Used data from 459 college students to outline a problem specific approach to alcohol abuse prevention. Survey data described the distribution of drinkers and nondrinkers, group differences in consumption, and problems commonly experienced. Relationships between consumption and beliefs, attitudes and social pressure were used to design peer…

Focuses on curriculum intervention, the adaptation of an educational model of delivering counseling services within a prevention model. The counselor's role includes program selection and introduction, consultation, modeling, parental guidance, and program assessment. Counselors can use psychological education to assist educators in promoting…

Describes the Theme Centered Interaction (TCI) Model, which provides a method for residence hall staff to support student development processes. Discusses initiation of the theme, dynamic development, and termination of the group. Residence hall staff can readily be used as facilitators for TCI groups. (JAC)

Based on a model of local curriculum development, but incorporating the ideas first expressed by Goodlad in establishing a league of co-operating schools for the improvement of learning, this curriculum development project successfully infused the study of technology into the science courses of several British secondary schools. (RM)

Describes procedures for writing an effective counseling curriculum guide to meet the individual needs of children, kindergarten through grade 12, based on the guide developed at the Vestavia Hills School System. Focuses on the importance of a developmental guide, special education and career preparation, and selection of appropriate content. (JAC)

Interpretive Structure Modeling (ISM) helps learners integrate their knowledge of our environment. Demonstrated that educators, including two high school biology teachers, could learn ISM and conduct modeling sessions. Includes discussion of models, modeling building, types of models, modeling building and environmental education, and models and…

A management planning model developed by Furman University is described. The model is a decentralized participative approach to institutional governance that stresses decision-making based on use of appropriate research and allocation of resources based on management by objectives. (MLW)

Moving problem-centered, experiential programs into the mainstream of graduate and professional education will require more formal mechanisms for leadership. Students of graduate education programs that infuse the disciplinary study of academe with the applied perspective of professional practice gain broader contact with the problems of the…

Provides a model of how hypnosis might be integrated into existing college counseling center programs. Describes a six-session skill building self-hypnosis group. (RC)

Describes a model for an experiential course enabling school counselors to provide inservice to teaching staff with guidance responsibilities. Evaluates the effect of the course in changing the attitude of participants (N=49). Results indicate that attitudes toward work were changed in a positive direction. (RC)

A course to introduce medical students to formal models of medical diagnostic reasoning at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is described. The students are encouraged to integrate facts and concepts from the basic sciences into strategies of diagnostic reasoning. (MLW)

A model is presented for evaluating the basic science portion of a program in which the first year of medical school is taught at sites remote from the medical center. A methodology is described for assessing student performance and student and faculty satisfaction with the program. (Author/GK)