A new concept of the training and development responsibilities of organizations is proposed. A fundamental way to be of service to people in organizations is to help them examine their life goals and plans as a means of achieving their own potential. (EB)

In laboratory training, the systematic use of feedback as a learning mechanism, along with strategies to involve the participants, constitute major departures from more classic teaching-learning techniques. (EB)

Seeing archetypally is educationally significant. A curriculum that uses dream speech provides a new dispensation for learning about the self and culture. Teachers skilled in following images could connect students first to their prime dream images and then to cultural expressions of these images. (CJ)

Argues that in analyzing effects of early experience on development of cognitive competence, theoretical analyses as well as empirical investigations should be based on a transactional model of development. Shows optimal stimulation hypothesis, particularly the enhancement prediction, seems to represent a transactional approach to the study of…

Discusses results from questionnaires distributed to men and women who were in elementary school between 1900-1930 to determine the amount of teacher influence on their ideas, values developed, teacher as a personal example, and amount of impact on career choice. Concludes that teachers were important in the way the respondents' lives took shape.…

Positive and negative sexual messages are communicated by parents to their children, verbally and nonverbally. The impact of parental messages upon the sexuality of youth appears relatively straightforward for males but quite complex for females. Educational approaches are suggested to be used to recycle early parental sexual messages. (Author/PN)

Relates the special problems of the homosexual adolescent, focusing specifically on negative social bias and its effect on the adolescent's psychological development and identity formation. (Author/CM)

This article synthesizes the relationship of human development and learning to industrial arts. It discusses developmental stages and tasks according to Havighurst, Piaget, and Erikson and how they each apply to industrial arts (CT)

Discusses the application of a reality therapy paradigm for counseling disabled clients. Short-term counseling using a reality therapy framework provided a favorable balance between counselor direction and client acceptance of responsibility. (Author)

Today's children are being forced to achieve more and at an earlier age than ever before in society. Previously "natural" rites of passage into adulthood come too early for children, and they often do not get the chance to appreciate and experience the highly important period of life called childhood. (CJ)

A personal narrative of an intern's field experience at a child guidance clinic, part of his doctoral program in counseling psychology. (SJL)

The art of teaching inspired by the phenomenological attitude is not a power of imposition allowing the illusion of autonomy, but an attitude of unfolding the actualizing forces of the human person. This is why the educational and teaching function should be rooted in a relationship of dialogue. (Author)

Leisure counseling should be a helping process which facilitates interpretive, affective, or behavioral changes in individuals towards the attainment of their leisure well being. (JN)