Although teachers are willing to work with the counselor in a consulting relationship, they prefer the counselor to help them understand their pupils rather than help them understand themselves. However, with a better understanding of their own feelings and motives, teachers might be able to work more effectively with their pupils. (Author)

This article reviews the role of women in the movies divided generally between the girl next door" and the addle brained sexpot". The absence of women in dominant roles, either on the screen or in production is noted and condemned. (CJ)

Extensive presentation and discussion of results of survey designed to provide information on work tasks and traits of both public and private agency counselors. Major instruments were Rehabilitation Counselor Task Inventory (378 counselors) and Abbreviated RC Task Inventory (educators, administrative personnel, and other professional…

Relationship Inventory and The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16pf) were employed to establish significant correlations of moderate magnitude between four personality factors and three relationship variables, and to discriminate effectively for level of functioning. (Author/CJ)

Subjective discussion of specific ways in which school psychologists should take initiative in policy change, facility improvement--whatever is necessary to create more relevant learning climates. (CJ)

Two models of the healer's role are compared: physicians and Mexican American folk healers (curanderos). Effects of culture on the delivery of health care are manifested in the protection of patient modesty, locus of control over diagnosis and treatment, and the healer's role as a cultural interpreter of therapeutic regimens. (Author/NQA)

School boards have numerous opportunities to show support for and make teachers allies on many fronts. Teachers need assurance that their welfare is a school board concern. Overcoming negative attitudes requires that boards stop viewing teachers as menial servants or hired hands. (Author/CM)

Surveyed teachers, school board members, superintendents, and elementary school principals to determine if there is congruence in their perceptions of the normative role of the principal. Results differed from Foskett's (1967) study in concluding that elementary school principals and the other groups perceive principals more as administrators than…

Despite the often repeated contention that children's fiction has consistently presented a narrow and stereotypical view of the lives of girls and women, a review of books written in the 1920s and 1930s indicates a degree of female dissatisfaction with the status quo. (HOD)

Stressors in school counseling were researched by surveying 240 school counselors about prevalence of stress experienced, sources of stress, and possible relationship between perceived stress and biographic variables (sex, age, marital status, assigned grade level, years of counseling experience). Counselors indicated moderate stress concerning…

The role of institutional research and the relationships between institutional researchers and state agencies from the perspective of state agency staff is reviewed. The statutory and pragmatic roles and responsibilities of institutions, state higher education agencies, and legislative and executive agencies are considered. (MLW)