The purpose of this article is to share the author's group leader counseling experiences and to provide an outline of certain techniques, personal ideas, observations, and reactions that might provide assistance and direction for other counselors. (Author)

Development of student leaders has been identified as an important need on college campuses. Experience drawn from numerous training sessions for various student leadership situations has led to a leadership training model based upon five propositions for effective training. (Author)

Student services must be directed toward the overall needs of education. They must decline to be an isolated segment of the institution rendering services ancillary to the "academic" mission of the college and move toward collegewide involvement and commitment to fostering the personal-psychological growth and development of all people. (Author)

Describes why and how Florida State developed a new career planning course that helps students formulate realistic goals. The course is designed to initiate self-motivated individual study through structured exercises, video tapes, bibliographies and guest speakers. The instructors also provide for individual counseling and discussion. (Author/PC)

A paraprofessional and a professional team up to look at the best and the worst in current human service, and they challenge us to support the evolution of the "new professional." (Author)

Investigated the prediction of success in the six-year combined undergraduate and medical education program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Implications for selection policy are considered. (Author)

As a youth group adviser, the teacher has an obligation to offer more than what is available in the classroom. The most important lesson being learned is living as an individual, but within the bounds of acceptable behavior. (Author/BP)

The villain that prevents people from building a sense of community is themselves; their ambivalence about the community and their wish not to get too close to each other. (Author/EA)

Education consists of three important facets: reflection, action, and systematic instruction. Various mixtures of these components should be available to meet the needs of persons at the various stages of life, of persons in different groups, and of persons in different types of communities. (Author/WM)

According to Jaan Valsiner, development takes place within culturally structured environments jointly organized by the activities of children and the people around them. When overlap between promoted activity and the child's zone of proximal development exists, the structure of action that results from the interplay of the two is internalized by…

First-borns who were only children (onlies) and first-borns who had a sibling were compared on measures of intelligence from late adolescence at 18 years of age to late middle age at 60. The sample was composed of 38 female and 33 male first-born subjects from one- and two-child families. Wechsler Bellevue Intelligence Scale scores at late…

This investigation explored relationships between parenting stress, dyadic adjustment, and social support in families with normal healthy infants of 18 months of age. It was expected that parenting stress would be high when social support was absent and that this would be related to poor marital relationships. Participants were 34 families…

This paper discusses the utility of a general systems theory paradigm for psychology. The paradigm can be used for conceptualizing such complex phenomena as change over time in living systems, person-society interactions, and the epistemology of multiply determined changes. Consideration is also given to applications of the approach to…

To evaluate outcomes in infants of very low birth weight born in 1982-83 to families of extremely low socioeconomic status (SES), 33 infants who weighed less than 1001 grams at birth and survived the nursery period were followed for 1 year. The sample was 79 percent Hispanic and 58 percent female. Mean birth weight was 868 grams and mean…

Universal and culture-specific aspects of caregiver contributions to children's emerging play activities during the one-word period were studied in research designed to meet criteria for ecological validity. The sample included seven Mexican caregiver/child pairs in a major urban setting and eight pairs in a rural setting. All caregivers came from…