Follows the evolution of the docudrama as a blend of fact and fiction, dramatizing events and people in recent history. Examines and characterizes the antecedents of this form, and explores the docudrama's role as a catalyst for social awareness and its potential problems related to ethical and legal precedents. (JMF)

The study is a reinvestigation of the effectiveness of the Trail Making Test in discriminating between 51 brain damaged and 72 pseudoneurologic hospitalized male veterans (mean age 36 years). (Author/PHR)

The article lists 20 signs of depression in children which teachers can recognize, along with suggestions on how to cope with the depression. (PHR)

College curricula are designed for students who operate at Piaget's "formal operational" stage of mental development, a stage that the majority of college freshmen have not attained. Modification of curricula to promote development toward this stage would (1) increase student retention rates, (2) improve financial stability, and (3) promote equal…

The social processes which limit the use of direct perceptual experience and the way in which they affect communication between two individuals who seek to resolve problems together are explained. A model designed to bring direct experience into balance with social structures as a perceptual resource for partners in the problem solving process is…

Factors that might concern environmental health and safety or administrative personnel when reviewing plans for a mass gathering are examined. (Author/MJB)

During the DRL procedure, reinforcement was made available for inappropriate language that was less than a prescribed limit for each day. Data indicated that reinforcing low rates of behavior may be an effective alternative to the use of aversive contingencies to reduce the misbehavior of such children. (Author)

In the June, 1977 issue of "Intellect," Jacqueline Kasun promised the reader "a look at the facts" about the world population situation. Her conclusion overall was a soothing one. This article is a critical examination of Kasun's report, with a conclusion of a gloomy nature. (Author/RK)

The acute management of suicidal patients requires that the helper (1) be aware of feelings of anger and fear toward these patients and (2) try to understand the nature of the patients' depression and helpless feelings. (MM)

Educational problems are related to national and international issues; they can be solved if teachers see beyond the atomizing images projected by advertising and the news media. (DD)

The author, her husband, and a group of parents started their own school as an alternative to the local private and public schools. Here are some of the problems they had to endure in their first year of operation and some things that they learned about school administration. (RK)

The new president of the NAIS outlines the first five problems he will have to meet in preserving independent schools, his priorities and possible approaches for dealing with these problems, and his plan for policy development for these schools. (Author/RK)

The criminal justice system is highly dependent upon quality of its communication systems. Presents a written communication style which offers advantages in uniformity accessibility, and comprehension over existing formats. Rudiments of the Problem-Oriented System are explored within the parameters of the criminal justice process. (Author)

Questionnaires from 225 homosexual and 233 heterosexual adult women revealed 115 cases of rape or attempted rape. Data from 78 follow-up questionnaires are summarized. About the same proportion of lesbians and heterosexuals, age 16 or over, were the object of rape. Inferences are drawn about the rapists' attitudes toward women. (Author)

As part of a larger project, the authors tapped local elite and school officials' perceptions of the difficulties encountered in dismantling dual schools in Georgia school districts. (Author/AM)