A range of assessment techniques revealed differences among groups in needs expressed in interpersonal settings, in affectionate and inclusive social behavior, in interests, and in past dating behavior and requests for current emotional counseling. Results indicate the anonymous student as defensive, self protective, and emotionally uncomfortable;…

The results demonstrate that members of skill groups have different psychological need profiles. Youth Opportunity Center counselors need to become more sensitive to these differences. Further research needs to be conducted to determine whether the need profiles of trainees are similar to the profiles of people successfully employed in the…

This 1967 "classic revisited" discusses the importance of the first of Whitehead's three stages of learning--Romance--and how it has been excluded from formal education for the sake of Precision. (CS)

Stresses need to create new social conditions to work out intergenerational tensions between youth and adults to provide status for the young. Paper presented at Sixth Annual Conference of American Association for Child Care in Hospitals in New York City, May, 1971. (DS)

Presented is a look at the feelings, attitudes and behaviors of the pregnant teenager while she awaits the birth of her child. Discussed also is her contact with her family, friends and social worker, and the decision she must make on keeping the child or placing it up for adoption. (CJ)

A centran theme, running through arguments for change in the discipline of psychology, is that academic psychology misses many of the essentially human aspects of life. This theme may be stated in terms of three main dimensions of differences: mechanistic-experimental, pure-applied, and individual-social. (Author/JB)

The dangerous physical and psychological consequences of the loss of hope are described, distinctions between hopelessness and depression are explored, and some methods of activating and using hope as a coping device in persons under acute stress are presented. (Author)

Undergraduate students who wished to enter sensitivity groups filled in Shostrom's Personal Orientation Inventory and also indicated their degree of loneliness. Ss low in loneliness obtained higher scores on the personality scale, with eight of the 12 subscales significantly different from Ss high in loneliness. (Author)

Describes the use, by a counselor, of a Magic Box" containing a mirror to help children recognize their own uniqueness. (CJ)

Expansion of research by L. D. Eyde (1962). Responses by 1,871 women to Eyde's Work Values Scale and to questionnaire indicate linkage between values and specific demographic variables. Need for more realistic guidance efforts to prepare girls and women for world of work. Paper presented at meeting of American Personnel and Guidance Association,…