The intent of this book is to present information about Chicanos to social workers and members of other helping professions so they may become involved in the Mexican Americans' movement to obtain first-class citizenship. Articles reflect the perspectives of persons working in various settings, geographical regions, and disciplines. Some of the…

This book deals with methods that individuals use to feed information and opinions back to mass communication systems. Typical examples of mass media and "information centers" were used to study feedback and environmental adjustment. Specifically, the feedback channels investigated are letters to the editor in newspapers, the urban newspaper…

An analysis of the participation of Southern black college students in the civil rights movement is presented. Data analyses are carried out to determine possible relationships between varying patterns of relative deprivation (as measured by Cantril's Self-Anchoring Striving Scale) and passive, active or combative types of participation. The…

It was the purpose of this 1958 paper to demonstrate to the Commission on the Rights, Liberties, and Responsibilities of the American Indian how Indian tribes were first dealt with as sovereign nations and how this concept has changed through time (particularly from 1948 to 1958). When the sovereign-nations or treaty period came to a close, the…

This bibliography is designed to offer assistance and guidance to those educators who are beginning to focus more attention on the non-academic aspects of a child's growth in school and who are introducing new courses and activities to enhance positive self-concept, increase achievement motivation, promote creative thinking and behavior, and…

American Indian people, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), and the nation all have a common interest in assuring a quality education for Indian children. No education program can be truly effective, however, unless it has the support and the involvement of those directly benefiting from it--the Indian students, parents, and communities.…

The author addresses the nature of the differences between coping and manipulative styles of behavior. The difficulty in clearly differentiating the two is examined in relation to the implications for clinical practice. Presented at American Psychological Association Convention, New Orleans, 1974. (SJL)

A preliminary investigation of the Turtle Technique, a procedure for helping emotionally disturbed children control their own impulsive behavior, is described. Eleven children drawn from two classrooms were instructed in the use of the technique for self-control of aggression. Results revealed significant decrements in aggressive behavior in both…

Most students, no matter the age, tend to do better academic work if they more readily accept personal academic successes and failures or are internally controlled. Students generally not doing average or above average work academically tend to depend on blame, luck, chance, or kismet for academic performance. (Author)

This article describes the attempt to develop an explicit technique for group problem-solving which can be tested in real situations presented by clients. Older adults were used as subjects for the six-session workshop. Satisfactory results were reported. (Author/BP)

The school environment generates alienation among student and teachers. This phenomenon is personal and situational in that an individual who feels alienated at school may not feel alienated at home. High school students are the most alienated, public school teachers the least; college students fall in the middle. (VM)

The author defines her terms of goodness and empowerment in a context of studying school environments. "Good" schools are then described, the settings in which the field work was conducted are given and the methods of student and teacher empowerment at six good high schools are discussed. (JL)

Studied conditions and consequences, the characteristics of agentic (volitional, teleological) human behavior in investigations of weight control, vocational exploration, and eating disorders. Demonstrated the ability of individuals professing eating and exercise problems, to exhibit control; and in separate study examining personality factors and…

Examination of 1981-83 panel study of Swedish youths born in 1965 to determine the extent to which employment problems affect developing belief in the political process. Results show a clear relationship--one more complex than a simple reflection of self-interest. (PS)

Two studies (one involving teachers, the other bankers) examined how subordinates perceive their own and their supervisors' use of power strategies or behavior alteration techniques and the resulting subordinates' satisfaction. One result, among others, indicated that subordinates did not see themselves as frequently using power strategies to…