The author defines a support curriculum for hearing impaired mainstreamed students; and considers the role of four categories of people--administration, classroom teachers, supportive personnel, and students. It is concluded that a support curriculum is one that is comprehensive, creative, flexible, and realistic. (SB)

The position of advising coordinator poses an administrative challenge. The advising coordinator must manage the provision of a service but not be a manager of advisors. The role is seen as important because of increasing emphasis on advising in many schools and colleges. (MLW)

The author outlines ways to integrate work identity and social identity in order to improve the quality of life. He presents a model for maintaining balance between personal and professional growth, which can stimulate achievement in six areas of human potential. (SK)

Analyzes the strains that result from an intensive community renewal and development project that was accompanied by intensive process-and-outcome evaluation research. The case study, which took place in an Israeli kibbutz, illustrates a dynamic development of an alternative interaction model with split-role differentiation. (Author)

A study to assess the differences in perception of social supports and stresses between Black and White students enrolled in the first-year class of a medical school with a significant number of minority students is discussed. It was discovered that Black medical students perceived more stresses. (Author/MLW)

The results suggest that mature women students may be more flexible in the sex-role identities and less tied to a nurturant, interpersonally oriented role but that they are not necessarily more ambitious, confident, or achievement-oriented than homemakers. (Author/DB)

Role models serve important functions for students, providing standards against which students can evaluate themselves, and motivating students toward innovative achievement. The findings of a study show that students tend to prefer models of the same sex. (Author/MLW)

The subjective, as well as the managerial aspects of the change from teaching faculty to administrator status, deserve attention. Sense of identity, social interactions, and scope of responsibility are some of the sources of tension and incongruity in an administrator's life. (MSE)

The three functions of a health educator are: (1) assessment of health and educational needs and interests of the target population; (2) design, implementation, and evaluation of health education activities to meet the goals of health education; and (3) coordination of resources that enhance the educational planning and implementation process. (CJ)

An expanded role, greater participation, visibility, and publicity would help to obviate the adverse stereotypes of the school nurse and would provide a foundation to address tasks and issues that adolescents and educators find pressing. (CJ)

Examined college students' perceptions of their ideal man and woman. Both male and female students, regardless of age or major saw the ideal man as having a "balanced" orientation and the ideal woman as having a self-orientation. College students' sex role perceptions appear to have changed. (Author)

Presents findings of a study that examined drawings made by first grade children after they had been read stories in which the protagonists were presented in the first person. Concludes that children perceive males as being larger than females and that sex role stereotypes develop prior to school entrance. (FL)

Adolescent consumer role perceptions were explored among 359 sixth- through twelfth-grade public school students. Results tend to support the notion that middle-school adolescents are generally experiencing the anticipatory stage and high school students are primarily at the formal stage of consumer role acquisition. (JH)

Different personalities will behave quite differently in similar circumstances and, however strong structural pressures may be, results may not be at all similar for two different personalities. (Author)

Two levels of prevention can be used to counter the key stressors of personnel at work; the first deals with organizational techniques and the second with individual techniques such as systematic desensitization, biofeedback, or aerobic exercise. (Author)