The impact of closed and open adoption for the older adopted child and the adoptive and biological parents is examined in order to provide knowledge that may be useful in choosing the type of adoptive placement that best meets the needs of particular children and families. (Author/RH)

Preference for personal space was related in this study to psychological maladjustment, aggressiveness, and body experience. Results indicated that individuals who tend to be maladjusted and individuals who tend to be aggressive preferred more personal space in face-to-face encounters in which the S was approached by a stranger. (Author)

The relationship of moderately elevated Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) Scales 2 and 7 to psychological help seeking, problem type, and academic progress was investigated. Results suggest the MMPI 2-7 elevation is a simple indicator of psychologocal distress in the setting studied. (Author/BEF)

Evaluated college counseling center usage for students encouraged to return for feedback on freshmen tests. Students who initially approached the center to request feedback on tests were more likely to obtain counseling for nontest-related problems than students who never requested test results. More men requested feedback prior to requesting…

Using Maslow's and Herzberg's hierarchies of needs, the author discusses some of the personal and job-related factors which motivate teachers. He suggests that boards can motivate teachers and prevent burnout not by satisfying lower-level security needs but by providing opportunities for responsibility, reward, and achievement. (SJL)

Examines the myths surrounding single-parent families. Discusses lifestyles, parental roles, parent-child relationships, psychological development of the child, and how these concerns affect home economics programs (knowledge, skills, coping patterns, teaching methods, the role of 4-H, stereotypes, and teachers' communication with parents). (CT)

Correlates Nixon's actions during his final days in office to the concepts of postself and partial death. Postself is the image one wants to remain after death. Partial death is a transitory state in which one faces a major alteration in his/her relationship to the world. (JMF)

Points to the importance to college students of establishing a support network based on personal relationships with advisers, deans, professors, and graduate assistants. (GT)

The emotional development of learning disabled (LD) students is an important aspect of their education and LD teachers should consider this need in planning the relationship with their students. Communication between student and teacher is an especially important part of the emotional development process. (PHR)

Separation conflicts of adolescents and the use of time-limited psychotherapy with the specific aim of promoting self-differentiation and autonomy are discussed. (JMF)

An examination of personality development points the way toward prevention strategies which respond to social and emotional needs of young alcohol abusers. Prevention programs which utilize these strategies have begun to operate. There is a critical need for more programs, particularly in the area of early parent education. (Author)

Parents and teachers must accept death as a natural function of life in order to teach children about dying. Children and youth need to learn how to cope with catastrophe and crisis whenever they meet it. (Author/MLF)

Analyzes the motivation profile results of a national survey, using a job diagnostic survey instrument, of 112 directors of university computer centers; and compares these results with results of similar surveys of other kinds of managers. Describes the outcome of the use of the instrument on a university computer center. (CMV)

A new behavioral technology, self-management, is directed toward developing the capacity in clients to regulate their own behavior. Among the strategies are covert modeling and rehearsal, covert sensitization, and thought-stopping. Self-management techniques have been successful with placement activities, drug dependency, alcoholism, self-concept…

Teacher burnout is described as physical, emotional, and attitudinal exhaustion; and suggestions for coping with the symptoms of burnout are offered. (JMF)