Comments on article by Ray E. Hosford in same issue. (CJ)

Describes techniques which families adopting children 6 months old or older might use to help communicate feelings of love, continuity of affection, and permanence of the new home to both verbal and non-verbal children. Includes songs and stories. (MG)

Fading allows counselors to assist children in acquiring, with minimal frustration and errors, independent behavior at an age earlier than previously thought possible. Beginning responsibility training at an early age will enhance the development of the pupil's capacity for self direction and will increase decision making skills. (Author)

Describes a staff training program that used a series of taped lessons to help inexperienced child care workers develop understanding of concepts of human behavior and child care. (DR)

Techniques used by five interns build upon establishment of a strong relationship with the client, client acknowledgement of responsibility for his behaviors, acceptance by counselor of himself, search for hidden client feelings, and reinforcement. (CJ)

Reprints from: George Parker, Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712.

Outlines a seven-step procedure for dismissing incompetent or unprofessional teachers, including conferring with the teacher, summarizing the conference, developing an action plan with the teacher, having the personnel officer approve the plan, implementing the plan, and holding a progress assessment conference. Provides a sample performance memo…

Explains "purpose design," a planning and problem-solving strategy involving determination of planning purposes, generation and selection of solutions, specification of solution details, implementation, and evaluation. Describes the application of purpose design to the planning of an alumni association at Black Hawk College, a community…

Describes the six-phase Application Transfer Team Methodology used by Clemson University in cooperation with IBM to plan and design a library-wide automated system for library operations. The team report describes the current environment, the proposed system, implementation considerations, a cost/benefit analysis, and recommendations for a plan of…

The development of four parallel multiple-choice tests using Guttman's facet design analysis is discussed. A mapping sentence was used to specify a test blueprint. The examinations were found to be parallel when actually used. (Author/GK)

Two procedures for scoring the Recreation Experience Preference scales were investigated using data obtained from respondents engaged in outdoor recreational activities. Both procedures yielded acceptable levels of reliability and concurrent validity. When time is unimportant, the scale score strategy is preferred over the domain score strategy.…

Presents a critical analysis of Robert Alun Jones' methodology for seeking a sociological understanding of sociology's past by analyzing classic sociological works. Excerpts from the writings of Jones and other sociologists, both classical and contemporary, are included and criticized. (DB)

Criticizes the approach of sociologist Charles Camic toward understanding the history of sociology. Suggests that if sociologists are to understand earlier societies, they must understand thought patterns which prevailed in those societies and must produce a history of sociological thought which is genuinely historical. (DB)

Compared self-administered and examiner-administered depression adjective check lists. Half of each form was administered in standard manner and half was read by examiners to psychiatric inpatients. Analysis revealed no significant effects for vocabulary, sex, or method of administration. Results support examiner-administered method in cases of…

Methodological problems associated with treatment research on cigarette smoking are explored, and possible solutions are discussed. The main problems considered are the selection and retention of subjects, the measurement of smoking, the design of treatment studies, and the interpretation and generalizability of experimental results. (Author)