Gotlib and Asarnow suggest that learned helplessness may not adequately model clinical depression. They reply to Rohsenow's criticism that Gotlib and Asarnow's conclusions are unwarranted because the null hypothesis is not demonstrated by a single study and because adequate diagnostic criteria are not presented. (Author/BEF)

Proposes an assertiveness training program suitable for adolescents in a high school group setting. After role-playing examples, students should begin formulating their own responses. Early work in this area indicates that students eagerly participate in assertiveness training groups, and are quick to pick up the skills required for assertive…

Suggests that socially anxious and low anxious males may perceive social events similarly but interpret them differently. (RL)

A survey of the perceived competencies and needs of elementary and special education teachers revealed that keeping order in the classroom and developing students' social skills were areas in which the teachers' need for competency was higher than their proficiency. (Editor)

Education for successful adaptation to a rapidly changing society must begin early in a child's life. (JD)

Presents a review of research on young children's understanding of social behavior (social cognition). (CM)

Some schools do a poor job of preparing youth for responsible adulthood. The root problems seem to be failure to perceive adequately the urgency of the socialization problem and the tendency to oversimplify the measures needed to correct the situation. (Author/MLF)

Relationships among decentering and behavioral ratings were studied in 23 children aged 10-13 residing at a seven-week therapeutic summer camp. A total of 14 children enrolled in a summer remedial program served as a control group. The social decentering task was Feffer's Role Taking Task. A number of measures of social effectiveness were used.…

A bibliography of fifty-four citations provides sources for investigating the development of decision-making skills. (MB)

This article focuses on interpersonal communication anxiety, its effects on students, and ways that a teacher may help to overcome this difficulty. (JD)

Compares the psychological development of bishops with priests, explores connections between psychological development and demographic variables as these relate to bishops, and summarizes clinical impressions based on the responses of the bishops to the Loyola Sentence Completion Blank for Clergymen (LSCBC). (Author/RK)

Step-group therapy is a program designed to help adult impatients increase their interpersonal communications skills. Using microcounseling formats, psychiatric patients have been taught the skills of eye contact, verbal following, relaxed pasture and eventually, the use of feedback and self-disclosure. (Author)

A behavioral program to train elderly nursing home patients (N=25) in interpersonal skills was systematically developed and evaluated. On a behavioral measure of responses to situations that had been included in training, the Skill Training program was superior to the control conditions. However, learning failed to generalize to novel situations.…

The model and the data presented in this article represent initial efforts at confronting the task of developing an accurate useful career decision making model based on a adaptation of the William Perry model for cognitive/identity development of college students. (Author)

Caring can be shown by simply being with the other person, accepting all of that person as he or she is at that moment. To be with another may not call for any talking upon your part; perhaps it is much better not to talk. (Author)