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The purpose of this study was to examine the stressors and experiences of caregivers while providing care to a loved one suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. The sample for this study consisted of thirty respondents who provide care to demented loved ones. They resided in Fulton County, and Dekalb County, Georgia. Original instruments consisting of twenty-one questions were mailed to several family support group leaders in the Atlanta Area Chapter Alzheimer’s Association. The results were analyzed utilizing frequency distributions, means, standard deviations and Pearson’s ‘r’ Correlation Coefficient. The findings of this study revealed that there was no statistically significant relationship between a family member suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and emotional distress experienced by family caregivers.

<p> Roleplaying activities of various sorts are frequently used to train specific skills or to conduct social science studies. The research on the use of roleplays finds that the more realistic the roleplay, the more effective it is as a teaching tool, at least for easily definable behaviors. Activities such as leadership, decision making, and working with a group are all behaviors that are difficult to precisely define but which are also critically important to the ability of a group to accomplish a task. Research on groups finds that groups are more effective when group members are better educated about each of these topics. Viewed from a Dramaturgical perspective, leadership, decision making, and working with a group can be seen as group members filling certain roles and engaging in role appropriate activities in order to accomplish the tasks of the group and manage the impressions group members have of one another. This study employed a qualitative, grounded theory methodology to explore how participants in Live Action Role Playing (LARP) games, a form of immersive, complex, plot-driven roleplay perceive leadership, decision making, and working with a group. A total of 14 participants provided rich, detailed responses to an open-ended questionnaire that explored their perceptions of each of the three topics being investigated, and also explored how they perceived LARP as influencing those perceptions. Based on the results of the study, a theory was developed connecting LARP participation to an enhanced ability to understand leadership, decision making, and working with a group. </p>

The purpose of this exploratory, descriptive study was to examine the perceptions of transracial adoption and African consciousness among African American and Caucasian students. Thirty graduate social work students who were in their second year or more in their studies responded. The respondents were 26 females and four males whose age ranged from 23 to 52. A modified version of the African Self-Consciousness scale and a transracial adoption scale were used. The findings showed that the majority of the respondents felt that White transracially adoptive parents would transfer a high level of African Self-Consciousness to their Black children. A majority of the respondents agreed that transracial adoption should occur and that White parents can instill in their Black child a sense of racial identity and culture. The hypothesis was accepted, there was no statistical difference between the races on transracial adoption and African Self-Consciousness. As a result of the findings, further research should be done on the issue of transracial adoption. Social workers need to know how important it is of white parents, who transracially adopt, to transfer positive African consciousness, racial identity and cultural heritage to their transracially adopted Black children.

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This study attempted to answer two basic research questions: (1) is there a significant relationship between the self-esteem (high or low) and the congruence of "ideal" and "real" career choices. (2) is the congruence of "ideal" and "real" career choices higher among Black women with high self-esteem than among those with low self-esteem. Linear Correlations Coefficient was used to analyze the study data The major finding of the study was as follows: there existed no significant difference between the self-esteem (high or low) and the congruence of "ideal" and "real" career choices among Black women.

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