The organizational characteristics of schools can be extremely important influences on student behavior, and student behavior problems can be reduced through organizational change. Organizations can be held to consist of objectives, processes for achieving those objectives, and structures for carrying out those processes. The term…

A collection of six papers is preceded first by an introduction stating the editor's abhorrence of corporal punishment and his motives for assembling the papers; and then by the American Psychological Association's statement opposing the use of corporal punishment. Irwin A. Hyman and Delores M. Lally consider religious and other historical factors…

Teacher perception of a student's IQ may bias adaptive behavior measures used for placement in special classes. The study investigated the effect of perceived IQ on teachers' ratings of disturbed and normal children on the Devereux Elementary School Behavior Rating Scale. Fifty-two urban severe behavior handicapped students, Grades K through 12,…

Appropriate responses to the authority problem in schools can be informed by a more complex understanding of the issue. Also of importance is knowledge of the ways in which schools and society at large are involved with both the creation of and the solution to the problem of student/teacher authority relations. School people are referring…

This paper discusses factors related to negative psychological and physiological reactions (i.e., violent deaths, psychiatric commitments, self-mutilations, attempted suicides, disciplinary infractions, etc.) to life in institutional environments such as prisons, schools, off-shore oil rigs, and homes for the aged. Factors discussed are: (1)…

Intended for those who want to reduce disruptive behavior in elementary and secondary schools, this book argues that children must be held responsible for their actions and prefers self-discipline to imposed discipline that evaporates when authority is absent. Schools need to take greater initiative in teaching students responsibility and giving…

The report examines the status of education for children with severe behavior disorders. Analysis of Annual Program Plans, compliance evaluations, and interviews with state officials provided results in five areas (sample findings in parentheses): definitions (there was great concern over the term "seriously emotionally disturbed" as defined in…

The relationships between economic stress on the family and child and parental adjustment were examined for a sample of 199 girls and boys in grades one, four, and seven. These associations were examined separately for families in which both parents were present and in which mothers only were at home. Economic stress was associated with boys'…

This manual provides an on-the-job basic orientation and training program for beginning child care workers. Content areas covered were selected by child care worker supervisors as being the most troublesome for trainees adjusting to group care responsibilities. The training program is divided into two main parts. The first part consists of an…

The Madison (Minneapolis, MN) school program provides intensive instructional and treatment services to students 12 to 16 years old with serious emotional and behavioral problems. The primary goal of the program is to aid individual students to develop sufficient coping skills and self based behavioral controls so they can successfully return to…

An investigation was undertaken with 454 regular classroom teachers to explore the effects of a personality construct (i.e., abstract vs. concrete) and educable mentally retarded (EMR) pupil variables of race and school behavior on teachers' attitudes toward mainstreaming. Following the administration of the Conceptual Systems Test, Ss were given…

DEVIANCE IS AN INTERACTIONAL PROCESS IN WHICH THE NORMS OF A SOCIAL GROUP HAVE BEEN VIOLATED BY AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS SUBSEQUENTLY LABELED DEVIANT BY THE GROUP. THUS SCHOOL DEVIANCE--UNDERACHIEVEMENT, MISBEHAVIOR, AND EARLY SCHOOL-LEAVING--IS A CONSEQUENCE OF AN ADVERSE SCHOOL-PUPIL INTERACTION IN WHICH THE SCHOOL IS AN EQUAL PARTNER. SEVERAL…

THE OUTLINED REPORT ADDRESSES PROBLEMS SUCH AS THE NEGRO SELF-CONCEPT, POPULATION CHANGES IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, UNEMPLOYMENT TRENDS, HOME CONDITIONS, AND THE INCIDENCE OF CRIME IN THE OAKLAND AREA. STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT RECORDS, THE RECRUITMENT OF TEACHERS AND GENERAL STAFF RECRUITMENT ARE ALSO REVIEWED. OAKLAND'S "GRAY AREA" IS…

AUGMENTING THE ADJUSTMENT OF NEW PUPILS TO NEW SCHOOL SITUATIONS WAS A MAJOR CONCERN OF THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL TO THE FORD FOUNDATION. SCHOOL COUNSELING SERVICES WERE PROVIDED AT DESIGNATED ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS TO RECEIVE, STUDY, COUNSEL, AND PLACE STUDENTS. THE RESOURCES WERE MADE AVAILABLE TO OTHERS ALSO. COUNSELORS AT ALL THREE…