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)

Education for leisure is viewed as requiring an interdisciplinary approach that will educate persons to maintain positive personal values in both work and non-work situations. (GW)

Discusses seven propositions suggested in response to the question: What is essential for children's wholesome development? (SB)

Describes the use of sand play for counseling children. Reviews the development of using sand play to help disturbed children resolve traumas by externalizing fantasies and developing a sense of mastery and control over inner impulses. Illustrates the stages of chaos, struggle (organized fighting), and resolution. (ABB)