Child development theorists, researchers, and educators have long known that play is one of children's most valuable resources, vital to their social, emotional, and cognitive growth. Through play children make sense of the world around them and work through new experiences, ideas, and feelings. But in recent years, a host of social forces and…

Although childhood death from health-related disorders has decreased dramatically in the United States due largely to advances in medical technology, it is an unfortunate fact of life that children can and do die from medical and health-related problems. A possible role for school psychologists in dealing with this situation is providing direct…

In a culture that institutionalizes lack of commitment, young people are creating new ideal men and women who can resist each other's impact, to achieve maximal detachment from feeling. (Author/KE)

Thirty female nurses were given a nine-hour death education course. The results were lower scores on the death anxiety test. (Author/DE)

Ninety males (9-12 years old) with normal intelligence who were from 2-3 years behind expected placement in at least one academic subject participated in either experimental or traditional tutorial approaches for 1 hour weekly over 6 weeks. Experimental groups focused on academic remediation, desensitization of negative emotional reactions, and…

With or without the support of research, clinicians must make judgments concerning relations between different areas of psychological functioning. Recently, studies have been made of possible relations between different areas of mental activity, including logical and emotional conception and social, emotional, and perceptual functioning. Nannis…

Progress is now being made toward ascertaining the specific effects of rearing conditions on brain and behavior, the properties of the environment that contribute to these effects, and the developmental periods in which brain tissue is most sensitive to environmental modification. (Author/RH)

A commentary on the sense of isolation and estrangement which commonly accompanies the relativism ushered in by formal operational thought, and a detailing of several regressive strategies frequently employed by adolescents in their efforts to accomodate to this plurality of solitudes. (JMB)

Offers a typology for viewing love as the development of interpersonal relationships in five stages. As a typology, the author believes it has implications for both counseling and teaching purposes. In teaching, both clarity and precision can be gained, whereas in counseling, greater understanding and awareness may be generated. (Author)

An evaluation method for measuring the attitudes of teachers engaged in their first year of teaching is outlined. (JD)

This study suggests that not just knowledge, and not just experience but active, specific, concrete skill training can become a significant part of affective education even in the elementary grades. (Author)

Three studies investigated the understanding of maternal anger of 406 children aged 4 to 14 years. Children identified and explained the source of a story mother's anger. Age differences were found when stories involved more than one dimension or required displacement. (SKC)