Too often, counselors engage in a game of hide-and-seek with bias, using their complicated measuring devices, their expertise in the empirical, their concepts of validity and reliability, their jargon, and all the other sophisticated paraphernalia of the trade to rationalize and protect their own biases and generalizations. Implications are…

The growing adult population in higher education highlights the need for student personnel workers to study adult development. The five propositions set forth here are intended to serve as a knowledge base for student personnel workers as they face their new clients. (Author)

At mid-life, many workers--including those in middle management jobs--face several decades of wearily repeating the same activities and are therefore boxed-in. Now there are signs of interest in breaking out of the box through industrial programs, educational programs, legislation, and counseling. (Author)

Discusses liberated counseling in terms of a combination of good helping skills, plus sex role knowledge. Counselors need to work with women and men where they are, as well as provide opportunities to move them further when they are ready. Presented at McCully Conference, University of Maryland, December, 1973. (Author/PC)

The inevitability of role transformations in adulthood--transformations that often involve crisis, conflict, and confusion--frame the case for adult guidance. To facilitate these changes and help clients regain a sense of control over their lives, counselors need to understand the decision-making process and the salient issues of adulthood.…

The author presents a decision-making model for women who are in the process of making career decisions and choices. Implications for going through this process are discussed. (HLM)