Includes three articles: "Planning Curriculum for Entrepreneurship Education" (Noll); "Individualizing Entrepreneurship Instruction" (Herbert); and "Teaching Interpersonal Skills in Entrepreneurship" (Stull, LaBonty). (SK)

Explored bulimics' (n=21) social networks, interpersonal relationships, and individual differences that might mediate ability to obtain support or perceive support as adequate. Bulimics reported less perceived support from friends and family, more negative interactions and conflict, and less social competence than did controls. Bulimics were rated…

Reviews instruments, methodologies, and strategies available to assess clients' interpersonal functioning. Focuses on instruments that provide characterizations of clients' and counselors' overt interpersonal behavior and covert reactions translated onto interpersonal circle models. Presents suggested interpersonal assessment battery; describes…

The results of a study of 18 Down's syndrome infants demonstrated that subjects provided with physical and verbal reinforcement scored higher on measures of gross motor, language, and social and self-help skills than infants provided with verbal reinforcement alone. Infants receiving only verbal reinforcement scored higher on measures of fine…

Compared inductive social skills training (ISST), skill assembly social skills training (SASST), and cognitive-relaxation coping skills (CRCS) training with no-treatment control group for general anger reduction. At four-week follow-up, compared with controls, all treatment groups showed equivalent reductions of amount of anger experienced in wide…

Photographs of facial emotional expressions posed by adults classified as mentally retarded were judged by familiar and unfamiliar adults who were not mentally retarded. Happiness and sadness were accurately posed most often. The ability to encode facial emotional expressions was correlated with assessments of interpersonal competence provided by…

Identifies five types of relationships at work: the unfinished, working alliance, developmental, personal, and transpersonal. For each type, the following are described: contribution to the organization, human motivation, signs of dysfunction, relationship skill needs, and counseling needs. (SK)

Explores the use of essay writing in increasing the cognitive social skills of inmates. Shows that essay writing helps many inmates examine and weight their values in light of the demands of participating positively in the general society. (Author)

Recounts naturalistic investigation examining five male elementary school principals' use of humor in their daily interactions with teachers. Humor seemed to enhance principals' messages to teachers and was used primarily to create and improve school climate, to communicate principals' understanding of teaching demands, to break down the rigidity…

Describes a group social skills counseling strategy for kindergarten children based on Lazarus's seven modalities: behavior, affect, sensation, imagery, cognition, interpersonal relationships, and drugs/biology. Concludes multimodal approach seems suited to needs of young child whose emerging awareness is vitally engaged in each of the seven…

This study examined the conversational engagement techniques employed by children with and without learning disabilities in dyadic interactions. Analysis indicated that the 60 learning-disabled subjects (9-13 years old) employed engagement-related techniques as sophisticated as those of their nondisabled peers, though they did so less consistently…

Explains the need for interpersonal skill standards to ensure that employees' interpersonal skills are as appropriate as their technical skills. Highlights include using groups to define interpersonal skill standards; how to derive interpersonal skill standards by consensus; and an example of interpersonal skill standards for doctors. (LRW)

Examined relationship of patient (n=32) pretreatment interpersonal functioning to therapeutic alliance. On basis of interpersonal circumplex interpretation, results generally indicated that friendly submissive interpersonal problems were positively related to development of aspects of alliance and that hostile-dominant problems were negatively…

Generated empirical, statistically based typology that used both symptom data and social functioning dimensions to define subtypes of 218 seriously and persistently mentally ill patients. Data were factor analyzed and then submitted to cluster analysis that yielded five meaningful patient subtypes. There were significant subgroup differences on…

Used multiple baseline design to evaluate teacher-only and conjoint parent-teacher behavioral consultation in their ability to produce cross-setting behavioral change in social initiations of four withdrawn children. Found that conjoint consultation was effective in enhancing social initiation behaviors across home and school settings, whereas…