Gives highlights of statutes and court and administrative decisions which tell company chief executives what their organizations can and cannot do in the entire gamut between employee recruitment and retirement. Topics cover equal job rights, wages and hours, unions, veterans' rights, retirement, wage garnishment, and employee safety. (WL)

Notes government study conclusion that Vietnam veterans with supportive marital relationships are more likely to successfully adjust to delayed stresses of combat. Presents a conceptual model of the role of spouse support in Vietnam veterans' adjustment to posttraumatic stress syndrome. Discusses implications of the model for therapeutic…

Provides new American age norms for Raven's Progressive Matrices, based on screening of 500 vocational counseling and 2,992 psychiatric veteran patients newly admitted to hospital. Reliability data were acceptable, but indicated need for revision of the Raven. Within limits set by current reliability, validity data presented were positive.…

Compares suicidal and non-suicidal behavior in hospitalized psychiatric veterans with and without childhood onychophagia (fingernail biting). (Author/RK)

A study of Vietnam veterans residing in urban slums and ghettos indicates that minority group potential employees with military experience possess greater employment motivation than their nonveteran peers, although they may need appropriate management support in order to make a satisfactory work adjustment. (Author/SA)

Describes a communications course assignment centered on the veteran's experience in Viet Nam. (RB)

The Referral Program has been designed to assist the retiree in coping with the realities of the employment search and help reduce floundering, indecision, and uncertainty. The counselor provides job related services with awareness of the background factors affecting occupational decisions at this stage of life. (Author)

Labor unions provide job and training information to servicemen at separation centers and throughout the country. Through Project Transition, pre-apprenticeship training is given to servicemen who may be placed as apprentices after discharge. (MF)

Interviews with 6 of 10 Veterans' Affairs programs offering postdoctoral fellowships in geropsychology indicated that only 30% included palliative care or hospice training, despite the fact that the veteran population is likely to have an increasing need for terminal illness care. (SK)

Factor analyses evaluated the dimensionality of the Mississippi Scale for Combat-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder using three subsamples of over 2,200 Vietnam veterans. Results suggest that the latent structure of the scale is best represented as an umbrella factor leading to four subsidiary facets or dimensions. (SLD)

Labor-related issues to be considered by the Supreme Court include veterans' rights to reemployment, union organizing practices, pension entitlements, and the taxability of back pay recovered in damage suits. (JOW)

As military downsizing displaces servicemembers, there is a need for policy advocates for veterans' education, coordinated national action, cooperation of colleges in accommodating veterans, systematic exchange of information, and connections among the triad of military experience, education, and jobs. (SK)

Details the development of a career-counseling intervention program for veterans based on narrative or storytelling principles. The usefulness of stories as an organizing principle for counselors and clients is discussed, and suggestions are offered for further uses of storytelling interventions. (Author/GCP)

Clinical studies suggest individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PSD) experience neuroendocrine systems alterations, resulting in significantly lower plasma cortisol. To test this hypothesis, morning serum cortisol was compared among a national sample of Vietnam "theater" veterans (n=2,490) and a sample of Vietnam "era"…

This article features Congressman Edward Rees's bill. Congressman Edward Rees of Kansas introduced a bill (H.R. 7786) in the U.S. House of Representatives on February 8, 1954, to create a national holiday that would honor the nation's veterans. He said in a speech on the floor of the House that he did it so that "a grateful nation may pay…