Sexual assault on college campuses has become an epidemic requiring institutions to respond. Through Title IX, all educational institutions receiving federal financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Education must have a Title IX coordinator and must respond to allegations of sexual assault. Little specific guidance for how to…

Although the term interpersonal leadership has been well established within the literature, there remains a dearth of theoretically derived models that specifically address the comprehensive nature of the underlying leader behaviors and activities. The intent of the present article is to attempt to synthesize the existent leadership models,…

Social workers rarely receive education and training in the areas of grief, bereavement, and death and dying, which may lead to difficulties in compassionately and ethically addressing concerns in end-of-life or grief-related contexts. This article presents actual and potential outcomes from three challenging end-of-life case studies using…

The teaching personal and social responsibility (TPSR) in physical education (PE) has a research base dating back some years. There is significant literature pertaining to senior students, the underserved, problem youth in America, teaching responsibility in gym settings, and through PE and in special projects. At the fore-front of this literature…

This paper extends models of relationship types through the use of balance theory as developed by Heider and expanded by Cartwright and Harary. This model is then used to assess the stability and satisfaction of interpersonal relationships, describing the dyad (or larger groups) as a system or functioning entity. (Author)

Family therapy is primarily focused upon interpersonal or transactional issues. Gestalt therapy is particularly well suited for short term work on intrapersonal and boundary issues. This paper shows how the selective integration of the two approaches provides a significant, new dimension in the development of family therapy. (Author)

This study assessed individual psychotherapy outcome after systematically matching patients and therapists on a set of 11 psychological variables selected by factor-analytic techniques. Using therapists' ratings of therapy outcome as the criterion, five regression equations evolved that validly and reliably predict outcome for certain patient or…

Conflict generally exists in relationships between families of disabled individuals and care agencies, with the amount of conflict depending on the condition and age of the handicapped person, sociocultural level of the family, and characteristics of the agencies. A model is proposed for improved dialogue between families and professional teams.…

Discusses types of authority (bureaucratic, personal, technical-rational, professional, moral, cultural, and ideological) and their implications for teacher supervision. Supervision is a helping profession, in service of the teacher. The heart of supervision lies in its relationships and its mission to improve the total teaching/learning…

The author describes a three-step technique for helping couples communicate better with each other. This technique involves an acknowledgement of verbal renunciation of the right to vent anger through fighting, and a request for help. (Author/HLM)

The Invitational Learning model, developed by William Purkey and others, is a philosophical framework for counseling and development based on perceptual theory that emphasizes the importance of an "inviting" stance in human interaction. This paper focuses on the inviting process and its application to professional helping relationships.…

A guide for faculty advisers is presented that addresses aspects of the advising process that are often not discussed. Objectives are to accomplish the following: to provide a working definition and theoretical framework for advising, to show with model conversations the theory in practice, to provide procedures for advisor self-evaluation, and to…

Recently, interest has increased in self-help groups, lay referral networks, social support networks, natural helpers, and others which may be placed under a single conceptual umbrella--socially indigenous help--because they all deal with the issue of how people use other people, social groups, and lay institutions to alleviate problems in living,…

Some selected performance aspects indicated to be predictive of counsel/social worker effectiveness are examined. The interpersonal variables examined were selected according to the conceptual and research model for assessment of the helping relationship advanced by Carkhuff. From this model of assessment the following hypothesis was developed;…

Family conservation is a new approach for strengthening nuclear families on a system level. The family communiversity is an agency developed to effect that approach. A discussion of family conservation on the systems level concerns the need for coping with those forces detrimental to families. The objective of family conservation is to maximize…