This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 23 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) increasing patient communication through modeling; (2) an analysis of elementary Yeshiva school principals' and faculties' perceived leadership behavior and organizational climate in New Jersey and the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island; (3) academic preparation for a career in professional football: what student athletes need to know regarding certain communication skills, long-term career planning, and personal finances; (4) undergraduate college students' use of assertive message types and perceptions of communication competence in nonclassroom contexts; (5) differences between levels of oral communication apprehension and communicator style of preservice teacher education students; (6) negotiation of meaning in cross-cultural communication: a study of doctor/patient interaction; (7) administrator communication behavior: perceptions of teachers in rural school districts; and (8) communicative competence: an analysis of policy decisions in an administrative setting. (DF)