While behavior change procedures should not be viewed as a panacea, they do offer an attractive alternative for addressing many of the problems faced by secondary school teachers and administrators. (Author)

The ruling from Strasbourg that the use of the birch is "degrading", and an assault on "a person's dignity and physical integrity", has again focused attention on corporal punishment in schools. Here a probationary teacher describes his feelings about teaching in a school where every week two children are caned, five slippered, and forty smacked…

Questionnaires were distributed to a random sample of currently enrolled full time students at a small highly selective liberal arts college located in the Pacific Northwest. Findings suggest that male students have added illegal drugs to their repertoire of interpersonal mechanisms for the control of relationships with women. (Author)

The relationship among architectural characteristics, organizational structure and functioning, and the social environments of 87 university student living groups were investigated. The social environment was found to be an important mediator of the effects of architectural and organizational characteristics of student living groups. (Author/MA)

Presents a continuation of an earlier article in this journal, giving French classroom words and expressions (and German equivalents), dealing with behavior during class, group work, discussion, role playing, language learning games usable in the reading phase, oral correction, and praise. (Text is in French and German.) (IFS/WGA)

This study examined the interaction effect of students, drugs, and alienation in a large university, i.e., the linkages of both social and political alienation with drug behavior. The interaction terms which composed these forms of alienation were evaluated as to their comparative ability to produce drug behavior. (Author)

A focused 5-year research program used a large number of clients (45), groups (10), and co-therapists (20) to assess group psychotherapy outcome in a homeogeneous diagnostic population (severly disturbed college student neurotics) and therapist-treatment modality (eclectic, interpersonal learning based, with insight and behavior change goals).…

A sequential program is outlined for improving the behavior of students in school. (JD)

Describes 10 affirmative actions, with suggestions on how to implement them, for handling behavior and learning problems in the classroom. (Author/RK)

Many teachers wish for a simple, effective method to deal with children's off-color or unkind use of language. Discusses a workshop called "Naughty words in the classroom." (Author/RK)

Describes a small scale study aimed at taking an objective, in-depth look at the personality and behavioral characteristics of a small group of children excluded from school, by comparing them with other children in their peer group, who had not been excluded. (Editor)

This study describes the procedures and the results of an investigation of the homogeneity of the subscales of the Rhode Island Pupil Identification Scale, a pupil behavior-observation scale for use by teachers for detecting young children with learning problems. (Author)

Presents relevant data about contemporary youth alienation and offers an interpretation and prescription. The five articles following this one all comment on it. (Author/IRT)

Four student affairs administrators were interviewed to determine the topics they felt the campus activities profession ought to explore. The question of how campus activities can be used to aid social issues, such as depression, substance abuse, and loneliness, are discussed. (MLW)

Thirty learning disabled (LD) elementary students participated in weekly group counseling sessions for 10 weeks. When compared to a control group, results (based on teacher ratings and other measures) indicated that the intervention was beneficial in improving acting out and distractibility behaviors and one area of self-concept. (Author/JW)