Self-handicapping strategies are behaviors or choices of performance settings which allow people to maintain self-esteem by avoiding negative self-relevant attributions. People will behave in such a way that accurate, nonambiguous attributions about their performance cannot be made. Research on self-handicapping has focused on clinically relevant…

Research suggests that depression is associated with low self-efficacy expectancies and that enhancement of self-efficacy expectancies may be effective in the relief of depressive symptoms. To examine the causal relationships between self-efficacy expectancies for interpersonal skills and depressed mood, two independent experiments were conducted.…

Contrary to the assumptions made by researchers in the area, the levels of empathy and specificity were significantly lower in supervision than in counseling. The differences found were discussed in terms of their implications for the teaching and learning of psychotherapy. (Author)

Two groups of 12 trainees were exposed to either monitor-modeling or immediate-feedback supervision in their practicum. Ten-minute individual counseling sessions with coached clients were taped before and after the practicum. Three independent judges rated the tapes. Data supports the relative effectiveness of monitor-modeling supervision. (Author)

Based on a PhD thesis, University of London, Institute of Education, 1965.

Research supported by Grants MH-10191, MH-12273, and MH-08004 from the National Institute of Mental Health.

The study examined the development of perspective taking skills in 44 learning disabled (LD) and 44 nonLD children (9 to 12 years old). Each child was administered three tasks designed to assess the ability to judge the affective, perceptual, and cognitive perspective of others. Results indicated that LD children scored significantly lower than…

Treating views of communication through consideration of contrasting conceptions of intersubjectivity is possible because the two domains are articulated in different terms and are at the same time closely identified. There are three images of intersubjectivity that reflect the dominant ways in which the dichotomy of the individual and the social…

In response to rising youth unemployment, the South Australian Department of Further Education established the Unemployment Youth Programme to equip the young with vocational and life skills. After eighteen months of operation, an evaluation was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of the programs in training the young unemployed with work and…

The paper reviews factors which interfere with normal socialization of young handicapped children, and considers such issues as dependency, sex role, socialization within the family, and sibling and peer relationships. The role of preschool programs in intervening in the young handicapped child's socialization is examined. (CL)

Learning as an indirect, individual process operates through two overlapping school environments, the interpersonal (or extracurricular student teacher relationships) and the instructional. Two teaching abilities, interaction skills and planning or design skills, are necessary for the teacher to manipulate both environments effectively; however,…

Three experiments are reported, each of which was designed to investigate how people in ingratiating and non-ingratiating situations would be evaluated when they communicated immediacy through the use of another person's name. While immediacy is acknowledged to be generally associated with positive affect, it is suggested that evaluation of a…