There is strong justification in the counseling literature for bridging individual and family perspectives. The Adolescent Depression and Suicide Program at Montefiore Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (New York) is a brief treatment, outpatient clinic designed to provide mental health services for suicidal adolescents and their families.…

The paradigm of modern psychology has been the determinism of Newtonian physics. That model earns psychology status as a science yet tunnels it to a linear way of unraveling human functioning. Responding to demands for a more holistic approach to psychological practice, it is necessary to redefine the "self" and other terms. Chaos,…

In this system the most efficient and appropriate technology was applied to the development and assembly of building components. (Available from 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, $15.00 annually.) (Author/MLF)

Considers the limitations of General Systems Theory (GST) as a major paradigm within administrative theory and concludes that most systems formulations overemphasize growth and show little appreciation for intraorganizational conflict, diversity of values, and political action within organizations. Suggests that these limitations are mainly due to…

The new auditorium at the Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, is used for concerts, sports, meetings, and banquets. (Author/MLF)

The position taken in this article was that the generalized trend toward educational techniques, which rationalize and systematize what all good teachers are doing, threatens teacher autonomy. (Author/RK)

Proposes a communication model based on a general systems-general semantics perspective in which communicators and their environments are considered as interrelated parts which continually interact with each other. (RB)

This paper discusses a cybernetic model of politeness strategies used in the process of making a request. The concept of systems, cybernetic models, and politeness strategies are reviewed, and the way they work together in the proposed model is examined. Politeness strategies are communication strategies used to change behavior enough to achieve…

This report offers a theoretical approach to the study of family adaptation to stress. Major works pertaining to family theory, research, and stress, published since 1979, are explored as a theoretical framework, and three conclusions are drawn from these sources: (1) Hill's ABCX model of family stress still influences family stress research; (2)…

This paper proposes a theoretical foundation for the field of educational technology based on cognitive learning theory. This proposition is based on consideration of issues which suggest that psychological theory is more central to educational technology than systems theory or theories of management, and that cognitive theories are more…

A description of the systems approach in media training in Great Britain. (HB)

The author emphasizes the need for further developing Applied Behavioral Science and applying it to problems in education. (HMD)

Adopts the dramatic form of a modern morality play to examine the confrontation of humanistic curriculum values and educational accountability. (WM)

The systems approach can be used by the trainer to analyze the very complex sales force system as it exists for their companies, their customers, and their markets. (MW)

This MPD system, very cursorily sketched above, outlines a planning framework in which a community college management team structures and monitors selected experiences most responsive to individual training requirements and institutional management needs. (Author)