• processes
  • The academic distinction was evident through adolescence, although different developmental processes were demonstrated in the social aspects. (ed.gov)
  • The behavioristic viewpoint in social psychology is simply that of the application of a naturalistic or scientific technique to the study of the processes of the adjustment of individuals to their environment in a social situation. (brocku.ca)
  • These background papers cover the evaluation and adjustment processes, program interdependence, innovative approaches, target group selection, staffing and funding, and followup activities. (ed.gov)
  • Such studies suggest that genetics, prenatal development, early environment, neurobiology and psychological and social processes are important contributory factors. (wikipedia.org)
  • peers
  • When extremely gifted students who had been rejected by age-peers were removed from the inappropriate grade-placement and were permitted to work and play with intellectual peers, the loneliness and social isolation disappeared and the child became accepted as a valued classmate and friend (Hollingworth, 1942). (davidsongifted.org)
  • This presentation, however, centers on the social adjustment of the students and particularly on the extreme difficulties they experience in forming congenial relationships with age-peers of average ability. (davidsongifted.org)
  • The results demonstrated that boys with conduct disorders are distinctive from their control peers on several aspects of social adjustment and academic competence, even at the first stages of their academic experience. (ed.gov)
  • The findings indicate that social support, especially the support of peers, is important to adolescents with visual impairments. (afb.org)
  • Critics of unschooling see it as an extreme educational philosophy, with concerns that unschooled children will lack the social skills, structure, and motivation of their schooled peers, while proponents of unschooling say exactly the opposite is true: self-directed education in a natural environment better equips a child to handle the "real world. (wikipedia.org)
  • psychologists
  • In the first place, the behaviorist is in no sense afflicted with the reluctance displayed by some social psychologists in admitting the existence of an environment. (brocku.ca)
  • Professionals who deal with those who have trouble managing anger include occupational therapists, mental health counselors, drug and alcohol counselors, social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists. (wikipedia.org)
  • Educators
  • The 69 participants were carefully selected for their ability to effect change in planning, developing and delivering vocational evaluation and work adjustment services, and included representatives of federal agencies, university educators and researchers, administrators and project directors, and leaders of national organizations. (ed.gov)
  • Also known as NEDAwareness Week, it takes place during the last week of February, and is "a collective effort of primarily volunteers, including eating disorder professionals, health care providers, students, educators, social workers, and individuals committed to raising awareness of the dangers surrounding eating disorders and the need for early intervention and treatment. (wikipedia.org)
  • adolescents
  • This article presents research derived from a nationwide study conducted at the University of Amsterdam into the psychosocial adjustment and the meaning of social support for Dutch adolescents with visual impairments. (afb.org)
  • More subtle determinant of group membership, such as shared interests and values, take precedence as adolescents develop more sophisticated, abstract cognitive functions (more here), which allow them to categorize individuals in more subtle ways and better interpret social interactions. (wikipedia.org)
  • interactions
  • The major difference is that these reputation-based groups do not necessarily interact with each other, whereas members of a clique do interact with one another and have frequent social interactions. (wikipedia.org)
  • psychological
  • Outdoor experiential therapy is outdoor treatment to promote "rehabilitation, growth, development, and enhancement of an individual's physical, social and psychological well-being through the application of structured activities involving direct experience" (Ewert et al. (wikipedia.org)
  • adolescence
  • During late adolescence, the organized clique structure typically dissolves into associated sets of couples, which then remain the primary social unit into and throughout adulthood. (wikipedia.org)
  • significant
  • There is some indication that once mania has begun to develop, social stressors, including criticism from significant others, can further contribute. (wikipedia.org)
  • study
  • An added complication, however, is that the majority of the 31 "non-accelerants" (so termed because this study has shown that acceleration by only one year makes little or no difference to extremely gifted students either academically or socially) also choose to underachieve deliberately in an attempt to gain social acceptance by their classmates. (davidsongifted.org)
  • Since man appears on the scene at birth as an organism already integrated on a biological level, but with an adjustment to his new environment yet in the main to be established, the behaviorist begins with the study of the technique of this postnatal adjustment process. (brocku.ca)
  • He sees evidence of it everywhere and has recently begun to study it and classify it in order the better to study the adjustment of the organism to it. (brocku.ca)
  • The main purpose of this study was to examine the role of home stimulation in terms of the frequency of parent-child home activities on kindergarteners' social adjustment. (buffalo.edu)
  • The 12 papers and three discussion group reports in this document are the result of a 3-day conference held in 1970 to study the role of vocational evaluation and work adjustment in manpower development programs. (ed.gov)
  • The purpose of this study is to measure and compare the degree of personal and social adjustment which high school girls exhibited during a 'split semester' and a 'continuous semester. (unt.edu)
  • The Carolina Abecedarian Project, 2017-06-21 Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy: Social Programs that Works Early Learning, Later Success: The abecedarian study Compensatory education Campbell, Frances A., Craig T. Ramey, Elizabeth Pungello, Joseph Sparling, and Shari Miller-Johnson. (wikipedia.org)
  • work
  • Vocational Evaluation and Work Adjustment Services in Manpower, Social Welfare, and Rehabilitation Programs. (ed.gov)
  • Work-family balance in the U.S. differs significantly for families of different social class. (wikipedia.org)
  • high
  • In social contexts, high Q scores are associated with truancy and delinquency. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are also indications that individuals may hold certain beliefs about themselves, their internal states, and their social world (including striving to meet high standards despite it causing distress) that may make them vulnerable during changing mood states in the face of relevant life events. (wikipedia.org)
  • personality
  • It assumes that the chief business of man is to secure and maintain a functionally effective integration of his personality, on the one hand, and to secure and maintain an adequate and successful adjustment of his personality or organism to his environment, on the other hand. (brocku.ca)
  • He finds that the integration of his personality depends primarily upon the success of his adjustment to his environment, and also that the success of this adjustment is in no small degree dependent upon an effective integration of his personality. (brocku.ca)
  • A history of the early days of personality testing in American industry: an obsession with adjustment. (wikipedia.org)
  • physical
  • Only physical functioning independently affected social adjustment. (e-chnr.org)
  • Theorists have differentiated types and levels of integration in special education as physical, functional, social, community and organizational. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bengt Nirje and the late Wolf Wolfensberger of the US are internationally known for their concept of normalization and social role valorization, with a particular emphasis on physical and social integration. (wikipedia.org)
  • Anders Gustavsson (ca. 1990) of Sweden has indicated that physical integration best describes the common use of the term "integration", with social integration the struggle for "equality and quality in life. (wikipedia.org)
  • development
  • Hollingworth (1926) defined the IQ range 125-155 as "socially optimal intelligence" and claimed that above the level of IQ 160 the difference between the exceptionally gifted child and his or her age-mates is so great that it leads to special problems of development which are correlated with social isolation. (davidsongifted.org)
  • Thirteen physically abused six-year-olds were assessed in school for language development, educational attainments, and social adjustment, and compared with controls. (ed.gov)
  • Security Administration
  • The Social Security Administration determines the COLA based on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (aier.org)
  • family
  • Family structure (how the family is organized) historically has been influenced by social-level forces, many of them economic. (wikipedia.org)
  • context
  • Community integration in this context (schools) refers to opportunities "to learn practical social and community living skills (and job training) in a wide variety of community settings" (p. 13). (wikipedia.org)
  • people
  • Using this measure, a zero COLA would more than compensate people who use Social Security benefits to cover the costs of everyday products. (aier.org)
  • services
  • For such a person, the purchasing power of Social Security benefits depends on how much the prices of everyday goods and services changed over the year. (aier.org)
  • data
  • The annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will be announced on Oct. 15, when the last data required to compute it becomes available. (aier.org)
  • But the data already suggest that prices have fallen over the past 12 months, removing the need for an adjustment. (aier.org)
  • increase
  • If prices have fallen but the COLA is zero, the purchasing power of Social Security benefits would increase. (aier.org)
  • especially
  • It merely seeks humbly to present the point of view in social psychology now commonly called 'behaviorism,' especially by those who have, or imagine they have, some quarrel with this orientation. (brocku.ca)
  • benefits
  • The annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to Social Security benefits will likely be zero in January 2016. (aier.org)
  • The intent of the automatic COLA is to compensate Social Security recipients when the purchasing power of their benefits falls due to rising prices. (aier.org)
  • Imagine a person who relies on Social Security benefits to cover only daily expenses - food, utilities, phone bill, cleaning supplies, gasoline, prescription drugs, and the like. (aier.org)