Environmental sustainability is one of the most pressing concerns of the twenty-first century, and working toward sustainability will require broad lifestyle and cultural shifts, particularly in industrialized societies. Yet despite a growing recognition of the importance of issues such as climate change, food security, transportation, and…

The past and present provide an important reference to understanding the circumstances and cultural differences that assist in the development of our methods of interaction. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to provide a process of personal self-reflection of experiences by which administrators, school officials, staff, and faculty can…

Client self-disclosure is conceptualized as an interpersonal risk. Risk factors and a model designed to help counselors understand clients who are reluctant to self-disclosure are described. (Author)

Maintains that concepts such as self-object mirroring are bridging humanistic psychology and psychoanalysis. Information is presented on the self-psychology of Chicago psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut. (Author/DB)

An open classroom advocate who believes that the virtues of a classroom rely on the presence of the teacher urges teachers to think creatively about themselves and the world they live in, rather than embrace unquestioningly another educational formula. (Author/CS)

A modified version of this paper was presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association (Washington, D.C., September 1967).

Examined the personality characteristics of male prison inmates. Results indicate some personality traits and two clinical syndromes are useful in differentiating prison inmates with high and low scores on measures of private self-consciousness. Suggests persons with high self-consciousness are more suspicious, obsessive-compulsive, and likely to…

Rational-emotive therapy (RET) holds that much of what we call the human "ego" has little or no legitimacy and, when conceived of and given a global rating (e.g., the individual gets rated as "worthwhile" or "worthless"), interferes with survival and happiness. Certain aspects of "ego" do have a verifiable existence and lead to beneficial results:…

Explored the relationships between late adolescents' self-reported ego identity and individuation from their family of origin. Results indicated a significant relationship between adolescent's perceived involvement in their family's patterns of fusion and triangulation and the total score and three of the five subscale scores, from the identity…

Part three of the five-part series on leadership in which author describes effective channeling of self-concept as one of the principles of perceptual psychology which can promote good leadership. (Editor/IR)

Study results indicate that the principles of individual psychology can be applied effectively in a group counseling process involving socially maladjusted students. A better acceptance of authority was evident, verbal aggression toward teachers subsided, praise and reward became important, and grades became a method to please teachers as well as…

The differential effects of a Gestalt counseling operation and empathic reflections of feeling on client depth of experiencing, change in awareness, and goal analogue. Results showed that depth of experiencing and change in awareness were significantly higher for the subjects following the Gestalt operation. (Author)

The application of modern day psychology to self-image development is seen as a necessary prerequisite to the solution of people problems. (Author)

Replicates a previous study on the influence of transcendental meditation on self-actualization. (Author)