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Voelm, Clint E.; And Others – 1984
Rational Emotive Education (REE), derived from Rational Emotive Therapy (RET), is a humanistic approach for helping children cope more objectively and effectively with the stress of modern living and personal problems. To investigate the efficacy of teaching REE, 38 acting-out and 42 socially withdrawn adolescents were randomly assigned to one of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Rational Emotive Therapy, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedWeisel, Amatzia; Bar-Lev, Hagit – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1992
Presents study results regarding the social cognitive abilities of deaf adolescents. Explains that role taking ability and nonverbal sensitivity was evaluated in a series of tests. Reports low performance in social cognitive abilities. Suggests that language plays a role in social adjustment. Concludes that nonverbal sensitivity is an important…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Competence
Download full textSeidenberg, Pearl L. – 1987
The paper examines current research on the social and personal competence of learning disabled (LD) adolescents and young adults, revealing two major lines of inquiry: (1) interpersonal environment (perceptions by others, sociometric status, social behavior deficits, verbal and nonverbal communication skills), and (2) affective status…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Relationship
Jordan-Davis, Walter E.; Butler, Douglas M. – 1985
This paper outlines a model that could address the interaction between an adolescent's social and personal environment and the impact that this interaction could have on an adolescent's social and psychological adjustment. In addition, a set of mediating variables based on an adolescent's self-concept was presented and discussed. The unique aspect…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Egocentrism, Emotional Adjustment
Peer reviewedNihira, Kazuo; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Examines the reciprocal relationship between the home environment and the development of 148 slow learning adolescents over a three-year period, assessing such factors as child-rearing attitudes, educationally relevant stimuli and opportunities, and psychosocial climate and environmental press of the home. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Child Role, Cognitive Development
Koopmans, Matthijs – 1993
This paper presents results of a study of how family dysfunction contributes to adjustment of adolescents. The question is considered from two disciplinary vantage points: (1) structural anthropology, which considers dysfunction in terms of the affirmation of kinship relations; and (2) a family systems approach which emphasizes the role of factors…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavioral Science Research, Emotional Adjustment
