"Transitions in Education, Work and Leisure" is a course designed to prepare people who serve as intermediaries or catalysts. The curriculum is based upon the intermediary's function of assisting adults in transitional periods to cope with constant changes in the labor market and social environment. (SK)

National survey data were utilized to measure differences in self-perception, motivation, and social support through seven stages of the family life cycle. In most cases, stages of family life were significantly associated with psychological and social change in adulthood, regardless of sex. (Author)

Examined the relation between value system similarity of spouses and marital adjustment. Results indicated that value similarity was only peripherally related to the level of marital adjustment. However, spouse value similarity appeared to have a significant impact upon adjustment in the later years of marriage. (Author)

With the concept of lifelong education as the leading principle in planning and developing educational systems, the author outlines the four areas of adult education in Finland (supplementing general basic education, adult vocational education, developing citizenship, and individual self-development) and the demands placed on the educational…

Text of the opening address at the International Conference on Adult Education and Development (June 1976) by the Honorary President of the International Council for Adult Education. Focus is on the fundamental importance of education as the liberator of man. Topics discussed include adult education and change, and the scope, methods, and…

Career change and life-style are closely related, but not in all instances. Different kinds of changers are examined and implications for counseling are drawn. (Author)

Psychological and economic factors characterize the life needs of persons as their life patterns change at mid-life and later. These elements can be seen as counselors work with mid-life and postretirement change and with counselees' responses. (Author)

This article describes a six-session career development program for adults. The theoretical basis and rationale for various activities are included, along with some suggestions of ways of adapting standard career materials to meet the needs of an adult clientele. (Author)

Claims that before adult learners set goals and begin their transition to higher education, they need to carve out a sense of personal identity which includes their new role as students. Reviews developmental theories and urges college personnel to use these theories to foster support programs for adult students. (RJM)

A 19-year multiwave panel study (1976-95) in suburban Toronto (Ontario), tracking adolescents into their mid-30s, found a "sleeper effect" of adolescent rebellion. Delinquent youth dropped out of school; showed no significant signs of distress in early adulthood; but were frequently unemployed by midlife, with accompanying feelings of…

The theoretical framework, methodology, findings, and implications for three studies which explored the relationship between adult development, collaborative action research, and instructional supervision are discussed. Each study concluded that educators define and practice supervision in qualitatively different ways depending upon their own…

According to responses from 498 Australian professional women representing Levinson's 7 stages, pay satisfaction was the only 1 of 12 variables that displayed cyclic alternation between stability and transition. Some age differences appeared in terms of work involvement, aspiration, and plans to move. (SK)

Utilizes the theoretical formulations of Margaret Mahler and her colleagues on separation and individuation to understand how to plan psycho-rehabilitation programs for emotionally disturbed adolescents and young adults. The separation-individuation process and anxiety issues are discussed and analyzed in terms of both theory and practical…

This study examined four older adults at the time of retirement to determine the extent to which there was intraindividual variability and stability in self-concept during the retirement transition, and to see whether patterns of change were replicable across subjects. Results showed that three to four dimensions of self-concept variability…

Argues that experts in philosophical and psychological paradigms can and do contribute to revisions of theories of moral excellence and that the study of prototypes has limited value for resolving some important theoretical issues. Describes research topics that can be informed by the investigation of prototypes of moral excellence, such as social…