The effect of therapist self-disclosure on patients, under induced expectations that disclosure is appropriate, was studied. Results implied that for therapist disclosure to facilitate client openness, a therapist must emphasize disclosure as a part of the professional role and as appropriate for effective psychotherapy. (NG)

Two kinds of videotaped modeling--an expert and a coping model approach--were compared as to the relative effectiveness of each method in reducing beginning counselors' anxiety toward a counseling interview. Those persons who viewed expert models significantly reduced situationally related anxiety following participation in an analogue interview.…

This study explored the effects of three types of maternal modeling on the tactual curiosity behavior of forty-eight 4- to 6-year-old children. Results indicated that imitative tactual curiosity occurred significantly more frequently among children exposed to maternal modeling of similar behavior. (BD)

Good leadership depends on the ability to tolerate anxiety, loneliness and the threat of unpopularity. This ability is more likely to be developed by the observation of good role models in action than through formal training. (MSE)

Employee health promotion through wellness programs can be set up at schools using existing facilities. Describes how Greenwood Area Schools in Millertown, Pennsylvania, set up a program and lists who does what in the program. (MLF)

Identifies noninstructional conditions leading to semiliterate high school graduates, including the inaccessibility of books, lack of time to read, lack of readers as role models, and barriers within the curriculum and school structure. Argues that educational reforms emphasizing only instruction are unlikely to change these conditions. (DMM)

Discusses two books, "The Young Unicorns" (M. L'Engle) and "M.C. Higgins, The Great" (V. Hamilton), that give honest portrayals of life. Suggests each will stimulate preadolescents to examine their own lives. (ARH)

Synthesizes the conclusions drawn from a literature review on principles for motivating students to learn. Outlines numerous pointers for creating essential learning preconditions and for motivating, including maintaining high expectations, supplying extrinsic incentives, and capitalizing on students' intrinsic motivation. Provides strategies for…

Compared sex-role attitudes and choices of significant others and role models of adolescents from dual-career families and traditional single-earner families. Results indicated that the influence of family structure varies both by sex of respondent and by type of role under consideration. (Author/BL)

Ideas for raising strong, healthy children who won't abuse drugs are offered. (MT)

Television can be a source of knowledge and information or it can cause negative behavior. Parents can help their children understand the difference between fantasy and reality on television and help make television viewing a positive event. (DF)

Mentoring, as a method of career development, is examined. The effects of various career development options are explored, as well as formal versus informal mentoring programs. The roles mentors play (sponsor, teacher, devil's advocate, coach) are described. The Merrill Lynch mentoring program is presented, along with some guiding principles for…

Examined similarities and differences in like-sex and unlike-sex parent-adolescent modeling. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories were administered to 59 emotionally disturbed adolescents and their mothers. Results showed that the mother-daughter profiles were very similar but the mother-son profiles were dissimilar. The mother-daughter…

Values education should be an essential part of the athletic experience, say these writers, who have developed a model for accomplishing that end. The model calls for specific effort to be directed toward teaching in the affective domain. (Author/TE)

Examines how television violence (1) serves as a socializing agent which presents to the mass viewing audience the conservative concept of legitimate violence, and (2) attempts to control the potential militancy of Blacks by projecting the violent Black police officer as a role model for Black youth. (CMG)