This article describes a program for teaching teen-aged girls how to examine themselves for breast cancer. (JD)

This literature review addresses three specific safety issues: installing seat belts in new buses, retrofitting existing buses with seat belts, and comparing seat belts with other safety features. While inconclusive evidence is provided concerning the first issue, studies do suggest retiring older buses and possibly equipping buses that meet PL…

Discusses the design and implementation of alcohol and drug education efforts and programs, presenting necessary concepts for effective programing. Outlines philosophy and policy statements. Presents prevention goals and interpretation of goals into program content and methodology. Details aspects of program evaluation and advocates the need for…

Reviews efforts and accomplishments of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers movement. Identifies eight measures of state legislation and state policy concerning drunk driving and ranks each state on the measures. Offers proposal for adoption of a state agency designed to meet problem of drunk driving through administration at the local level. (Author/NB)

The introduction to the special issue on preventive discipline in special education notes such themes as the importance of the teacher's affective behavior, focus on the child, helping students be involved in their own growth, group dynamics, and ecological factors of the physical setting. (DB)

Several issues raised in the article by Drash et al. are discussed: the danger that total habilitation could become a dominant goal; the lack of definition of "new technology"; the limited utility of the new term, "total habilitation"; and the lack of criteria for total habilitation. (KM)

The article discusses a four-part crisis intervention training program used to train selected high school students as peer counselors in a suicide prevention program. Initial evaluation data suggest many students use the peer counseling service because school counselors are unavailable or a stigma is attached to seeing a counselor. (Author/DB)

Parents of 26 children who participated in a school-based sexual abuse prevention program were surveyed regarding their children's reactions to the program. The children were asked to rate their fears of various people and situations both before and after participating in the program. Results are presented. (Author/MT)

School districts need to devote some time to inservice activities for staff, and to develop parental programs to help counteract negativism. Taking the extra time to encourage students promotes strengthened abilities and self-worth. (MLF)

Pittsburgh is responding to the concern about dropout prone youth by creating an initiative to prepare all youth for careers. Vocational education is at the heart of the enterprise. (JOW)

Describes sexual abuse prevention program designed to inform elementary school children about various aspects of child sexual abuse. Discusses implementation process and program components for implementation with second, fourth, and sixth graders. Various activity summaries are included. (NB)

Describes circumstances of a 1978 camp canoeing accident in which 13 persons drowned. Reports factors which led to the accident, based on details from the Coroner's Report. Poses questions which should be satisfactorily answered before a trip can be safely undertaken by campers and camp staff. (CS)

Notes that Jews have long been recognized for their moderate drinking practices and for their low rates of alcohol problems. Reviews body of literature on Jewish drinking, extracts the factors that appear to provide Jews with their "immunity," and discusses how these factors may be applied to prevention programs. (Author/NB)

The article argues for a national family policy to assist poor families and provide parenting classes for all students in the late elementary and junior high school. These two efforts would do much to prevent needlessly impaired and handicapped children. (Author/DB)

Reviews legislation aimed at preventing child abuse and neglect. Notes funding for programs at both the federal and state level. Encourages school counselors to take an active role in prevention and intervention. (Author/ABB)