Clients enrolled in drug programs tend to be young, counter-culture, or ethnic minority individuals. Describes efforts of a non-opiate drug treatment program to reach middle American drug misusers. Attempts included television public service messages and newspaper articles. This campaign was not cost-effective for attracting clients. (Author)

Examines the relations of Type A scores of parents to Type A scores of their children. Parent-child correlations were found for father-son pairs. (PCB)

The importance of Sullivan's book is that it is one of the first to tackle the issue of the psychologist's attitude toward subjects. Sullivan develops theories regarding interpretation of the personal world, distinguishing human sciences from physical sciences, and explaining how social structures reproduce themselves in the habits of individuals.…

This creativity study of primary school children conducted in England, Scotland and Germany indicates that children of upper class families obtained significantly higher creativity scores (verbal and nonverbal) than children of middle and lower class families. Middle class children scored higher than lower class children. (Authors/JA)

In this study involving 32 first graders, results indicated that imitative learning was accomplished and translated into action by a two-step process of informational analysis involving abstraction and subsequent inference. (Author/WY)

Two implications for communication research are evidenced by the results of this study. 1) Junior Kindergarten children are capable of decoding information communicated in terms of descriptions rather than object names; 2) the young listener's performance is a function of the degree of abstractness of the referent. (WY)

Based on presentations given at a conference sponsored by the Social Welfare Research Institute, University of Kentucky (May 17-20, 1970), and at the annual meeting of the National Rehabilitation Association (San Diego, California, September, 1970). (Author)

Overdue emphasis on an immaculate personal appearance can make lower class children feel inferior. (CK)

Values of drug users were measured using the Rokeach Value Survey. The values the drug users espoused and perceived to be in opposition to society's values formed three themes: tranquility, aesthetics, and humanism. Although this group was perceived as deviant, they adhered to the literal meaning of these cultural ideals. (Author/BEF)

Examines the covert lessons in moral social geography found in a set of popular juvenile fiction published between 1924 and 1978--the Nancy Drew mystery stories. Topics discussed include landscape symbolism, urban environments, uses of geographical elements in the stories, rural settings, wilderness settings, social stereotypes, and landscape…

Seventy-four lower- and middle-class children aged 2 1/2, 3 1/2, and 4 1/2 years, who were successful at unidimensional sorting of two objects by either color or form, were given feedback for correct bidimensional sorting of three objects, two of which had been used in unidimensional testing. Results indicate that Piagetian centration is a task-…