The 1984 Division 27 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Community Psychology and Community Mental Health: George Spivack and Myrna B. Shure

The structure of coping.

1978 • 6,799 citations

An Analysis of Coping in a Middle-Aged Community Sample

1980 • 6,179 citations

The Structure of Coping

1978 • 5,086 citations

The Problem-solving approach to adjustment

1976 • 723 citations

Handbook of Mental Deficiency: Psychological Theory and Research

2018 • 633 citations

Human development : an interactional perspective

1983 • 505 citations

Interpersonal problem‐solving in young children: A cognitive approach to prevention

1982 • 376 citations

Social adjustment of young children

1974 • 352 citations

Unrealistic expectations and problem-solving ability in maltreating and comparison mothers.

1984 • 261 citations

Social maladjustment and problem solving in school-aged children.

1982 • 249 citations

Interpersonal problem solving as a mediator of behavioral adjustment in preschool and kindergarten children

1980 • 222 citations

Delay of gratification: Some longitudinal personality correlates.

1983 • 217 citations

Problem-solving techniques in childrearing

1978 • 205 citations

Means-ends thinking, adjustment, and social class among elementary-school-aged children.

1972 • 184 citations

Interpersonal and impersonal problem-solving skills in mildly and clinically depressed university students.

1979 • 169 citations

Social maladjustment and problem solving in school-aged children.

1982 • 169 citations

Problem-solving thinking of psychiatric patients.

1972 • 156 citations

Toward a distinctive community psychology: An ecological metaphor for the conduct of community research and the nature of training

1984 • 148 citations

Social and psychological research in community settings

1979 • 140 citations

Adolescent problem-solving thinking.

1974 • 137 citations

Interpersonal cognitive problem solving and primary prevention: Programming for preschool and kindergarten children¹

1979 • 127 citations

Interpersonal and impersonal problem-solving skills in mildly and clinically depressed university students.

1979 • 119 citations

The Cognition of Social Adjustment

1982 • 113 citations

Evaluation of a social-problem-solving training program for suburban and inner-city third-grade children.

1981 • 109 citations

Future time perspective and the preference for delayed reward.

1968 • 108 citations

Social problem‐solving skills training: A competence‐building intervention with second‐ to fourth‐grade children

1981 • 107 citations

Problem-solving thinking of youthful incarcerated heroin addicts

1973 • 100 citations

PROBLEM-SOLVING THINKING AND ADJUSTMENT AMONG DISADVANTAGED PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

1971 • 97 citations

Unidimensionality of the means-ends problem-solving (MEPS) procedure

1975 • 92 citations

Increasing the interpersonal problem-solving skills of an alcoholic population.

1978 • 86 citations

Primary Prevention: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

1980 • 85 citations

Social competence and effective problem-solving thinking in psychiatric patients

1972 • 84 citations

Problem-Solving Training Groups for Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients

1975 • 82 citations

Problem-Solving Thinking and Adjustment among Disadvantaged Preschool Children

1971 • 80 citations

The effects of an experimental social development program on children in the middle childhood period

1979 • 71 citations

The Classroom Behavior of Children: A Critical Review of Teacher-Administered Rating Scales

1973 • 70 citations

PSYCHOLOGICAL ECOLOGY OF A NURSERY SCHOOL1

1963 • 70 citations

Maternal child-rearing practices and social problem-solving strategies among preschoolers.

1980 • 62 citations

Social skills and health

1981 • 60 citations

The Assessment of Achievement-Related Classroom Behavior

1968 • 57 citations

Clarifying the Relationship between Academic Success and Overt Classroom Behavior

1969 • 56 citations

Means of solving real-life problems: I. Psychiatric patients vs. controls and cross-cultural comparisons of normal females

1974 • 54 citations

Problem‐solving skills of rural battered women

1982 • 52 citations

Syndromes of Disturbed Classroom Behavior: A Behavioral Diagnostic System for Elementary Schools

1971 • 52 citations

The Rorschach index of repressive style

1964 • 47 citations

Problem-Solving Skills, Locus of Control, and the Contraceptive Effectiveness of Young Women

1979 • 44 citations

Intelligence test performance and the delay function of the ego.

1959 • 41 citations

Achievement Related Classroom Behavior of Secondary School Normal and Disturbed Students

1969 • 39 citations

Do psychiatric patients and normals see the same solutions as effective in solving interpersonal problems?

1975 • 38 citations

Social and Psychological Problems of Women: Prevention and Crisis Intervention.

1985 • 35 citations

Incentive, time conception and self control in a group of emotionally disturbed boys

1959 • 34 citations

Intelligence, and measures of inhibition and time sense

1959 • 31 citations

Problem‐solving thinking: A preventive mental health program for preschool children

1972 • 29 citations

Problem solving and social position among emotionally disturbed boys.

1981 • 29 citations

Evaluation of social competence training in the schools

1982 • 29 citations

THE PROBLEM-SOLVING APPROACH TO ADJUSTMENT:

1982 • 24 citations

Fairness, generosity, and selfishness: the naïve psychology of children and young adults.

1968 • 21 citations

Social problem solving and mother-child interactions of educable mentally retarded children

1983 • 21 citations

“High risk” classroom behaviors in kindergarten and first grade

1977 • 21 citations

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR OF ADOLESCENTS FROM HIGHER SOCIO-ECONOMIC GROUPS

1959 • 16 citations

Mental health promotion and primary prevention

1982 • 15 citations

A diagnostic axis relevant to psychotherapy and preventive mental health.

1983 • 14 citations

Therapeutic Teaching: A Review of Teaching Methods for Behaviorally Troubled Children

1974 • 14 citations

Think Aloud: Increasing Social and Cognitive Skills — a Problem Solving Program for Children, Primary Level

1982 • 13 citations

The Hahnemann High School Behavior (HHSB) rating scale

1977 • 9 citations

The Experience of Time as a Determinant of Self-Control

1960 • 8 citations

Fairness, Generosity, and Selfishness: The Naive Psychology of Children and Young Adults

1968 • 8 citations

Patterns of Disturbed Classroom Behavior of Nondelinquent and Delinquent Adolescent Girls

1973 • 6 citations

Interpersonal problem‐solving thought: Mental health promotion for the elderly

1982 • 5 citations

AN INTERVENTION TO FACILITATE INTERPERSONAL COGNITIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS AND BEHAVIORAL ADJUSTMENT AMONG EMOTIONALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN

1981 • 5 citations

Enhancing Childrearing Skills in Lower Income Women

1983 • 5 citations

A Theoretical Model Of The Affective And Social Development Of Learning-disabled Children.

1978 • 3 citations

Psychological Characteristics Related to Social Problem Solving in Learning Disabled Children and Their Non-Disabled Peers.

1982 • 3 citations

Tolerance for Discomfort among Impulsive Adolescent Boys

1971 • 1 citations