Teachers must first become confident with their own writing before they can guide students toward being effective writers. Insight into understanding writing behavior and developing trust and control are offered. (DF)

When counselor educators carefully design a group-counseling course that focuses on personal growth, an increase in self awareness on the part of counselors-in-training can occur, in addition to the acquisition of new counseling skills. This article describes such a course. (Author/HMV)

The author identifies insights into the adolescent experience provided by a developmental-existential approach. She explains principles for applying the approach to the treatment of adolescent difficulties. (Author)

The importance of a candid evaluation of the departmental chairperson's own performance is discussed. Questions are provided as an aid in probing some of the critical concerns of a departmental staff. (HD)

Health educators should be aware of people as growth aspiring, with a basic nature of goodness, and that individuals need to experience those qualities within themselves which produce health and a zest for living. (JD)

Discusses the assumptions for educational reform in the light of the general goals of the socialist state, the place of educational planning in the system of integral planning, and the importance of demographic forecasts and the demand for qualified staff for educational planning. (Author/IRT)

This book is intended for teachers and parents who want to give their students and children inspiring models to imitate in developing positive character traits and attitudes. In the book are individuals from today (like Bill Cosby) or people in the past (like Abraham Lincoln) who will inspire children. In all, the book portrays 75 people of…

This article presents the third study of a series that has been designed to manifest consciousness and to measure developed competence. The emphasis of the main hypothesis of this experiment has been put on the students ability to adapt to the main idea of a given story and to express his comprehension verbally. The way the two students of the…

Designed for use in in the home and in professional child-care settings, this program presents developmentally appropriate activities to support development of infants from 1 to 2 years of age. Each of the six 2-month long units contains 24 sets of activities call Activity Plans, with the suggestion to use three activity plans per week. Each unit…

Following the assumptions of ecological socialization research, adequate analysis of socialization conditions must take into account the multilevel and multivariate structure of social factors that impact on human development. This statement implies that complex models of family configurations or of socialization factors are needed to explain the…

Lehman College of the City University of New York has begin a 5-year project to improve the retention of first-time, full-time regularly admitted freshmen through the implementation of a student development model. The development of this model is described and the results of some preliminary studies are presented. As part of the project,…

As a valuable addition to substance abuse treatment, adventure programming can have positive impacts on clients' self-efficacy, social behavior, and problem solving. A study explored the extent to which traditional substance abuse treatment programs use adventure programming, the level of adventure training and experience among substance abuse…

The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) is a new approach to gathering information about collegiate quality on a national basis. The survey asks students to rate their level of participation in a variety of activities that have been shown to relate to academic and personal development. Other parts of the survey asks students to disclose…

This annotated bibliography contains 247 citations of research-based literature on the use of wilderness for personal growth, therapy, education, and leadership development. The annotations are divided into 2 periods: 1995-2001 (60 citations) and prior to 1995 (187 citations). Within each period, the entries are categorized according to the…