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McLaughlin, Judith – 1984
Rural America is undergoing rapid and confusing change which impacts on the role of rural health educators and practitioners. Although rural life has been romanticized, rural areas have emergencies and accidents remote from professional assistance, occupational diseases, high infant and maternal mortality rates, and the same high incidence of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Community Characteristics, Delivery Systems, Guidelines
Burns, David A. – 1984
Residential care must be redefined, free from jargon and rhetoric. Over the past 20 years, the social welfare approach, which encompasses the medical model, has dominated legislative and practical thinking about residential care. This theoretical thinking reached its culmination in the concept of the therapeutic community. The therapeutic…
Descriptors: Individual Needs, Organizational Climate, Power Structure, Program Administration
Davies, Betty – 1984
Focusing on relationships between children's behavioral responses and family characteristics, this exploratory, descriptive, and retrospective study investigated bereaved children's responses to the death of a sibling from cancer and examines those responses in relationship to selected individual, situational, and environmental characteristics.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Bereavement, Cancer
McManus, John L. – 1984
Definitions of stress all imply that stress is a condition resulting from some change or imbalance that requires individual adjustment. When this does not occur, stress becomes an adverse condition which may eventually cause serious harm. Numerous studies have established the connection between unrelieved stress and adverse body reactions such as…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Biofeedback, Counselor Role, Diseases
McRoy, Ruth G.; Freeman, Edith – 1985
Although researchers have investigated the development of racially-mixed persons of backgrounds other than black, little attention has been given to children of black and white parents. For children to view their mixed-racial background positively, the family must nurture both parts of the child's background by providing the child with both black…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Development, Children, Elementary Secondary Education
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
