This article is an introduction to charismatic counseling. Charismatic clergy are seeing transformations of lives unlike anything experienced in their ministries before the charismatic renewal. (Author)

An analysis of racial prejudice employing the learning processes of discimination and generalization is presented. It is suggested that the generalization process can help to explain the problem involved in racial prejudice. Voluntary interaction between the races is necessary for prejudice to be overcome. (Author)

The impact, threat, power, and taboo that death and dying hold for the contemporary American can be diffused if the family and the individual take charge by putting death in the context of their living. Families live their dying through their natural rhythms of attachment and separation, affiliation and individuation. (Author)

Consultation is primarily a problem-solving process. This exploratory research suggests that the consultant's expertise in the problem area, personal characteristics, and the skill to establish a cooperative working relationship are the most critical behaviors for success. (Author)

The creation of "areas" designed for conflict resolution has been an effective method of teaching important communication skills. Elementary youngsters (K-6) who may be at odds with one another are placed in a situation that is conducive to generating face-to-face interaction. The location of "conflict areas" should be strategically chosen,…

This paper attempts to summarize the highlights of selected findings in research related to widowhood. The following selected topics are included: death and adjustment, the problems of the widow and the children and widowhood. (Author)

Results indicate a significant relationship between several motor performance variables and perceptual cognitive style in athletes. (JD)

Results indicate that subjects scored better when tested by an experimenter of the opposite sex and also that there is some tendency for experimenters to receive scores from their subjects in accordance with their expectations of the subject's performance. (JD)

These Ninth-graders (N=243) preferred friendly, warm, confidential, and accessible counselors. The male pupil and the withdrawn one tend toward the mean of emotionality in both pleasure and pain. Those without experience as counselees were highly similar to those with counseling experience in terms of agreement about what they perceived as…

Pre-service teachers (N=113) responded to a semantic differential to assess attitudes toward five concepts. Significant differences were found in the responses to the five concepts, with students being negative in their attitudes toward perceptions by professors. Implications for student/teacher relations were explored. (Author)

To be in attendance to the dying and help them with the process of reorganizing the materials for coping in this kind of intense life-destructive crisis is a rare privilege. Presented at the Conference on Death and Dying: Education, Counseling, and Care, December 1-3, 1976, Orlando, Florida. (Author)

Synthesizes the research on infant-parent interaction and proposes a model for introducing and including infant-parent interaction in family-centered early intervention with young children having disabilities. The model stresses the family's vision for the child's future and the family's role in active decision making. (DB)

This response to Baird and Peterson (EC 617 085) suggests that the original authors' conceptions of family-centered philosophy and intervention in parent-child interaction are inaccurate. They note the importance of parent-child interactions and the need for intervention procedures to be based on the parent-child interaction literature. (DB)

Challenges current practices in language evaluation for school-aged children with significant hearing loss. It argues for an interactive approach to assessment and offers specific recommendations for the interpretation of test results. Application of current connectionist and competition theories of language acquisition suggests the concept of…

Describes a study of the teaching of junior secondary French in Queensland schools. The key questions in the study regarding how communicative Australians are and should be are considered through empirical data collected in four junior secondary French classes over two years. The study involved observation and analysis of classroom interaction.…