Among 22 children with severe waking problems, taking trimeprazine tartrate produced no permanent effect on sleep patterns and a follow-up of 14 children 6 months later showed persisting sleep problems in the majority. (Author/RH)

This article contains excerpts from a teacher's diary telling her experiences in team teaching. It relates how two teachers established a creative, warm classroom environment. The story ends tragically with the death of one of the teachers. (MR)

Reveals that survey respondents who agree to complete time-use diaries differ significantly in several characteristics from those respondents who are only willing to complete a questionnaire. (FL)

Provides a public television executive's diary account of this two-week trip with a delegation of American television chief executives to the People's Republic of China at the invitation of the country's Central Broadcasting Administration. (CMV)

Through a diary and photographs the authors (a gifted student and G/C/T editor) recount their trip to Bulgaria to participate in an International Year of the Child World Assembly for children gifted in the areas of art, music, and creative writing. They describe their experiences and impressions of the country and the friendliness of its people.…

Discussion of the use of computers for psychological treatment highlights a methodology that uses a hand-held computer program as an adjunct to cognitive-behavior therapy for panic disorder. Use of the computer for treatment assignments as well as for the patient's diary is described and a case example is included. (Author/LRW)

The personal diary is a tool in the creation of self. The study of recent published journals of later life yields knowledge of the human experience of aging. Service providers can use this information to develop empathy with aged clients and to encourage journal writing. (SK)

Describes a course diary that documents events in the course during the year and supplies a record of overall student performance and expectations. Explains the benefits and contents of a course diary, as well as what can be done throughout the year to make writing the course diary an easy task. (ASK)

An elementary principal describes the physically exhausting, but professionally fulfilling process of opening a new school in Valparaiso, Indiana. High points included hiring faculty and staff, organizing volunteer parents, videotaping opening day, selling sweatshirts, taking an all-school picture, holding a school dedication ceremony, and burying…

In order for teachers to understand more about learning (their own learning and that of their students), this article presents eight ideas for teacher professional development. These include doing regular classroom walkthroughs, inviting teachers to keep a journal about their daily work, and enlisting teachers to shadow students in order to gain…

Tests of addiction treatments seldom reveal where treatment exercises its effect (i.e., promoting initial abstinence, preventing lapses, and/or impeding progression from lapse to relapse). The authors illustrate analyses distinguishing effects on these milestones in a randomized trial of high-dose nicotine patch (35 mg; n = 188) versus placebo (n…

Externalization of problems as a component of narrative therapy has been well defined by such authors as Epston and White, and Freedman and Combs. This study reflects the voices and experiences of 17 participants who engaged in an innovative externalization exercise combining sculpture and journaling over a period of 4 weeks. In an attempt to…

There are days that the stress of administering a child care program outweighs the joys, unless the center director has good coping mechanisms. This article discusses how keeping a journal helps the author cope with the stress she is facing as a child care center director. The author defines a journal as a recorded account of the writer's…

Fieldwork is central to teaching and learning in geography. The assessment of student learning from fieldwork can, however, be problematic. This paper evaluates the use of reflective diaries for assessing level three undergraduate geography fieldwork. It is concluded that reflective fieldwork diaries offer an innovative and flexible approach to…

Research has identified associations between indicators of social disadvantage and the presence of child sleep problems. We examined the longitudinal development of infant sleep in families experiencing high (n = 58) or low (n = 64) levels of psychosocial adversity, and the contributions of neonatal self-regulatory capacities and maternal settling…