Principles and guidelines for providing good interpretation of natural areas for the public by area managers are presented. (JP)

Objectives for environmental interpretation projects and evaluation techniques to assess a program's achievement of stated objectives are presented. (JP)

The organizer of the Silverlake People's Playground in Los Angeles describes the playground's beginnings, its objectives, its struggles with city bureaucracy and its part in the national movement for quality day care. (Editor)

The growing demand for more services that are effective, accountable, and responsive to the consumer calls for a new training design for workers in the human services. A comparison of training for pilots and plumbers suggests a basic technique for this design. (Author)

Describes the College for Human Services, designed to train new kinds of professionals in the human services in a two-year program which integrates field work and study. (DM)

A report on how UNICEF is helping educate girls in undeveloped countries to become better mothers. (GB)

To provide its police science students with a good understanding of human behavior and motivation, Owens Technical College (Ohio) emphasizes the social sciences in its law enforcement program. (RN)

Medical students are changing the philosophy of health care and are expanding the role of the medical center to provide clinical assistance for the masses. (HS)

Provides a cost effectiveness analysis specifically applied to a child abuse and neglect treatment program, describing the limitations of an economic analysis and suggesting methods to combat these limitations. (MP)

Predictions by William C. Rhodes about the future of caregiving and treatment for children with deviant behavior are considered in terms of a redefinition of deviance (which the author says is not occurring); bureaucracy and authority (which have become more powerful, the author suggests); and emergence of self help groups. (CL)

This article outlines the careful planning involved in successful parent volunteer programs and the invaluable services such volunteers provide the schools. Included is a list of seven ways to get parents involved with the school. (MD)

Reviews two conferences sponsored by the Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy: "Professional Systems and the Family," focusing on the interfaces among family therapists and professionals in education, health care, and human resources, and "Family Systems Over Time: The Fourth Dimension," focusing on the family life cycle, and…

Discusses the resettlement of Polish refugees in Austrian camps. Suggests that the Indochinese experience can help in Polish refugee resettlement, although the Polish situation is less complicated because the Western-oriented Poles are more readily assimilated and fewer in number than the Indochinese. (Author/MJL)

The author speaks of concerns facing those in allied health occupations: the new United States Department of Health and Human Services, focus on helping disabled people of all ages, segregation of handicapped children, and human service delivery mechanisms. (CT)

Responses of male and female managers were analyzed for differences existing in perceptions of self-competence and differences in their evaluations of the competence of women managers generally. Findings suggest female managers see themselves as competent but see female managers in general as being less competent. (Author/RC)