The traumatic effect of divorce on young children is discussed, noting the typical changes in behavior evidenced by children in such a situation. Suggestions are made on ways parents can cope with the child's emotional reactions and alleviate the stress that is natural when a marriage dissolves. (JD)

Survey information shows that sexual abuse of children is widespread, being reported by 19% of the females and 9% of the males in the sample. Most sexual victimization took place within the child's family, not with strangers, as "child molesters" have traditionally been stereotyped. While the problem cuts across social and economic lines, it seems…

Elementary school teachers and teachers in training responded to a questionnaire related to their experiences with stress situations in the lives of their students. The responses reflected the teachers' awareness of stress in the children's lives, what resources in the school-family system addressed these areas, their own preparation for…

The two groups of children and adolescents seen for emergency psychiatric treatment were studied in an attempt to determine what constitutes an emergency in child psychiatry, whose anxiety initiates consultation, what the precipitating factors are and how they can be predicted, and to ascertain who is crucial to the management of these problems.…

One of the most hazardous assignments police officers face is dealing with family quarrels and disturbances. In 1972, 13 percent of all policemen killed in the line of duty died while responding to disturbance complaints. Despite these dangers, techniques for dealing with such crises are rarely included in police recruit and inservice training…

The problems of doing family therapy in any mental health setting are well-known. Trying to get a program of family therapy established in a state hospital has its own share of problems. But it also has its payoffs. This presentation describes the establishment of a family therapy program in one state hospital, highlighting the problems and…

Bibliotherapy helps children explore, within the security of a story approach, the trauma and drama of life. The proliferation of literature on topics that were once taboo indicates a concern for intent which may result in a bandwagon approach with few criteria of selection. The annotated bibliography provided in this paper includes sixteen books…

With the exception of intra-family murder and child abuse, there has been very little research on violence between family members. However, preliminary results of this study indicate that even at age 17 and 18, 62 percent of siblings had hit each other during the previous 12-month period. Also, physical fights between husband and wife have…

A program of family crisis intervention training for police officers was conducted, and the effectiveness of the officers' use of such techniques was evaluated. Twelve police officers were given five to six hours training, five days a week, for five weeks. Training consisted of lectures, films and readings, simulated family crisis interventions,…

Presented are findings from a computer analysis of 434 variables (including educational, social, medical, neurological and psychometric factors) of 201 5- to 19-year-old learning disabled (LD) children referred to a community hospital diagnostic program. It is explained that the variables were analyzed according to race, sex, and age. Among…

Suggests that the finding that successful women regularly involve themselves with men who they believe are more successful may have central significance in at least partially explaining women's failure to win top distinction in most fields. (Author/AM)

Comments on the feeling that the American family is disintegrating, and that many criticisms traditionally made about Black families are now made about White families. Suggests that people need to stress family strengths. As an example, five major strengths of Black families are described: flexibility, work and achievement ethics, religiosity, and…

The relationship between infant malnutrition and maternal psychosocial behavior was explored by comparing mothers of malnourished children with mothers whose children were matched for age and family income but were not malnourished. Journal availability: see EC 111 045. (Author)

Examines the child rearing and disciplinary methods of parents of adolescent boys who were reported by their parents to be serious control problems. On the basis of a social learning analysis of family relationships, it was hypothesized that parental difficulty in controlling adolescents was related to two factors: parent consistency in setting…

Religious families present a unique challenge to non-religious therapists. Parent-adolescent conflict in the evangelical family is high-lighted and used to illustrate religious dimensions of the family problem. Treatment considerations center around assessing religious influences in the family system and establishing a therapeutic allience. A…