A consultant who works primarily with women focuses on the promotion of personal change through the use of group processes and collaborative learning reflects on her role as an adult education consultant. (JOW)

Two studies assessed perspective-taking training strategies for effectiveness in promoting ego-identity formation among older adolescents. Found advances in ideological achievement among experimental groups. Further significant findings were absent. Given limited findings of both studies, it was concluded that it may be very difficult to create…

As change renders obsolete old methods of career choice and counseling, counselors should focus on helping people acquire skills to survive in a "risk society" and cope with uncertainty. (SK)

The usefulness of brief therapy techniques in helping adults build confidence is asserted. Techniques described are clenched fist, split screen, submodalities, Swish, and theater technique for phobias. (SK)

Discusses home-based family therapy intervention programs, designed as a preventive strategy for multiproblem, at-risk families in mental health agencies. Maintains that a review of the literature reveals little information on clinical supervision, which is a major component of home-based family intervention. Focuses on providing an alternative…

The personal diary is a tool in the creation of self. The study of recent published journals of later life yields knowledge of the human experience of aging. Service providers can use this information to develop empathy with aged clients and to encourage journal writing. (SK)

Investigated contention that differences in styles of reminiscence of older persons could be explained by their levels of ego development in women (n=75) residing in long-term care facilities. Found women with affirming styles of reminiscence had higher levels of ego development than women with negating and despairing styles. (Author/ABL)

Surveyed male homosexual college students (n=61) about how they came to identify themselves as gay, how they discussed this with their families, what kind of social relationships with other gay people they have, and the nature of their involvement in gay social and political activities. (ABL)

Five themes emerged from critical reflection in journals, conversations, autobiographies of 311 adult educators: impostorship (unworthiness to participate in critical thought), cultural suicide (risk of exclusion), lost innocence (from certainty to multiplistic reasoning), roadrunning (incremental struggles with new modes of thought), and…

The focus of aikido training is conflict resolution and the goal is to communicate with another human being. Aikido training can be applied to all areas of life. Like experiential education, aikido allows risk taking in a safer place than the "real world." (KS)

Examines (1) the concurrent development of different components of the self-system; (2) how the development of this system relates to cognitive and metacognitive development in reading; and (3) whether there are gender differences both in the development of the self-system as well as its relation to the development of reading. (DSK)

Explores the different meanings lifelong learning takes on when viewed from the following perspectives: training, personal development, unions, communities, institutions, and individuals. (SK)

Looks at programs where coaching club members, inner-city youth who learn the meaning of responsibility on the basketball court, provide a model of positive leadership for the rest of the school. (Author)

Through the voices of prominent practitioners, this article explores the ways group leaders create a sense of community in their groups and, in turn, become part of a professional community. Group leaders' personal transformations have led to social changes in their group work and interpersonal lives. (Author/MKA)

Articles responds to some issues raised in "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life," such as the nature of intelligence, its measurement, the importance of personal decisions in determining life outcomes, and the modifiability of intelligence in infants and young children. (Author/JDM)