Discusses Erickson's and Maslow's empirically based formulations of healthy development. Through integration of their systems, six trends are derived: survival, growth, communication, recognition, mastery, and understanding. Trends relate to self-functions, interpersonal functioning, and task performance. Relates trends to three aspects of…

Describes a general model within which various techniques of counseling and psychotherapy may be integrated. This model is based on Lewin's formula, that is, behavior is a function of the person and the environment. (Author)

For developmental social psychology to be clinically practical, it must use categories of experience similar to categories that counselors, clinicians, and other practitioners find useful. Describes how individuals may function at different levels depending on the context in which they are expressing their understanding. (Author)

Describes an organizational counseling and career development program that serves both employees and their supervisors at the general accounting office. The counseling and career development branch has program components including developmental workshops, a career resource center, and counseling for employees with personal problems. (JAC)

Outlines a conceptual framework, the Reflective Judgement model, which describes predictable differences in the intellectual development of college students. Validation attempts are discussed, and applications leading to sound counseling and educational interventions are suggested. The model is illustrated with an example of a classroom assignment…

Describes student organizational development as an evolving technology for conducting intentional student development. Reviews three general models for guiding this effort with emphasis on the CORE (Cohesion, Organization, Resourcefulness, Energy) Model. CORE can be used as a conceptual organizer, training or delivery model for student…

Seeks to clarify the differences between traditional and dialectical perspectives on career development. Describes the application of a dialectical model to career evolution based on the assumption that an individual's work experiences and other life experiences exert an ongoing, reciprocal effect on career development. (Author)

Provides a metamodel with which counselors can design programs for all populations of parents, particularly low-income. Suggests that education programs can provide training in interpersonal skills and family management skills. Describes development and application of the model and how components might be sequenced for training a particular parent…

Provides a case study illustrating the use of sibling pairings to understand the career development process. Factors such as birth order, age spacing, sex of siblings, and interactions can help clients explore various striving for significance patterns in sibling dyads and gain insight into their own career development. (JAC)

Reviews a model of cognitive development relating the self and self-evaluation, guidelines for applying the model, and counseling applications. Recognizes that individuals may vary their level of abstraction depending on such things as the source of information, the context, and the part of the self being discussed. (LLL)

A developmental dimensional model of maturing is presented that has received some transcultural and longitudinal validation. Specific principles, induced from such research and from existing psychological research more generally, provide guidelines about how to encourage healthy growth. (Author)

Presents a format for designing and running workshops to train personnel employed in positions of high customer contact, focusing on the practice of patron contact skills, i.e., communication with problem patrons. Describes opening exercises, attitude exploration, integration skills and attitudes, stress management, and evaluation. (WAS)

Suggests the discrepancy between a counselor's intentions and expectations and level of cognitive development of clients makes delivery of career planning services difficult. The "Puzzling Your Career" approach identifies and reconciles these discrepancies. Presents the total approach through the concepts of self- responsibility and…

Describes the Directed Individual Response-Educational Consulting Technique (DIRECT) which delineates seven steps in the consulting process and further specifies four levels of appropriate consultant "leads" to facilitate the development of each step. The DIRECT model is specifically designed to promote development of consulting interview skills.…

Sees four implications for counseling as a result of the additions to research and theory building of social, developmental, and general psychology. From social influence theory and from cognitive, behavioral, humanistic, and developmental research, a prototype "systematic eclectic" task-model directed toward implications is offered. (Author)