In this depression prevention trial, 341 high-risk adolescents (mean age = 15.6 years, SD = 1.2) with elevated depressive symptoms were randomized to a brief group cognitive-behavioral (CB) intervention, group supportive-expressive intervention, bibliotherapy, or assessment-only control condition. CB participants showed significantly greater…

This study was designed to determine whether or not sensory integrative disorders occurred in a child guidance population, to explore the nature of sensory integrative disorders found in such a group, and to ascertain any relationships between certain types of sensory integrative disorders and specific behavioral traits. (Author/JA)

The author examines gaps in services, especially vocational services, to handicapped adolescents and outlines priorities (including working with families and other community agencies) for meeting those needs. Trends in vocational and career education are reviewed, and the adolescents' socialization needs are addressed. (CL)

STUDIES CONCERNED WITH THE AREAS OF INTELLECTUAL, CREATIVE, AND SCIENTIFIC TALENT WERE PRESENTED. THEY WERE ORGANIZED UNDER (1) CHARACTERISTICS, (2) IDENTIFICATION, (3) ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION AND UNDERACHIEVEMENT AND, (4) EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS. TERMAN'S FOLLOWUP STUDY SHOWED THAT 90 PERCENT OF THE GIFTED MEN WERE IN THE PROFESSIONS, HIGHER BUSINESS…

THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE "SECOND-CLASS CITIZENSHIP" OF YOUTH FROM ALL SOCIAL CLASSES AND COUNTRIES, AND PROGRAMS IN THE UNITED STATES AND ABROAD WHICH PROVIDE YOUTH WITH A RESPONSIBLE, MEANINGFUL ROLE IN SOCIETY. IT IS FELT THAT IF SOCIETY FAILS TO CONSTRUCTIVELY TAP THE ENERGIES OF YOUTH, THEIR LATENT ENERGY AND SUBSEQUENT SOCIAL…

This study explored the relationship of selected physiological and morphological variables of male youth experiencing persistent and inappropriate behaviors in the home, school, and/or community, and a control group. The results tend to support differences between the groups in body type, percent of body fat, and strength. (Author)

The moral judgments of three groups of children were compared: mildly educationally subnormal (ESN(M)) children who are also maladjusted, stable ESN(M) children, and stable children of approximately average intelligence. Results showed intelligence to be the determining factor. Intellectually less able children scored less well on a test of moral…

Provides a theoretical framework for understanding the reality reconstructions, identity transformations, and role readjustments that must be made by involuntarily childless couples who are unable to make the transition to parenthood as they had anticipated. (Author/ABB)

This National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) fact sheet outlines general characteristics of home schooling families, academic performance of home schooled students, and information regarding questions of social and emotional adjustment of home schooled children. [The National Home Education Research Institute's mission is to: (1)…

The failure of the manifest purpose of such psychotherapy suggests that it has a more important latent purpose, one that is in accord with the values of American capitalist society. It is proposed that this latent purpose is to serve as a means of social control, exercised through the ideological and clinical practice aspects of such…

The case histories of nine autistic children, eight boys and one girl, selected from a total of 96 so diagnosed at The John Hopkins Hospital prior to 1953, are presented in some detail and discussed. (Author)

One of the purposes of education is to orient the individual so that he will be able to find his proper niche in society. (CK)

Points out that retirement planning seminars often are designed to impart the economic and pragmatic aspects while neglecting feelings that accompany this and other major life transitions. Indicates that consideration must be given to the social and psychological implications of retirement. (JOW)