Changing clienteles challenge institutions to respond to their needs. Today's adult graduate student requires expanded attention from student service providers as they move into, through, and out of their graduate experience. Examples of services for the new graduate student are discussed. (Contains 29 references.) (Author)

Describes an annual practicum fair at Texas A&M University. The two-hour session for information gathering on practicum sites is one of many ongoing activities that seeks to meet the needs of master's level students. Discusses the practicum requirements as well as the development of a practicum fair to meet the needs of graduate students. (GCP)

Investigated whether two editorial policies concerning the reporting of statistical information would affect readers' perceptions of research results in 4 experiments involving 194, 89, 78, and 69 undergraduate and graduate students. Results show that undergraduates were more likely to perceive research to be important when effect sizes were…

Describes a Research Support Group formed at Purdue University for doctoral students whose progress on their dissertations had stalled. Presents some preliminary outcome data; a discussion of the program's effectiveness, foregrounding the voices of the participants; and some projections for the future. (EV)

Describes a training program for graduate teaching assistants at the University of Aukland and a survey showing that support for such training across the campus was inconsistent; while teaching assistants often understood the efficacy of such programs, "decision makers" often did not. (EV)

Describes guidelines used in a teaching assistant development course for the University of California, Davis' physics department, and provides examples of activities that the guidelines inspired. The development course focused on meeting both short-term course preparation goals, and long-term professional development goals. (EV)

Used content analysis of audiotaped supervision sessions from 40 master's level counselor trainees and 40 field placement supervisors to study relation of supervisor and trainee gender to supervisory discourse. Findings indicated male and female supervisors reinforced female trainees' high-power messages with low-power, encouraging messages…

Asserts that intensive family simulation provides a bridge between classroom role plays and supervised practicums in family-therapy training. Presents such a simulation method and describes specific techniques in three distinct phases of intensive family simulation: family building, therapy simulation, and debriefing. (Author/NB)

Presents a student-to-student mentoring program, which matches current and incoming students to ease the new student's transition to and involvement in graduate school. Discusses details of the mentoring program, findings of an evaluation of the program, and recommendations for implementation of the program at other sites. (Author/NB)

Examined relationships among supervisor expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness and counselor trainee performance. Subjects were 17 supervisors and 31 master's degree-level trainees. Results showed that practicum supervisors' expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness were related to supervision outcome measures. Trustworthiness had…

Presents family autobiography as useful tool for counselor educators to help promote personal growth in counselor trainees. Discusses theoretical background on the influence of counselors' family of origin on their counseling and interactive skills, focusing on individuation and triangulation in the family of origin. Describes use of family…

Examined female counseling psychology doctoral students' (N=213) perceptions of type and extent of training received concerning lesbian and homosexual issues. Results indicated that female students received little exposure to lesbian or homosexual issues or clients and thus were not trained to work with these clients. Discusses further results and…

In an analog study of counseling performance anxiety among 24 master's-level students in counseling, personal construct theory accurately predicted increases in state anxiety as an end-of-semester counseling jury approached. (Author/TE)

Compared male and female graduate students (N=166) regarding the psychological stress symptoms and physical health complaints associated with different types of life-change events. Found that the effect size, in terms of psychological stress correlates, of life changes differed depending on the nature of the life change and sex of the student.…

Doctoral research in rehabilitation during 1982 and 1983 is reviewed. The methodology used to compile and categorize items in the bibliography is described along with reference citations, a summary, and observable trends. Includes 21-page bibliography of doctoral dissertations. (Author/NB)