Discusses some assumptions, dilemmas, and questions in (1) facilitating support groups for caregivers whose relatives have Alzheimer's disease, (2) talking with other such facilitators around the country, (3) reviewing the literature, and (4) talking with group members themselves. Suggestions are made for a wider variety of support-group models.…

Discusses the counselor's role in helping unemployed adults to alleviate the emotional impact of unemployment and to develop coping strategies. Emphasizes the difference between vocational counseling which focuses on overcoming individual deficits and supportive counseling and advocacy. (BL)

Written for children with seizures and their caregivers, the article answers questions concerning the cause, types, and treatment of seizures. (CL)

Describes vocational maturity and assists counselors in identifying what the various career maturity instruments measure. Discusses task variable measures, intervening variable measures, response variable measures, and methods of choosing an instrument. (JAC)

Four-month-old rhesus monkeys were removed from their social group under three different conditions of perceptual isolation from their mothers and peers. Infant behavior was recorded and blood samples were obtained for analysis of plasma cortisol. Infants never showed signs of depression; their responses following separation were seen as attempts…

Results of questionnaires completed by 178 teachers of behaviorally disordered students indicated that a variety of student verbal and physical aggressive behaviors are commonly manifested in settings for behaviorally disordered students. A diversity of coping strategies are utilized by responding teachers; however, a narrower range of…

Interviews with 24 families of deinstitutionalized developmentally disabled children revealed that 83 percent expressed high-level need for care and 67 percent were coping at a low level. Inner-city families most often expressed high-intensity needs and decreased coping ability, as did families of patients of younger age groups. (CL)

Guidelines are given to assess the sources and types of social support people use as first and direct lines of defense in coping with life events and chronic hardships and to highlight how these ties mediate access to other supportive peer relationships. Suggests social workers organize groups and workshops to assess and strengthen network…

A teacher recounts her handling of the deaths of two junior high students, summarizes five stages of death, and reviews children's perceptions of death at different ages. Suggestions for teaching terminally ill students are offered along with ideas for helping parents, handling a class after a death, and helping a student after a death in the…

Discusses, with special reference to socially disapproved conduct, possible family and school influences on behavioral development. Influences are discussed in terms of alternative explanations for causal inferences relating environmental variables and children's disorders; mechanisms and processes; persistence of environmental effects; and…

Evaluated the simultaneous contribution of life event stress and coping style, as well as the independent contribution of each, to psychopathology among college students. Sex differences were found in the type of coping style related to psychopathology, the relative contributions of coping style and negative life stress to psychopathology, and the…

The paper outlines some of the most consistent problems presented by young adolescents entering full time college study and the kinds of coping skills they have learned in the effort to adjust to the college setting. Suggestions are made for using these case studies by counselors of highly gifted young students. (Author/CL)

Philosophers of education tend to stress the importance of analytic and scientific thinking. A discussion of how dialectical reasoning, as developed by Jean Paul Sartre, can contribute to educational thought is offered. (DF)

Surveyed 146 career development specialists to examine stress, strain, and burnout, using the Burnout Experience Questionnaire and measures developed by Osipow and Spokane (1981). While 75 percent of respondents had experienced burnout in the past, most reported currently low levels of stress and strain. (JAC)

The article discusses common problems facing mainstreamed hearing impaired persons and describes ways in which "maps" can designate a person's representations of reality. Mental health implications of such maps and their ability to locate the source of adjustment difficulties are noted. (CL)