The Psychological Growth Index, a true-false questionnaire of 140 items, has been administered to 7,500 individuals in the 14 to 22 age group to distinguish psychologically mature adolescents from less-fully mature peers. Author claims after careful statistical scrutiny instrument remains clinically valid. (DS)

Author points out discrepancies in testing methods and goals for developing students' personalities and identities. (HS)

Presents some educational principles, which are intended to ensure conditions indispensable for the all-round development of each individual, and suggests those principles as a basis for modernizing the present educational system and adult education. (Author/RK)

In delineating a program of moral education for the schools, the question must be asked whether a framework of moral education can be provided that is constructive and responsible, and that does not simply impose a set of authoritarian values, yet give a child some guidance. (Author)

Given our present moral knowledge and human needs, a new discipline of Life Values Education, and particularly of Life Values guidance and counseling, is both a possibility and necessity. (Author)

Paper presented at Conference on New Approaches to Behavioral Research on Smoking sponsored by the American Cancer Society in Tucson, Arizona, on March 30 and 31, 1972. (DS)

Describes YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) Leadership Schools and the effect of CRP (Character Research Project) materials on young delegates. (DS)

Formula for teaching fear is create an atmosphere in which achievement is valued over personal worth, in which blame is more common than understanding, and in which the opinion of others is more important than the opinion of self. (Author)

The teacher cannot existentially know the subjective consciousness of the student--what he is conscious of, how he is structuring the present in terms of past experiences, what exact meaning he gives to phenomena, or what his intentions are for future action. This has resulted in an excessive reliance on the use of power in the educational…

Describes a post-secondary program in which learning is stressed instead of teaching, the role of the instructor is to assess, diagnose, prescribe and tutor, and programs are individualized in the fields of business, technology, and applied arts. (MU)

Data indicate that students who participated in group counseling evaluated the experience positively. Teacher evaluations of students in group counseling more often than not indicated improved work habits, greater self confidence, reduced tension, and more positive attitudes toward school. (Author)

This article suggests that emotional disturbance be viewed as an ecological phenomenon that exists in the transactions among people. The task of the counselor is to alter disturbed transactions in ways that promote individual competence. (Author)

The stages are survival, consolidation, renewal, and maturity, and suggestions are given for inservice training and assistance at each level. (SP)