The number of postsecondary education (PSE) programs for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) has been steadily growing over the last few decades. There has been little public information regarding these programs and schools. Consequently, students, families, and researchers alike lack details about the various…

Using Excel, an interactive program is designed to simulate the Solow and endogenous growth models to facilitate the understanding of these models for students of growth theory and macroeconomics.

Focuses on impact that emerged from combined resources of counseling center/psychology department/dean of students office at Colorado State University (CSU) during late 1960s and early 1970s when CSU was site of significant innovations in counseling field. Briefly chronicles history, identifies key participants, and highlights factors that…

Notes that University of Missouri at Columbia has been major training ground in counseling psychology for more than 40 years. Explores its development and influence on the field through use of historical archives and comments from faculty, graduates, and American Psychological Association site visit reports. (Author/NB)

Describes role of Teachers College, Columbia University, in history and development of counseling psychology as science and profession. Looks at early history, post-World War II development, integrating relationships, and professional leadership. Notes that faculty and graduates of program have provided leadership in defining and implementing…

Reviews history of counseling psychology at University of Minnesota, noting contributions of Donald Paterson and his associates in 1920s and 1930s and of E. G. Williamson, John Darley, and Gilbert Wrenn in establishment of American Psychological Association (APA) Division of Counseling Psychology. Notes that Minnesota offers APA-accredited…

Presents brief history of Counseling Psychology Program in Department of Psychology at Ohio State University (OSU) with respect to persons and events that helped establish and maintain it within profession. Discusses institutional characteristics and relates historical events that affected program to the program's development, beginning with…

Presents interview of two counseling psychologists of the Career Counseling Center of the University of California, Los Angeles. Describes aspects of a relatively unique career counseling service which is composed of three intensive individual interviews and 15 to 25 hours of educational and psychological testing. (Author/ABL)

Presents a typology of women's centers and provides an overview of state, regional, and national networks of women's centers, including the evolution of the Women's Center/Services Caucus of the National Women's Studies Association and the more recently organized National Association of Women's Centers. (NB)

Contends that orientation must be organized to address changing student needs. Presents comprehensive orientation model for 1990s which includes preorientation, first-year orientation day or week, orientation course, follow-up, multiculturalism, programs for parents/spouses, and evaluation. Concludes that multifaceted approach to orientation can…

Examined how to make Harlaxton, British manor house donated to University of Evansville to internationalize college's program, source rather than user of university funds. Reviewed scholarly literature and government publications on international college recruiting systems; surveyed college counselors currently stationed at U.S. high schools in…

Presents the Margaret Sloss Women's Center as a model to assist in the continued development of campus-based women's centers. Discusses the purpose and mission of the center and describes areas of advocacy, information and referrals, programming, and organizational structure. (Author/NB)

Presents framework by which counseling psychology training programs can react to demands for preparing students for an increasingly diverse array of services to an almost equally diverse clientele. Proposes that adequate training for responding to diversity is the foundation for moving from recognition of diversity to an affirmation of diversity.…

Presents an eight-step planning model that operationally defines a comprehensive delivery systems approach to campuswide leadership training. Lists four goals of the model: to increase efficiency of leadership training through shared resources, to decrease costs, to provide quality control, and to increase impact of programming effort by creating…

Synthesizes findings and recommendations related to training and accreditation from conferences and from Task Force on the Scope and Criteria of Accreditation and Joint Council on Professional Education in Psychology. Examines potential impact of the various proposals on counseling psychology students, trainers, and programs. Focuses on four…