Discusses the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 which provides for subsidized adoption. Examines subsidized adoption from the perspectives of social policy and practice and draws on empirical findings to identify issues that need to be addressed. (Author)

Discusses five critical issues pertaining to quality infant care: improving training for caregivers of infants and toddlers, ensuring health and safety, meeting special needs of children and their parents, balancing high quality and affordability, and evaluating program effectiveness. (RH)

Reviews research in the areas of classroom organization and management, delineating the principles underlying a comprehensive approach to these areas. (MP)

A computerized nutrient analysis program, DINE (diet inventory of nutritional experiences), is described. It provides feedback on calorie and nutrient intake to enhance individual responsibility for nutrition. It is used in nutrition education and athletic training programs, and by patients with weight and other diet-related health problems. (PP)

The positions of three advocates of human rights--Bernard A. O. Williams, A. I. Melden, and Stanley I. Benn--are sketched, and deemed inadequate for extending equal educational rights to severely mentally and emotionally handicapped persons. Lines of inquiry for theorists in this area are suggested. (PP)

Two major problems exist in working with handicapped minority-group children: the handicap itself and the integration of language and culture into the curriculum. Classroom activities to help meet the special needs of the handicapped Mexican-American child are recommended. (PP)

Describes a program for working with drama students in groups and examines qualities of actors' lives as well as professional issues for them. Recommendations are made for counselors working with actors in a university setting. (Author)

Reviews the status of women who abuse drugs and proposes considerations for treatment design. General concerns stress the importance of a well formulated treatment philosophy, encourage treatment of women with varying drug related dependencies together, and advocates the utilization of female professional staff in most instances. (Author)

Proposes three concerns for an effective professional development program. First, both the institution's and individual's goals must be incorporated. Second, the program design should be grounded in adult development theory. Finally, implementation strategies must capitalize on the adult staff member as a self-directed learner. (Author/RC)

If learners' needs/readiness can be more closely determined, organizational guidelines and curriculum decisions for classroom and school environments can better be determined. Individual needs and readiness concepts such as self-concept, self-insight, self-understanding, and self-actualization can ultimately be used to increase the likelihood of…

Addresses a number of ethical and methodological issues related to research involving vulnerable populations such as the frail elderly, when the research design calls for a control or nonintervention group. Techniques are presented for building a "limited" service component into the research design. (Author)

Describes how to utilize instructional resources to personalize a social studies methods course for elementary school teachers-in-training. The approach involves teacher-pupil verbal interaction, inquiry, and valuing. (Author/DB)

Methods of studying the gap between predisposition and actual behavior of consumers of spectator sports is discussed. A model is drawn from the areas of behavioral sciences, consumer behavior, and leisure research. The model is constructed around the premise that choice is primarily a function of personal, product, and environmental factors. (JN)

Tested the effects on social power of two aspects of client need: perceived need (high or low) and commitment to change (high and low). Results show perceived need had no significant effect on attitude change or information seeking. Commitment to change procedures had a significant effect on information-seeking behaviors. (Author)

Discusses, with quotations from various writings, the basic human needs of individuals and survival needs of the larger society, leading to the knowledge considered most worth having, and ending with delineation of that knowledge most worth having within the purview of home economics and implications for home economics teachers. (MF)