Examines ways in which scientist-practitioner model has been implemented in admissions and training processes of psychology programs. Notes that institutional pressures on counseling psychology faculty have led to admissions procedures that are highly biased in favor of science. Gives recommendations for admissions and training procedures that can…

Conducted review to integrate information from selected journal articles, book chapters, and a few books published in 1991 about careers. From 400 identified sources, selected over 140 entries and organized them under 3 broad categories of Understanding Careers, Context of Careers, and Career Interventions. Each category was subdivided into…

Notes that, although most contributors to career development literature have acknowledged Erikson as father of construct of identity, none has succeeded in formulating construct of identity that is more than caricature of Erikson's thinking. Suggests that what is needed is serious look at the requirements for formulating feasible, dynamic,…

Discussion among health professionals of how they use theory in practice is intended to help theoreticians develop more useful theory and practitioners increase their understanding of the utility of good theory. (SK)

To give practitioners greater control of theory, myths about theory must be dismantled; limitations in theories currently guiding practice must be acknowledged; and theory to fill the gaps and build a more adequate knowledge base must be developed. (SK)

An overview of literature that purports to be an introduction to adult education sociology and contributes to the liberal-radical debate concludes that there is no distinct, developed sociology of adult education. Causes of the lack include the wide range of practices, curricula, and institutions and the gap between theorists and policymakers and…

Demonstrates how theory can alter as it "travels" from another region of inquiry into composition by examining Elaine Maimon's essay "Knowledge, Acknowledgment, and Writing across the Curriculum: Toward an Educated Community." Discusses how Maimon changes Stanley Fish's theory of "interpretive communities." (PRA)

Reviews issues raised in ongoing debate between advocates of eclecticism and proponents of single-theory-based counseling. Sees essential issue for field of mental health counseling to be need to build theory base specific to profession. Asserts that adequate theory must be based on defining principles of mental health counseling profession and…

Training can be improved by providing a theoretical base for practice. Criteria for selecting useful theory include generality, relevance, consistency, completeness, testability, centrality, and usability. (SK)

Examines findings from key studies into image and publics and proposes a new model integrating and collapsing both concepts. Notes that the model explains the process of attaining an image. Argues for a reconceptualization of image and for a reconceptualization of public. (SR)

Responds to previous article by Gelso and Carter (this issue) on components of psychotherapy relationship: working alliance, transference configuration, and real relationship. Considers difficulty in discriminating between transference and real relationship, both at conceptual and measurement levels. Also sees concept of real relationship as vague…

Clinical scholarship begins with reflective observation of patients but differs from clinical research. It results in knowing based on informed, intelligent, and clinically grounded analysis. It is a more appropriate approach for some kinds of problems. (SK)

Discusses the need for a bridge between the literatures of contemporary media studies and critical pedagogy. Argues that the theorization of pedagogy offers significant contributions in both the classroom and in the literatures of contemporary media and cultural studies. Describes a course on the theory and practice of the video documentary, and…

Argues that production should be treated seriously as a form of research. Asserts that such research contributes to production theory and to an overall understanding of the media. Presents a new idea about what kind of knowledge comes from production and what kind of written research typically results from this knowledge. (PRA)

Argues that the preparation of professional English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) teachers should be based on the development of "theory of action"--a thoughtful, systematic, and principled rationale underlying practice--by means of continual interaction between the theoretical and practical components of a course. (22 references) (JL)