Discusses a preventive approach to health which incorporates an understanding of how stress operates in modern organizations and its effect on organizational members. Describes two impact studies that suggest stress and life-style management training have a positive outcome. Suggests a protective health-management paradigm. (Author)

Studies how teachers respond to environmental stress and whether certain personality traits are related to these response patterns. Concludes that generalized personality traits are indicative of teaching styles that emerge in response to anxiety-provoking environmental conditions. Tables included. (Author/JLF)

An ecosystem approach to the management of dysfunctional stress in a medical education setting is described. Students described the major stressors as information-input overload, shortage of time, inadequate feedback regarding performance, and poor quality of interpersonal relationships. Appropriate interventions were designed. (Author/MLW)

Programs in special education and business with implications for reducing teacher stress and burnout are described. Included are inservice programs focusing on personal and environmental stressors as well as on administrative remedies. (CL)

Balancing the functions of career planning (CP) and placement (PL) can be done. These issues differ from those of other career services directors. The College Placement Council meetings should cover issues such as winning faculty support for CP and evaluating CP and PL services. (Author/BEF)

There are many stress-producing factors in the life of a teacher. While discipline seems to be the major problem, social and personal problems also increase the pressure of daily living. Changing negative attitudes and widening limited perspectives will help to combat the inevitable stress of teaching. (JD)

Suicide, especially among young people, continues to be a leading cause of death in the United States. Counselors can prevent it by being alert to the warning signs and responding directly to the client in a caring, supportive manner. (JAC)

Professional women may have difficulties combining the role of professional worker with that of wife and mother. Describes common issues which face women, discusses methods for coping with competing demands, and presents a structured approach for helping women conceptualize the issue and choose appropriate intervention strategies. (Author)

Performance and persistence on the Concealed Figures Test and the Embedded Figures Test decreased: (1) after short-duration failure when subjects were falsely led to attribute failure to task difficulty; and (2) after long-duration failure when subjects were falsely led to attribute failure to lack of ability. (CP)

The article briefly explains three stages of small group development and suggests ways to apply existing knowledge of group dynamics to outdoor education settings. The article explains the role of expectation, conflict, and stress in behavior change that occurs in the context of extended field excursions. (SB)

Symbolic interaction and frame analysis are viewed as complimentary approaches. This is illustrated by student evaluation of teaching as an institutionalized method of increasing accountability, and the meaning of these evaluations for administrators, faculty, and students is considered against the background rules of relationship among the three…

The empirical research on job stress and employee health is reviewed within the context of six facets (environmental, personal, process, human consequences, organizational consequences, and time) of a seven facet conceptualization of the job stress-employee health research domain. Models are proposed for tying the facets together. (Author/SJL)

Questionnaires distributed during a "Teacher Stress" in-service workshop revealed that 46 percent of these teachers were dissatisfied with their job as a whole and, if they had it to do all over again, would not choose teaching as a career. More specific responses are discussed. (Author/SJL)

The medical and psychological literature pertaining to personal and organizational strategies for handling job stress is reviewed. The paucity of scientific research in this domain is emphasized as is the lack of involvement by industrial/organizational psychologists. (Editor)

This paper addresses itself to the reasons why suicide tends to repeat in some families. Factors include entire family exposure to stresses, grief, and guilt induced by suicide, the provision of a model by the original suicide, suicidogenic interpersonal styles in families, suicidogenic child-rearing practice, and innate predispositions to…