A planning conference, held in Chicago in 1968, sought to consider purposes and goals of a proposed research review in the area of personality, emotion, and motivation, and to provide guidelines for a conceptualization of the domain. The present outline accepts as a frame of reference the conceptualization of behavior as a function of inherited…

This pamphlet discusses changes in adolescence and is intended for junior high school use. The changes in adolescence are just presented in general. Each chapter goes into detail on separate issues. Chapter Two is a general description of growth, the awkward body stages that adolescents reach. Chapters Three and Four discuss steps toward womanhood…

This pamphlet describes the process of human growth from conception to adolescence and is designed for use in grades four through six. Chapter One discusses growth and Chapter Two discusses the beginning of life. Chapter Three is concerned with growth from conception on to birth. The birth of the babies, both human and other mammals, and helping…

The goals and activities of the Agency for Instructional Television in developing a series of television programs on "life-coping skills" for early adolescents are described in this report. The background of the project as well as the intended audience is discussed, and the "life-coping skills" are specified. The project is…

This paper discusses the development of suicidal impulses in children who have lost their mothers due to abandonment or death. The paper is based on two psychoanalytic case studies, in which the children were in therapy when the first suicidal impulses emerged. A pattern is described in which bereaved children's intense wishes to have their…

The absence of systematic analyses and syntheses of data from hundreds of documents relating to compensatory education constitutes justification for a study unifying and evaluating already available information. Section One of this document introduces the need for such a study and discusses problems and procedures used in conducting and…

Proceding from the hypothesis of J. E. Kysar to the effect that college commuter students have poorer "mental health" than their age-mates residing in colleges geographically removed from their homes, the Bown Self-Report Inventory (SRI) scores of 1265 males and 899 females attending the University of Texas at Austin were compared. In…

The writer used self-recording and charting of his own behavior as a way to observe and manage changes during his senior year at high school. (Author)

The language arts program in the elementary school offers an excellent opportunity for children to discuss life's intangible basics. (JH)

Reviews the psychological theory of the Japanese psychiatrist Takeo Doi which accounts for the vertically structured, group-oriented society found in Japan today via the total dependence of Japanese children upon their mothers. (SL)

Narratives about death produced by children between three-and-one-half and nine-and-one-half years of age were analyzed. Younger children have difficulty coping with death in emotional terms, and suppress or deny their affective reactions to it. (Author)

This article outlines some points about emotional development and the uniquely valuable contribution the arts can make to the important aspects of personality development, such as feelings. (Author/RK)

The article describes a program in which developmentally oriented mutual aid groups proved successful in promoting ego strength and growth in depressed adolescent girls in foster care. (Author/DLS)

The importance of play in the development of healthy individuals is due to the fact that play is an excellent vehicle for the integration of emotion, thought, and action. (Author/MJB)

Discusses children's reactions to death from a developmental viewpoint. (SB)