This article presents several mnemonic devices to aid students with learning disabilities in the development of social skills, specifically problem solving and accepting and assimilating negative feedback from others. (DB)

Identifies job-related social skill needs and reviews skill training packages for adolescents with mild mental retardation. Concludes that few packages focus on job-related skills, consensus is lacking on essential skills, and programs should address problem solving and decision making for maintaining skills. (SK)

Bad bosses use their positions as a personal playing field for games of their own making. Good bosses delegate authority, support their subordinates, enjoy their jobs, and have a healthy sense of humor. Varieties of bad bosses include disagreeable taskmasters, overly ambitious coverup artists, and outright "wackos." Educators can thrive…

Interpersonal and cognitive skills, adaptability, and critical thinking can be developed through problem solving and cooperative learning in technology education. These skills have been identified as significant needs of the workplace as well as for functioning in society. (SK)

Used College Student Experiences Questionnaire (CSEQ) to analyze differences in self-reported gains that students make in academic and personal/social development. Findings from 929 college students revealed that female students and those with high grades (A to B+) reported making greatest gains in academic and social skills. (Author/NB)

Examines the link between social skill and dysphoria. Finds three factors that help explain inconsistent results in the literature: conceptualization of social skill, perspective from which social skill is assessed, and situational outcome. Shows that the link between social skill and dysphoria is complex and affected by the three factors. (SR)

Exploding in anger has its charm, though putting sand in the social oil is not simple. Rudeness, like celebrity deaths, comes in threes: daily, demented, and inspired. Administrators should be forewarned: rudeness is effective only when coming from power. Powerless rude people are called nuts; powerful rude people are deemed eccentric. (MLH)

Provide guidelines for teachers to help students develop interpersonal skills. Asserts that an enhancement of these skills will in turn help students develop problem-solving skills. (ZWH)

Examined the relations among strategy knowledge about making friends, prosocial and antisocial behavior, and peer acceptance at school in a sample of 423 sixth and seventh graders. Findings indicated that knowledge of both appropriate and inappropriate strategies for making friends was related to both types of social behavior and to peer…

Many administrators routinely send imperious, ineffective memoranda without realizing how their messages sound. Good professional talk requires three skills: awareness, anticipation, and attention. Awareness helps change nonproductive communication scripts. Administrators should assess the nature of the information they want to convey, analyze the…

Describes an approach to teaching interpersonal relations, based on the Social Style of Behavior Model, that provides students with practical and usable skills. The course is designed to allow a greater amount of in-class skills practice than most traditional university courses provide. (Author)

This paper discusses historical efforts to integrate social competence into a definition of mental retardation; presents a reconceptualized model of mental retardation as a condition characterized by deficits in social, practical, and conceptual intelligence; and argues that a definition of mental retardation based on social competence outcomes…

The effects of a friendship awareness activity on frequency and type of social interactions between elementary students with mental retardation and their nonhandicapped peers were evaluated. Results indicated that the one-time friendship awareness activity was inadequate to produce changes in social interactions. (Author/DB)

Although facts and figures prepare the volunteer and professional college fundraiser for approaching the potential donor, intuition is more useful for knowing the appropriate moment to make a request. Advice includes not underestimating donor largesse, using creativity, recognizing philanthropists, and appreciating the important roles of both…

Evaluated whether adolescent suicide attempters (n=30) would have deficits in interpersonal problem solving and relation between social problem solving, suicide intent, and medical lethality. Compared with 30 psychiatric and 30 normal controls, adolescents who attempted suicide exhibited poorer social problem-solving abilities. Suicide attempters…