Based on a Ph.D. dissertation (university of Oklahoma Medical Center, Oklahoma City). (JJ)

Findings are interpreted in terms of search strategy and memory. (Authors)

Despite its unusual potential, both educational and social, it seems that Sesame Street may be exposing children to unnecessary aggression...(which) often goes unpunished and, occasionally, is actively rewarded." (Author)

Results of the category frequencies indicate that both counselors in practice and counselors in training prefer to respond to client problems in a manner that allows them to maintain a counseling relationship with the client and to leave the taking of action up to the clients or other persons. (Author)

Chronologically surveys the research on various aspects of nonverbal communication and provides some ideas for future lines of research. (AN)

Outlines an attempt to use consultative and training skills in combination with pastoral skills to achieve a more creative mix in a conflicted, alienated congregation in the Midwest. (Author/LF)

Using tape recorded psychotherapy sessions, three methods of assessing the quality of a psychotherapist's empathy were compared. One of the results was that the three scales were not measuring different qualities as the intercorrelations among the three empathy measures were virtually perfect when corrected for unreliability. (Author/CG)

The author describes drug abuse as symptomatic behavior, requiring awareness of the fact that such behavior is precipitated by any number of variable factors, both rational and irrational, cognitive and conative. (Author)

A measure of sex guilt was related to the report of previous sexual experiences, feelings following participation, or reasons for nonparticipation, and premarital and postmarital sexual standards. Sex guilt was negatively correlated with the level of intimacy of premarital sexual experiences, and guilty Ss has less permissive premarital standards.…

This article details some of the developmental patterns that characterize the child's experiences with anxiety about being evaluated. (Author)

Compares the behavior of a kindergarten child with a positive self-concept with the characteristics of the child who has a poor self image. Suggests methods for the development of healthy self-concepts. (RB)