This paper provides a critical analysis of Mobile Learning projects published before the end of 2007. The review uses a Mobile Learning framework to evaluate and categorize 102 Mobile Learning projects, and to briefly introduce exemplary projects for each category. All projects were analysed with the criteria: context, tools, control,…

Authoring quality qualitative inquiry is a challenge for most researchers. A lack of local mentors can make writing even more difficult. To meet this need, The "Qualitative Report (TQR)" has helped authors from around the world develop their papers into published articles. "TQR" editorial team members will discuss the history of the journal, their…

Examines the many benefits that may result when biofeedback experiences are included in a counselor-education program. Protocol is enumerated for the implementation of biofeedback in counselor education. Objectives and procedures for each of the three stages are presented for the reader's evaluation. (Author)

The Gestalt techniques of staying in the present, focusing on self-awareness, using fantasy, and experimenting with opposites can facilitate working with critical rehabilitation problems. Adapting the Gestalt approach would provide trained counselors with the opportunity to add to their helping repertoire. (Author)

The basic aspects of an existential-humanistic program of counselor education are described. The pragmatic means by which the goals of the program will be achieved are also discussed. (Author)

This paper may be used in its written form as a roadmap, allowing the professional to explore his attitudes toward drugs and the drug user, or it may be used to aid in working with drug users and their families. (Author/PC)

The crusade to recruit "minority" students has now progressed far enough to draw some conclusions from the results. This article summarizes the minority student recruitment program in general and outlines some of the areas most in need of revision. (Author/PC)

California's pioneering premarital counseling law for minors went into effect on November 23, 1970. This presentation includes: a historical background, the implementation, the experience and impressions of the Conciliation Court, and the results of a statewide survey conducted to determine how other judicial jurisdictions in California were…

Reviews recent studies of family preservation and related family-strengthening programs. Estimates the effect sizes of outcomes in studies with control or comparison conditions. Also identifies a set of core services that characterize innovative family preservation programs in child welfare, multisystemic family treatment in juvenile justice, and…

The needs of Vietnam Veterans on a college campus are discussed and a case study is outlined to illustrate how one counselor effectively helped a veteran to handle his needs. (HMV)

Ths use of Canter's (1976) Assertive Discipline program as a schoolwide response to classroom problems is gaining nationwide support. The program is designed to provide educators with the competence and confidence necessary to assert their influence and deal effectively with discipline problems. The purpose of this article is to discuss the…

When considering the possibility of setting goals and objectives, library administrators must resolve a number of broad questions as to the time, effort, and commitment required by goal-setting and the utility of such goals to their staff and operations. A description of the goal-setting efforts of ten major libraries illustrates various steps in…

1977 was a year of continued and expanding efforts in the application of the geosciences to land-use planning, especially as they relate to geologic hazards, and elucidating the role of geology in public policy. The work of environmental geological programs is reviewed. (Author/MA)

Counselors will have the opportunity to share the experience of death with their counselees. If counselors are able to enter deeply into the experience of death with another person, they will find the experience one of the most significant and rewarding of their counseling career. (Author)

Fewer and fewer adults currently attend PTA, school board, church, and community meetings to discuss the problem of youthful drug abuse. Meetings focused around adult-adolescent interactions seem to produce greater response because of the hope they instill. (Author)