Responds to previous articles by Avis, Kaufman, and Bograd on role of marital and family therapists in dealing with family violence among clients. Comments on presentation style of earlier articles and then discusses points of agreement and disagreement with each of the three authors. Concludes by urging therapists to learn more so they can…

Responds to study (Shaffer et al., 1990) on adolescent suicide attempters and suicide prevention programs. Challenges study results, arguing against implications that effectiveness of all educational suicide intervention efforts are doomed and that suicide is function of mental illness rather than stresses and losses of life. Argues that death…

Provides a theoretical framework by which traditional prosody might be reformulated according to reader response insight. Advocates prosody taking the form of a "story of reading." Advocates a narrative style of prosodic criticism. (HB)

Discusses the debate on reading and the relationship between children's reading and television viewing habits. Describes a multimedia class project that produced an animated film which included dialogue, sound effects, and music. Posits that children are empowered through "reading" in a wider selection of media. (PA)

Draws attention to the contradictions exposed in debates about literacy pedagogy which have traditionally excluded actual pedagogical practices from the dialogue. Advocates classroom interactions be allowed access to the "literacy crisis" debate. (RS)

Finds that subjects rating their impressions of authors of bureaucratic and simple writing rated the author of the bureaucratic style higher in expertise but not significantly different from the author of the simple style in trustworthiness and open-mindedness. Shows that subjects consistently preferred the simple to the bureaucratic writing. (SR)

Investigates whether news stories that are easier to read will be more positively evaluated by readers. Finds no support for that hypothesis. Suggests that intriguing topics might attract and challenge all readers and potential readers because reader interest appears to be accompanied by a host of other positive reactions. (RS)

Responds to papers by Gottman, Napier, and Pittman. Focuses on the dilemma of men's contributions to housework. Questions whether the real training ground for the development of men's emotional selves is not in men's groups, but in the kitchen, at home-cooking, caring, and cleaning. (ABL)

Responds to previous article by McWhirter on empowerment in counseling. Suggests that further refinement of the group and community involvement aspects of McWhirter's definition of empowerment is needed. Notes that lack of inclusion of clients who belong to more privileged groups is unaddressed by McWhirter's article. (NB)

Responds to previous article by McWhirter on empowerment in counseling. Asserts that McWhirter's ideas do not necessarily represent radical new thinking about client service delivery. Focusing on multicultural counseling, contends that McWhirter's views have been articulated for more than a decade by scholars writing about the mental health…

Responds to previous article by Koocher regarding use of experimental drinking procedures with alcoholic participants. Focuses on risk-benefit analysis, safeguarding participants from harm, linking alcoholic participants with treatment, use of monetary incentives, fostering pathology of the alcoholic family, and relationships between alcoholism…

Discusses Rudine Sims Bishop's allegory of "window and mirrors" in relation to multicultural children's literature. Notes that Sims insists that children need to be involved with literature which not only allows them to see through the window to the world around them, but also to see themselves mirrored in the texts with which they come…

Asks what it is that the audience wants. Suggests a reconceptualization of the rhetorical situation by re-engendering or transgendering the speaker/audience couple as "a hermaphrodite, as a con/fusion of Hermes, the god of messages, and Aphrodite, the goddess of love," as a way to invigorate rhetorical theory and current composition…

Describes a method of teaching poetry in which students are handed random volumes of poetry and instructed to browse through them, starting with the first poem and not stopping until they find one that engages them. Reports that on average students browse through 22 poems before finding one they like. Gives excerpts from five student responses to…

The authors comment on B. Gawronski and G. V. Bodenhausen's (2006; see record 2006-10465-003) associative-propositional evaluation model of implicit and explicit attitudes by examining the claims that (a) truth value is attached to propositions but not to associations; (b) pattern activation is qualitatively different from syllogistic structure of…