The author maintains that mid-career changes should be viewed as a natural step in a career pattern rather than a radical shift that forsakes all that went before. She outlines some considerations for counselors. (Author)

Continuing Education serves many purposes for adults. Enhancing life and contributing to career change at mid-life are two of the most important purposes. (Author)

Recent books relevant to the counseling of adults and adult development are here briefly reviewed. Relevance was interpreted to eliminate books dealing solely with the years beyond mid-life. Recency is used to include books from 1972 on. (Author)

Describes the sociological, economic, and psychological considerations that are encouraging persons to seek new mid-life educational, career, and life style changes. Discusses these considerations and the counselor's role. (Author)

This is a preliminary statement of a theory of psychosocial periods in the development of men from the end of adolescence to the middle 40s. The theory has emerged from a study of 40 men currently in the mid-life decade (age 35-45). The method was biographical. (Author)

This article briefly delineates the major problems of older women who feel "over the hill" and suggests ways that counselors can be increasingly effective in their efforts to understand and work with these women. (Author)

Indicates that women experiencing a midlife crisis pass through five recognizable stages: (1) feeling trapped, (2) the first change, (3) multiple changes, (4) rational planning, and (5) implementing the plan. (NKA)

Love and romance continue to be important issues within every age group, not merely among the usually studied college students. Two issues, the nature or intensity of the love experienced and the motives or purposes of love were examined for different age groups. The ways in which the pursuit of heterosexual love may change throughout adult life…

A systematic review and critique of the work of midlife researchers and theorists such as Gould, Vaillant, Jung, Newman and Levinson, among others, indicates that: (1) a midlife transition period exists from approximately 35 to 55 and lasts as many as 10 years for both men and women; (2) a series of unique and fundamental biological, psychosocial,…