The author discusses the transition of industrial arts to technology education. He covers challenges, opportunities, and potential consequences. Management and assessment of the change process is discussed. (CH)

Presents principles and practices of Integrative Multi-Level Therapy (IMLT), a comprehensive interpersonal and intrapsychic approach to clinical assessment and therapeutic intervention with distressed individuals, couples and families. Describes clinical examples and research support for the IMLT approach. (Author/NRB)

The current outcry for educational reform raises issues that have already long concerned career education. This situation gives career educators the opportunity to provide leadership in attaining common educational goals. (JB)

Describes four interventions in brief family therapy, illustrated by case examples. Interventions are aimed at helping clients solve problems, and three assumptions about the nature of change are described. Results of these interventions suggest there is no clinical distinction between clients' perceived change and observed change. (JAC)

The article proposes a conceptual model for analyzing major delivery systems of instructional content used in Dean's Grants (a program to foster reform relayed to mainstreaming). Curriculum and faculty development issues are considered and weighted. Implications are suggested for the incorporation of content on other sociopolitical issues in…

Reports treatment of a 9-year-old boy with primary encopresis combining structural and strategic approaches. Describes organizational features of the family, the contextual approach to therapy, individual and collective responses to therapy, and follow-up at 3 months and 1 1/2 years. Discusses effects of therapy on encopresis and on other…

Individual change is the key to organizational change. A seven-step model of individual change--awareness, understanding, belief, effort, reward, feedback, and system accommodation--provides a structure for the design and content of training programs that will ensure transfer of learning to the workplace. (SK)

Investigated the effectiveness of two thought-based treatments on phobic beliefs in a study of 20 college women who indicated a fear of snakes. Results confirmed that the longer individuals thought in the presence of reality constraints (snake in a glass cage), the more strongly they believed they could cope. (JAC)

Major impacts of metrication resulting from the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 are discussed. Attention is given to large businesses' conversion efforts. (ABM)

This document is comprised of the three 2002 issues of a newsletter devoted to identifying and promoting strategies to reduce the poverty rate of young children and to improve the life chances of children still living in poverty. The Winter issue includes the following articles: (1) "NCCP [National Center for Children in Poverty] Responds to…

Applied an integrative model of change to the study of subjects (N=872) changing their smoking habits on their own. The subjects represented five stages of change: (1) precontemplation; (2) contemplation; (3) action; (4) maintenance; and (5) relapse. Relapsers' responses were a combination of contemplation and action. (JAC)

Introduces a conceptual framework aimed at integrating the conservation behavior literature and facilitating the comparison of findings across studies. Describes seven approaches to encouraging conservation behavior from the theoretical perspectives of attitude change, behavior modification and behavior maintenance. (Author/MK)

Discusses studies in thermal comfort which served as the basis for the comfort standard. Examines seven variables in the human response to the thermal environment in terms of the ways in which they can be modified to conserve energy. (Author/MK)

Describes the use of a simulation designed mainly for trainers and educators who want to get others to consider the factors that affect change. The simulation itself is a loosely structured game which introduces participants to the question of what causes change. (Author/LLS)

The division of library services into technical service and public service is outmoded; a centralized processing unit and/or the redevelopment of professional librarianship are offered as more effective alternatives. (MBR)