Schools in the UK and beyond continue to experience the damaging effects of "top down," "one size fits all" "outcome-based" educational reforms. Educators struggle to meet the dual demands of a punishing performativity- and accountability-driven regime alongside the personal, social, emotional and learning needs of…

Initial progress has been made in the conceptualization and study of attachment stability over time, and substantial evidence has accumulated on the association between attachment classification and biopsychosocial functioning (including social-emotional competence, cognition, physical health and mental health). The literature supports the…

In this article a study is presented in which teachers describe the working situation at their school. The aim of the study was to find out in what respects the school needed to be developed. The study was a case study and the method for collecting data was focus group dialogues. All teacher teams at a Swedish secondary school participated. The…

This report presents findings from the Massachusetts Family Child Care study, a two-year evaluation designed to examine the impacts on providers and children of an early childhood education program aimed at improving the development and learning opportunities in the care settings and, as a consequence, the outcomes for children in care. The early…

In a culture that institutionalizes lack of commitment, young people are creating new ideal men and women who can resist each other's impact, to achieve maximal detachment from feeling. (Author/KE)

Thirty female nurses were given a nine-hour death education course. The results were lower scores on the death anxiety test. (Author/DE)

Ninety males (9-12 years old) with normal intelligence who were from 2-3 years behind expected placement in at least one academic subject participated in either experimental or traditional tutorial approaches for 1 hour weekly over 6 weeks. Experimental groups focused on academic remediation, desensitization of negative emotional reactions, and…

With or without the support of research, clinicians must make judgments concerning relations between different areas of psychological functioning. Recently, studies have been made of possible relations between different areas of mental activity, including logical and emotional conception and social, emotional, and perceptual functioning. Nannis…

Progress is now being made toward ascertaining the specific effects of rearing conditions on brain and behavior, the properties of the environment that contribute to these effects, and the developmental periods in which brain tissue is most sensitive to environmental modification. (Author/RH)

A commentary on the sense of isolation and estrangement which commonly accompanies the relativism ushered in by formal operational thought, and a detailing of several regressive strategies frequently employed by adolescents in their efforts to accomodate to this plurality of solitudes. (JMB)

Offers a typology for viewing love as the development of interpersonal relationships in five stages. As a typology, the author believes it has implications for both counseling and teaching purposes. In teaching, both clarity and precision can be gained, whereas in counseling, greater understanding and awareness may be generated. (Author)

An evaluation method for measuring the attitudes of teachers engaged in their first year of teaching is outlined. (JD)