This document provides a comparative study of life styles and social attitudes of middle income status whites and blacks in Northwestern Detroit, Michigan. One hour personal interviews were conducted with 213 white and 18l black families to gather information on areas such as leisure patterns and values, family life patterns, neighborhoods,…

Members of nuclear families look to one another for support in times of stress. Relationships between spouses and between parents and children contain the conditions required for effective counselling and helping. This paper presents the results of two tests of the hypothesis that such helping relationships in families act as moderators between…

The purpose of this study was to assess self-concept, teaching behavior, and life-style changes in parents employed as paid paraprofessionals in the University of Florida Follow-Through Program during 1971-1972. Results indicate that such parents made statistically significant gains on the feelings-of-competence factor of the How I See Myself…

The suggestion is made that the flood of middle-aged women who have recently turned away from traditional approaches to achievement may have shifted their orientation to changing options, but have always had a great desire to achieve. The effect of the changing values of the women's movement is discussed, and a grid of achievement motivation…

Some research has found that women's retirement from the labor force produces significant changes in their lives and requires further investigation. The effects of career pattern and retirement on activity involvement and life satisfaction for women who had been in the work force was investigated. Subjects were members of the Terman Study of the…

This manual is designed for mental health center staff members to design effective interventions with elderly clients in short-term groups. Chapter One briefly describes a project which uses the therapy techniques of Cognitive Restructuring Therapy (CRT), Transactional Analysis (TA), and Life Review with groups of elderly persons to determine…

Rapid social change as it affects the mental health of women is examined. Increased stress for women is predicted as social mores change in the future, relaxing sexual relationships toward the fleeting and more casual, and expecting women to attain higher career goals and independence. Projected needs in the field of mental health services are…

Although studies of social contact and mutual aid between the elderly and their children suggest impressive potentials for family supports, much less is known of this potential in a situation of illness and dependency. The family's potential at that stage when the older person's health deteriorates to the point that some external support is…

The relationship of family life cycle changes to housing preferences and residential mobility is examined. Two residential decision-making issues are explored in detail--how family life cycle stages influence what people view as important to their choice of residential setting and what individuals at different family life cycle stages view as the…

Appropriate technology is an approach to meeting human needs which stresses local solutions using small-scale decentralized technologies that have minimal environmental impact. Presented in this manual are 10 lessons for upper elementary students that consider such topics as recycling, solar energy, transportation, and nutrition. Each lesson…

Many studies report severe role overload problems for spouses and particularly for the wives in dual-career families; whether this overload is perceived by subjects themselves or by the researchers is not always clear. To clarify the overwork issue, the perceptions of university faculty women (N=151) regarding their career and domestic work loads…

These materials represent the testimony given before the Select Committee on Aging of the House of Representatives during February 1979. Statements of the committee members are presented as well as remarks by Louis Harris, nationally known survey researcher, and Kenneth K. Keene, director of a New York consulting firm specializing in employee…

This pamphlet contains 28 articles written by high school students based on interviews with community members from 17 ethnic groups. The interviews were conducted by the students as part of a unit on immigration within their social studies course. The interviews illustrate many aspects of ethnic studies which are based on the human rather than the…

The paper suggests that by studying the Hawaiian plantation system, seventh graders can gain understanding of personal values and ethnic heritage. The current racial and cultural diversity in Hawaii is a result of mass immigration initiated in 1876 by the needs of the sugar and pineapple industries. Over 400,000 field workers from China, Japan,…

In an attempt to begin assessing perceived needs of Washington State University students living in this institution's residence halls, the Department of Residence Living sought the responses to a 106-question survey. The general residential living areas assessed were: Personal Development; Residence Hall and General University Social and…