The paper describes the Coping Inventory, an observation instrument that provides an index of handicapped children's adaptive behavior by assessing the behaviors and skills they use to meet their own needs and adapt to the demands of their environment. Coping is defined as an active, adaptive process of using strategies to manage one's world.…

This article addressed to parents indetifies various causes of stress in young children, and delineates methods which can be used to help children cope with stress. (CM)

Describes a high school counseling program designed to help grieving students who have suffered some type of personal loss. Student groups and staff seminars are used to help students cope successfully. (Author)

Teacher training institutions should give attention not only to the academic and philosophic preparation of teachers but to the human realities of today's classrooms and the interpersonal skills needed by teachers. (SJL)

Attitudes of health practitioners and others toward death and dying and their emotional reactions to dying patients were surveyed both before and after a Veterans Administration workshop. Some attitude changes were noted, with implications for future workshops. (MF)

Focuses on the early childhood care and education of Maori children in New Zealand preschool groups and the efforts made to help them cope successfully in both Maori and Western worlds. (CM)

Presents a framework for understanding the crisis of infertility which is characterized by extensive anxiety, damaged self-esteem, grief, uncertainty about the future, and estranged relationships with each other and with family and friends. Proposes some interventions appropriate to helpers from a variety of disciplines. (ABB)

Cardiac surgery patients were assigned to information-only, information-plus-coping, or control preoperative preparation groups. Preoperatively, both experimental groups were significantly less anxious than were controls. Both experimental groups increased patients' belief in control over recovery. Postoperatively, experimental patients were less…

The article differentiates parental stress experienced after the birth of a high-risk premature infant from the normal stress of transition to parenthood. A review of the literature delineates a conceptual framework for relating preterm at-risk birth to specific parental stress reactions, and proposes strategies for alleviating these…

Addresses the needs of families coping from the stresses of caring for chronically mentally-ill relatives. Describes a project in which families have learned how to enhance the lifestyles of their ill family member and their own lifestyles by working in groups and focusing on distinct goals. (Author/ABB)

Discusses methods that law enforcement officers have developed for handling violent situations and explores some of the effects this exposure to violence has on both their mental and physical health. Develops suggestions for counselors working with law enforcement personnel and others who need to cope with the direct and indirect effects of…

A kindergarten teacher relates her experiences of helping kindergarten children cope with their feelings and actions concerning death in their families. (BB)

Examined the responses of a group of middle-aged and older adults (N=34) to colostomy surgery. Analyzed the relationship between the method and focus of coping and age, sickness-related dysfunction, and depression. Found that neither a lower level of active behavioral coping nor age itself was correlated with depression or dysfunction. (Author/ABB)

Explored ways elderly people (N=30) manage urinary incontinence. Subjects tended to dismiss their urinary incontinence as a normal part of aging and used various behavioral and psychological strategies to maintain their independence, usually without any assistance from the health professions. Management strategies commonly involved some degree of…

The mother of a brain-injured two-year-old recounts how she overcame feelings of anger and helplessness and applied professional management skills in her dealings with a constantly changing roster of therapists and health care personnel (sometimes inexperienced, uncommunicative, and unhelpful) and the professional and domestic changes necessitated…