By setting sound expectations in each class and holding students to them, and presenting lessons with enthusiasm, humor, and care, teachers may be able to motivate apathetic students. (Author/MLF)

This study examined the interaction effect of students, drugs, and alienation in a large university, i.e., the linkages of both social and political alienation with drug behavior. The interaction terms which composed these forms of alienation were evaluated as to their comparative ability to produce drug behavior. (Author)

In a specialized teacher education program, students are prepared to teach in prisons and correctional institutions. (JD)

Dimensions of black idenity, alienation, and contemporary attitudes of black students on the predominantly white campus are appraised. The implications of this are considered in relationship to the predisposition for hypertension in a significant percentage of black people. (Author)

Presents relevant data about contemporary youth alienation and offers an interpretation and prescription. The five articles following this one all comment on it. (Author/IRT)

Outlines the problems of beginning teachers and the reasons many of the better qualified ones leave teaching. Provides six guidelines for developing effective teacher induction programs for new teachers. (MD)

Examined the relationship of various interpersonal, emotional, and cognitive variables to suicidal ideation and behavior in college students. Used self-report measures of life stress, faulty cognitions, loneliness, depression, hopelessnesss, family cohesiveness, adaptive reasons for living, and suicidal ideation and behavior. Developed a…

Reports the results of a quasi-experimental study designed to assess the effects of values development lessons on students' self-reported attitudes and behaviors. Results showed that the 48 10- to 15-year-old students involved in the study improved in the behavioral measure but not on the self-report scales. (JDH)

Examined the backgrounds, personalities, and experiences of 110 young men in Yeshivot, orthodox religious seminaries in Israel. Describes the reactions of their parents and contrasts the Yeshivot with cults. Suggests that alienated youths are especially vulnerable to recruitment. (JAC)

This paper is an analysis of Native American student alienation on a predominantly White university campus viewed through the lens of Critical Race Theory. It uses the narratives of 16 students in a qualitative study to question the assumption that minority student alienation is the result of a failure to adjust, adapt, integrate, and become…

Third Culture Kids (TCKs) represent a group of youth who have lived overseas with their families for business, service, or missionary work. The implications of living in multiple cultures, especially during the developmental and formative years of youth, warrant investigation. This study informs the US counseling community about the…

It is the purpose of this study to explore several differences and similarities between students at two mid-western institutions of higher learning, one a community college and the other a large university. (Author/RK)

Describes a method for estimating the possible dimensions of youth power in each community to assist in determining administrative responses to an enfranchised, and politically active, student body. (Author)

The authors argue that counselors must begin to accept and then to implement a view of themselves as facilitators of change within the school system. (Author)

The history of the Free University of Berlin is presented with its problems and conflicts. (PG)