Data acquired in personal interviews administered to physicians and nurses who participated in the first year of the Home Care for the Child with Cancer project provided descriptions of individual sources of social support. The results reveal a range of supportive mechanisms and networks within varied institutional contexts. (Author)

Describes resources available to parents involved in intercountry adoption. Emphasizes the importance of links between prospective adoptive parents and others who have experienced the adjustment process. (Author/RH)

Evaluates effect of the counselor's level of anxiety on students taking part in test anxiety desensitization workshops. Results indicate the number of sessions attended by students is inversely related to the counselor's level of anxiety. Implications for counselor screening in desensitization work are mentioned. (Author)

Examines selected areas of education, training, and needed awareness for caregivers working with the woman alcoholic. The training of alcoholism and drug caregivers is viewed from a multidimensional perspective. Attempts to describe important issues which must be recognized and integrated into existing training efforts. (Author)

Discusses the causes, symptoms and treatment of allergies that affect children's development, learning, peer relationships and behavior in the classroom. (CM)

The need for child care services in the light of increasing parental dislocations is pointed out, and illustrations are given of a variety of child care arrangements. (JD)

Summarizes research in the area of evaluation of counselor effectiveness. Evaluation of the counseling process continues to focus on the presence of absence of the core facilitative conditions. Counselor educators have focused on means of presenting counseling experiences and of providing feedback regarding trainee performance. (Author)

School officials can use school nurses' sickroom records to improve health and accident prevention programs. (JD)

The goodness of fit of a first-order Markov chain model to six counseling interviews was assessed by using chi-square tests of homogeneity and simulating sampling distributions of selected process characteristics against which the same characteristics in the actual interviews were compared. The model fit four of the interviews. Presented at AERA,…

Examines some different ways that a client's crisis affects the social worker who is attempting to help him resolve his crisis, the agency or facility within which the worker operates, and the community in which all three function. (Author/RK)

The author proposes affection training as an alternative to sexual reorientation for homosexuals. This training emphasizes the expansion of behavioral repertories rather than the sexual preference of an individual. Presented at the annual convention of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, San Francisco, 13 December 1975. (Author)

Three major theorists in career and personnel development stress the importance of the individual in counseling and reconfirm the right of every client to ask how much counselors consider the individual in job placement. (Author)

The present paper describes an alternate response to the problem of juvenile status offenders (JSO). The intervention is based on a psychological conception of the problem rather than a legal one. Specifically, family therapy is the core of the intervention strategy. An evaluation of this program is reported. (Author)

This article discusses the impact on one counselor and the culminating development of the unique interviewing technique of openly sharing the written record with the client which answers the patient's age-old question of what the therapist is thinking about him and his problems. (Author)