Investigation of extent of commitment to client through evolution of counselor verbal actions indicates that high commitment and expectancy are crucial to the helping relationship. (CJ)

Comparative examination of effects on decision making and social interaction revealed that dependent husbands are less involved in both, and likely to reflect more conjugal role flexibility. (Author)

Discusses semiotics, which, in dealing with how meaning is communicated, views language as only one component of communication activity. Gives special attention to the new perspectives which semiotics has given to the study and teaching of intonation. (FB)

Brain damage remains a medical diagnosis; it does not provide a useful practical framework within which the psychologist and educator can operate. The school psychologist should abandon the concept of brain damage and turn to problems which will benefit more from his attention. (Author)

This paper was presented on the Seminar on Drug Dependence and Abuse sponsored by Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, August 1968.

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association (New York, New York, 1969).

Interviews were conducted for this study in the summer of 1965, and the data were analyzed during the fall of 1965 and winter of 1966.