Suggestions for library media specialists to use in establishing relationships with administrators, teachers, students, and parents focus on four areas of interpersonal skills: knowing and trusting each other; accurately understanding each other; influencing and helping each other; and constructively resolving problems and conflicts. Fifteen…

Describes social processes accounting for variation in unacquainted children's progress toward friendship, presenting results of two studies of children's conversations with peers. The first study involved 26 dyads from three to six years of age, playing in their homes with either a best friend or stranger. The second involved 18 unacquainted…

Describes various complementary procedures for social skills training that are used in a day treatment program for emotionally disturbed adolescents. Describes: (1) procedures for dealing with peer conflict and disruptive behavior through the promotion of problem solving skills; and (2) procedures for teaching social skills within structured…

Used peer (N=200) evaluation to rank 50 high school boys on athletic ability, intelligence, and other possible determinants of dominance. Factor analysis suggested that peers of both sexes rated good athletes as socially successful and generally dominant. Intelligence showed consistently lower correlations. (JAC)

The Personal Assessment Feedback (PAF) Program is designed to help students assess and improve their functioning as individuals and as teachers. The program was used in the counseling of preservice elementary school teachers at Brigham Young University (Utah). (PP)

As part of a comparative study, school administrators were asked to describe the techniques they found useful for handling the tension and pressure of their jobs. Exercise or physical activity was the most frequently mentioned stress-reduction technique. Psychological activities and development of interpersonal skills were also cited. (PP)

The need for teaching doctors how to counsel and impart coping skills techniques to their patients is discussed. The cognitive-experiential underpinnings of a course in medical counseling given to last preclinical-year medical students in the University of Queensland is outlined. (MLW)

Examines the social, cognitive, and social-cognitive correlates of nonsocial play in 122 four-year-olds observed for 20 minutes during free play. Subjects were given a role-taking test and tests of social and impersonal problem-solving skills. Sociometric popularity and social competence, as rated by teachers, were also assessed. (Author/RH)

An age-based theory of delinquency causation is developed, which assumes the importance of norms and roles specific to adolescence. The recurrent model of socialization and that assumed by traditional theorists are discussed, and their implications for the causes of delinquent behavior are examined. (Author/PN)

Describes a behavioral approach to interpersonal communication instruction that helps students develop competencies relevant to social interaction through analysis, practice, implementation, and evaluation. (PD)

Transfer of learning among the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains and among three clinical disciplines (medicine, pediatrics, and surgery) was examined in the final year of a medical student clerkship program. A model based on ethnographic analysis followed by performance measurement was used. (Author/MLW)

Four severely handicapped children participated for 21 weekly sessions in snack time, outdoor play, and a structured group activity with nine nonhandicapped kindergarteners. The handicapped children made significant increases in social gains, and the nonhandicapped children significantly increased their positive attitudes, as measured by the…

Describes a system for evaluating a teacher education program by using existing instruments and data. Presents results from four research projects evaluating elementary and early childhood teacher preparation programs at the University of Georgia. (PAS)

The study evaluated the effectiveness of a role-playing teaching strategy designed to enhance generalization of social behavior with a 20-year-old female previously labeled as mentally ill and borderline retarded. Results demonstrated that the role-playing sessions teaching strategy effectively modified office entry behaviors in training, school,…