This brief summarizes key findings from the first annual Needs Assessment Survey created and administered by the Houston Independent School District (HISD). In the fall 2019, HISD's Wraparound Services Department designed and administered the Needs Assessment Survey to all students, parents, and teachers on the 146 campuses that offered wraparound…

The Wraparound Services Department connects students and their families with non-academic community resources that support the students' ability to learn in school. The district currently partners with over 200 community organizations to offer wraparound services across 210 campuses. Wraparound Services Specialists in these campuses work with…

This exploratory quantitative study tests the effectiveness of a three-hour Transgender Training Intervention for increasing the gender identity competence of counselors and counselors-in-training. Participants (N = 4) were recruited online and completed the 20-item Counselor Competence Gender Identity Survey (CCGIS) before and after the virtual…

Our study focused on online faculty members and their perceptions of the strategies and activities they use to promote progress for and motivation in their online graduate students, particularly at the dissertation/doctoral study phase of the program. Results show high-achieving faculty members vary their strategies according to each students'…

Relationship education (RE) has been linked to several short- and long-term benefits; however, less is known about its effects on adolescents' overarching life-goals. This study utilized a multi-method approach to examine whether RE was linked to increases in the relative importance of intrinsic, as opposed to extrinsic, life-goals. Results…

Background: We present a unique study of adventure sports coaches teaching lead climbing. Expanding existing work on judgement and decision making, we examine the coaching process and the decision making employed to manage the pedagogical and security needs of climbers when they are being introduced to lead climbing. Research design and data…

During a regular free writing time in class, children in Kindergarten through sixth grade in various areas of the city were given the writing prompt,"My dreams for the world". Writing samples were collected from an elementary school in an affluent area of the city, an elementary and a middle school in a low socio-economic area, and an…

With the large number of National Guard members and reservists being deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, public educators find themselves endeavoring to support the emotional and academic needs of military children and their families. Military children may exhibit behavioral and emotional difficulties during these deployments. Educator awareness of…

Describes authors' experiences of three abortions and her unresolved grief. Presents authors' writing at different times throughout her life. Contends grief therapy must be part of abortion counseling. Claims unresolved grief affects others, relationships, pregnancies, and self-concept. (Author/ABL)

The satisfaction of lower order needs, such as security and social needs, is more closely associated with job performance than the satisfaction of higher needs such as job autonomy and self-actualization. (Editor)

Several major conclusions are: (1) a fundamental relationship exists between the individual's personality needs and the college major he selects. (2) Personality need patterns are relatively similar among the students in different areas of study in the same school. (3) Differences among natural groups of both male and female subjects were in the…

The results of this study support Marlower and Crowne's (1964) conceptuatization of the high-need-for-approval person as acting to protect vulnerable self-esteem. (Author)

In this study of 547 high school graduates, Alderfer's and Maslow's need hierarchy theories were expressed in Markov chain form and were subjected to empirical test. Both models were disconfirmed. Corroborative multiwave correlational analysis also failed to support the need hierarchy concept. (Author/IRT)

Categorizes Maslow's human needs as survival needs and developmental or personhood needs; equates these needs with moral rights. Suggests that we have a moral obligation to help others enjoy their human rights, and that development agencies should expand their policies to encompass the development of both personhood and survival needs. (SV)

Results confirm that there is a significant tendency for homogamy between the traits of the subject and the traits of her fiance, as perceived by the subject. When the traits are not homogamous, there is a significant tendency for the fiance to resemble the subject's ideal self rather than her actual self. (Author)