This third annual report of The Temporary State Commission on Child Welfare deals with the origin, development and rationale of the provisions of the Child Welfare Reform Act of 1979 (chapters 610 and 611). The Child Welfare Reform Act addresses itself primarily to three discrete program areas which operationally are intended to alter radically…

This curriculum manual on Alcohol and Alcohol Safety is designed as a teacher's guide for junior high level students. The topics it covers are: (1) safety; (2) attitudes toward alcohol and reasons people drink; (3) physical and behavioral effects; (4) interpersonal situations; (5) laws and customs; and (6) problem drinking and alcoholism. Each…

This extensive annotated bibliography provides a compilation of documents retreived from a computerized search of the ERIC, Social Science Citation Index, and Med-Line databases on the topic of alcoholism. The materials address the following areas of concern: (1) attitudes toward alcohol users and abusers; (2) characteristics of alcoholics and…

This article examines the contribution of television and other mass media to alcohol consumption and its abuse. The author notes that there is no scientific evidence available that addresses this point directly, and the importance of such an issue is not recognized in the scientific literature. The absence of this information interferes with the…

This report represents an attempt to measure young people's awareness of and attitude toward the prevention efforts their schools have undertaken in terms of the prevalence and incidence of drug use. It also seeks to learn which prevention program topics the students desire. Further, the report addresses the issue of the credibility of various…

This collection of citations and references focusing on the culture of industrial alcoholism, its existence on the job, and its resolution extends from 1960 to June 1972, with some important works from earlier dates. The citations from books, articles, and newspapers, assembled to present a composite picture of the alcoholic worker's environment,…

This concise survey presents some of the highlights of modern research on drinking and alcoholism, as based on technical articles published in the scientific literature and the views expressed by leading authorities in the field. Contents include discussions about: (1) the nature and scope of the problem; (2) the chemical composition of alcoholic…

The 2 papers included in this report concern personal and social effects as reasons for, and reinforcements of, continued drinking. In the first, a study is reported in which 95 indigent chronic alcoholics were interviewed about both the benefits and drawbacks which they associated with drinking. Results show that (1) a change in feeling state was…

The many difficulties involved in diagnosing, classifying and treating alcoholics comprise the bulk of the report's content. The very specific social and medical needs of the alcoholic, coupled with personal, social and treatment agency barriers, are viewed as the major feasibility (for treatment outcome) factors. The report recommends six major…

Over 450 Spanish printed materials about the various aspects of health and their sources are listed in this publication. Italics are used to indicate either the translation of Spanish titles or the titles of English-language editions. Publications with bilingual texts are shown by hyphenated titles. Information about the distribution of materials…

An annotated bibliography of instruments designed to assess attitudes, behaviors, practices, knowledge, and correlations in the area of alcohol are described. Some of the instruments described are for use with general populations of students or adults and others are appropriate only for use with alcohol-dependent respondents. The annotations…

This paper describes four elements of a leadership training program in alcoholism that distinguish it from other postgraduate programs. These four elements are: (1) clinical teams composed of and led by trainees with leadership rotating periodically among trainees; (2) weekly experience group meetings of each team to maximize understanding at…

This article outlines an effective alcohol prevention education program and delegates certain responsibilities to the teacher. (SK)

A path analytic model for Hispanic alcoholics relating socioclinical prognostic variables to outcome following treatment in a therapeutic community differs markedly from that fitted to Anglo alcoholics. The differential relationship of education to alcoholism severity and outcome was noted specifically as reflecting different racial-ethnic paths…

Assessed relationship between adolescents' problem drinking and their perceptions of stressful relationships with people or situations. Results from survey of 1,684 secondary school students suggest that perceived stress may have role in etiology of adolescent problem drinking and should signal program planners in alcohol education to include…