The experiences of war widows in Israel offer guidelines for aiding widows everywhere to adjust to their new roles. The stages of grief are described, and a model is presented to help the widow cope with both the emotional and concrete tasks of bereavement and to consider her future as a woman. (Author)

In 1968, Hallmark Cards, Inc. established a training facility in Kansas City to provide job training for people denied jobs because of inexperience, police records, physical handicaps, skin color, or lack of education. Their successful program is based on hiring and then providing on-the-job training. (Author/EA)

This paper discusses the cultural roles of Indian women in the past and the translation of those roles in today's world. Historically, the Indian woman was educated by her mother and other older women to assume duties ranging from wife and mother to respected counselor, medicine woman, and warrior. Contact with White explorers and settlers made…

An assessment of the career education needs of exceptional and special needs students was completed by 57 directors of special education and 1,826 teachers in North Carolina, representing 57 of the 140 local education agencies in the state. The survey measured actual and needed career education emphasis within social adjustment training (SAT) and…

Based upon evidence that peer rejection is a marker variable asociated with maladaptive social-emotional development and the risk of later maladjustment, psychologists have focused both on understanding the factors contributing to peer rejection and on preventive interventions designed to remediate social adjustment problems evident in grade…

Theoretical conceptions of the value of social pretend play in the socialization process have focused on two potentially different mediating factors: play enactment and negotiation of the rules for play. In this study, observational measures of enactment were distinguished from negotiation so as to examine their independent and joint relations to…

The experience of 88 physically handicapped and health impaired (PH/HI) children attending Toronto, Canada, regular elementary schools in either regular classes or "integrated" special education classes was assessed with regard to their academic, social, emotional, medical, and physical needs. The integrated classification meant they…

Embarrassment occurs when the social identity or "face" that one is trying to maintain is abruptly discredited. Thus, embarrassment usually assumes the presence of an audience, real or imagined, and a public predicament which changes the situation. Most people try to avoid embarrassment if they can, and if they have been embarrassed they…

The first of a six-volume series on the community adjustment of deinstitutionalized mentally retarded persons examines 28 research studies on community adjustment and proposes a framework for reviewing criterion measures and predictors of adjustment. Summary descriptions of major characteristics of the studies are provided, and matrices listing…

Describes the use of high school seniors to work individually with elementary children in order to improve the children's social behavior. Explains the steps of the program in detail. (Author)

The paper describes some of the major demographic differences between hearing impaired students with normal-hearing parents and those with hearing-impaired parents, based on Office of Demographic Studies data, and attempts to illustrate the complex interaction involved between these variables, academic achievement, and early parent-child…

Recorded in this booklet are presentations from two symposia entitled "Training Faculty in Aging I and II," sponsored by the Institute of Gerontology, University of the District of Columbia, which were designed to sensitize and educate faculty in colleges and universities on gerontological problems and issues. The first symposium recorded is of a…