Interviews with 15 gifted/talented adolescents indicated that many of them experienced giftedness as a social handicap. Some students coped with this by managing information about themselves to minimize their visibility as gifted students to others. (Author/JDD)

The concept of entrapment, viewed as a conceptual framework for social interaction skills training, is a behavioral process whereby newly acquired social responses come under the control of naturally occurring reinforcers, usually the social behavior of peers. Selection of target behaviors and intervention procedures to promote entrapment are…

Documents 168 children's perceptions of their involvement with self-development, family members, and members of the community and tests the relation between that network and aspects of social-emotional functioning during middle childhood. (HOD)

A cross-age tutoring program designed to improve school performance of tutors (adolescents classified as emotionally disturbed) and tutees (children classified as educable mentally retarded) was replicated in an urban public school district. Results showed that both tutors and tutees improved on academic and social measures of school performance.…

Focusing on the social and emotional characteristics of gifted students in general, and underachievers in particular, the sixteen articles in this ready-reference also provide an introduction to appropriate counseling methods for the gifted. Key features include: (1) Expert Sidney M. Moon's comprehensive analysis of some of the most influential…

During 1998 and 1999, the Starting School Project at the University of Western Sydney-Macarthur conducted a survey across New South Wales (Australia) of parent and teacher opinions about children's successful transition to school. Survey responses were received from 240 teachers and 243 parents of young children. Respondents were grouped according…

Mutual interaction and prior contact were hypothesized to be more effective in reducing stress and facilitating coping. Results confirm these predictions only with respect to class achievement scores among mutual dyads. On all other variables, mutual interaction appears to interfere with the process of adaptation. Prior exposure of subjects did…

This article describes implementation of a peer-facilitator program among fifth and sixth graders in an integrated elementary school in Florida. Eight peer facilitators met for 12 one-half hour training sessions. Discussion and listening skills were practiced, and feelings about minority group relationships were explored. Then the facilitators led…

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association (new York, New York, 1969).

Research supported by the U.S. Vocational Rehabilitation Administration Grant RD-957, and the West Virginia Vocational Rehabilitation Division, Charleston, West Virginia.

Examines the emotional and situational factors that influence the child victim's role in sexual assult by adults, and the social implications of blaming the victim. (Author/CM)

Reviews previous health self-report findings using statistical analysis. Specifies indicators of established correlates in national random sample data. Develops a path analysis model utilizing these variables as causes and consequences of health self-report variations. Findings emphasize the importance of health self-concept to social…

Research on cross-cultural learning helps to explain some of the variables with which program planners and evaluators must work to make attitudinal and adjustment elements of cross-cultural experiential learning successful. Clear delineation of program objectives (affective, cognitive, behavioral) and on-site contact persons are recommended. (MSE)

This study investigates the nature of the stresses on immigrant schoolchildren and the degree and type of maladjustments which become evident. Also considered is the relationship between ease of adjustment for the three national groups under study and their facility with the English language. (Author/EB)