By the time March comes around, students are anticipating spring break and warmer weather--not to mention the rapidly approaching end of the school year. To keep teachers sane during this March Madness, the author provides tips on how they can cope with the bad behaviors of their students. She also suggests that a school-wide behavior policy, such…

This study investigated the influence of age of alcohol initiation on current alcohol use and alcohol-related problems in a diverse college student sample. Participants (N = 214) completed a questionnaire assessing attitudes, beliefs, and behavioral habits regarding alcohol and other drugs. Early alcohol initiation (alcohol use before age 15) was…

Introduction: Most approaches to reducing the socially inappropriate behavior of adolescents target the individual rather than a group. Evidence suggests greater efficiency and longlasting effects may be achieved when groups of peers work together to make meaningful contributions to their communities through service learning projects. In the…

Over the three decades between the urban crisis and the credit crisis, New York City revived its economy by making itself the preeminent center for global finance. Manhattan's streetscape and public places rose with the fortunes of the banks and their employees. Wall Street's mood came to define New York City's outlook. In the 1990s and early…

One of the ongoing challenges all educators face, often on a daily basis, is problem behavior. Compounding this challenge is the need to significantly alter these behavioral patterns among at-risk students early in their development to prevent correlated poor life outcomes such as academic failure and school dropout, mental health issues, or…

This paper has two purposes: (1) to develop a theoretical model of suicide, based on the previous work of Henry and Short, and (2) to apply that model in the study of Black suicides in Orleans Parish, Louisiana. (Author)

Interviewed bartenders (N=61) and asked them to rate excessive drinking customers on 12 traits and compare them with their concept of the average social drinker. Results indicated that excessive social drinkers are predominantly bimodal-introverted or extroverted, and seek the company of others after they start drinking. (LLL)

Describes healthy aspects of passivity and explores Gendlin's focusing, emphasizing its usefulness in cultivating receptive passivity. Focusing teaches clients to assume a nonjudgmental attitude toward themselves and allow for deepening self-awareness. (JAC)

It appears evident from the data that by the time one reaches one's senior year in college, one probably has engaged in masturbatory behavior and sexual intercourse. (Author)

Before the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Miami Beach, 1970, the author discusses the psychologist who chooses the phenomenological approach and his problems encountered in experimental procedures. (BY)

Studied the normative nature of workplace activity and knowledge in the front offices of four motels. Normative content in these settings was highly situated and related to concrete action directed at the object of the system. (SLD)

Examines various stereotypy with developmentally delayed and autistic individuals (N=9) and used spectral methods to detect existence of periodicities. Participants who engaged in stereotypic rocking showed peaks in their power spectra; participants who engaged in other topographies of stereotypy did not show peaks. Results suggest that…

Several unilinear and bilinear dimensional measurement models of Asian American acculturation and enculturation were tested with confirmatory factor analysis. Bilinear models of acculturation consistently outperformed the unilinear model. In addition, models that articulated multiple dimensions (i.e., values and behavior) exhibited a better fit to…