Presents the results of a study of North Carolina school counselors within their first five years of the profession. Professional difficulty was defined as a discrepancy between function and competence. From the study, a profile of elementary, junior high, and high school counselors can be determined. (Author)

Understanding the audiences, roles, skills, and responsibilities are essential to success in this multifaceted and complex profession of career planning and placement. Although no special academic or experiential background is required to enter the career services profession, specific knowledge in the areas of counseling, career planning, and job…

This article is an exploration of the phenomenon of change as it relates to elementary school counselors, to their evolving role and complementary training needs. It is a report of a study designed to assess the present professional renewal needs of elementary school counselors in one state. (Author)

Subjects associated degrees of stress with experiences of social isolation and powerlessness. High internals reported higher stress than moderate or low internals. High internal clients reported lower self-esteem, higher stress, and less control over recent events than nonclients. (Author/BEF)

Isolates active ingredients of the coping-skills component: sensory discriminative (SD), motivational affective (MA), and cognitive evaluative (CE) skills. Checks on independent variable manipulation reveal that SD skills are learned and employed, MA skills are already known but refined, and CE skills are largely ignored. (Author)

Indicates that the direction of articulatory substitution for 13 consonants is identical to the direction of auditory perceptual substitution defined by shifts of phonological features. (Author/RL)

Sex and, to a partial degree, age had significant effects on sex role differentiation in preschool children, but income level had little effect. (Author/RL)

Measures of visual perception, such as the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test (BVMGT) usually require motoric responding, i.e., drawing of figures. An alternative test, the Non-Motoric Visual Gestalt Test (NVGT), is compared with the BVMGT and shown to be superior in measuring visual-perceptual abilities that can discriminate poor and average…

Reports two experiments which support the hypothesis that reaction time is faster to phonemes when the phonetic context matches the listener's expectation than when the vowel context is different. Reaction time to syllable targets is equal to phoneme, matched context targets. (PMJ)

A series of possible explanations for learning disabilities (LDS) couched in terms of information processing capabilities was tested by comparing the performance of LDS children on several types of information processing tasks with that of a control group. Subjects were 28 LDS children (10-11 years old) and 24 elementary school students of the…

Investigates the effects of differences in age (20 year olds compared to 60 year olds) and education (high school level compared to graduate level) on level of performance on a variety of tasks related to memory. (Author/SS)

Suggests that socially anxious and low anxious males may perceive social events similarly but interpret them differently. (RL)

Detailed instruction and worksheets are given for an activity designed to develop and improve geometric perception through the use of polyhedron models. (MP)

An approach to studying accuracy in person perception is presented. Problems in assessing interpersonal accuracy are discussed and then addressed in an empirical study of the perception of job performance. (Author/JKS)

The article explains the Grunes interview procedure, in which drawings of people significant to the interviewee are used, along with a series of 91 questions which all begin "Which one...", to facilitate conventional diagnostic interviews with children who cannot communicate verbally. (PHR)