Suggests 30 strategies a secondary school principal can follow for (1) improving rapport with parents, students, subordinates, superiors, and community representatives; (2) enhancing his or her own image and that of the school; and (3) ensuring the smooth administrative functioning of the school. (PGD)

Explored the hypothesis that rapists are selectively deficient in their ability to process interpersonal cues from women, especially negative cues. Found that rapists were significantly less accurate than subjects in nonrapist control groups when reading cues in simulated first-date interactions; violent nonrapists, in turn, were less accurate…

The paper reviews limitations in social skills research with mentally retarded persons, noting problems in conceptual development, validation of social skills objectives, and generalization. The most serious limitation identified is the failure to demonstrate that community integration and adjustment can be enhanced through training. (CL)

The Test of Interpersonal Competence for Employment (TICE) designed to assess a mildly retarded worker's knowledge of interpersonal skills in the employment setting, was developed based on analysis of problems that mildly retarded workers experience and identification of correct responses to those problems by competitive employers. Initial…

Four books that can be used to promote social awareness on the part of learning disabled youngsters from 3-14 are described. Topics of discussions generated by the books are noted. (CL)

Assessed sex differences in the motivation to share personal concerns in a friendship context among 255 college students. Results indicated that women were more likely than men to imagine confiding worries to a friend. Sex differences in intimacy imagery were found for positive outcomes, self-enhancement, and social confidence. (Author/BL)

Describes a voter registration drive undertaken by a department of social work within a major medical teaching hospital. Provides highlights of the registration effort and several clinical vignettes that illustrate the meaning of the drive to psychiatric patients. Implications for social work and for the education of social work trainees are…

A case is made to emphasize the human and interpersonal aspects of leisure services curricula, instead of stressing specific techniques and knowledge that have a short marketable life. Research on motivation is reviewed. (Author/MT)

In the quest for effective training of teachers, specific skills and competencies are stressed while the significance of interpersonal interactions are overlooked. Teacher educators must offer themselves as models demonstrating characteristics deemed valuable for future teachers. (MT)

Ten learning disabled adults offer suggestions on occupational experiences, noting successful job strategies that include selecting careers based on strengths, structuring the work environment to draw upon individual strengths, and building interpersonal skills. (CL)

Compared clinical couples accepted for sex therapy with nonclinical couples using the Personal History Questionnaire and sex and marital defensiveness scales. The best discriminators were sexual functioning scales, historical and affective scales for women, and current and fantasy scales for men. Surprising results and conclusions are discussed.…

A sensitive understanding of gifted preschool children's social and emotional development can provide the foundation for fostering the development of social competence both informally, through classroom interactions, and formally, through structured group lessons. (Author/CL)

Compared social skills of rapists and child molesters with those of nonsex-offender inmates and with nonincarcerated males of low and high socioeconomic status. Subjects (N=100) engaged in conversation with a female confederate. Results showed that child molesters presented a clearer profile of heterosocial inadequacy than did rapists. (BH)

Chronic psychiatric patients (N=7) who were enrolled in a partial-hospitalization program and had difficulty solving interpersonal problems received group skills training. Multiple-baseline design demonstrated training effectiveness through improved problem solving on trained situations and through skill generalization to novel, untrained…

Teaching social skills to mainstreamed handicapped children can be accomplished by prompting, praising, using graduated guidance, and capitalizing on incidental teaching. (CL)