Identifies four strategies used to communicate experiences that are beyond expression: silence, qualified expression, poetic expression, and antiexpression. Maintains that, although these strategies violate normal expectations of efficient message transactions, they occasionally succeed remarkably in communicating understanding and thus present a…

The metaphorical object can be a useful tool in the hands of the therapist, both to clarify particular communicative modalities and to change the rules on which these are based. These two aspects are not mutually exclusive, but rather are often tightly interwoven. (Author)

Identifies and compares the patterns of communication of groups making risky and cautious decision shifts. Risky- and cautious-shift group discussions displayed nonrandom and statistically different distributional and sequential structures. Findings are discussed in terms of two explanations of the risky- shift phenomenon. (JMF)

Discusses the effects of variability in the shapes of letters on their legibility; summarizes experiments to compare the relative advantages of cursive and block capital writing, to determine the time taken to prepare handwriting movements, and to assess the variability of the timing of movements in handwriting. (Author/GT)

Using both normal and delinquent families, this study attempts to assess patterns of inconsistency in three communication channels (verbal, tonal, and facial), with certain controls to strengthen the study's methodological base. When covariance procedures controlled for demographic variables, reliable differences between the two groups were…

To bring about demonstrably useful changes in education, educational researchers need to be more selective in defining problems and solutions and must communicate their findings and opinions in the clearest possible way. (JD)

Widespread teacher negativism toward supervision, stemming from organizational sources (the supervisor, removed from day-to-day teaching concerns, as evaluator) and behavioral sources (distancing, ritualism, nonauthenticity) can only be changed by openness and willingness to examine past neglects and by developing new methods of behavior. (MB)

Planning and implementing a community health education practicum for undergraduate students serves to involve faculty in the actual delivery of health services, and effectively breaks down "Ivory Tower" isolation. (MB)

This study examines the role of communication regarding sexual topics before, during, and after cancer treatment, including that between patient and health professional. (Author)

This article focuses on interpersonal communication anxiety, its effects on students, and ways that a teacher may help to overcome this difficulty. (JD)

Groups of married couples (N=4) were studied using a measure of their marital communication habits and an intensive personal interview. Analysis of the data revealed that the quality of interpersonal communication between spouses significantly deteriorated across the groups as the degree of suicidal behavior increased. (Author)

Australia's language problems involve socioeconomic factors and communication skills as well as multilingualism. A program for solution is suggested involving inquiry into problems; policy formulation; implementation; and establishment of social and communication systems to coordinate activity concerned with migrant communication problems. (CHK)

Surveyed audiologists (n=231) felt responsible for providing informational counseling on such topics as interpretation of audiograms/tympanograms, hearing aid selection/fitting, assistive listening devices, environmental factors affecting communication, etc., but felt that someone other than an audiologist should counsel students on educational…