Contends that psychologists can benefit by understanding the religious development of religious clients. Reviews theories of religious development and research on a variety of issues involving religion over the life span. Investigates implications of theory and research on religious involvement in therapy and identifies important questions for…

Reports on the results of a survey of 243 female college and university students in 6 institutions of higher learning in Beijing, China, to determine the effects of reform. Discusses the ideological trends concerning self-evaluation, planning for the future, study abroad, and the concept of marriage and love affairs. (KO)

Reviews the literature on the role of family distress in the treatment of children's behavior disorders. Describes a system for integrating marital- and child-focused treatments and makes suggestions for improving the design of studies assessing the impact of contextual factors on parent-child interaction. (FMW)

Explored relationship of female and male undergraduate business majors' preferred future career-marriage arrangement to their relationship and work values, work motivation, and gender role orientation. Dual-career, career-job, and career-home groups showed significant differences on dimensions. Results are discussed in terms of factors underlying…

Analyzes the effect of parental divorce at adolescence to determine if young women, who initially coped well, experienced a significant reversal in adjustment in early adulthood. Results from a 10-year study found no significant differences in mean adjustment scores between girls from intact and divorced families at any time. (RJM)

Describes marriage and family in the Soviet Union today. Urges families to have three or more children despite a present trend toward two children per family. Encourages men to make an effort to share housekeeping chores with their wives. Discusses housing shortages, leisure activities, and divorce patterns. Suggests intermarriage as a social and…

Presents case study of Rosie, 35-year-old unmarried community college student who felt pressure to make a career choice and who, at the same time, desired to marry and become a homemaker. Figures are included which illustrate Rosie's profiles on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank and the Career Development Inventory. (NB)

Responds to case of Rosie, 35-year-old unmarried community college student who was struggling with decisions regarding career choice and her desire to marry and become a homemaker. Applies Career-Development Assessment and Counseling model to the case of Rosie. Concludes with suggestions for possible interventions in the case. (NB)

Responds to case of Rosie, 35-year-old unmarried community college student who was struggling with decisions regarding career choice and her desire to marry and become a homemaker. Approaches case from person-centered theoretical perspective. Presents author's partly intuitive process used to figure out the case, impressions and hypotheses, and a…

Responds to case of Rosie, 35-year-old unmarried community college student struggling with decisions regarding career choice and desire to marry and become a homemaker. Employs Individual Psychology, especially in addressing Rosie's stated sense of failure in each of three life tasks identified by Adler: social task of friendship; tasks of love…

This survey of 265 social work graduate students indicates that, although most students are committed to social work and express a strong interest in traditional social work client groups and practice, they plan to enter private practice as therapists. (Author/MLW)

Self-disclosure and marital satisfaction were studied among 125 males and females who were in their first remarriage. Essentially equal numbers had remarried in midlife (ages 30-45) and late life (ages 60-75). Employed the multidimensional Wheeless self-disclosure scales and Locke-Wallace measure of marital satisfaction. Discusses findings. (KW)

A self-administered questionnaire was filled out by 349 Jordanian men to examine the correlation between their patriarchal ideology and their beliefs about wife abuse. The results revealed that high percentages of Jordanian men tended to justify wife abuse, to blame women for violence against them, and to believe that women benefit from beating.…

National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and census data are used to examine the effect of both individual- and contextual-level determinants on Latinas' transition to first marriage (n = 745). Hypotheses derived from 4 leading theories of marriage timing are evaluated. Discrete-time event-history models that control for clustering within Labor…

Research was conducted to identify the events and experiences influencing the development of clinical self-confidence during the first year of client contact for beginning marriage and family therapists. Thirty-nine recent graduates of a master's degree training program participated in a semistructured interview in which they were asked to…