Learning disabled adolescents often exhibit psychosocial deficits independent of academic failure and frustration. (PHR)

Individuals and groups who deal with others are constantly engaged in working out strategies, or choosing and reassessing their objectives and planning effective ways of achieving them. Presents a framework for understanding the conditions that give rise to strategic relationships and discusses five variables that influence their formation.…

Investigates the relationship between communication apprehension and aspects of the social dimension of college life. Results are examined within the context of the Berger-Calabrese developmental theory of interpersonal communication, and an extension of that theory is tentatively advanced. (JMF)

Concepts and suggestions are offered to deaf adolescents for achieving independent living or social independence. (BD)

A number of philosophical points of view that have guided parents' attempts to socialize their children are presented. Research findings and conclusions that explore the impact on children of parental disciplinary practices are discussed. (Author/AM)

Reviews the rationale underlying, characteristics of, and available research on four popular elementary school affective programs--"Human Development Program,""Developing Understanding of Self and Others,""Toward Affective Development," and "Dimensions of Personality." Despite problems several of the programs appear to have some merit if used…

The author describes a set of twelve curriculum modules called "Occupational Survival Skills" relating to the "human" aspects of work organizations. The modules were based on information from opinion surveys of workers, students, parents, and teachers on what occupational survival skills are and how to teach them. (MF)

Three measures of academic intelligence and three measures of social intelligence were investigated in a group of college students. In the social domain, intradomain correlations were no higher than interdomain, factor analyses produced no identifiable social factor, and academic measures were better at predicting a social competence criterion…

This paper argues that social competence should be the primary measure of the success of intervention efforts. Difficulties in defining and assessing social competence are discussed, and an index of social competence, which includes a variety of factors, is suggested. (Author/AM)

Authors describe their attempts to develop the talking skills of fifth-year school leavers, many of whom "inhabit a verbal desert". (Editor/RK)

Model for helping students learn to be with other people and to develop healthy, full communication with a partner. (Author)

Presenting information intended to aid those who will be responsible for integrating the educable mentally retarded into shop programs, this article discusses population characteristics, physical characteristics, and learning characteristics of the mentally retarded. Interpersonal skills and safety considerations are also discussed in relation to…

Major points of this paper are: (a) that the goals of femininity and competence are not necessarily the same, and (b) that little is known about how to rear females to be competent, partly because competence, especially intellectual competence, has never been considered an important goal for females. (Author/AM)

This paper uses the Interpersonal Perception Method (IPM) to analyze a single episode in a group's experience. The authors feel that such an approach is much more useful than the more usual trait analysis in understanding those experiences which will mediate the group's functioning. (NG)

This approach is primarily concerned with social reasoning and judgment, with how children reason about social phenomena, not just what they reason. The how of social reasoning is called structure, what is reasoned about, content. Presented at the American Psychological Association, Chicago, 1975. (Author)