Discusses school programs and practices that prevent or remedy problem behavior in elementary school students by enlisting volunteers to provide caring relationships and extend the support base for meeting student needs. Describes planned research to document program outcomes as well as the experiences of participants in such activities, and to…

Based on the evidence that college students are their own primary resource for psychological services, a training program in help-giving skills was developed as a supplement to an academic course in the psychology of adjustment. Training for 73 students involved readings, lectures, modeling, and experiential learning in small groups. Pre-post…

The role of incentives, i.e. economic and service supports, is explored in an attempt to find ways and means to provide elderly family members with creative enviornments so as to enhance their life conditions and relationships. In order to investigate the feasibility, circumstances, and conditions under which the family network, in lieu of…