This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The ten titles deal with the following topics: (1) the effect of dramatic improvisation on the attitudes of high school teachers toward their students; (2) the effects of training teachers in interpersonal cognitive problem solving skills on teacher-student interaction, classroom social and emotional climate, and children's problem solving abilities; (3) novice interviewers' message structure and interview methods; (4) the comparative effects of redundancy and variety on message retention; (5) the relationship between communication skills training with underachieving, low communicating high school students and their teachers; (7) verbal interaction in classes with teachers who have had preservice training in the use of interaction process analysis as compared with those without such training; (8) the effect student teachers who have had communication skills training have on their students' verbal behaviors; (9) teacher use of the native and target languages for linguistic and communicative functions; and (10) the relationship of teachers' self-disclosure/intimacy to students' knowledge/attitude in college sex and family living classes. (FL)