Highlights role of the therapist in family therapy impasses involving interactions of the client-family and the therapist. Asserts that the essence of the therapist's role in impasses is ignorance and fear and recommends that family therapy teachers help therapists develop wisdom and courage. (Author/NB)

A health knowledge test, the Children's Health Locus of Control (CHCL) scale, and six health status measures were administered to 181 learning disabled and educable mentally retarded high schoolers. In general, students who had higher knowledge scores believed they had control over their health. (Author/CL)

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the relationship of the source of contraceptive knowledge to contraceptive knowledge accuracy and contraceptive behavior of college freshmen. Results and implications for health educators are discussed. (MT)

Administrative scientists superimpose analytic frameworks on their observations when trying to make knowledge meaningful. The generation of knowledge should be seen as an essentially interpretive and subjective activity. An awareness of this fact may encourage a view of scientific progress that is reinforced by the social context in which research…

Interviewed mature and teenage mothers to assess their knowledge of infant development and their child development information sources. Results indicated that education, age, and type of occupation affect mothers' expectations for infant development and their information sources; teenage mothers lacked substantial information. (NRB)

Given the many goals of sex education programs, it seems unfair to judge them by the degree to which they meet them all. This paper discusses the effects that sex education programs have on students' knowlege, attitudes, and behavior. (MT)

Canadian and American adults responded to a questionnaire regarding knowledge of alcoholic beverages. A high, positive correlation coefficient was obtained between the males and females in the total sample based on a rank order of item accuracy. Results indicated that alcohol users are poorly informed about the composition of alcoholic beverages.…

Kielhofner and Barris examine two existing proposals for knowledge organization and proposes a related but alternative approach. Based on this proposed structure, literature in the "American Journal of Occupational Therapy" over the past 10 years was reviewed and classified to reveal patterns and trends. Labovitz and Miller critique the…

Contrasts scholarship in technical communication with that in literary studies. (HOD)

A unit on the study of Helen Keller is outlined to create awareness in gifted language arts students (grades 4-6) of the efforts and accomplishments of disabled individuals. (CL)

Reviews some differences in the educating approach of environmental education and environmental interpretation and the cognitive processes involved. Also presents an interpretive field study based on the cognitive processes reviewed. The study evaluated the ability of 150 users of forest trails to recognize interpretive messages experienced during…

Public perceptions of, and activism or other responses relative to, environmental and natural resource management concerns have been the subject of past research studies. Summaries of additional studies (all reported during 1983-84) that deal with interfaces between the public and such concerns are presented. (JN)

The effects of prior knowledge and information orderings on the immediate and delayed recall of unfamiliar information under various levels of control for the effects of cognitive style and reading achievement were studied. Significant interaction effects were discovered. (Author/DF)

Methodological criticisms are offered of a study of the effect of socioeconomic status on children's knowledge of health matters. (GW)