Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) is a therapeutic, verbal strategy for intervention with students in crisis. It explores a student's reactions to stressful events to gain insight into thinking, feelings, and behavior in order to strengthen resilience and self-esteem (Long, Wood, & Fecser, 2001). By exploring timelines of challenging…

Students' different educational pathways were examined in relation to their disengagement during adolescence. The participants were Icelandic youth (N = 832) who were followed from age 14 to 22. Based on their academic achievement at age 15 and educational attainment at age 22 they were classified into groups that took expected versus unexpected…

Selecting and evaluating general surgery residents were studied using the Critical Incident Technique for 235 critical incidents identified by 10 faculty members and 4 senior residents. Derived categories of behavior to define surgical competence were used to develop an interview evaluation form and a handbook for interviewing applicants. (SLD)