This book is designed to help young adolescents cope with the reality of their parents divorcing. It speaks directly to young adolescents and attempts to answer questions that concern their worst fears and anxieties about what a divorce will mean for them. It provides strategies to help them resolve or handle the confusion, hurt, and conflict they…

The authors developed, over a one-year period of time, a Human Interaction Laboratory designed to allow participants to deal with several interpersonal issues: the intrapersonal self, the interpersonal self, communication skill development, trust formation, conflict management, confrontation techniques, developing feedback systems, working…

Discusses socioeconomic problems of pet population explosion and recommends the conduct of educational programs and the implementation of surgical sterilization as a short-term answer to dog and cat control. Also considered are problems of using chemical contraceptives in human population control. (CC)

Discusses a study conducted to determine and describe the status of, and need for, family planning information and communications in the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program as perceived by program aides. (SB)

The reasons for a child's failure to learn in school are complex and stem from various sources--broken homes, parental indifference, and irresponsible parental behavior. (CK)

Workshop titles are: (1) "Authenticity in Communication ; (2) "Inter Cultural Communication ; (3) "Enticements to Eupsychia ; (4) "Psychoneurosensory Problems in Education ; (5) "Why Education for Family Life and Human Sexuality ; and (6) "Communication in the Hazards of Drug Abuse . (EK)

This paper describes a program designed to help paraprofessional workers become an integral part of a comprehensive health care team. (Author)

In order to investigate meaningful differences between the blue-collar and the white-collar segments of the Negro community, an area probability sample stratified by occupation from the Chatham community area of Chicago was used; eighty Negro males were interviewed. (JM)

Action to improve family life did not involve a new technique but a recognition of the need to modernize old principles and programs and to develop new ones. Ideas about personnel, materials, organizational structure and emphases were revised. Involvement of the federal government was a major catalyst. (Author)

A two-week course was offered to first-year medical students in physician lifestyle management: practice management, health maintenance, marriage and the family, and physician disability. The course exposes students to actual practices and nonprofessional aspects of the physician's life. The course was rated highly and may be helpful in student…

To further explore findings indicating that parental gender is a much more important predictor of caretaker behavior style than is involvement in parental role, 45 Swedish couples were observed at home interacting with their 16-month-old infants. Findings suggest that gender differences in parental behavior are much less amenable to social…

Using social exchange theory, examined satisfaction of the primary caregiver with living in a multigenerational household in 99 Midwestern families. Identified important predictors of satisfaction consisting of characteristics of the older person (indicators of dependency status, characteristics of the primary caregiver, and the situational…

Drawing upon survey data from a probability sample of 331 U.S. Air Force married couples and 101 Air Force single parents, determined the attitudes of Air Force families toward family enrichment and support programs. States implications for family programing. (Author)

Explores some of the trends that make parenting such a challenging task for Australian parents, and discusses a variety of ways in which parents, teachers and the community can become involved in the education of children and their families. (Author/CM)