Clients' reasons for coming to a vocational counseling agency are presented, together with sources of referral, educational level, and number of client visits. (Author)

Describes the needs, identification and typical living conditions of disadvantaged youth. (GR)

This paper is concerned with the kindergarten as an educational institute and is part of a larger survey of the literature... on all aspects of the child's development as affected by the kindergarten experience. (Author)

New approaches for disadvantaged and handicapped in North Carolina. (Editor)

Women who express the need for new fulfillment outside the home need educational counseling programs designed to help them cope with a world larger than their experience knows, to help them alter their feelings and outlooks, and to help them grow psychologically and professionally. (CJ)

As automation takes over production, people will spend more time improving their appearance, gratifying the senses, and developing new religions. (Author)

A roundtable of physicians discuss the ways in which lonely people, both men and women, use sexual activity as an outlet for their need to be needed," usually with unsatisfactory results. (CJ)

Describes briefly why social forecasting is easier than technological forecasting, offers four approaches to social forecasting (judgment, extrapolation, speculation, analysis), and suggests a procedure recommended for social forecasting. (CJ)

The individual who enters a group must fully understand exactly what the contract" is, what the outcomes that might be sought will be, and the means whereby they will be sought. He must know and choose among the alternatives for experience and development. (Author)

The microcomputer can be an important tool for the health educator faced with the task of designing exercise programs for a variety of individuals in community or worksite settings. The EXERFIT exercise prescription program at the University of Maryland illustrates an application of the microcomputer. (CJ)

To assist special students, the school bus driver aide requires responsibility and endurance. It takes individuals who are willing to love and give of themselves. Information gathered from drivers, aides, and supervisors covers a range of duties to care for various types of disabilities. (CM)

A teacher questions the motivations of teacher unions, which appear to be more interested in image-making, public relations, and politics than in teacher improvement and individual teachers' rights, attitudes, and problems. (CJ)

A school psychologist's assumptions regarding private practice along with his findings when these assumptions were tested in the private sector are presented. The experiential findings result in suggestions regarding training and recommended questions to be asked by school psychologists who are contemplating involvement in private practice.…

Outlines a series of six imperatives designed to provide educators and other child advocates with a backdrop against which they may implement strategies for serving handicapped young children. (MP)