Examined are approaches to career awareness for handicapped children at the elementary grade level. Available from: Division on Career Development, The Council for Exceptional Children, 1920 Association Drive, Reston, Virginia 22091. (DB)

Describes a four-year Illinois project to identify twelve topics that can be developed into instructional modules for teaching occupational survival skills. Topics include working in an organization, understanding self/others, motivation, interpersonal relations, on-the-job communications, creativity, authority/responsibility, problem solving,…

This article presents an approach to the evaluation of the procedural techniques and/or the counseling process occurring between the counselor and client in the one-to-one interview situation. (Author)

Counseling, especially group counseling with persons who are retarded, has been found to be effective. Even if some retarded clients are not capable of insight it is a fallacy to assume that insight is a prerequisite for therapeutic change. (Author)

This study assessed 113 children in eight Head Start classrooms using both sociometric measures of acceptance and rejection and observational measures of behavior when alone, when interacting with peers, and when interacting with the teacher. Results suggested that these two measures of social isolation do not tap the same dimension. (Author/JMB)

Development of the competent self, the interrelationship of psychotherapeutic and psychoeducational change, and the role of the high school counselor were explored with 147 exemplary and marginal students. The impact of counseling was significantly different for exemplary than for marginal students and for students from different race and sex…

The importance of developing positive, reciprocal interaction has been well documented. If affective education for young handicapped children is to become a reality, additional research is necessary to identify those response patterns that set the occasion for positive reciprocal interaction. (Author)

Reveals that individuals personally cope with spoiled relationships and socially manage relationship dissolution principally through verbal accounts. Indicates that the structural and affective enmeshment of marital couples lend to their disengagement accounts a characteristic complexity not paralleled in the accounts of unmarried couples. (JD)

The use of nurses or other health workers to assess residents' humanistic behavior is discussed. Since nurses and other paramedical staff members observe residents interacting with their patients, these professionals may be a valuable but underused resource in the evaluation of physicians' humanistic qualities. (MLW)

Six social skills curricula for elementary or secondary level behavior disordered students are described: "The ACCEPTS (A Curriculum for Children's Effective Peer and Teacher Skills) Social Skills Curriculum,""Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child,""Skillstreaming the Adolescent,""Getting Along with Others,""Social Skills Curriculum," and…

Toward Affective Development (TAD), a 191-lesson program designed to stimulate psychological and affective development for third- through sixth-graders, can be used in special education, resource rooms, and remedial settings. TAD's five sections encompass: openness to experience, effects of emotions, group dynamics, individuality, and conflict…

Recommendations made in "A Nation at Risk," were mainly geared toward college-bound students and ignored the needs of students with handicaps. A career education curriculum focusing on daily living skills, personal-social skills, and occupational guidance and preparation addresses the needs of all students in the educational system. (CB)

This article provides a number of oral communication-based learning activities which focus on the social, religious, and political history of the Middle East. (JDH)