GT). Noted are the following major conference purposes: to increase interorganizational awareness of activities to expand opportunities for GT individuals, to identify mechanisms for improving public awareness of GT…

Presented are key addresses and workshop summaries of the National Conference on Child Abuse (1973). Stressed by key speakers was the need for a coordinated, multidisciplinary effort at federal, state, and local levels in the areas of prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect. Considered in the workshop summaries were…

This World Health Organization (WHO) report on the proceedings of a Working Group on Child Cancer Control was prepared by the WHO Regional Office for Europe. The working group met in Prague in April 1977 and was comprised of representatives from 14 European countries. Its task was to review existing methods of child cancer control, the efficacy of…

Presented are 10 papers resulting from a workshop, involving representatives from 33 state developmental disabilities councils, designed to examine common problems and issues confronting developmentally disabled citizens in rural areas. Entries include the following titles and authors: "Who, What, and Where--Studying Prevalence of Developmental…

Presented are 12 author contributed chapters which developed out of an invisible college of leaders concerned with providing services to the severely, profoundly, and multiply handicapped. Stressed throughout the book are such needs as the need to listen to parents, the need for new training programs for teachers of the severely handicapped, the…