Reports the findings of a study of 210 Chilean male and female adolescents on a 12-pont semantic differential scale. Comparisons were made for 7 concepts related to sex roles. Significant differences occurred between the boys' and girls' rating of the traits of men and women, but the differences were no larger than for other national samples.…

Focus in this article is on a taxonomy approach to mental retardation nursing but which could be developed for other clinical specialties as well. (Editor/MB)

This paper proposes the use of a role definition approach to interpreting the influence of Congressional decisions on the administration of a federally supported university adult education program. (EB)

Aim of this study is to provide a qualitative and descriptive picture of the self concept configurations of high, medium and low achievers. Charts. (Author)

The refusal of schools to give serious consideration to individuals and their self-conceived roles until school goals are achieved causes those children who cannot meet these goals to see themselves as failures and become discipline problems. (CK)

It was concluded on the basis of the data that there is little connection between the way in which a chief student personnel administrator in a large university is trained and the way in which he perceives his role. In that sense, training did not make a difference. (Author)

Normal sexual development is reviewed with respect to physical maturation, sexual interests, sex drive", psychosexual competence and maturity, gender role, object choice, children's concepts of sexual differences, sex role preference and standards, and psychosexual stages. Biologic, psychoanalytic and psychosocial theories are briefly considered.…

Schmidt and Strong's data (same journal, v17, 1970) on student ratings of the expertness of counselors versus training and experience of the counselors subjected to a least squares test, indicate that expertness as judged by students is not correlated in any simple way with experience but rather that the students liked one of the counselors,…

Observations based on psychodrama with deaf people, relating to interaction between people and the communication process, are made. How role training skills, which involve some of the skills of psychodrama, can be applied by professionals in vocational and social learning situations is illustrated. (KW)

The results yielded little evidence that the two methods of supervision were significantly different. More than half of the variance in how a trainee expected to be perceived by his clients was accounted for by knowing how he perceived his supervisor. (Author)

The new developmental role of the nurse, as it is emerging, charges the nurse with the responsibility of educating the people under her care so that they will function more efficiently in their environments. (EB)