Describes the increasing prevalence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia in many industrialized societies, and their association with significant morbidity and mortality. Discusses the genetic risks for the development of anorexia nervosa, and treatment strategies. Of these, pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy, particularly those incorporating…

Summarizes recent developments in assessment and treatment of obesity. Reviews studies on genetics and weight cycling, which demonstrate the heterogeneous etiology of obesity and help explain difficulty in losing weight or maintaining weight loss. Describes the newer treatment programs which emphasize the development of exercise behaviors,…

Outlines debriefing strategies to help students organize, compare, classify, evaluate, summarize, or analyze an experience and determine its meaning. Discusses several possible activities leading to increased understanding, including writing logs, diaries, or summaries, naming themes, imagining alternatives, evaluating, role-playing, drawing,…

Unassertive women (n=36) assessed as high or low on conceptual level (CL) were randomly assigned to high-structure-behavioral or low-structure-cognitive forms of assertion training (AT). Low-CL clients in the matched condition improved most in verbal assertiveness. No matching effects were found with high-CL clients. (Author/KS)

Presents results of two case studies in which parents served as cotherapists in a social cognitive problem-solving program: a 9-year-old boy referred for distractibility, immaturity, and impulsivity, and an 8-year-old boy referred for aggressive behaviors. (Author/NRB)

Emotional development of handicapped children is examined from the perspective of attachment-separation-individuation theory. Data suggests that handicapped children are at greater risk of disordered patterns of interaction, delayed progression through stages of attachment-separation-individuation, and incomplete internalization of object and…

Reanalyzes data from a study in which 42 fifth graders received training in map-drawing skills. Explores the relationship between the mixture of reasoning levels and developmental change, and compares findings with those of an earlier study of social reasoning. (CB)

Investigated how 97 women in dual-career families with preschool children manage typical conflicts between their professional and parental roles. Increased role behavior and cognitive restructuring were the most highly endorsed coping strategies. Personal and situational resources were associated with lower role conflict and greater coping…

Used a pre-defined list of family therapy intervention strategies to predict post-therapy perceived life happiness and marital happiness among husbands and wives (N=31). In general, favorable outcome for husbands was associated with active restructuring operations on the part of the therapist. Prediction of outcome for wives was less clear. (JAC)

Multiply handicapped mentally retarded and learning disabled preschool children participated in a series of learning tasks designed to clarify task-related effects of modeling-based mental imagery training experiences. Facilitative effectives of modeling occurred for all learning tasks, were most apparent for associative learning and with learning…

Describes an instrumental enrichment program for assessing learning potential and correcting cognitive deficits. The program presents one5 curriculum packages consisting of paper-and-pencil exercises and providing materials for one-hour lessons three to five times a week for a period of three years. (RH)

Examines literature on cognitive behavior therapies with children and evaluates the implicit assumptions of these techniques regarding enhanced generalization of effects over time and across settings. Focuses on methodology and experiment design, client utilization of training procedures, long-term follow-up, and diagnosis. (KH)

Assessed clinically test anxious students (N=14) who had been administered a treatment program consisting of relaxation skill training, cognitive restructuring and systematic desensitization. Results indicated a maintenance of decreased levels of test anxiety and continued reductions in trait anxiety and irrationality at a 12-month follow-up. (LLL)

This book is an exploration of the changing definitions of knowledge competence held to be valuable in universities. The central argument is that one ideology, that of academic competence, is being displaced with another ideology, that of operational competence. The book begins by considering the relationships among higher education, knowledge,…

Explains that criminal justice agencies have acknowledged that imaginative and engaging styles of education are crucial to rehabilitative work with offenders. Investigates the ways in which a drama-based cognitive-behavioral program in the United Kingdom for violent offenders can construct and review its theoretical approach through practice.…