The process and outcome of group psychotherapy with deaf adolescents from a Texas public school is reported to illustrate the medium's use in managing normal adolescent adjustment problems at home and at school. (CL)

Describes a technique which teachers can use to help students adjust to the problems of growing from childhood to adulthood. The technique consists of a three-stage process of bibliotherapy: identification, catharsis, and insight. (Author/DB)

Subjects responded to questionnaires and rated events in the Social Readjustment Rating Scale. Some were given psychophysical training before rating events. Training did not have significant effect on ratings. Stressfulness ratings were consistently higher than those of social readjustment. Data suggest this effect interacted with the events…

The authors reply to questions and concerns of five parents of gifted children. Among topics covered are an eight-year-old's problems with mathematics, a child's unrealistic expectations of himself, and a kindergarten child reading on a sixth grade level. (CL)

The article describes how a rehabilitation center for the blind, aware that many clients were inept in dealing with society at large, instituted an assertive skills training program to improve client skills in this area. (Author/SBH)

Objective self-awareness was varied to determine its effect on compliance and reactance. Result was that objective self-awareness increased compliance. Males and females were found to differ in response to a threat to their freedom. (Author)

Individuals in prisons and correctional facilities have needs for constructive living that home economists can meet. This article explores the nature of correctional education, social education, vanguard programs, status of education in correctional institutions, the Florida International University Project, and the most prevalent needs of…

Article discusses way in which an individual's struggle for autonomy may be expressed through compliance, self-destructiveness and submissiveness. (RW)

Examined questionnaire completed by 142 adult female incest survivors. Hypothesized that closeness between offender and survivor at time of abuse (perceived incestuousness) was related to adult functioning and this relationship could be explained by level of accomplishment of 3 cognitive coping tasks. Mediational model was not supported because…

Finds weak or inconsistent relationships between self-esteem and the following components: negative stereotypes of one's group; acceptance versus rejection of one's group membership; knowledge about one's group; and commitment to the group. Suggests a strong ethnic identity, when accompanied by a positive mainstream orientation, is related to high…

Three persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) were matched with four community participants for leisure activities. Community participants were trained and were given specific interactions suggestions. Integrated social contacts were measured using a multiple-baseline design across participants. Results suggest that social integration can be…

Mood disorder subjects have a selective deficit in recognizing human facial emotion. Whether the facial emotion recognition errors persist during normal mood states (i.e., are state vs. trait dependent) was studied in one male bipolar II patient. Results of five sessions are presented and discussed. (Author/EMK)

Argues that value-expressive attitudes and social-adjustive attitudes are based in a person's values. Indicates formation of these attitudes among the undergraduate student subjects depended more on the match between the value-content of the persuasive messages and the extent to which the message recipients hold those values than their level of…