Student discussion-group leaders were assessed on indices of facilitative empathy, respect, and genuineness, and their behaviors were analysed by Flanders' interaction categories. None of the leaders reached minimally helpful levels of the facilitative conditions, and only two out of five could be categorized as "indirect" leaders. (Author/JA)

Compares Israeli-Kibbutz and modern western families with emphasis on the special features of the Kibbutz, changes in family status, parent-child relationships and parental influence. (DP)

Investigated relationships between behavioral and cognitive impulsivity in children. Cognitive style was not predicted by classroom behavior, indicating that it may be a relatively independent dimension. (DP)

Two studies were undertaken to determine systematically how preventive behaviors associated with health, accidents, property loss, and financial loss are interrelated. Several dimensions of preventive behavior were found (e.g., checkups, risk taking, dietary patterns), and most of these dimensions were independent. Implications of these findings…

The present study was designed to investigate the generalizabiltiy of the Broverman et al. findings that there is a difference in the conception of mental health for a male and for a female. (Author)

Attitudes toward homosexuals are more highly associated with support for a double standard for the sexes than with permissive or nonpermissive attitudes regarding premarital sexual intimacy. (Author)

The foibles of the fad that is behavior therapy are examined. (Author)

The failure of the manifest purpose of such psychotherapy suggests that it has a more important latent purpose, one that is in accord with the values of American capitalist society. It is proposed that this latent purpose is to serve as a means of social control, exercised through the ideological and clinical practice aspects of such…

A random sample of teachers, parents, police, mental health clinic workers, ministers, and high school students were interviewed and tested to ascertain their attitudes and knowledge regarding drugs. The findings are that drug users, in addition to being much more knowledgeable about drugs than nonusers, encounter quite different problems related…

This article proposes a model for the experimental process involved in counseling groups composed of counselor trainees. The group setting provides members the opportunity to learn and practice facilitative behavior while achieving increased self-understanding and self-congruence. (Author)

The findings of this study are interpreted as providing a preliminary indication that self-reward strategies are superior to self-punitive and self-recording strategies in the modification of at least some habit patterns. (Author)

In this selection from a handbook for professionals concerned with drug abuse, the authors attempt to create a frame of reference which will lead to a better understanding of some of the factors that may be related to the dicisions of individuals to become involved with drugs of abuse. (Author)