Provides a justification for identifying alternative work settings for school psychologists and describes one school psychologist's experience practicing in a business/industrial setting. The relationship between the services provided in this setting and the services traditionally provided by school psychologists in schools is described.…

Compares women defining themselves as retired with those defining themselves as housewives despite having worked outside the home. Examined variables are (1) work continuity, (2) occupation type, (3) work satisfaction, (4) number of years worked, (5) quitting age, and (6) full- versus part-time employment. (Author/CH)

Discusses the use of a system of sort cards that focus on the dilemmas of working women. The cards are used as a basis for therapy to help women focus on and come to terms with their ambivalences. (Author/ABB)

Alumni relations is defined as working to motivate alumni to be understanding and supportive of their university. The alumni association should be a community catalyst for moving people. A largely overlooked role for alumni is their involvement in the decision-making processes of a university. (MLW)

Although police stress has been a major concern in urban communities, little has been done to analyze and confront it in university communities. Sources of stress unique to university police are identified and ways administrators can mitigate them are discussed. (Author/MLW)

Used two-by-two factorial design employing two levels of age and two levels of work status to examine whether young people (N=126) ascribe different sick-role expectations to the elderly than to the middle-aged. Results partially supported contention that the young do ascribe an elderly sick role. (NRB)

Proposes a framework to describe how individuals attempt to maintain a personally satisfying compatibility between sex-role and work relevant self perceptions, attitudes and behavior. (Author)

Context shifting is an approach to training that aims to transform the participants' point of view, allowing them to create a new context in which to perform their jobs, a new way of defining their roles that motivates them to exhibit skills and use information. (SK)

To give trainees a deeper level of experience, instructors often use role plays. In a role play, of course, learners enact the situation rather than merely talk about it. In a significant way, role plays let learners escape the environment of the classroom in order to behave as they would in real life. (SSH)

Roles, perspectives, and skills of superintendents and their fit to the Organizational Elements Model (OEM) are examined by defining the elements in the model and providing examples of applications, analyzing superintendents' roles in the planning process, and discussing a method of determining the roles of superintendents in different situations.…

Discusses issues for the counselor who assumes the role of case manager for persons with serious emotional disabilities. Identifies five primary tasks including assessment, planning, linking, monitoring and advocacy. Effective case management requires a shift in professional identity from counselor to administrative clinician. (JAC)

Changes in the capacity, internal distribution of power, habits of work, and composition of state legislators have increased their involvement and assertiveness in educational policy formation, oversight, and control. (Author/MLF)

Notes that there are vast areas of art patiently awaiting the courage of the black person to assert his identity, to declare his genius, and, to give the world another view of man and his environment in through his vision. (Author/AM)

Updates important studies of women and blacks in mass media advertising and concludes that, in general, negative stereotyping still exists. (MH)