Theme: Understanding the sequence and variability in the individual development of self-care skills enables caregivers to encourage children to attempt activities while not expecting unrealistic accomplishments.

This doctoral research seeks to demonstrate the clinical utility of early memories by reviewing the current literature and providing a rationale for extending this research into the spiritual arena by highlighting the lack of available projective spiritual measures. Specific areas covered include an overview of early memory theory, technique and…

Teacher behavior and curriculum content and organizational schemes must be varied to meet a given youngster's learning needs. (HMD)

Article is composed of reminiscences of author's past educational and personal experiences. (RK)

Helping professionals can have an impact upon their clients and their client's world through a well-developed and thought-through approach. But values must be the first priority in both thought and action. (Author)

Results of this study indicated that attitude conditioning increased with age and that the increase appeared to be a function of contingency awareness and perhaps also a function of the older subjects' having greater facility in transferring symbolic meaning. (Author)

Positive feedback was found to be more desirable and tended to be more believable than negative feedback. A third group, which received a mixture of positive and negative feedback, rated the T group lowest as a learning experience. No significant differences in cohesion resulted from the different feedback conditions. (Author)

As part of an inservice program, author attempted to explain the dangers of overcontrolling'' parents and teachers to the development of healthy children. Finding scholarly discussion generating little interest, he recalled a troubling experience encountered as a science teacher and told it in the poem and narrative of this article. (Editor/CB)

The concept of self-control is analyzed in terms of a two-stage process: general cognitive set and specific self-controlling responses. Primary attention is given to incorporation of the cognitive set into a fuller understanding of behavior modification. (Author)

The results of this study on evaluation of coed residence halls, indicate that a coed hall can lead to an entirely different environment, one that is a contributing factor in positive student development. This paper was presented at the APGA Convention, Chicago, Illinois, 1972. (JC)

The purpose of the present study was to determine if there were initial differences on selected scales of the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) between students who chose to live in coed residence halls and those who chose to live in traditional single-sex residence halls, and also if residing in coed living units affected the further…