The author identifies insights into the adolescent experience provided by a developmental-existential approach. She explains principles for applying the approach to the treatment of adolescent difficulties. (Author)

That's what's in store for youth at the Kansas Boys Industrial School, thanks to an innovative residential treatment program. (Editor)

Teachers at two elementary schools conducted behavior modification projects in their classrooms to verify the existence of reciprocity between the amount of reinforcement given and the amount received. Their findings, following approximately four weeks, suggest that such a relationship exists. (Author)

Rather than being just the presentation of information, environmental education helps learners achieve environmental literacy, which has attitude and behavior components in addition to a knowledge component. This form of environmental education has its roots in nature study, conservation education, outdoor education, and the U.N. Tbilisi…

Conventional education programs socialize the nurse for one way of functioning, but, for effective practitioner performance, the nurse must develop a different concept of her nursing identity. Increased knowledge and skills will not alone make the nurse a practitioner; there must be a role change. (Author)

The authors report on a study designed to assess teachers' attitudes toward the use of Ritalin in the treatment of hyperkinesis in school children. Overall, the attitudes of teachers are cautiously favorable. Although teachers commonly have experience with a pupil using Ritalin, specific and accurate information about the drug is uncommon. (RP)

Article focused on general trends in adolescent moral growth. (Author/RK)

A learning experience developed by the author with three phases of death is described as utilized in the undergraduate nursing program at the University of Texas School of Nursing. (DS)

The view that lawbreakers are in one way or another "sick" has drawn behavioral scientists into the arena of criminal rehabilitation. Issues and controversies surrounding recent experiments using some form of behavior modification for prisoner rehabilitation are discussed. (JP)

Discussion of student motivation and participation, emphasizing the teacher's role in managing students' behavior. (ST)

Parents on welfare as well as middle class parents took part in a training project designed to help them modify problem behaviors in their children. The guidelines developed in this project for group training and for the evaluation of outcome can be applied in various types of agencies. (Author)

A study of 287 kindergartners, who were retested in second grade, indicated that two major factor dimensions jointly account for much of the social-emotional behavior of children and are relatively stable personality dimensions. (ST)

A report of the Title I, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, reading improvement project at the Chilocco Indian School (Oklahoma) is presented. (FF)

Would newly trained social workers in the year 2000 have to be humans, or would surrogate social workers be more practical? Basing his discussion on recent technological developments, the author explores five models for training future social workers. (Author)