Reviews the Sacred Child Project in North Dakota, a tribally developed version of the wraparound process. The effort combines contemporary human services with the spiritual and cultural wisdom of the tribes. The article is based on an interview and conversation between the authors and John VanDenBerg, a wraparound consultant. (Author/GCP)

Interviews with two Cambodian immigrant families over 2 years revealed how they relied on each other more than formal service providers to cope with difficulties. They focused on children's education and safety, insulation of the family from external influences, and interdependence with the immigrant community. (SK)

Evidence-based practice integrates research and practice through such techniques as precisely defining practice problems, conducting efficient literature searches, selecting the best information from searches, applying rules of evidence to test its validity, and extracting and applying practice implications. (SK)

Findings of a qualitative study of three health and human services agencies determined that strategies of survival inherent in the culture of homelessness are rarely considered by those agencies in providing services to homeless people. Programs should develop cultural sensitivity and use a cultural perspective in planning. (JOW)

Although the concepts of greed and selfishness have often been used in discussions about human nature, there seems to be little attention to these characteristics in the disciplines of psychology and counseling. Considers characteristics of greed and selfishness as encountered in counseling from a multidisciplinary perspective and identifies…

States that human service practitioners can further the development of curriculums and programs and thus help meet future challenges in human service delivery. Reviews these practitioners' involvement since the 1960s, and discusses five strategies used by one institution to increase its involvement with practitioners. (Author/MKA)

Study seeks to identify groups of students who differed in their patterns of expectations about counseling and then to relate those groups to personality, as organized by the Five Factor Model (FFM). A brief interpretation is offered of each cluster that integrates information based on expectation scores and the significant personality functions.…

Human services agencies (n=24) responded to a survey about services for the elderly. Agency workers did not have negative perceptions of university-agency collaboration in service provision, but did not understand how such collaboration could improve services in light of increased demand due to population trends. (SK)

Increased general interest among counselors in the way language, narratives, and stories influence clients' personal and social realities has drawn particular attention to metaphorical language and its facilitative role in counseling. Suggests that metaphors and metaphorical knowing may play a significant role in facilitating at least five…

The authors investigated vigorous physical activity and psychological well-being during transition from high school to first-year university in a sample of 145 Canadian undergraduates. Participants completed retrospective measures assessing vigorous physical activity during their first 2 months at university and their last 2 months at high school…

The author of this commentary was looking forward to visiting Japan, a new culture. With excitement she anticipated experiencing hot springs, monumental shrines, breathtaking gardens, delicious sashimi and soba, and the speedy bullet trains--all so different from life in Boston. She was not disappointed but was surprised, pleasantly, by constant…

This article presents findings from the evaluation of the Caring Equation, a Department of Health and Human Services-funded project established in 2003 in Arlington County, Virginia, public schools. The program is a multifaceted intervention program and is one of about 20 programs currently operating in school districts around the United States.…

The purpose of this report is to listen to families about "what" mattered most to them and "how" family support has impacted their lives. The findings of this report represent a synthesis of families' voices from 8 focus groups and 35 individual interviews, conducted at centers, office meetings, and homes--with over 100 family…

Presented in this paper are the results of a qualitative analysis of the narratives of 208 homeless youth interviewed on streets and in agencies in New York City and Toronto. The interviews focused on the participants' stories about their struggles to survive and negotiate meaningful and healthy lives in coming to the streets, living on the…

The adult educator in the non-degree management studies of a university is frequently approached by business managers whose expectations include the obtaining of educational solutions to their career problems. This places a demand not only on the educational expertise of adult educators but also on their educational counselling skills, as compared…