Describes elephant experience as situation which person is unable to integrate. Discusses ways in which school personnel can help student to cope more effectively by understanding the symptoms, sources, and process of using experience constructively. (CJ)

The New Jersey Department of Education discovered that a common statewide strategy for coping with student disorders is not practical. Two workshops involving most of the State's school districts were conducted to supply background but not to prescribe specific courses of action. (Author/MF)

Surveyed 619 college freshmen to determine how many considered themselves to have drinking problems. Results showed males and youngest children in the family had the most problems. Both males and females who had drinking problems reported stressful childhoods, and were twice as likely to have divorced parents. (JAC)

The perceived problems of medical students were compared with those of students in the other health sciences colleges at the same institution. The medical students were found to have the same spectrum of perceived problems but complained of these problems significantly more intensely on 35 items. (Author/MLW)

High school counselors and college admissions officers should recognize the need to serve the student's needs before the institution's. This article considers problems and irritations faced by college-bound students due to high school and college communications practices and college recruitment and admissions processes. (Author/PGD)

Determined concerns which Black students (N=37) thought were appropriate for discussion with counselors at a predominantly White university. Explored perceptions of users and nonusers of counseling services. Found users and nonusers agreed that it is more appropriate to discuss vocational choice than college routine or personal adjustment. (RC)

Surveyed school professionals with a variety of psychology and education roles. Identified variables that could capture 75 percent of the variance associated with their desire to work with special education adolescents. Variables included perceptions of quality of special education training, age, sex, and attitudes toward special need adolescents.…

Examined the kinds of counseling problems encountered by resident assistants during 1971, 1974, 1977, and 1980. A questionnaire was developed as a result of interviews with resident assistants. Findings suggested relative stability in the nature and frequency of counseling problems encountered by resident assistants. (Author)

Five groups of undergraduate students (dropouts, low stopouts, low persisters, high stopouts, and high persisters) were compared in terms of their use of various campus facilities and their responses to a checklist of personal problems. The use of campus facilities is correlated with continuance in school. (Author/MLW)

Describes the development of computer education and computer-aided learning during the first ten years of the British Open University and discusses some of the problems associated with the use of computers in distance education. (Author)

There is a consensus among Pupil Personnel Workers that a problem exists in the area of enforcement of attendance within a small minority of pupils in the school systems of Maryland. Discusses recommendations for improving public school attendance. (Author)

Studied the demographic characteristics of student offenders. Found that when offenders were examined with reference to a baseline group, there was no difference in offense rates among the undergraduate classes and divisions, but there were differences between the sexes and place of residence. (Author)

Attempted to clarify the dynamics between creativity and misbehavior in the classroom by determining the extent to which creativity test scores predict identification of students by teachers and/or peers as misbehavers. Results generally failed to support that high creativity scores predict teacher identification of students as behavior problems.…

Describes and evaluates a university psychology course which provides an academic and personal look at drinking and problem drinking. The structure of the course encompasses three phases: lecture, seminar, and student presentation. (Author/KC)