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Johnson, Cynthia S. – New Directions for Continuing Education, 1986
The author outlines some of the current wisdom about meeting the career counseling needs of today's adults. She describes theoretical and technological tools that help adults and presents one effort to reconceptualize the way counselors assist adults with career transitions. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Development, Behavior Theories, Career Change
Myers, Jane E.; Schwiebert, Valerie L. – 1996
Gerontological counseling as a counseling specialty spans only 20 years. This text incorporates into its framework the 16 Minimum Essential Competencies of gerontological counseling that have been developed over the past two decades. These competencies focus on the knowledge and skills required to be an effective counselor for older persons and…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Aging (Individuals), Competence, Counseling Techniques
Holmes, Danny L. – 1985
This paper discusses the concept of a family system in terms of an interactive system of interrelated, interdependent parts and suggests that VHS movies can act as perturbations, i.e., change promoting agents, for certain dysfunctional family systems. Several distinct characteristics of a family system are defined with particular emphasis on…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Behavior Change, Cognitive Development, Family Characteristics
