Personal growth in human potential laboratory participants was tested in the community college setting. When compared to a control group, laboratory participants made significant gains on four of twelve scales of the Personal Orientation Inventory. Participatng groups with high pretest variability tended to demonstrate the greatest growth. (Author)

Discusses ways to accelerate and to share exploration of sound new ways to achieve the development of the individual's sense of worth, especially in the elementary school. (GB)

Author presented a reply to another professor concerning freedom and responsibility in the school system. (RK)

French translation of an article appearing in "The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science," 1973. (HW)

Children can develop a sense of self-esteem by responding creativity to a what would happen if'' question. (MM)

Article investigates research studies on the relationships between different child rearing factors and the child's ability to adjust to social norms. (Author/RK)

Article describes the advantages of bringing animals into the art room. (RK)

The results of this study suggest that planned experiences with children such as the program of Developing Understanding of Self and Others (DUSO) can have a positive effect on self concept development. The DUSO guidance program was used along with counselor consultation. (JC)

An adequate theory of the role of an applied behavioral scientist in higher education requires substantive answers to several basic questions. Five, considered to be major ones, are presented here. Each is briefly discussed and references made to more extended discussions that could serve as a beginning for continued theoretical development and…

Reports on action initiated by the FFA to develop a program for agricultural students' personal development. (MU)

The behaviorist believes he can teach by pasting things on the outside; the humanistic psychologist believes that he must look for what is already inside and help it emerge. This humanistic essay criticizes teaching too early those things a child will learn when ready. (Author/JB)

The effects of sensory deprivation in humans is discussed as well as the need for developing a moral education curriculum designed to rear children in an affectional environment of positive reinforcements. (JB)

Two articles dealing with self estimate ability in adolescence are presented; one is an investigation to determine whether age, grade level, school program, sex, intelligence, and social class influence the accuracy of self-knowledge of vocationally relevant attributes of high school students. The second article comments on this study and other…