Evaluates the effects of group guidance, group counseling, and individual counseling on the academic achievement of 10 students compared with the effects of individual counseling only on the academic achievement of a different group of 10 students. (Author)

Vocational interests, attitudes, and aspirations of retarded clients has been shown to be significant to rehabilitation counseling. Two recently developed techniques--the Vocational Interest and Sophistication Assessment (VISA) and the Reading-Free Vocational Interest Inventory (RFVII)--are discussed as potentially useful tools in assessing…

Handicapped job applicants face at least one unique problem in their job search. Does this problem result in an atypical job search pattern? Could counselors and personnel workers improve a disabled person's chances of finding a job? This study, which reports the search patterns of paraplegics, suggests answers to these questions. (Author)

Describes the characteristics of women who have joined ROTC, and is intended to enable counselors working with ROTC women to better understand the needs and values of this group. Possible implications for civilian curricula are also considered. (Author)

Puerto Rican lesbians (N=61) were interviewed as well as members of the general Puerto Rican community (N=264). Attitudes of both groups were analyzed. Lesbians feared rejection from the community, which was the dominant attitude of community members. Cultural values and a literature review are also presented. (HLM)

A life cycle explanation of residential mobility is presented. It posits that age-related events in a normative context influence moving probabilities for homogeneous populations who have relatively uniform socialization. (Author)

A sample of 42 professional and 46 non-professional men and women reported order of preference for 10 job characteristics (five motivators and five hygienes). Both sexes regarded motivators as personally more important than hygienes but non-professional respondents were significantly more concerned about hygienes than the professional group.…

Differences related to degree aspiration, desired nursing career specialty, and other nursing-related biographical variables were found among the four classes of a sample of 408 full-time non-RN female subjects in a baccalaureate nursing program. These differences were associated with shifts in the work values patterns of the subjects. (Author)

The scales of the Self-Directed Search (SDS) were correlated with the scales of the Armed Forces Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) for a sample of 192 high school girls. The two devices have small to moderate correlations that indicate self-reported abilities and competencies have some concurrent validity. (Author)

Students (N=153) were studied and it was found that low career salience was associated with a relatively high incidence of vocational indecision. Results suggest there may be two sources of vocational indecision: high career-salience students who value intrinsic rewards and low career-salience students who do not value intrinsic rewards. (Author)

Examples and methods of plagiarism at the university level since the 1930's are cited. It is suggested that the fraud of soft teaching is currently compounded by soft grading, and that cheating is not confined to students but to professors publishing papers as well. (LBH)

Federal support for basic research is assessed with particular attention directed toward those agencies that are most likely to receive increased funding. (LBH)

This article describes a concentrated program of desensitization used to treat flight phobia. A case history illustrates the use of expanded emotive imagery, stimulus breakdown and techniques of covert positive reinforcement. (SJL)