A follow-up questionnaire was mailed to 144 narcotic addict veterans approximately six months after termination from treatment at a multimodality drug program. It was found that 75 percent continued to use drugs, and 38 percent became readdicted. (Author)

The evidence indicates that while considerable acculturation has taken place, even the third generation of Japanese Americans still retains certain characteristics of the more traditional Japanese family system. (Author)

This paper explores the relationship between different types of college orientation programs and the students' subsequent integration into the school's academic and non-academic environments. (RWP)

Reviewed is the development of a cohesive group feeling during the first 18 months of a new residential school for maladjusted boys from 7 to 13 years of age. (DB)

Presents a model emphasizing the interactions between reorganization of social systems and individual competencies in old age. The model suggests the process by which loss of coping abilities and feelings of worthlessness develop. Implications for effective intervention with the elderly are discussed. (DP)

This study attempted to ascertain the relationship between personality variables and the use of social settings. A factor analysis yielded a structure which generally supported the hypothesis of interrelations among personality variables and use of behavior settings. As predicted, factors of action-oriented behavior emerged. (Author)

Results indicated that it is possible to distinguish children on predispositions such as social and task orientation and self-assurance sufficiently well to predict their behavior in certain specific situations. (Authors)

Defining adaptive capacity as the ability of an organism or a social system to cope with a wide range of environmental conditions, physical or social, the auth rs examine the relationship between education and each of the components of individual adaptive capacity. (JB)

Investigated were measures of impulsivity and the sense of control over one's destiny, and their relationship to personal and social adjustment in mildly or borderline retarded adolescent males. (KW)

The Adlerian approach to problems of social and school maladjustment is explained to be psychoeducational with the purpose of teaching, not treating. The case study of a 10-year-old boy thought to have emotional and learning problems is presented in depth. (CB)

The author, based on his discussion, hypothesizes that: (1) the use of marijuana may serve to intensify the tendency toward an adolescent's alienation and (2) attitudinal changes do occur in people who are exposed to the illusionogens and that these changes are more certainly fixed with continued use. (Author/BY)

In addition to a number of behavioral clues common to most drug abusers, the author discusses specific manifestations of each form of abuse that help identify those engaged in it. (Author/BY)