Given the circumstances, the mating system, the attitudes of women, household organizations, and the mens' marginal position in the occupational hierarchy, the street corner behavior demonstrated by lower class West Indian males is a response to a system that demands nothing more from them. (Author/AM)

Project Merge is an undergraduate, preservice education program at Bowling Green University providing training and experience leading to dual or triple certification in elementary education plus educable mental retardation and/or learning disabilities behavior disorders. (MB)

Available from: American Association for the Education of the Severely/Profoundly Handicapped, 1600 West Armory Way, Seattle, Washington 98119.

Described is an ecological assessment technique which combines an ecological philosophy with a teacher centered method of data collection for assessing and intervening with the learning disabled or behaviorally disordered child and his environment. (DB)

Studied the effects of a peer helper program for elementary school students. While attitudes and self-concepts of fifth-graders trained as facilitators did not change significantly, peer facilitators were effective in helping second and third graders improve their classroom behaviors and school attitudes. (ABB)

Five group counseling techniques utilizing "earliest recollections" (ERs)--discussing, visualizing, role-playing, reporting, and logging ERs--are useful in helping gifted students identify underlying attitudes and feelings which precipitate behavior problems and work through these attitudes and feelings before they interfere with their…

Comparison of teacher perceptions of either behaviorally disordered or socially normal students (total N=410 and ages between 8 and 15) indicated teachers perceived more prosocial behavior by normal, female, and older subjects. Teachers perceived an increase in negative social behavior for normal secondary-age students but not for behaviorally…

Findings from a study of 18 Alzheimer's patients in a day hospital program and their caregivers in family support groups indicated that such therapeutic programs may slow behavior deterioration in patients and promote enhanced coping in caregivers. Other findings suggest an improvement in caregivers' coping. (Author/ABB)

Examines social perceivers' cognitive processing strategies when formulating deceptive attributions. Finds that deceptive attributions were based on the subject's relationship with the liar (friend or stranger) and the timing of the deceptive encounter (before or after truthful interactions). Notes that women formulated more severe deceptive…

School psychologists are developing social skills training programs to enhance peer relations. Caution in selecting specific children for intervention and in choosing sociometric instruments for selecting children requiring social skills training, and a strengthening of the link between intervention goals and sociometric status are recommended.…

The study presents a methodology for collecting detailed naturalistic data on preschool teachers' instructions and children's compliance as well as a descriptive analysis of variables related to instruction rate and compliance probability. The study also illustrates the effects of context on teacher and child behavior. (Author/DB)

Elementary school teachers (N=222) in Hong Kong completed Conners Teacher's Rating Scale (CTRS) for total of 874 students. Two months later, teachers decided whether students had behavioral or emotional problems requiring referral, considering 55 students as requiring referral. Referred students had significantly higher CTRS scores compared to…

Describes treatment of five-year-old girl exhibiting frequent temper tantrums at home and school, including brief systemic approach used to assess interactional cycle between child and adults, and actual intervention involving prescribing the tantrum behavior. Notes tantrums disappeared after third session; no tantrums were reported at three-week…

Examined whether younger children in classroom were disproportionately referred for school academic and behavior problems. Investigated subjects' month of birth in relation to referrals across gender and grade from kindergarten through fourth grade. Showed that younger children in the class and boys were likely to be referred. Results were…

Evaluated construct and discriminant validity of Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) for large child and adolescent sample of clinical inpatients and demographically comparable nonreferred subjects. Three factors entered a significant discrimination function. Depressive Affect and Oppositional Behavior distinguished depressive and…