This study examined the ability of guidance counselors, rehabilitation counselors, and social workers to distinguish accurately low-, medium-, and high-functioning helpers, when the helpers were identified as being from the participants' own or the other two professions. Significant main effects were accounted for by helper's level of functioning.…

This study is necessarily exploratory with regard to action-oriented dimensions in educational contexts. Author hypothesizes that those subjects rated most highly functioning on selected dimensions will be rated as making the most significant contribution to learning of other group members. Those rated least effective will be least helpful in…

This study investigated the differences in self-understanding, measured in a mock job interview, between 13 students who participated in values clarification exercises and 15 students who did not. Immediate results indicated that participants evidenced better self-understanding than nonparticipants. Six months later, responding subjects reported…

Use of the Counseling Appropriateness Check List in politically and religiously conservative areas suggested that the adjustment to self and others, or personal and social items, might not comprise a unitary factor. The existence of a religious concerns factor, made up of seven adjustment items, was hypothesized and demonstrated. (Author)

Women students in a community college were studied to determine the effects of single-sex counseling groups and two single-sex minicourses on reducing alienation and increasing self-regard and inner direction in women. (Author)

Women engineering students differ in important respects from men engineering students as they begin their studies. These differences are presented, and their importance for engineering education is discussed. (Author)

Coping with the problems of growing old may be complicated by demands for economic, psychological, and social support for aging parents. Second-generation children facing major age-related role shifts may not be equipped to provide such support. Both generations are coping with their own aging processes, as well as with changing family…

A Kent State University study of student satisfaction guides student affairs program planning. (Author)

Husbands and wives of dual-career families were compared with husbands and wives of traditional-career families on the variables of inner-directedness, self-actualizing values, existentiality, self-regard, and self-acceptance. (Author)

Subjects differing in cognitive complexity formed impressions from either (1) three positive and three negative experimenter-selected traits; (2) three traits of each evaluation generated by the subject in a preliminary session; or (3) three experimenter-selected traits of one valence and three subject-generated traits of the opposite valence.…

A survey of 86 persons using non-speech communication systems with retarded clients was conducted to determine which non-speech communication methods they used with which kinds of communication impaired populations. (SBH)

The study determined whether eight undergraduate normal listeners, presented with filtered speech, would produce consonant confusions similar to those previously reported for the hearing-impaired listener. (Author/SBH)

Describes the scientific accomplishments of the International Program of Ocean Drilling (IPOD) during its first decade. Notable are the scientific contributions to understanding the sea floor. Critical decisions for the second decade include economic and social implications. (MA)

A sample of 73 divorced single parents were asked to rate the severity of a variety of child-centered problems. The problems of greatest concern involved discipline, behavior problems resulting from the separation and following the ex-spouse's visit, and the lack of an available male model. (Author)

This study reports results of ACPA Commission XII's survey of 101 college student personnel training institutions regarding their graduate placement. Graduates were identified according to degree, race, and sex. Percentages of graduates placed, specialty areas, types of institutions, areas of the country, and time and method of placement were…