This article contains ideas to help parents and teachers create environments that encourage a positive self-image. These activities help the child feel special and capable with a sense of belonging. (DF)

Sets forth a theoretical framework for conceptualizing child abuse or neglect and provides some behavioral and nonbehavioral characteristics that may serve as indicators for triggering counselor response to report suspected abuse or neglect. (Author)

This article addresses some of the problems that parents of handicapped children face and the role that counseling can play in assisting these parents. The article focuses upon counseling and upon parental adjustment regardless of the adolescent's disability. (Author/DB)

Guidelines are given for professional school health personnel dealing with suspected child abuse. (LH)

Ten infants aged 8-12 months were studied to determine whether they would spontaneously imitate the average fundamental frequency or fundamental frequency contour of their speaking partners. Acoustic analyses failed to reveal any tendency by the infants to adjust vocal pitch, amplitude, or duration in home or laboratory settings. (Author/JDD)

This "Special Focus" section contains three papers which explore social reciprocity interventions for young children with severe handicaps, by describing ways to help parents read and respond to their infants' behavior, help children respond to their caregivers, and help parents and their children have pleasant experiences within the community.…

Childhood experiences and long-term psychological outcomes were investigated with 10 adults, ages 33 through 71, who were self-identified victims of illness fabrication by a parent (Munchausen by Proxy). During childhood they felt unloved and unsafe and had emotional and physical problems. As adults, problems included insecurity, reality-testing…

As a result of the Holocaust, many survivors developed long term psychosocial impairment known as the Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which is characterized by depression, anxiety, hypocondriasis, inability to concentrate or to express anger, nightmares, insomnia, obsessive thoughts, guilt, mistrust, and alienation. The literature in this…

Designed for parents of preschoolers, this monthly bilingual (English/Spanish) newsletter contains information on local library programs, games and activities to play at home, reading readiness, and recommended books for preschoolers. A feature on disabled children includes a description of the library's special needs collection and a letter to…

The role of school-related stress in the life of the disabled child is examined, and parents and teachers are given suggestions to reduce stress and help the child cope. Stress is defined as the emotional and physical reaction to the pressures that society places upon the child to conform and live up to expectations. Among sources of stress are…

This digest is intended to help parents and educators assist with the development of leadership attitudes and skills in gifted youth. The relative lack of interest in leadership despite its designation as a talent area in definitions of giftedness for state and federal policies requiring differentiated programs is listed. Characteristics of gifted…

This document presents techniques for family counselors to use in their existing family life education programs to incorporate parent-children communication into those programs. Twenty-four assignments, divided into junior and senior high age levels, are included as an adjunct to classroom programs which provide structured, at-home activities to…

This document is the second volume of a six-volume report on sexuality education. This volume provides suggestions for developing and implementing effective educational and clinic-based approaches to sexuality education. It discusses the reasons for and nature of responsible sexuality education and describes approaches to building a…

This document is the fourth volume of a six-volume report on sexuality education. The curriculum described here is a revised and expanded version of the curriculum "Parent-Child Sex Education: A Training Module" (Brown, et al., 1978) and is based primarily on the experiences and evaluation of the Family Guidance Center's (FGC) work in St. Joseph,…

This document is the fifth volume of a six-volume report on sexuality education. This volume is based on the methods used and the experiences encountered in the evaluation of the nine exemplary sexuality education programs contained in the first volume of the report. The present volume discusses the need for evaluation of sexuality education…