After participating in a social skills program, the trained group showed decreases in social anxiety and fear of negative evaluation. Shyness should be dealt with by family life educators because of its implications regarding development of intimacy and dealing with conflict in a marital relationship. (Author/JAC)

Concluding his series on the debate over public school prime sponsorship, the author describes two systems of public school-affiliated family day care in South Carolina and offers some informed opinions and predictions. (Author/MP)

Members of 118 families were administered the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale; a cognitive test battery; and tests of visual, auditory, and figure memory. Factor analysis of memory scores resulted in four-factor solution. Significant spouse correlations and significant midparent-midchild regressions were found for some of the memory measures.…

Medical educators seldom ascertain whether their teaching efforts have long-term effects. To assess the persistence of attitudes toward drug claims by industry, members of two medical classes in the pharmacology course at the University of Virginia School of Medicine were surveyed at graduation and again nine to ten years later. (Author/MLW)

To evaluate a residency training program, a survey was conducted of those persons who took their residency training in psychiatry at the George Washington University during the first 20 years of the program. The questions elicited background information about the alumni, their perceptions and use of their training, and their satisfaction with…

Notes changes in definitions of women's roles. Proposes that the range of desirable parental characteristics has narrowed to focus on direct parent/child relationships of emotional/expressive nature. Suggests that the generation gap in 1977 is no wider than it was in 1924. (Author/RL)

The experience of Thames Television in presenting an educational series during prime time is described. "The Botanic Man," a series on ecology, is a rating success. Several difficulties encountered in collaboration efforts and follow-up activities, including courses and workbook publications, are identified. (JMF)

Data from a fifteen-year panel study of males, age 17 in 1957 and age 32 in 1972, are adduced to examine a social psychological theory of the status attainment process. Estimates are compared with those based on similar equation models reported in previous longitudinal research. (Author/EB)

A followup study of 21 children identified upon entering first grade as being at risk for reading difficulty was conducted to determine the effectiveness of a sensory integrative therapy program. (Author/SBH)

Tests designed to determine behavioral, emotional, social and academic changes occurring in hyperkinetic subjects were administered during childhood and 13 years later. Findings were more positive than other longitudinal studies. Some secondary symptoms, possibly precursors to later psychopathology, appeared. This population, therefore, is still…

A survey of 628 young men and women who had graduated in 1970. The graduates were asked to respond to questions regarding their protest activities during high school and their present political and social activities and concerns. (Author/MLF)

Groups of maladjusted and normally adjusted junior school children were matched on measures of attainments, intelligence and personality. The children were followed up during the third year of their secondary education in order to assess their subsequent adjustment. (Author)

This article contains a summary of the predictive data obtained in a follow-up study of students who entered four Ottawa high schools in September 1971. The differences among the schools involved in this study suggest that the school, rather than the school system, is an appropriate unit to examine. (Author)

Clients (N=20) at a university counseling center who had been placed on a waiting list and then did not show for their counseling appointment were polled regarding the current status of their problem. Results suggest that no-shows still have their problem and seek help from others. (Author)

Available from: Journal of Pediatric Psychology, Child Study Center, 1100 N.E. 13th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73117. Reviewed is previous research demonstrating that intellectual impairment, neuropsychological deficits, and emotional disturbance are among the effects of closed head injury in children and adolescents. (IM)