It has been suggested that outdoor recreation involving wilderness use can contribute to the development of self-actualization in an individual. Users and nonusers of wilderness were surveyed to observe which were more self-actualized. Results are discussed. (Author/DF)

Suggests that social workers have lacked models for understanding the process of a client's self-identification as a lesbian. Describes several developmental phases a woman may go through to form a healthy self-concept as a lesbian and discusses practice implications for this process. (Author/JAC)

Personality traits (aspects of aggression and sexuality) were measured for 70 Anglo-American and 70 Mexican-American children. Discussion concerns differences between the groups and developmental patterns. (DP)

Subjects who reported that their parents used more punishing- and controlling-type behaviors were found to have greater expectations of control by powerful others, while subjects who viewed their parents as using unpredictable standards had stronger chance orientations. (ST)

Outlines outcomes of organization development in the York County Board of Education, Aurora, Ontario. (DS)

Describes three cases where parent counseling helped bring about an increase in personality development and individual achievement proportional to the degree the counseling advice was followed. (AN)

Through the activities of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme, employers can help their young employees develop not only the vocational side of their lives, but also their personalities, which will indirectly affect their work. (Editor/RY)

The author contends that not all groups allow for the freedom of the individual within the group. Attitudes of acceptance, permissiveness, warmth, friendliness, and objectivity should prevail within the group, and while not overlooking a particular member's individuality, one must allWw for3th&&ifferences that may accompany this individuality.…

Teachers sometimes need reminding that job training for business has a two-fold purpose--the actual training for the specific job and the personality development needed to succeed in that job. (Author)

Describes how industrial arts, through technology, can help individuals develop their personal adaptability for productive citizenship. (GR)

Erikson discusses the experience of growing old and how it is changing. He reflects on the life cycle and his theory of human development, and on Gandhi's technique of nonviolence and its relationship to generativity. (SK)