Examines Kubler-Ross' five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance) as they are experienced not by terminally ill persons, but by 20 criminal offenders and their families during incarceration. Concludes that shock of arrest and incarceration stimulates reactions similar to those of persons coping with terminal diagnosis.…

The article examines patterns of adolescent development believed to exist among both normal and gifted students and cites issues rising from clinical and research studies, including recognition and ownership of giftedness, tension between one's performance and expectations, and low tolerance for ambiguity. (CL)

The foster mother of a severely disturbed 11-year-old boy describes his emotional growth resulting from emphasis on social skills, hygiene, and responsibility. The growth is analyzed in terms of changes in his self-portrait. (CL)

The article summarizes the contradictory evidence regarding the social and emotional stability of gifted youngsters. Finally, a research model capable of both generating empirical studies and integrating the results from diverse investigators is suggested. (Author/CL)

This document consists of the two 2003 issues of the newsletter of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education (ERIC/EECE). Each issue contains a feature article and one or more short articles on topics related to early childhood education, calls for papers, announcements about Internet resources, news items about and list…

Doctor urges that Americans accept death as a part of life and suggests ways of helping dying patients and their families face reality calmly, with peace. Dying children and their siblings, as well as children's feelings about relatives' deaths, are also discussed. (PD)

Eighty orphanage children, 6-10 years old, were matched with children in normal homes and tested for recognition of emotion in speech. Recognition scores were higher for (a) negative than positive emotions, (b) female than male voices, and (c) educated and uneducated speech, though these effects interacted with age. (Author/WY)

Television for children can help them broaden their experiences, develop values and understand more about human feelings. An example of this type of educational television is Ripples," a series of 15-minute color programs for in-school viewing by children in kindergarten and early primary grades. (AJ)

This study suggests that children 3-8 years old are not totally egocentric but have some capacity for responding empathically to another person's perspective and point of view. (Author/WY)

The frequency of symptomatic autism in children with severe perceptual or intellectual handicaps is noted and early diagnosis and treatment urged to permit healthy child development. Highlighted are some common causes leading to symptomatic autism. (KW)

Thirty physically abused children between 5 and 12 years old were compared to a matched group of 30 nonabused children on psychological tests measuring self-concept, aggression, socialization with peers, establishment of trust, and separation from the mother. (Author)

This article argues that educating tomorrow's adults isn't simply about teaching students the quadratic equation or the date Columbus sailed to the new world. Social and emotional development is also an important component in student's development. (GCP)

Investigates the relationship between self-recognition and self-evaluative emotions in two studies on 27 children aged 9-24 months and 44 children aged 22 months. The results of both studies indicate that embarrassment but not wariness was related to self-recognition. (RJC)

A two-part study examined children's conceptions of the linkages between sociomoral events and emotional consequences for several event participants. Results of the first study indicated that children's conceptions were highly differentiated. The second study found children able to match affective information to events likely to cause emotional…