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Oliver, Leonard P. – 1987
The study circle concept, now almost a century old, is by far the most popular form of adult education in Sweden. Swedish study circles are sponsored by 10 national educational associations that receive substantial annual subsidies from the national government. Together with 140 folk high schools (residential adult programs), university short…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Discussion Groups, Educational History
Demetral, G. David – 1981
This paper describes a project designed to integrate the Aging/Aged Developmentally Disabled (AADD) person into the larger community. Section 1 presents the ideology of the project. Section 2 describes the Macomb and Oakland Integration projects, two plans designed to evaluate the personal and environmental variables that affect the integration of…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Aging (Individuals), Developmental Disabilities, Environmental Influences
World Health Organization, Copenhagen (Denmark). Regional Office for Europe. – 1981
A conference sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe addressed the provision of self-care health education in Europe. The 15 participants came from a variety of nations and backgrounds. Their roles ranged from WHO officials to community organizers, health practitioners, and health educators. The WHO Regional…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Developed Nations, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Pierskalla, Carol S. – 1980
This paper describes a program providing support, education, and skill-building within a self-help format for the children of aged parents. The selection of the 18 initial program members, each with relatives living either in their homes, in a nearby location, or in nursing homes is reviewed. The 90-minute group sessions which met weekly for 8…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Aging (Individuals), Coping, Emotional Adjustment
Gmelch, Walter H. – 1981
An overview of the most recent ideas on managerial stress is presented along with worksheets and exercises for a program to help educational administrators, their staffs, and secretaries cope with and reduce organizational and personal stress. Research cited includes the author's survey of 1,200 Oregon school administrators and over 200…
Descriptors: Administrators, Change Strategies, Coping, Elementary Secondary Education
Stevens, Tom G. – 1980
Self-instructional Mediated Learning Modules (MLMs), audiotaped or videotaped units based upon a structured learning approach, may be used by clinics to provide effective, low-cost psychological treatments to large numbers of people. MLMs produced by the Life Skills Training Project focused on interpersonal and self-management skills. Nine…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Behavioral Objectives, Delivery Systems, Interpersonal Competence
Hartman, Bruce W.; Utz, Patrick W. – 1979
Previous research has demonstrated the effectiveness of using paraprofessional trainers in teaching students with tension headaches to relax, thus reducing the frequency of their headaches. A technique for automated self-instructed relaxation training was compared to a paraprofessionally trained group and a no-treatment control group over a 3-week…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anxiety, College Students, Coping
National Center for Child Advocacy (DHEW/OHD), Washington, DC. – 1978
The two reports reprinted here address prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect in rural areas through self-help programs. The larger report, that of the Appalachian Citizens for Children's Rights (ACCR) Project, describes project purposes: to develop a community development model for child abuse/neglect using resources already existing…
Descriptors: Agencies, Change Agents, Child Abuse, Child Advocacy
Reardon, Robert; And Others – 1978
These materials represent the Curricular-Career Information Service (CCIS) at Florida State University, a self-directed career planning program especially for the visually disabled, designed to: (1) increase the amount of occupational information available to blind people; (2) provide resources for visually disabled students to increase their…
Descriptors: Career Planning, College Students, Decision Making Skills, Higher Education
Holik, John S.; Schryer, C. Diane – 1978
Evaluation of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program as an antipoverty strategy was undertaken in 1977 by examining activities of paraprofessional Nutrition Education Assistants (NEA's) in the Ozark Foothills area of Missouri to determine how they helped their clientele families become self-sufficient and integrated into the mainstream…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Budgeting, Eating Habits, Extension Education

Setty, Robert M.; Hawkins, Raymond C. – 1980
Relapses in alcoholics, smokers, and heroin users are frequently provoked by stress. Individuals often return to using addictive substances when feeling angry or frustrated as the result of negative mood states, interpersonal conflict, or social pressure. A behavioral weight-control program used to treat 140 overweight college students was…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Body Weight
Levin, Susan – 1975
The educational and pyschological effects of the practice of Transcendental Meditation (TM) on secondary school students were examined. A course including TM technique was taught to two public high school classes of 30 volunteers each. One class took the TM course for both semesters; the other took an alternative course in self-development for the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Educational Benefits, Personality Assessment
Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Washington, DC. – 1968
The purpose of this workshop was to work out sound, practical means of promoting better intergroup communication in American cities and improving community action on hard-core unemployment and other problems of the urban poor. Frustrations and aspirations of ghetto people were illustrated in a film. Panel interviews and an audience question…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Action, Disadvantaged, Employment Patterns
Handfield, Victoria; And Others – 1976
The "Manual for Staff Members" describes the Techniques of Learning Program, a part of the Peer Environmental Analysts, Counselors, Educators (PEACE) Program at American University. PEACE is a large, student-operated peer counseling program that consists of six services and related academic courses. Techniques of Learning is a program that teaches…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, College Students, Counselor Training
Whalen, Lucille – 1976
A study was undertaken to identify the information needs of persons working with the aging in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy area of New York State, with the goal of establishing some type of information center. Over 2,000 questionnaires were sent to groups working with the aging. Over half of the 34 respondents noted a need for information on state…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Counseling Services, Health Personnel, Information Dissemination