In this article, the author defines humanistic intervention and discusses the results of his experiences in humanizing his interventions. (Author)

This paper discusses the helping relationship concept, its relationship to the reference process, and the problems of teaching the concept to pre- and in-service librarians. A teaching unit is described. (Author/KP)

Each utterance of a psychotherapy session conducted by Carl Rogers was transcribed on a separate card. Fifteen undergraduate subjects reconstituted client-therapist sequences more accurately than therapist-client sequences. (Author)

A Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum project is used to demonstrate the kinds of support a staff developer needs from the school district. These include financial support for various expenses as well as support in the form of reinforcement and idea sharing. (Author/MT)

Interviewed 93 divorced adult children of elderly parents concerning parent-child interpersonal and helping relationships. Respondents reported feeling close to elderly parents, having compatible parent-child relationships with little conflict, and helping parents out of love and desire to protect them from need. Respondents cited lack of money…

Analyzes Oetting and Beauvais's article on Peer Cluster Theory and drug use, agreeing with their focus on the role of the individual, the environment, and experience with use of a substance, but disagreeing with the notion of physical dependence. Advocates that society give children the competencies, values, and opportunities to find superior…

Encourages counselors to write for publication. Provides guidelines for developing a writers' support group to provide encouragement and understanding for personal and professional growth in writing. Includes group tasks for helping members submit work for publication. (ABB)

Reviews short-term approaches and strategies for group treatment of emotionally disturbed inpatients. Offers a sample of educational, preventive, and task-oriented treatment in groups as applied to psychiatric patients. (Author/ABB)

Assessed care afforded the elderly through informal support networks, particularly their families, as opposed to formal services. Focused on strain experienced by primary caregivers, who tended to be women. Analyzed instrumental aid (tangible aid and service referral) and expressive support given by role models and confidants who provided a form…

When an elementary school's most disruptive students were invited to write an advice column about school-related and personal problems, the students were not only genuinely helpful, but also felt better about themselves and began to solve their own problems. (CB)

Asserts that graphics offer numerous advantages in counseling, that creative thinking about the problems and situations children face can lead counselors to additional applications of graphics, and that through graphics counselors can help children gain understanding of their circumstances and control of their choices. (NB)

Four programs, two for preservice graduate students and two for inservice teachers, in which teachers were encouraged to analyze their teaching with a partner, are presented. The sessions to support teacher partnerships, how new patterns of teaching were demonstrated, and the extent to which teachers conducted cooperative projects are described.…

Describes a case study illustrating organizational and system contingencies for introducing and maintaining a support group for oncology nursing staff in a large general hospital culture. Criteria for long-run survivability of innovation in a work system are applied to a group structured like that described by Balint for training physicians in…

Examines the use of the small group modality for providing helping services in religious settings and the use of religious-spiritual content in small helping groups. Includes a review and critique of various types of services, including group therapy, marital treatment, marriage enrichment, growth groups, and assertion training. (Author/ABB)

Compared the neighbor support given to 226 widows who were categorized into three groups: those who had one or more children in the same city, those who had children who resided elsewhere, and those who were childless. Multivariate analyses revealed differences between these groups on various measures of neighbor support. (Author/NRB)