Studies patterns of dress, play, behavior and gestures of male prisoners and contends that these nonverbal cues constitute a vital prison communication channel. (MH)

Undergraduates (N=91) were shown a videotaped discussion of interracial dating by five heterosexual biological females and one cross-dressed male transsexual. Experimental subjects, who had been previously informed of the presence of the transsexual were all able to identify her, significantly more than control subjects who had not been told this.…

The study of kinship models permits a useful alternative to techniques relying on sociometric measures or kinship terminology for the understanding of modern kinship. Presented at the annual National Council on Family Relations Convention, New York, 21 October 1976. (Author)

This study analyzes urban-rural variations in Philippine household size and components of household size, as well as the relative contribution of these components to household size. Household size is larger in urban than in rural areas and the difference largely reflects the presence of extended family members and non-relatives. (Author)

The author present a five-stage intervention model to be used in counseling with couples. The model stages include structuring, observation and assessment, interruption of the system, deviation and amplification, and responding to individuation. (Author/HLM)

During divorce, women feel dependent and confused. Whether intended or not, the direction of a woman's growth (indeed, whether or not there is any) will reflect the counselor's belief in what is possible and appropriate for women. (Author)

The Allred Interaction Analysis for Counselors (AIAC) is an instrument for systematically analyzing counselors' and clients' verbal behaviors. It was constructed to provide marriage and family counselors-in-training a method for acquiring meaningful, objective feedback on counseling behaviors. Interrater reliability coefficients have been high.…

The interaction between leaders and members in a year-long family therapy seminar is systematically compared to the process that unfolds between therapist and family during the course of family therapy. The dynamic elements of each stage of development are analyzed and factors affecting their development are identified. (Author)

Family treatment can be staged in a way that permits the family to deal with their anxiety about treatment and plan changes in the problem solving mechanism of the family system. (Author)

If the counselor does nothing to relieve the anxiety engendered by hostile interchanges, the family may view him as just one more discordant element in their unhappy system and leave him very quickly. (Author)

Family therapists (N=60) were surveyed in an investigation of resistance by family members to family therapy. The father was viewed as the most resistant along a number of dimensions. Therapist behaviors that related to difficulties with the father, specifically, and to family therapy generally, were identified. (Author)

A role analysis chart, developed to measure group processes interactions, is adapted for use in training sessions on the conduct of effective meetings. (MF)

Describes a developmental affective education program implemented in two integrated classrooms (at the fifth and eighth grade level). The program consists of ten 45-minute sessions and is designed to help students cope with feelings and explore values related to racial issues. (Author)

Worker and caller behaviors are studied and compared in sample of 100 suicide calls to three crisis intervention centers. Verbal behaviors of workers and callers are substantially different, leading to the conclusion that crisis intervention is dissimilarly practiced between centers but similar within them. (Author)

Examines whether the FIRO-BC scales of inclusion, control, and affection distinguish between students identified as stars and isolates through a sociometric instrument completed by their peers. Results indicate it did. (Author)