Describes a workshop providing tools for self-confrontation and for acquiring self-help methods of making the desired changes in participants' daily lives. Many participants came to the realization that they are not passive victims of life, that they do make choices, and that they shape their lives by those choices. (Author/BEF)

Presents a group technique for secondary and postsecondary students whereby participants are assigned careers and are encouraged to examine their cognitive and affective reactions. Students engage in self-directed career exploration, decision making, and planning. They become proactive agencts in their own career development. (Author)

The Managing Independent Living Program provides instruction in reasoning skills to analyze career and life planning, housing, and consumer needs of persons in transition. Although the program was implemented and tested with adult female offenders, it is readily adaptable to both institutionalized and noninstitutionalized persons and for secondary…