Business students (N=25) and social work students (N=34) participated in a study measuring their perceptions of their use of power. No correlation emerged between age and perception of power. Social work students concentrating in interpersonal intervention seemed to account for much of the differences found. Social work students concentrating in…

Reviews the cognitive approaches to pain control and discusses how expectancy of success in general and self-efficacy in particular mediate successful outcomes. (Author)

Asserts that constraints on autonomy of elderly people with disabilities arise from low goal formulation and underestimated potentials for self-realization and full participation in society. Suggests utility of reviewing effects of Women's, Mentally Retarded, and Independent Living Movements to assess presence or absence of elements analogous or…

Defines rational and irrational romantic jealousy and gives a brief recommendation for counseling the irrationally jealous person. (ABB)

Assessed needs for achievement (nAch), affiliation (nAff), and power (nPwr) among working managers (62 males, 62 females). Results indicate that women managers have a higher nAch, a not significantly different nAff, and a higher nPwr than managerial men. (Author/BL)

Presents the basic principles and dichotomies underlying human development theories and describe three contemporary approaches to human development: behaviorism, maturationism, and structuralism. Illustrates how different theories are applied to counseling practice. (MCF)

Data from study of dominance in alcoholics' marriage (N=8 couples) revealed little support for contention that alcoholics are submissive or less influential than their spouses. Alcohol may reduce discrepancy between alcoholics' perceptions of their influencing ability and their actual performance, supporting models of alcoholism and marriage which…

The authors examine the meaning of independence for persons with a disability, note two prerequisites (access to the same opportunities of life and capacity to participate in those activities), and explore strategies to help disabled persons learn to choose how to live their lives (including personal life planning, problem solving instruction, and…

Assessed treatment progress and attitudes, especially perceptions of choice, of adolescents (N=55) in a residential social rehabilitation facility. Results showed that treatment attitudes and progress did not differ with regard to initial placement conditions; however, progress was significantly related to perceived choice about remaining in…

Outlines the uses of power in the position of principal. Includes definitions of types of power and explains how to implement an empowering approach that enables principals to have power "with" not "over" their teachers. (MD)

Focuses on the department chair's use of power and concludes that abdicating the power that accompanies this position is tantamount to abdicating the position. (PD)

The paper presents a rationale for including choice-making as an important skill area for persons with severe disabilities. Behavioral approaches of conceptualizing choice-making are identified, and procedures are suggested for teaching choice-making skills, integrating opportunities for exercising them, and fostering choice-making skills through…

This review of recent literature suggests that there exist gender-based problems in counselor training supervision. Several of these problems are discussed in this paper. Though opinions of counselors appear, for the most part, to support stereotypes, actual measurements of supervisor behaviors suggest that stereotypical definitions may not always…

In the context of decision making, swinging can be viewed as a male institution, and confirmation of the advent of a sexual revoluation'' and of the abolution of the double standard should be reconsidered. (Author)

The effects of supervision on the social workers's autonomy and productivity are analyzed in this article. Suggestions are made for more effective professional operation even within the often unavoidable bureaucratic structure. (Author)