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Download full textRubin, Simon Shimshon – 1983
The problem of human response to loss is complex. To approach understanding of this process it is valuable to use a number of models. Phenomenologically the application of a temporal matrix divides the reaction into three useful heuristic and empirical stages: initial, acute grief (1-3 months); mourning (1-2 years); and post-mourning, with no set…
Descriptors: Bereavement, Coping, Death, Emotional Adjustment
Peer reviewedForman, Susan G.; O'Malley, Patricia L. – School Psychology Review, 1984
Behavioral and cognitive behavioral stress management interventions aimed at school-related stress for students and teachers are reviewed. Schools may be sources of stress because they provide a context in which performance and relationship demands are made. School psychological services may promote the emotional and physical health of…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Desensitization, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention
Oberstein, Karen; Van Horn, Ron – Florida Media Quarterly, 1988
Reviews the development of bibliotherapy as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool and discusses specific techniques for the selection of appropriate reading materials for both children and their parents. (16 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Bibliotherapy, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education
Boyer, Patricia A. – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1987
Identifies psychotherapeutic and professional skills and personal characteristics important for private practice of marriage/family therapy in rural areas. Discusses implications for professional training. Describes private practice in geographically isolated Wyoming community, citing importance of skills in adjunct professional activities, i.e.,…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Counseling, Counselor Characteristics, Family Counseling
Peer reviewedSundberg, Norman D. – Journal of Rural Community Psychology, 1986
Introduces five papers in special issue on prevention in rural mental health services. Emphasizes importance of giving attention to characteristics of the rural population and to the scarcity of information about prevention applied to special conditions of rural settings. (LFL)
Descriptors: Community Psychology, Farmers, Higher Education, Intervention
Bardon, Jack I. – 1985
Recent critiques of education in the United States have all too often been simplistic in their solutions and punitive in tone. American education has historically been concerned with providing equality of opportunity and accomodating individual and group differences, yet calls for excellence often devalue these fundamental elements of democracy.…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Child Welfare, Children, Educational Change
Peer reviewedHargrove, David S. – Journal of Rural Community Psychology, 1986
Discusses socio-psychological effect of farm foreclosures and decline of agriculturally-related businesses in the midwest/plains states. Suggests that models for understanding human response to natural disasters are applicable to this crisis. Challenges the myth that rural people and communities bond together under stress and offers suggestions to…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Agricultural Trends, Community Change, Community Psychology
