This paper describes the implementation and evaluation of a social competence promotion program conducted in the sixth grade of a middle school. The need to increase social competence within the school arose from the results of enumerative and stakeholder data collected at the school. This paper outlines the steps of the needs assessment, program…

A preventive drug education program for grades K-12 has been developed which contains as its core a program of education in human behavior. Findings of the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse give added impetus to programs which develop understandings and skills necessary for the resolution of a wide range of human behavioral problems.…

Interaction Analysis for Vocational Education (IAVE) expands the Flanders Internaction Analysis System (FIAS) by adding three new categories: (5A) Demonstrations, (7A) Correction, and (8A) Practice which enable vocational teachers to accurately analyze the interaction in the vocational laboratory even during lessons involving psychomotor…

Evaluated was the extent to which psychologists and physicians made use of a measure of adaptive behavior in the classification of 100 mentally retarded children (5 to 16 years of age) during a 10 year period. (Author/MC)

Discusses the interaction, beyond the normal instructional scope, of elementary school students and their teachers with the emphasis on sex role behavior, reward seeking, and the differences in learning problems of boys and girls. (RK)

Authors present a concept and a method for mental health consultation with teachers. The aim is to describe training to develop alternative approaches to a variety of student responses which indicate potential school failure. (Authors)

A developmental model for paranoid behavior has been proposed which postulates that the attempt to adapt to sustained aversive maternal control by manipulative social approach behaviors (open adaptive style) leaves the person vulnerable to emerging paranoid tendencies. (Author)

Discusses increase of suburban delinquency and over-representation in less serious crimes, and implications for those who deal directly with these youngsters. (EK)

Discusses five areas of concern related to utilization of group experiences: (1) insufficient training of group leaders, (2) possibility of groups becoming mystic cults, (3) equating of therapeutic gain with expressing of negative feeling, (4) lack of awareness that group change may result from pressure to conform, (5) possible harmful…

The interrelationships among social responsibility, self concept, and anxiety disclosed by this study suggest the possibility that to deal with one facet may implement change in the others. (Author)