Vocational rehabilitation clients met in self-directed groups, using a set of program materials recorded on audiotape. The materials were designed to enhance opportunities for self exploration by presenting a series of interpersonal exercises. Results indicate that the subjects using the program materials became more open while control subjects…

Presented at the summer 1969 advanced seminar on Aesthetics in Education held at the Boston University School of Education. (EJS)

Presented at the summer 1969 advanced seminar on Aesthetics in Education held at the Boston University School of Education. (EJS)

Some implications of research presented are: (1) need for clear division of counselor functions, (2) responsibility of training programs to prepare counselors to function at high level of facilitation conditions as well as to specify their ability to do so. (CJ)

Reprinted from "Canadian Dimension v5 n8 Feb 1969. (SW)

Practices in the public schools that contribute to depersonalization and dehumanization are discussed. (MF)

Suggests how parents and teachers can work together to help children deal with the traumas of separation upon school entrance. (NH)

A discussion of creativity focuses on its relationship with other processes within the individual. The social or personal nature of creativity is noted, as are its adaptive, elaborative, or developmental facets. Implications for teaching include the need for understanding the importance or reconciling the emotional forces of creativity with…

Describes a career development model that can help nurses both to develop their preferences for specific career areas and positions and to work toward self-directed personal and professional growth. (JOW)

Advocates a new form of literary criticism, which combines the subjectivist and objectivist approaches. The author argues that literary criticism which includes comparisons of the reader's response to the text with its actual content, and with alternative viewpoints, provides new opportunities for personal growth. (AM)

Evidence for the increasing recognition of maturational lag in addition to intellectual impairment, associated with the syndrome of early onset psychosis, is presented to indicate that developmental variables play a central role in the behavioral profile of autistic children. (Author)

Kipling's view of the child, as expressed in his writings, focused on the vision of growth or becoming, fostered by activity. Action was to be directed by a firm and conservative moral code, with initiative allowed on some occasions so that change could occur. (MSE)