This book examines the impact of socioeconomic and school environments on youth. It was inspired by the author's work investigating a suicide pact involving four teenagers in Bergenfield, New Jersey in 1987. Through that investigation and afterwards, the author befriended suburban adolescents considered to be outcasts by their families, educators,…

Describes a mental health program that makes use of teacher-taught materials that do not require extensive preparation by the teachers involved. The program attempts to alter personality through the use of techniques that promote education in mental health and experimentation with group and individual behavior. (Author)

This study seeks to either verify or refute the hypothesis that a positive relationship exists between self-concept and underachievement. (Author)

Major aim of this study was to distinguish clearly between two interpretations of acquiescence response style. (Authors)

The studies reviewed represent three dependent variables and their correlates: values as affective elements in the decision process, the content and process of decision making, and organizational style and effectiveness of homemakers. (Author)

This investigation sought to compare male and female differences in play activities between 21 blind subjects and 21 matched control subjects in second through eighth grade. (Author)

A sensitive measurement model is developed that provides transactional scale values for individual members of a group, as well as an evaluation of pairwise interactions and balances that are emergent properties of the group itself. (Author/DG)