Examines whether conflicting preferences of mental health professionals are a function of one's disciplinary training or are due to other variables. Surveys treatment teams from various professional backgrounds working at a hospital. Results showed that tenure, unit groupings, or hierarchical rank may influence staff preferences more than…

Home economists can use their systems approach and multidisciplinary orientation in the promotion and implementation of prevention. Prevention is defined as anticipatory action to stop or reduce the possibility of an undesirable event from happening. (SK)

The role of resource manager, which combines the roles of therapists and health broker, is described relative to functions in agencies serving the chronically disabled. A model based on a collaborative role is proposed as a complementary addition to a multidisciplinary team of professionals. (MC)

Describes efforts to utilize a biocultural framework in introductory anthropology courses. Explains the biocultural theory of human evolution, describes experimental courses at Cornell University and Colorado College, looks at the problems encountered and lessons learned during these experimental efforts, and considers prospects for future…

Describes 14 slide presentations which demonstrate that environmental education can be approached through any subject at any grade level. The presentations (emphasizing nonbiological topics) focus on such areas as agriculture, corporate advertising, city planning, architecture, arithmetic and natural resources, water, recreation, automobiles,…

Employs an interdisciplinary approach to exhibit the connection between loneliness and hostility. Contends that loneliness leads to aggressive impulses directed toward the self or others. In this respect, hostility is interpreted as a result of human isolation. Suggests that all instances of hostility may entail loneliness. (JAC)

A survey of 1,329 schoolchildren evaluated in University Affiliated Facilities across the country was conducted to determine what types of handicapping conditions were being seen. Although children with mental retardation comprised the largest group, there were a surprising number of children with milder learning problems. (Author/CL)

When two psychological reports of handicapped children were presented to 86 professionals alone and in their multidisciplinary team, the teams exhibited significantly less variability in placement decisions than the same specialists acting independently. No one profession appeared to dominate the group decision making. (Author/CL)

A rationale for expanding the interdisciplinary study of scientific principles in the English classroom. (DD)

Literature can be read for fun but also for interdisciplinary teaching and learning. (Author)

Discusses the lack of a neurolinguistics section at the 1975 AILA conference in Stuttgart and urges its inclusion at the next meeting. (KM)

The author describes several ecosystem principles, such as: interrelationships, limiting factors, population and specialization; discusses their meaning to the world of today and tomorrow; and examines a few of the applications these principles have to environmental education. The use of ecology as the unifying discipline for environmental…

Provides three models as approaches to organizing the middle school in a variety of exciting ways: (1) an oscillating system, where students in communities move between basic studies and related arts and physical education, (2) an immersion system, where students in communities spend full time moving between interdisciplinary areas, and (3) a…

How one planning team solved the problem of getting the utmost out of the square footage and the budget provided for teaching spaces in a medical school. (Author)