This paper defines sociopathy and presents current findings on its causes and treatment. A milieu therapy program is described, including the preventive and active treatment methods used to keep the adolescent sociopath fully occupied in constructive activities and "sponsor" relationships to overcome antisocial behavior patterns. (Author/SJL)

Third- and fifth-grade children were given three sociometric measures and were later individually interviewed on two occasions in response to three cartoon themes: (1) a child being teased by peers, (2) a child being yelled at by a peer, and (3) a child having a schoolwork problem. (JMB)

This report describes a project in which college students were briefly trained to work as counselors in reciprocating peer relationships and compares the effectiveness of peer counseling with traditional professional counseling. (JD)

Geriatric outpatients were involved in a group resocialization program. Comparison is made between experimental groups whose leader used group intervention techniques, and groups where leader played a nonintervention role. Experimental group members showed changes toward more active problem-solving approaches, while group members remained fixed at…

Human relations skills are more widely taught and used, and inevitably misused. This aritcle is intended as a brief self-defense course identifying those who undergo this usually temporary, metamorphosis into "turkeys." It provides a rough categorization of subspecies with their identifying characteristics and a proposal for return to personhood.…

Dugald S. Arbuckle, an advocate of human rights in counseling and writer on existential humanistic thought in psychotherapy and education, reflects on the roots of his humanistic thinking. He discusses a wide range of ideas with a former student. (Author)

Client-reluctance was: (1) negatively correlated with client-perceived satisfaction and improvement; (2) negatively related to degree of congruence between perceived problem and perceived emphasis of the agency and; (3) positively correlated with premature termination in counseling. (Author)

The definition of various handicapping conditions is a major source of professional concern. Discusses what constitutes a disability and in what way(s) it impairs academic, social, or occupational functioning changes in relation to several variables. (Author)

Examines Lerner's work on the justice motive. Central to this view of justice is the notion that people are motivated to eliminate the innocent suffering of others and will do so providing the act of help does not jeopardize the individual's ability to maintain deserved outcomes. (Author/RK)

The author, a psychiatric social worker, describes how he uses the automobile as a means of reaching uncooperative juvenile clients. (HMV)

This article relates the poignant story of a foreign student's search for a college degree and a job that would take him back home. (Author)

This case report describes the treatment of a family following the death by suicide of its principle male figure. It describes the way various family members were helped to deal with the unresolved grief reaction that had come to play a destructive role in the life of this family. (Author)

Investigates whether favoritism for the physically attractive, a phenomenon demonstrated almost exclusively on the basis of rating scales, generalizes to nonreactive, behavioral helping responses. (Editor)

The effect of a model on subjects' willingness to engage in self-disclosure was examined in both laboratory and nonlaboratory settings. Disclosure levels did not differ in the two settings. Subjects not exposed to a model were more willing to engage in disclosure in the laboratory than in a nonlaboratory setting. (Author)

Therapists (N=30) rated bipolar adjectives of the Sex-Role Stereotypes Questionnaire as to which pole was a problem for their average male and female clients. Female clients were viewed as too feminine on both socially desirable and undesirable adjectives. Problems of male clients were not viewed in sex stereotypic ways on specific stereotypes.…