Describes the major features of mid-life transition and the associated mid-career crisis before outlining what can be done in organizations to meet the challenges of mid-life transition. (Author/IRT)

Recreational programs involving experience in outdoor activities for groups provide education as well as adventure. (JD)

Students can be motivated to write if they can be brought to understand writing as a means of transforming reality and transcending their feelings of powerlessness. (DD)

Provides two illustrations of experiences with critical barriers as described in the previous article. The point of view taken is that of a student trying to understand new ideas. (MA)

The ultimate value of high-adventure, risk recreation may be that a person confronts existentially the decision of whether or not to venture forth into the unknown. Choice is exercised, the mind and body committed, and the consequences accepted. No one is drafted into the activity. (Author)

The "naturalism" of Jean Jacques Rousseau offers a philosophical base for wilderness survival: the renewal of participants in nature so that they can reenter civilization with a proper balance of natural and civil liberty. (MJB)

The article examines the special role that a school provides in an overall treatment experience and in the personal growth of a patient living in a therapeutic community. (Author/NQ)

Biorhythms are the flows of energy that change periodically. The key to using our personal biorhythmic pattern or "body clock" lies in plotting our pattern of highs and lows. (ABM)

Twelve college professors attending an instructional improvement workshop were compared with appropriate matched controls on changes in self-actualization as measured by the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI). Results indicated that workshop participants increased their scores on 6 of 12 scales of the POI while control professors' scores…

A program of education is outlined that would provide individual growth experiences radically different from those that take place in the classroom. (JD)

Three major modalities of Gestalt therapy, awareness, experiment, and contactful encounter, and illustrative Gestalt methods are introduced in the context of sex therapy. (Author)

In an outpouring of metaphysical anguish, Adrian Redman exhorts his companion, his own pilgrim self, and an uncompassionate society to forego the dichotomy of creativity/conformity--the necessity of absolute choice--in favor of spontaneity, freedom, and joy in the unique development of each individual from a (metaphorical) pupa to a butterfly.…

Wants counseling to include more focus on the dialectical process of personal change. Dialectics, in Lenin's words "reveals the transitory character of everything and in everything...the uninterrupted process of becoming and passing away...." Contradiction, conflict, and ambivalence are affirmed, in this approach, as the essential,…

Challenges the typical treatment of causal effects in longitudinal data, arguing that models should be conceptualized and tested in ways that directly reflect prior assumptions as to the trait- or state-like nature of the variables. Examples demonstrate that meaningful longitudinal studies of state variables can be conducted without assuming their…

Describes the Traveling School of Santa Cruz, California, in which students in grades 7-12 travel across the United States and parts of Canada. While following a conventional curriculum and learning about the areas visited, students also achieve personal development through the experience of living with classmates and staff members. (AEM)