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J A Hattie

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Youthline Dunedin: an evaluation of a telephone counselling service.

Youth Dunedin is a telephone counselling service which has been in operation for over two years. The type and pattern of calls is discussed, and results of a survey aimed at eliciting how well the youth of Dunedin know of the operations are presented. The trend in the number of calls is forecast. The calls over a wide range of concerns with no noted daily or monthly pattern. There is an upward trend in the frequency of calls.

Adolescent↗

An attitudinal study about old people.

A sentence completion instrument was administered to 28 elderly females and 44 young female social workers to investigate the differences and similarities in attitudes and beliefs about old people and being old. The statistical significance between the groups' responses was tested using the chi-square technique and individual cells by means of critical ratios. Eleven of the 20 stems were significant at the prescribed level and these are substantively discussed. It is suggested that awareness of the discrepant attitudes and beliefs is an important step towards reducing this dissonance.

Adolescent↗