The article describes family and other personal problems which therapists can help underachieving college students to understand in order to deal with their success avoidance. (CD)

Findings indicate that (1) Black children have higher self-esteem than Whites; (2) girls of both races have lower self-esteem than boys; (3) Black children from broken homes have lower self-esteem in desegregated schools; and (4) Black children in segregated schools receive higher marks, but do not do as well on national tests as do their…

Extensive analysis of all the data available from the United States Census bearing on changes in the American family from the Second World War to the present reveal a progressive fragmentation and isolation for the family in its child rearing role. Suggests the necessities for complete child development, examines the plight of single parents, and…

A heuristic model is presented for the diagnosis and treatment of families in stress. A systems approach and psychoanalytic concepts are integrated to understand and modify dysfunctional behavior transmitted across generations. (Author)

Comments on intergenerational problems and relationships by middle-aged children and their aging parents, as expressed on cards in an extension service class, are presented to stimulate research attention on the interaction that occurs between adults and their parents. (MF)

Decisions and proposals of government, education, or business will play a large role in determining whether future social programs develop that are beneficial or detrimental to families, who are the ultimate receivers of all social decisions. (Author/TA)

Data drawn from home visits with 67 families with multiple problems whose children were not attending school regularly. Provides a model for the use of a referral specialist as part of school attendance staff. Results show positive gains in school attendance and in redirection of these disorganized families. (DOW)

Considers four areas requiring attention in any attempt to evaluate the needs of children in families involved in divorce actions: economic problems and child support; custody issues and court involvement; emotional problems and therapeutic intervention; and kinship patterns in "step" relationships and the reconstituted family. (BR)

This paper reviews literature on cotherapy with special reference to therapeutic outcome. The review covers sex therapy, group therapy, and family and marital therapy. It considers both patient and cotherapist variables. The most widely addressed effect of cotherapy upon patients is presented in terms of treatment process and not treatment…

This article describes role reversal behavior among abused and neglected children. In role reversal traditional role behaviors between a parent and a child are interchanged. The child adopts some of the behaviors traditionally associated with parents and parents tend to act dependent. Listed are ways social workers can help with different aspects…

This paper attempts to explicate a model of child maltreatment as a problem of family asynchrony-i.e., as a mismatch of parent to child and of family to neighborhood and community. The problem is best understood as an issue in the study of the ecology of family life. (Author)

Available from: Arthur Retlaw and Associates, Inc., Suite 2080, 1603 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, Illinois 60201. A 10-year pediatric practice involving the observation of 290 children diagnosed as hyperactive led to the beliefs that hyperactivity is an emotional problem and that the child's inner state or family relationships should be central…

Deals with the impact of a young person's suicide on his surviving parents and family. Referring to cases followed-up from randomly selected coroner's files, the author concludes that a very painfully experienced adaption period ensues. Grief and guilt reactions, denial mechanisms, psychosomatic disorders, and family communication patterns are…

Teachers are in an excellent position to observe indications of child abuse, and may be able to help the parents recognize the harm they are doing to the child's normal physical, emotional, and intellectual development. (MB)

Discusses patterns of child abuse, the role of privacy, and the dangers of family isolation which permits child abuse when stress and parental instability are present. Decries trend away from "instrusive kinship and neighborhood networks," and calls for support for abuse-monitoring systems. (BF)