A survey of secondary industrial arts teachers showed little knowledge of hearing conservation methods. Although 47 percent of the teachers believed that they had acquired an occupational hearing loss, they did not use personal hearing protection. (Author)

Used two national surveys to compare campus alcohol policies, institutional self-reports, treatment and referral services, and prevention and educational efforts. Comparison of 165 institutions in 1979 and 236 in 1982 suggested that colleges were more active in 1982 in attempts to reduce alcohol abuse among students. (JAC)

The author describes characteristics of two extreme positions of school-based special education delivery models: the restorative model and the prevention model. A middle-ground approach combining features of each is proposed. (CL)

Analyzes the occurrence of computer crimes in schools, focusing on the main types of crimes possible, potential criminals in schools, and how the organizational characteristics of schools invite computer crimes. Means to counter this problem and minimize it as far as possible are suggested. (MBR)

Primary prevention, as applied to the children of psychotics, should be directed against the transmission of psychosis to the next generation of adults and toward the relief of psychopathology in the children. It should be remembered that genetic and environmental factors interact in the etiology of mental illness. (Author/CMG)

Reviews several key variables associated with problem behavior in general and drug abuse in particular. Proposes a theoretical approach both to the development of problem behavior and to ways of preventing it. Provides a conceptual rationale for the importance of peer-oriented prevention programs. (CMG)

Discusses ways in which the legal bases for child welfare systems can be reformed, in terms of the current methods by which cases enter the child welfare system, and ways that placement is decided and individual cases are moved through the system. (CMG)

Discusses the Swedish legal prohibition of corporal punishment based on Garbarino's model for research on child abuse and a secondary analysis of statistical data. Results showed the soft approach of the Swedish act, aiming at a long-term change of attitudes, is highly effective. (JAC)

A quality police force professionally maintains a safe and orderly campus. (Author)

Results of a survey of college business officials and their perceptions of security problems, their reactions (including personnel and mechanical measures taken to deal with them), and their expenditures. (Author/MLF)

In this review of American public health the author recalls 200 years of public health progress, details the major thrusts of the Foreward Plan, proposes a preventive health system to solve environmental health problems and calls for closer cooperation between local and federal governments to better solve today's health problems. (BT)

Presents a manual of safe laboratory practices and precautions, covering such things as fire, explosion, poisoning, and injuries. (MLH)

Dunwoody Industrial Institute in Minneapolis has found that an electronic security system with manpower backup is the best safeguard against theft, fire, and equipment malfunction. (Author/MLF)

This manual discusses the school nurse's role in prevention and management of overweight children from an individual student perspective and, perhaps more important, from a system perspective. Manual includes the BMI (Body Mass Index) Wheel.

"The Challenge," a publication of the US Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, provides critical information and resources to assist schools in creating safe and healthy environments for young people. Some topics of interest in this issue are: (1) Keeping Prevention Activities on Track; (2) Hiring and Working with an…