The program's goal is total release from the institution (Dixon State School, Illinois) and return to and participation in the community by the retardate. (KW)

After viewing short segments from soap operas revealing subtle emotional and social relationships, the children were questioned to determine their comprehension of the scenarios. The LD group consistently made more social comprehension errors than did their non-LD peers. (Author/SEW)

A social skills program focusing on inhibition training, problem-solving training, and prescriptive skill training for 12 emotionally distrubed students (9 to 13 years old) resulted in a marked decrease in impulsive, inappropriate actions and verbalizations. Teaching techniques and materials for each of the three phases are described. (CL)

Administered a self-report scale of social propensity for identification of persons prone to adjustment difficulties in college to three successive freshmen classes before matriculation. Results showed significant relationships with a number of indices of social adjustment in college. Includes all items used on the Social Propensity Scale.…

Considered personality variables related to postdivorce adjustment using a sample of 58 females and 31 males. Found persons with the best adjustment scored significantly higher on dominance/assertiveness, self-assurance, intelligence, creativity/imagination, social boldness, liberalism, self-sufficiency, ego strength and tranquility. (Author/JAC)

The clinical implication of the study is that the beneficial effects of stimulant drug intervention occur within the first months after initiation of therapy. Long-term treatment does not appear to be of value in producing better outcome. (Author)

Examined utility of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) as a longitudinal predictor of psychosocial adaptation to cancer. A post hoc discriminant analysis revealed that 75% of all patients could have been correctly classified into a high-distressed v a low-distressed cancer patient group using only the MMPI. (Author)

A follow-up study of 11 sixth, seventh, and eighth graders who had entered kindergarten early demonstrated the advantages of early entrance for social and academic adjustment. (SB)

Examined the arousal of social anxiety in an interview setting as a function of anticipated self-disclosure. During the interview, both components of anxeity (worry and emotionality) were affected by expectancy conditions, and emotionality was higher for high- than for low-social-avoidance-and-distress subjects. (Author)

A questionnaire was used to examine the relationship between loneliness and divorce with a sample of divorced persons (N=59). Results indicate loneliness is associated with divorce, and women are more affected than men. Both men and women were lonely when they felt out of place. (Author/RC)

The author discusses the implications of the Warnock Report's suggestion that maladjusted children be functionally integrated into the ordinary school. (CL)

Analyses failed to confirm the matching model. Superiority of treatment effects relative to the controls was obtained, with rational restructuring emerging as a referred treatment. (Author)