This paper describes the current status of a helping skills program designed to train mental health paraprofessionals in relationship-building skills. Six skills were identified as the basis of the training program: (1) understanding the need to be a helper; (2) using effective nonverbal behavior; (3) using effective verbal behavior; (4) using…

Although the personality correlates of heroin addiction, LSD use, and marijuana smoking have been frequently investigated, relatively few data are available to describe the personality or lifestyle variables correlated with the pattern of polydrug abuse. In an attempt to gather such information, 17 polydrug users, selected from a group of 224…

This study compares reasons high school students give for being in school with the types of assistance they associate with their counselors. In addition, the "fit" between the kinds of services students think they need and the kinds of services they are willing to accept from counselors are examined. Field research methodology was utilized and…

Evaluations were obtained with the same questionnaire item in 1968, 1969, 1970, and 1972 at Carnegie-Mellon University. The evaluations of marijuana and LSD experiences reported in 1968 were very similar to those at California Institute of Technology in 1967. Evaluations varied by drug, but were predominantly "beneficial and helpful"…

This publication contains a collection of research papers designed to be used as a supplement to the textbook in a high school biology class. The material can be used to enrich the curriculum by stimulating critical thinking and by making high school students aware of the ways in which scientists work. Some of the papers have been condensed or…

Questionnaires designed to determine the status of the Doctor of Arts degree were sent to the graduate deans of 307 member institutions of the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States. In addition, questionnaires were sent to the graduate deans of 10 nonmember institutions known or thought to be offering graduate programs beyond the…

This document, a summary of a master's thesis in extension education, analyzes the relationship of selected factors with the academic performance of Malaysian students enrolled at Louisiana State University. Data were collected by mail questionnaire from all Malaysian students with a diploma in agriculture who were enrolled at the university in…

This paper develops a stimulus selection theory, based on an extensive review of previous research, which gives weight to context change or stimulus generalization decrement. The theory assumes no special compounding or configurational process, and accounts for the learning of successive discriminations without the addition of any special process.…

The purpose of this study was to determine differences, if any, in the counseling relationships established by white female counselors counseling black students as compared with black female counselors counseling black students. The Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and California Test of Basic Skills were…

A partial replication of an investigation of the effect of covert reinforcement on a perceptual estimation task is described. The study was extended to include an extinction phase. There were five treatment groups: covert reinforcement, neutral scene reinforcement, noncontingent covert reinforcement, and two control groups. Each subject estimated…

Opinions obtained by survey of faculty members of 42 universities on various aspects of department and university operations were categorized according to the faculty respondents' departmental affiliations. This paper reports an investigation of the relationship of faculty members' departmental affiliation to their responses to certain…

This paper presents the results of a comprehensive study of postdoctoral education at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). The purpose of the study was to determine the basic facts about postdoctoral education at UCSD, so that those entrusted with academic, administrative, and legislative responsibilities regarding postdoctoral…

Attitude data were obtained from 556 employees in a western telephone company. Respondents held one of sixteen "craft" jobs in the department selected for study. Multiple discriminant function analysis was performed using sixteen groups formed on the basis of subjects' job titles. Variables used in this primary analysis included job satisfaction,…

This study of Title III of the Higher Education Act develops a profile of characteristics of developing institutions, makes in-depth case studies of a selected sample of institutions that have received Title III funds, describes the impact of Title III monies on campus between 1965-66 and 1970-71, and develops indicators of institutional vitality…

Graduating senior ratings were added to colleague and currently enrolled student ratings (gathered on a group of 477 instructors in an earlier study) and then compared to the instructors' research productivity and academic rank. Graduating senior, colleague, and student ratings were not found to be significantly related to the instructors'…