The transition from high school to college is an important milestone, but it is only one of many steps in the journey through higher education. This volume is an annotated bibliography of the emerging literature examining the many other transitions students make beyond the first year, including the sophomore year, the transfer experience, and the…

A bibliography of seven books and articles written by or including transcripts of conversations with mentally retarded persons is presented in an attempt to encourage two-way communication with the retarded. (CL)

Recent studies of innovation and change in organizations have included case studies of change (and the problems associated with it), cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of secondary data, and efforts toward developing an empirically based theory of organizational change. The present paper is in that tradition, but it is substantially more…

The 304 citations included in this annotated bibliography focus on the issues of refugee settlement in the United States during the last 20 years. The experiences of three major refugee groups (those from the Soviet Union, Southeast Asia, and Cuba) are emphasized. Published literature, papers, and reports generally characterized as research are…

The bibliotherapeutic technique can help children adjust to the foster care and adoption experience. Appropriate children's books for grades 1 to 6 are described. The application and limitations of bibliotherapy are discussed. (Author/BN)

This is a selected bibliography on child and adolescent refugees of Indochinese from the American project at Dartmouth Medical School. Very little literature exists on child or adolescent refugees of any nationality and virtually no prospective, longitudinal studies are available. No firm conclusions about the development and adaptation of these…

Approximately 50 citations (1974-1976) are contained in the annotated bibliography on attitudes of and counseling for parents of handicapped children. The information is said to have been drawn from volume eight of Exceptional Child Education Resources. Entries are arranged by accession number and usually include information on author, title,…

This annotated bibliography was prepared for the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse on Early Childhood Education as a resource for teachers to use in helping young children cope with death and separation. It includes (1) a selected list of children's books which treat death, (2) a selected list of children's books which…

This bibliography attempts to bring together references from the behavioral sciences which focus on the Vietnam veteran experience. Of special importance are manuscripts which deal with (1) the development and maintenance of intimate relationships during and after military service, (2) the relationship between combat experience and interpersonal…

Although the suicide rates of people over 60 continue to be consistently higher than those of younger age groups, relatively little research has scrutinized the phenomenon of geriatric suicide. Recent research is summarized and reviewed. Suggestions are offered for the direction and scope of future research. (Author)

Surveyed in this paper is the social science research on Southeast Asian refugee settlement in Canada. According to the survey, the body of literature on Indochinese immigrants is substantially larger than those on other ethnocultural Canadian populations of comparable size. Policy analysis is well developed, and there now exists sufficient…

In this bibliography on Filipino-Americans works cited include books, government documents, journal articles, theses, and dissertations written from 1900 to 1976. The topics addressed include: adjustment, communication, community and regional identity, contemporary life, demography, discrimination, education, family life, farm life, health,…

Child care books were examined regarding their information on helping children cope with death. Eight books had no information, five had some information, and seven had somewhat more thorough information. Of books with more developed treatments, five contained information of value to parents seeking to help their children face and cope with death.…

This annotated bibliography on Vietnamese Amerasians includes primary and secondary sources as well as reviews of three documentary films. Sources were selected in order to provide an overview of the historical and political context of Amerasian resettlement and a review of the scant available research on coping and adaptation with this…

For some time, military behavioral scientists have attempted to find ways to identify the young person who could successfully complete basic training and become a useful soldier while also detecting those individuals who would not be able to adapt or adjust and might be returned to the civilian world. This paper reports on the investigation of the…