Suggests that effective use of the relationship between worker and client requires defining the concept of relationship more specifically. This may be accomplished through a consideration of the context and purpose of the particular treatment situations, the outcomes desired and the responses that are necessary to achieve these goals. (Author)

The distinctive circumstances, requirements, and attitudes of the federal bureaucracy are contrasted with the culture of other elements of American society and disadvantages of this cultural conflict are discussed. Suggestions are made for policies that might result in more effective and more generally acceptable government programs. (CTM)

Summarizes information from the ERIC database on the subject of writing instruction as a common responsibility of teachers from all disciplines. Focuses on the role of English teachers in promoting schoolwide writing programs. (RL)

Offers a conceptual approach to resistance in marital therapy. Aimed at beginning marital clinicians, provides an understanding of the natural existence of resistance to therapeutic change. Presents a model which can aid the clinician in assessing each individual's willingness to improve throughout therapy. (Author)

Describes the use of Virginia Satir's model to family counseling, emphasizing prevention, personal growth, self-esteem, and communication in improving the functioning of the family system. Presents a case study using the model. Results indicate the family became more nurturing as a result of counseling. (JAC)

Many of the phenomena that have affected tertiary education in Canada during the last two decades and that may be identified in Australia are examined. Two issues that need to be addressed are: restructuring of institutions with declining constituency and accommodating new student populations. (MLW)

Discusses nine major characteristics of rural schools which affected their willingness to accept change, as revealed in a study of the five-year Rural Experimental Schools Program. Available from: Rural Sociological Society, 325 Morgan Hall, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37916. (NEC)

Attempts to identify the nature and origin of the new demands made on child guidance services since the late 1960s, looks at the responses of the services to those demands, discusses psychologists' changing perceptions of their roles, and offers some tentative indications of possible future lines of development. (Author/CM)

English departments must become involved in the training of teachers of writing at every level rather than concentrating exclusively on literary scholarship. (HOD)

The recent history of environmental advocacy is reviewed. Issues and conflicts entering into environmental advocacy considerations are discussed. Specific strategies for effective environmental advocacy are prescribed. (RE)

Nystulian Play Therapy is based on Adlerian strategies. Encouragement of and respect for the child are emphasized. Teacher and parent education are important parts of a comprehensive approach to affective positive change in the child. (JAC)

Presents techniques for concealing ignorance from clients and colleagues and making correct excuses for failure to them. Provides information for the therapist who is ignorant about how to change a marriage relationship and wishes to sound knowledgeable and appear to know what s/he is doing. (Author/BEF)

Delineates and examines the psychodynamics of the paranoid wife syndrome and its concomitant characteristic intrapsychic and interpersonal dynamic phenomena. Diagnostic indications and treatment modalities and strategies are noted. (Author)

Shows how one school district uses a series of four three-day workshops to give students a feeling for what it is like to be disabled and an awareness of the frustrations and barriers that confront mainstreamed students. (RL)

Reacting to the preceding article by Professor William H. Howick (pp11-18), the author examines these same problems in higher education and cites reasons to hope for improvement. (SJL)