Describes a training program designed to increase assertiveness and interpersonal skills. Program contains three major components: work situation problem solving; continuing in-house training, and evaluation. Methods include videotaping, group discussion, and role-playing. Discusses facilitator's role. Reports pilot test results concerning…

Reviews and discusses the implications of several studies of the attitudes of teachers and administrators toward collective bargaining and themselves ten years after enactment of state collective bargaining legislation. (PKP)

This discussion demonstrates that in some instances what is actually reported as inappropriate student behavior may emanate from teacher-related biases, idiosyncracies, insensitivities, and perhaps teacher inadequacies. (Author/AM)

Describes a simulation designed to teach college students in an undergraduate political science course about foreign policy decision-making, conflict, and conflict resolution. An evaluation of role simulation as a teaching technique is included. (Author/DB)

Recordings were made of Canadian and Mexican actresses reciting contradictory messages in their respective languages (i.e., English and Spanish). The younger children in the experiment in both cultures interpreted the contradictory messages more negatively than the older children. (Author/AM)

Sex-role change is examined in terms of three models which focus on the relationship between norm and behavior in the process of change. (Author/AM)

Findings of a California secondary school survey of procedures for solving students' problems are presented here, along with recommendations for designing an effective problem-solving mechanism. (Author)

The redistribution of power brought about by collective bargaining is a major source of conflict between teachers and administrators. This article describes and reviews one school district's workshop conducted to bring these two sides closer together. (Author/DS)

One type of conflict is controversy (disagreement), which is discussed as a teaching technique that can be used in the classroom. Five possible procedures are suggested for introducing it to students. For journal availability, see SO 504 878. (ND)

The hypothesis was that structures built by group members in dealing with conflict and decision making would be contingent on their life styles. Three different sets of groups of persons with homogeneous life styles created three different (and predicted) structures in a problem-solving task. (Author)

Suggestions and recommendations for directors include ways to effectively manage conflict among employees; avoid "thinking traps"; disagree with the boss; and handle bold or aggressive employees. Tips on training and speechmaking and advice about raising program rates are also presented. (Author/BB)

A method of teaching alternative dispute resolution (ADR) involves sending students to observe actual ADR sessions, by agreement with the agencies conducting them, and then analyzing the students' observations in focused discussions to improve student insight and understanding of the processes involved. (MSE)

Examines conflict resolution, gender differences, and sex role stereotyping in children's fantasies. Finds significant gender differences in methods of conflict resolution, and a pervasiveness of sex role stereotypes. (FMW)

Claims elderly suicides are more frequent, and more likely to be multifactorial, including loneliness, isolation, depression, somatic illnesses, having suffered numerous losses, and injuries to the self-esteem (concerns regarding emptiness, uselessness, and body image). Aggressive impulses previously neutralized by work and social life now break…