There is no one magical, quick fix solution to the dropout problem. The problem is complex and requires a complex array of solutions. Dropouts have dissimilar characteristics and therefore need different kinds of programs that respond to their individual circumstances and needs. Programs, to be effective, need to provide one-on-one intensive…

Interpersonal communication skills training groups led by undergraduate paraprofessional leaders using an interpersonal process-recall videotape-feedback training model were compared with groups using a limited-structure encounter-group model and with no-treatment control groups. Participants in the interpersonal-process-recall videotape-feedback…

The study investigated level of alienation in college students who sought personal adjustment or vocational-educational counseling and students who did not seek counseling. Although results of a factorial analysis of variance indicated that students who seek counseling reported more pronounced feelings of alienation on all scales than students who…

Technologically advanced nations are now experienceing strong social pressures for greater flexibility in the formal education and career planning of youth and adults. Vocational psychologists will need to determine whether their models and empirical data are still relevant for solving problems in repidly changing societies. (Author)

The authors developed, over a one-year period of time, a Human Interaction Laboratory designed to allow participants to deal with several interpersonal issues: the intrapersonal self, the interpersonal self, communication skill development, trust formation, conflict management, confrontation techniques, developing feedback systems, working…

Discussed is a program in which trainable mentally retarded children were grouped according to similarity of communicative functions and directed in activities intended to promote peer interaction and to develop leadership abilities. (GW)

Life Skills are defined as problem solving behaviors appropriately and responsibly used in management of personal affairs. (Authors)

Purpose of the present study was the development of two research instruments designed to assess young children's functioning in preschool settings. (Authors)

Role-taking, a prototypical social-cognitive skill, is the ability to view the world (including the self) from another's perspective. (Author/MB)

A theory of occupational socialization was developed and tested with a sample of teachers and school administrators. Socialization within and organizational setting is presented as a power process in which the 'significant other' is the person having the greatest ability to control organizational sanctions." (Author/SE)

Investigation of extent of commitment to client through evolution of counselor verbal actions indicates that high commitment and expectancy are crucial to the helping relationship. (CJ)

Concerns about the use of evaluation in early childhood education are clustered around some basic issues: the use of standardized tests with young children, the diversity of dimensions of early childhood education that should be evaluated, the relationship of early childhood evaluation to social policy, and the very nature of early childhood…

In male and female adolescents (n=30), the predictive relationship between social competency and peer relations and age differences in social competence was studied. Based upon a social deficit hypothesis, linear age differences were observed in social knowledge, locus of control, and a trend in empathy. (Author/PN)

A study of 12 Korean immigrant children, aged seven-and-a-half to 12, found significant positive correlations among level of self-concept, degree of language proficiency, and school adaptation and achievement. (Author/MJL)