Describes transactional analysis (TA) and how extension agents can use it to work more effectively with their clients. (EM)

When compared with a group of clients who had received work adjustment services and a placebo treatment (personal hygiene training), experimental clients given Personal Achievement Skills (PAS) and work adjustment services reported greater gains on self-ratings of life perspective (optimism), work-related attitudes, and goal attainment. (Author)

Discusses weaknesses in the present training curriculum for foreign language teachers in Germany. Discusses in some detail "interaction analysis" and "microteaching." Concludes with suggestions as to how research findings can be introduced into teacher-training seminars. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Explores some of the methodological issues and problems involved in studies of black mother-child interactions, and presents alternatives to previously-used methods of selecting tasks, instructing subjects, and collecting data in the home. (BD)

This model has derived a particular set of competencies by selecting the best features of the disciplinarian, behavioristic, and therapeutic approaches to classroom management; each approach contains an outstanding feature that contributes significantly to the eclectic model. (JD)

The development of marital health as a bona fide health field is posited as the most viable means for obtaining funding for training, research and treatment concerning the marital dyad equal to such funding now available for other health fields. (Author)

Research on the family has indicated that a chronic, disabling illness affects not only the suffering individual, but also impacts on the family itself, creating a complicated web of interpersonal relationships. The author explores family reactions to a gradual, degenerative illness. (Author)

The dual concepts of resources and interaction with the social environment are used to explicate objectives of social work and activities of practitioners. Social work can be viewed as a generalist profession, but the terms "generalist" and "specialist" should not be equated with beginning and advanced practice. (Author)

Determined if one's generalized expectancy about locus of control affects the way in which a disabled person is evaluated by a nondisabled person. Internal subjects did not differentiate between the disabled and the nondisabled employee, whereas external subjects did make such a differentiation. (Author)

This study evaluated an intensive interpersonal communication training method for nonspecifically trained vocational rehabilitation counselors who were enrolled in a work-study program. The results indicate that the intensive interpersonal communication training method is an effective way to increase the participants' communication functioning…

Compares leader behavior ratings of black and white army infantry squad members serving in squads led either by black or white leaders. Available from: International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Transaction Periodicals Consortium, Rutgers-The State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903. (MH)

Despite the apparent universality of the jealousy phenomenon, communication in couples is inhibited by the social disapproval associated with its occurrance, and consequently discrepancies such as those evidenced in this study may pass entirely unobserved. As a result, jealousy problems remain unresolved and may serve to trigger further…

Examined teacher-student communication patterns in both regular and special education classes for behaviorally and emotionally handicapped students. Used Webster's (1984, 1986) Process Interaction Model to analyze the communication patterns. Expected differences between how regular and special class teachers intearct with students were not found.…

A review of research on teaching social skills to severely handicapped persons discusses training procedures, domain, generalization, maintenance, cost efficiency, reliability, social interaction partners, social validation, research design, and simulation. Evaluation of nine studies affirms that severely handicapped persons can learn to interact…

Investigation of discourse structures in bilingual (German-English) families indicated that parents' discursive strategies were related to the children's acquisition of the minority language and that children were more likely to speak the minority language if the respective parent employed a more child-centered mode of interaction than the parent…