Adding cognitive-behavioral interventions to a counselor's eclectic repertoire can help clients deal with anxiety, anger, depression, and guilt. These problems result from specific thoughts which can be directly addressed. Neither events or others can distress the client without his cognitive cooperation. (Author/JAC)

To improve instruction, a cadre of assisting professionals, trained in clinical supervision techniques and philosophy, must be developed in each school system to work with teachers as colleagues in a nonevaluative, supportive role. (Author/MLF)

In a study of undergraduates with procrastination problems, clients in the congruence conditions showed greater expectation and tendency toward change than those in the discrepancy conditions. A stronger effect, however, was due to the interpretations alone, which substantially changed clients' beliefs about the cause and controllability of their…

Evangelical student groups are involved in developing campus action strategies to promote their beliefs and to challenge practices and viewpoints which they oppose. This article identifies the new activists and discusses their impact on campus and the nature of their concerns. (RC)

To demonstrate the utility of Rational Emotive Therapy in pre-marital counseling, examples of specific irrational beliefs which clinicians can use to help couples are presented. Mental health practitioners are encouraged to apply these principles to other specific irrationalities they may discover in their own work experience. (Author)

Uses information from the ERIC system to show educators how to promote a positive public image. (RL)

Implementation is actually a complex and continuous process of policy evolution. Thus, the implementation of a policy idea will vary because not all the policy's many potentialities will be recognized and because any given idea will be interpreted differently in different settings. (Author/IRT)

Argues that movements employ a series of strategic guiding "topoi" and examines activism, antagonism, agonism, and futurism. Concludes that when all four rhetorical topoi are present an "avant-garde" movement of radical proportions exists. (JMF)

In offering an alternative approach to organizing major curriculum changes, this paper presents a case study and analysis of a consortium project in which the need for change, the change process, and the curriculum writing all took place at the local level. (Author/IRT)

Presents some strategies for changing attitudes toward sex equity and Title IX. (IRT)

Describes organizational dimensions of the counselor's position resulting from the structural placement of the counselor in the school. These factors, which serve as the basis for reexamination and revitalization of the counselor's role, are: interaction with school reference groups, system perspective, staff authority, confidentiality, access to…

Carroll County, Maryland, has shaped a strategy to improve school nutrition by weakening or eliminating, where possible, junk food competition, making lunches more nourishing and appealing, and working nutrition instruction into other subject areas. Steps taken to accomplish these changes are described. (MF)

Strategies for meeting the challenges and responsibilities that the accountability movement implies for the school administrator, particularly the principal. (Author/MLF)

Examines how instructional development processes can be successfully managed. Principles of management are offered for setting precise goals; acceptance of these goals; and maximizing self-concept through formal rewards that are goal oriented, through performance evaluation, and through change analysis. (RAO)

Transactional evaluation is discussed in the perspective of "The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation" by Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca. It is described as a procedure for facilitating change by encouraging all persons who might be affected by a new program to participate in its evaluation. (CTM)