Counselor trainees rated an audiotaped and role-played intake interview of a female client whose sexual orientation was varied. Subtle forms of heterosexual bias were found through participants' ratings of an unidentifible client. When responding to the ambiguous condition involving the unidentifiable client, 83 percent of the participants assumed…

When hypnosis training was used in groups, students demonstrated goal attainment for a diverse range of personally identified problems. Improvement was also noted for anxiety and depression. (Author)

This review focuses on a classification of the concept of obesity, childhood growth patterns, current diagnostic procedures, physiological and psychological implications, etiology, environmental influences, and the special needs of the obese child. Obesity is viewed as a medical condition requiring medical and educational interventions. (Author/RH)

It is the work of the job search counselor/facilitator to educate, mentor, and guide the special needs client in identifying and tackling anything that would encumber the job hunter. The purpose of this paper is to provide information to the job search counselor that will enable him/her to fully and skillfully assist the special needs client in…

This article presents a philosophy perceived by young professionals, often members of the counterculture, who completed a series of questions concerning innovative programs with a humanistic orientation to drug treatment. (Author/RK)

Discusses the convergence method of analyzing social problems. (RK)

Tests the hypothesis that if five empirically determined variables (dogmatism, ambivalence, pupil control ideology, esprit, and thrust) are in one way or another manifestations of an individual teacher's own perceptions of authenticity, then they also have to be statistically linked to his own interpersonal orientation needs. (Author/WM)

Instructional communication, with its operational modalities of communication theory, instructional technology, and programmed design, is a means of humanizing education and providing an individualized approach for learners. (DS)

A study of thirty academic departments in fifteen universities examined the relationships of the functional prerequisites to personal need satisfactions. The findings raised questions about the relationship between organizational achievement and personal satisfaction in the academic department. (Author/JB)

According to the American Institute for Research at Palo Alto, California, Apparently, as the unit of analysis is narrowed from the nation as a whole to states and then to local projects, more signs of positive impact on participating children can be identified.'' (Author)

Compensatory Education at its best is merely iodine being used to cure cancer. The problems of America's social, political, and educational systems are far too mammoth to be placated by this feeble effort. (Author)

Explains and defends the Riles Law'' which calls for the downward extension of formal schooling in California and points to certain dangers that research identifies in Early Childhood Education. (Author/JN)

Correspondence education has an important role to play in the development of continuing education, owing to its flexibility and its ability to meet individual needs.'' (Editor)

Focusing on planning and controlling of goals and systems, the author suggests three kinds of goals: Operating goals, relationship goals, and self-development goals. Flexibility and adaptation to the needs of a particular business or industry are essential. (Author/JB)