The main functions of comprehensive health care are promotion, prevention, therapy, and rehabilitation, with an overall goal of health education in its many forms. The consumer has roles and responsibilities in health care which mesh with life as a participating member of society. Consumer participation in the planning and delivery of health…

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of the preschool teacher in dealing effectively with aggression in the classroom setting. First, assertiveness, aggression and hostility are differentiated and theories of aggression are reviewed. Subsequently, social, home, family, and temperamental factors influencing aggressive behavior of…

This Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP) report describes the development of a systematic program for teaching academic readiness skills to kindergarten children who require special help to develop attentional behaviors. The progress of eight kindergarten children (five boys and three girls) is described to illustrate the merit of the…

This paper describes a program of research into children's understanding of psychological principles underlying social behavior. An initial study had indicated that at about 10 years of age children knew many of the basic principles of social behavior and the rules for social control. Two strategies were developed to explore these findings in…

This manual provides an on-the-job basic orientation and training program for beginning child care workers. Content areas covered were selected by child care worker supervisors as being the most troublesome for trainees adjusting to group care responsibilities. The training program is divided into two main parts. The first part consists of an…

The intense striving for power which characterizes much of male behavior occurs inevitably as part of the process of gender acquisition and consequently contributes to a sense of psychological vulnerability in the male personality. Masculine and feminine attributes develop spontaneously from young children's tendencies to compare themselves to…

THIS VOCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM PROVIDED 4 YEARS OF SERVICE FOR EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED ADOLESCENTS WHO WERE ATTENDING SCHOOL AND LIVING IN RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT CENTERS. THE PROGRAM CONSISTED OF A REHABILITATION WORKSHOP, CONCOMITANT VOCATIONAL COUNSELING, AND GROUP VOCATIONAL ORIENTATION SERVICES. IN ADDITION, INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMING PRESENTED…

THE EXTENT TO WHICH A PLANNED PROGRAM OF READING COULD SIGNIFICANTLY INFLUENCE THE BEHAVIOR OF A SELECTED GROUP OF ADOLESCENTS WAS STUDIED. EFFORTS WERE MADE TO DESIGN THE STUDY IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE INVESTIGATORS COULD DETERMINE WHETHER SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES EXISTED IN THE AREAS OF PERSONALITY, PERSONAL PROBLEMS, ACHIEVEMENT, ATTENDANCE, AND…

From infancy on the child is surrounded with sex-based role expectations. The school system clarifies and reinforces these images through the male dominated administrative structure, the unbalanced distribution of attention in primary classroom situations, and the mainstreaming of males and females into gender-tagged curriculum programs. Sexism is…

This paper presents a study designed to determine if providing information to primiparous mothers about the behavioral characteristics of their infants would affect reciprocity in mother-infant interaction. Thirty married, Caucasian, middle class mothers of healthy, normally carried and delivered 48-hour-old first-born infants served as subjects.…

Political science and its subfields cannot ignore the work being done in two areas of the life sciences: sociobiology and neurobiology. Current theories of political socialization which suggest that society molds the child will be increasingly affected by sociobiological theory which posits that children operate as independent actors in the…

Intended as a guide in choosing books for use in bibliotherapy, this annotated bibliography lists selections that stress the development of self-image. An account of the author's personal experience with the materials introduces each section. The bibliography is divided according to the following headings: overcoming physical disabilities,…

This book deals with the science of behavior and how it can be used humanely for positive and direct change. It was written for a mass audience, including parents, persons with elderly family members, the helping staff in clinical situations, college students, and teachers in training. Part 1 discusses the science of behavior and includes chapters…

Role theorists maintain that good same-sex parent models are necessary for children to develop knowledge of appropriate sex roles. Cognitive theorists say that development of such knowledge depends on contact with good models, but models need not be parents. In the first phase of the study, children's knowledge of adult sex roles was determined…

During an experiment on infant behavior, it was observed that young children shared toys with their mothers; therefore, a series of research studies was designed to investigate this phenomenon. The general purposes of the research were: (1) to define sharing more precisely and develop objective measures of frequency and duration for it, (2) to…