Describes a program of socialization therapy instituted for day-care geriatric participants identified as socially disengaged from both family and social roles, available through the geriatric center. Over a period of several months both individual role changes and changes in the group patterns of communication and interaction were observed.…

A multidisciplinary team at a hospital special devices clinic designed multiple use wheelchair and car seats with unique tabletop or arm enclosures for two educable mentally retarded brothers (11 and 14-years-old) afflicted with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, a purine metabolic disorder characterized by an insatiable urge for self-mutilation. (LH)

Reprinted from the Fall 1968 issue of "Daedalus.

Paper presented at the annual meetings of the National Council on Family Relations, San Francisco, California, August 16, 1967.

Slightly abbreviated version of the Soviet journal, SPECIAL SCHOOL (Spetsialnaia Shkola), Issue No.2, Vol. 114. pp. 23-26, 1965.

The high priority placed on staff development by business and industry has not been shared by the community college which has tended to seek talents outside the institution rather than to develop those within. Community college staff development programs are usually designed to improve job performance rather than to enhance employee growth and…

Existing models for explaining individual educational attainment have not been particularly useful for explanations of the high dropout rate for black youths. This study employes a status attainment approach in analyzing the school dropout problem, using data from disadvantaged black youth who were enrolled in 1979 in a targeted job placement…

An orientation and mobility curriculum developed in Tulare County, California, includes 30 units for legally blind, partially sighted, multi-impaired, and low functioning sighted students in grades K through 12. Each section includes eight steps to teach basic concepts. Assessment guidelines are used to determine strengths and deficiencies. The 30…

Utilizing data derived from 277 rural, male respondents initially enrolled in Lenawee County, Michigan high schools, the Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale was employed to test the hypothesis that locus of control will have interactive rather than additive effects on the process of status attainment. Locus of control was defined as…

The purpose of this paper is to measure on a nationwide basis the proportion of annual (from 1967 to 1971) housing turnover that represented racial succession. Using data obtained from Current Population Surveys, particular emphasis is placed on how the rate of racial succession varied among regions and was different in cities, suburbs, and…

Current literature dealing with teacher stress and job burnout is presented in the form of an annotated bibliography. Symptoms of teacher stress and specific characteristics of teachers who deal ineffectively with stress are explored. The causes of teacher stress and its effects on administrators and students are cited. Resources to help teachers…

The experimental development of occupational classifications based on regularities of movement of workers among jobs has been used recently to place job seekers in available jobs. The social and psychological meaning of a classification, developed by Dauffenbach, was explored by describing the classification's categories in terms of the…