This study examined the degree to which religion is perceived as a source of stress and as a coping resource among Jewish students. Subjects, 75 sixth- through eighth-grade students in a Midwestern city, completed a survey in Sunday school. Twenty of the students also responded to a structured interview about their stressors and coping strategies.…

This paper describes a process used to create or revise a gifted education program and a model gifted education program for elementary schools that includes methods of identification and ideas for programming. The following steps are outlined for creating or revising a gifted education program: (1) read relevant textbooks to get a feel for gifted…

This paper looks at three parties impacted by adoption: the adoptive parents, the adopted child, and the adoptive family. When working with adoptive parents, counselors should respect the strength of the couple, their commitment to parenthood, and the closeness that may develop from weathering the issue of childlessness. Adoptive parents are…

This investigation is a follow-up of the subsequent psychiatric histories of children who did or did not participate in a preventively oriented school mental health program. Early detected vulnerable children were found to have disproportionately high later appearances in a community-wide psychiatric register. Retrospective analyses of the…

This article describes the methods and initial results of a pilot program (conducted by a team of psychologists and special educators in a rural school district) to demonstrate and evaluate the feasibility of a multidisciplinary, early-identification assessment program for handicapped children. Families were interviewed and on Community Clinic Day…

Summarizes a study which attempted to determine if black children manifested higher racial pride in a racially mixed environment and whether the type of racial mixing made any difference, using a modified doll test. (Author/JM)

Article written two years ago for the New York Times" by a young Polish American, a member of a Baltimore community organization, and a representative from the First District on the Baltimore City Council. (JM)

Offers guidelines for educators in the affective domain of socialization, democratization, values in education, and morality. (Author/DN)

Males were found more likely than females to identify themselves as coming from an African family background, and those who identified themselves as American achieved higher grades, in a group of Negro Americans enrolled in a remedial junior college program who were investigated. (RJ)

Reviews two new books that argue for the political implementation of cultural pluralism in the United States: Peter Schrag's The Decline of the Wasp," and Michael Novak's The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics." (Author/JM)

Discussion based on premise that self worth and ability to love are learned, are essential learnings for survival, and that educational system needs to look at them as major aims. (Author)

Digest of papers of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting American Orthopsychiatry Association (San Francisco, California, March 23-26, 1970). (RD)