Examined how a model's personal characteristics and disclosure characteristics affect White interviewees' self-disclosures. Validity of Jourard's Self-Disclosure Questionnaire was investigated. Results showed that the model's race did not affect his/her behavior or ratings of models. Self-Disclosure Questionnaire showed subjects would disclose as…

The providing of meaningful career education/counseling for handicapped youths should begin in the elementary grades and continue through high school. Special care should be excercised in advising handicapped individuals who are making decisions regarding college preparatory course work v vocational training. (Authors/RJG)

Describes one program for diverting troubled children from the juvenile justice system. Reports on a social work education and agency collaboration to conduct an evaluation of participants' satisfaction with the program. (RMH)

Results showed that rational-emotive therapy (RET), with the addition of rational role reversal, produced significantly better results than did relaxation training and support or no contact. This was the first study to demonstrate the efficacy of RET with multisymptomatic applicants to a community mental health center. (Author/BEF)

The violence in other areas of American culture and society is reflected in American sport and business through economic and media exploitation of violence and the omnipresent pressure to be best. (JN)

Discusses the classroom teacher as role model for children acquiring language. Cites the traditional teacher-oriented format as one reason children do not imitate teachers' speech. (HTH)

Children who had lost a family member were tested to determine the effect of a videotape about reactions to death. Those who viewed the tape were more able to discuss death in family therapy sessions than those who did not view the tape. (JAC)

Assessed the differential effects of single v multiple adult models on second- and third-grade children's expression of preferences when the modeled preferences are either consistent or divergent. (CM)

Questionnaires querying student behavior and attitudes toward feminism were distributed to students enrolled in undergraduate education courses. Survey results indicated that even though female students were generally more sympathetic toward alternative role models for women, both sexes tended to display many of the same sex-role stereotypes.…

Women comprise only 15 percent of the voting membership on college and university governing boards, but education and other nonprofit spheres have been nurturing places for women leaders. It is shown that women are learning to identify and recruit other women. (MLW)

Tested hypotheses that action/adventure characters are perceived by teenagers as likely to engage in antisocial conflict resolution; situation comedy/family drama characters, in prosocial modes. Also tested was hypothesis that, as favorite character's perceived use of a mode increases, so does the viewer's intention to use the same mode. (SW)

Although aspiring women managers can receive some developmental support from women in management positions, this support frequently needs to be augmented by that from human resources personnel and successful men. (Author/JM)

Vocational exploration can be facilitated through reading and identifying with persons in novels and biographies. Faculty and librarians listed works for students seeking a fuller sense of how it feels to work in a particular vocation. Recommendations were collated into an annotated bibliography. Limitations and responses are discussed.…

Describes graduate study as an intimate relationship between a supervising professor and a student, a mentor-ward involvement in which the faculty member seeks advancement for the student in order to enhance the field and the student's role in it. Negative and positive implications of this relationship are explored. (JMF)

Investigated rural high school students' perceptions of two major secondary school role models' (teachers and popular peers) solutions to five ontological and axiological problem spheres. Some seemingly contradictory findings are discussed in terms of institutional demands that often force teachers to model behaviors that neither they nor society…