A number of projects have resulted in possible approaches to psychological education. This article describes some of these activities and reports the author's research to determine their effectiveness with his high school English classes. (Author)

Described are uses of ceramics in educational programs of broad application to handicapped, particularly, mentally retarded, children. Benefits in social, emotional, and mental growth are identified. (Author/KW)

The family" as a conditional universal may be defined as the order of infant self investiture. This definition should aid the investigator to avoid the fallacy and value position of sociocentrism, i.e., absolutizing a past structure. (Author)

This study supports the hypothesis that children reared in group-care settings are not necessarily retarded in their psychosocial development in comparison to family-reared children. They may, in fact, depending upon group-care philosophy and practice, as well as reasons for admission, surpass their home-reared counterparts in psychological…

The findings imply that as a result of their early experience in a particular social setting, children enter school with differentiated concepts of self and others. Thus, for both achieving and non-achieving rural Southern Negro pupils, materials and approaches designed for typical white, middle class children will require sensitive…

Age, intellectual ability, and interpersonal adjustment were the factors which contributed most to accurate social perceptions by students in grades 3 and 5. This article is based on a dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree. (MH)

Highlights four years of experience at a day care center serving 80 children, between three and six years of age, on Manhattan's West Side. Center uses small groups as a modality for improving learning. (Authors/JM)

The results indicate that emotionally disturbed boys put a greater distance between pairs of human figures than the control group, but not more than their male siblings. Unexpectedly, the groups did not differ in their separation of the mother and son figures. (Author)

The data provided evidence in support of the theoretical point of view that role discrepancies explain a considerable amount of the variation in marital satisfaction. In addition, evidence was found that it is meaningful to take the importance variable into account in understanding the relationship between role discrepancy and marital…

The authors bring together findings from research dealing with the effects of father absence in children's development. (WY)

Socialization of affective and moral components of the personality is usually conceived of as completed by the end of adolescence. In contrast, this paper analyzes certain aspects of undergraduate college education which constitute a new level of socialization; although to a degree previously extant, it never before involved such a mass population…

For future studies to prove their value in those nations seeking to advance rapidly and to raise the standard of living of their inhabitants, they will need to develop new methods and new goals. Some of these are suggested and discussed. (Author/RM)