This article examines whether inmate group leaders can be successful in reducing state anxiety, promoting a positive attitude toward their admissions program and future psychotherapy, and assisting in the group member's learning of the institution's rules, regulations, and policies. (Author)

Defines and describes different types of audits and areas of patient care which lend themselves to a quality of performance review. Describes an audit application at a hospital-based crisis intervention center and the corrective action taken on the basis of the findings. (Author)

This article is a follow-up to an earlier survey in which the institutional sources of scholarly contributions to the Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin from 1962-71 were identified. Results for the last five years indicate both substantial similarities and differences from the earlier survey. (Author)

A sample of 168 male and 169 female college students on a secondary curriculum responded to statements as to why secondary teaching was preferable to elementary and to conditions that would cause them to consider teaching at the elementary level. Sex and attitude toward sex role showed no significant difference. (Author)

Considers the problem of social control in educational organizations and some conditions under which relatively homogeneous distributions of school relevant behaviors and attitudes develop. The issue concerns the focus of social control: does the college act as the general unit of normative control or do subunits? (Author)

This article summarizes the results of the field trial of DISCOVER, a computerized, interactive career guidance system intended to be used with students in grades seven to 12. (Author)

Research projects concerned with teaching skills and teacher education, which originated at the University of Waikato (Hamilton, New Zealand), are reviewed. (GW)

Individual pupils' experiences and group dynamics in an open classroom in New Zealand are analyzed. (GW)

Data suggest that student evaluation of college and university physical education courses is strongly correlated with the nature of the course and with grade expectations. (GW)

Decisions regarding normality of childhood behaviors are necessary when clinicians attempt to discriminate which children require psychiatric treatment. Elements affecting clinical judgments include the influence of direct observation of the child and the parents' report of the child's behavior. Results show that judgments depended almost entirely…

Male and female college students were administered the Berzins-Welling ANDRO scale, a measure of psychological androgyny, and the Parent Behavior Form. The results indicate that new conceptualizations of sex role orientations, which consider masculine and feminine characteristics to be independent, uncorrelated dimensions, are distinctively…

This study investigated whether Koppitz Bender Gestalt Scores were related to ethnocultural, socioeconomic and sex factors when statistical controls for intelligence were used. When intelligence was controlled for, it eliminated many effects for these variables. Results are discussed. (NG)

This research showed high assertive and low assertive resident assistants could be differentiated on the basis of their effectiveness as judged by dormitory residents. Results show high assertive assistants are significantly more open and honest, communicate better, handle discipline better, and are generally more effective than their low…

This replication of a 1971 study compared students' and parents' attitudes toward 32 issues of university life. The results indicate that there was little change in the attitudes of students and parents over the four-year period since the first study. Basic areas of agreement and disagreement between students and parents remained. (Author)

A longitudinal study of a class of university undergraduates showed students who had more counseling sessions during their four-university years were indistinguishable on tests given at entrance from those with fewer sessions. However, students with personal problems had more sessions and showed tested differences from students with…