When instructors are unable to finish their teaching contracts, new instructors can benefit from knowing the feelings and concerns of the students. This reports students reactions to the situation, and recommends such things as making clear requirements and grading policy, and clearly describing preferred teaching style.

Counselors with nonadequate, self-help networks experienced more on-the-job stress, perceived the university as being less supportive, and identified more conflict of role definition. Counselors preferred to rely primarily on themselves for support when experiencing stress but would turn to family members or work associates. (Author)

Values clarification is a practical and realistic theory to help families settle conflicts. It opens lines of communication and cooperation. Several exercises are given for families and groups to use in understanding their own values. (JAC)

Students with high levels of fear of failure were found to be less vocationally mature on five of the eight measures of vocational maturity and were found to devalue the career planning task more. Vocational planning for the failure-avoidant student should have high priority. (Author)

Findings suggest that most fathers experience some anxiety related to this event, and that their anxiety and sadness are related to the level of anxiety felt by their wives, their socioeconomic status, and their confidence that schooling will be a quality experience for their children. (Author)

Family-centered intervention after the death of a baby due to sudden infant death syndrome facilitates reorganization, growth, and development of the family system. A potentially defeating crisis becomes an opportunity to develop coping skills and strengthen family members. Public health nursing is an essential component of the program.…

Discusses the emotional turmoil experienced by a child of divorce and the role of the teacher in providing the child with stability and understanding. (Author/DB)

Effective counseling methods for women experiencing an unwanted pregnancy and counseling in the alternative choices of parenthood and abortion are discussed. A major goal in counseling is to help the client recognize and come to terms with her own feelings. (JN)

The Community-Based Guidance Program is an inexpensive and effective outreach project for home-oriented women. It is self-perpetuating and develops its own professional and user networks. As a link between women, it provides the confidence to make and implement midlife decisions. (Author)

Counselors in a university setting are in a position to offer rape victims postassault adjustment counseling and at the same time to help minimize the impact of the assault through normal developmental tasks. A conceptual framework of the postassault adjustment process is presented. (Author)

On the premise that "anxiety" and "achievement motivation" may be indicative of coping strategies, questionnaire measures of these traits plus academic tests were administered to 956 British pupils taught by teachers representing formal, informal, and mixed teaching styles. For part two of this study, classroom behavior, see AA…

"Aloneliness" includes such states as loneliness, solitude, alienation, and isolation. Resolution must be an individual issue with each client. Coping and conquering strategies can help individuals adapt and establish meaningful realtionships. (JAC)

Presents an eight-session seminar designed to increase participants' study skills and to redefine participants' self-concepts from those characterized by feelings of inadequacy and frustration to concepts of selves as competent and capable. Learning strategies, two-way communication, learning styles, note making, test taking, vocational planning,…

Bibliotherapy is one way of helping children who are victims of abuse. Some children's novels vividly describe situations of child abuse. Counselors may want to consider using recent junior novels in counseling abused children. Novels identified here describe the hesitancy of abused children in asking for help from teachers. (Author/BEF)

Examined effect of negative affect of parents and peers on young children's affective responses, cognitive appraisals, and coping strategies. Found that compared to peer negative affect, children felt they could do little to help themselves when faced with paternal distress and frequently indicated they would use avoidant coping strategies to feel…