A task-based and a values-based model used to measure nurses' occupational image were examined. Assessment of the discriminant validity of the values-based model and the generalizability of the task-based model tended to support the latter. (Author/JOW)

Explores some of the difficulties children of alcoholics experience in separating from their homes. Describes relationship fantasies used by adolescents to work through unresolved feelings about their families. Discusses the nature of these fantasy types: nurturance, self-sufficiency, incompetence, perfectionist, revenge, and…

Used ethnographic methodologies in day care setting to explore potential impacts of changing roles and changing dependencies on women, children, and families. Findings suggest various supports for women and families that will enhance the environment of child care and facilitate interactive child development. (Author/NB)

Identifies seven myths about counselor supervisor roles and activities dealing with theory, roles, process, and professional issues. Offers suggestions for improving the congruence between supervision literature and actual practice. (Author/NB)

The well-informed principal should understand the parameters involved in developing and maintaining an effective school guidance program. Principals must learn about information sources, professional counseling organizations, and effective program characteristics; keep current on legislation, litigation, and regulation developments; work…

Questions the current role of student affairs in higher education. Explores higher education and the evolution of student affairs, then examines the dynamics and context for the professional development of student personnel services. Draws on the historical relevance of the student affairs points of view and offers a new vision and new challenge…

Discusses one teacher's phenomenological journey toward understanding of the beginning teacher experience, focusing on possibilities for being and the importance of pedagogic caring demonstrated by two novice teachers, Jane and Kim. Views pedagogy as a way of observing, listening, and relating to children, not as a learnable technique or action.…

Examines role sender (faculty) perceptions of nonacademic staff involvement in four major university governance areas, considering the possible effects of faculty rank, institutional type, and nonacademic staff type. Results suggest limited governance roles for nonacademic employees in complex organizations where faculty are primary role-senders…

Critiques the few scholarly reports found on interventions to help dual-earner couples share domestic labor and to increase fathers' temporal involvement in child care. Presents model of forces both constraining and driving equitable participation in domestic labor. Recommends model as basis on which to design, implement, and evaluate family life…

This reprinted 1970 article examines the role of the university research administrator and finds that the role involves paradoxes between controller and entrepreneur, master and slave, censor and publicist, and traditionalist and innovator. (DB)

Provides overview of the vital role a sound admission program plays in helping an institution fulfill its mission. Notes that, in the future, admission directors will need to implement the concept of strategic planning, and that strategic decision making will be needed in the future student recruitment environment. (NB)

Examined biases in spouses' reports of relative distribution of child care responsibility. Married couples (n=268 couples) estimated each spouse's contribution to 32 specific child care tasks and to 5 global aspects of child care responsibilities, and completed Spanier dyadic adjustment scale. Found that spouses gave themselves more credit for…

Notes that, during sentencing phase of capital trial, social worker can have potentially powerful influence on proceedings by presenting comprehensive, reliable social history, and expert opinion based on accepted theory and research regarding human behavior in social environment. Reviews social worker's role as expert witness, ethical issues,…

Notes that, although occupational social workers routinely assist employees with alcohol- or drug-related problems, workers with disabling problems such as back pain, paralysis, and cancer have not received much attention. Presents analysis of issues confronting workers with disabilities and their employers and provides information about…

Finds that black representation in television ads exceeded the percentage population distribution of blacks in 1991; lower valued products had higher black model-product interaction than higher valued products; and "black-oriented" shows had a greater percentage of all black ads, ads with blacks in major roles, and ads depicting blacks in skilled…