Examines relationships among caregivers' internal resourcefulness, demands of caregiving situations, and caregivers' self-reported coping behaviors relative to changes in dysphoric affect. Primary caregivers of the frail elderly (n=143) completed several measures approximately 4 months apart. Decreased dysphoric affect among caregivers was linked…

An innovative intergenerational program in Miami-Dade County (Florida) Public Schools trains adolescents to teach senior citizens about fire safety at an adult education center. Kids enjoy their relationships with "second grandparents" while imparting valuable information and translating safety checklists into Spanish. (MLH)

The recipient of the year 2000 Kellogg's Hannah Neil World of Children Award was Father William Wasson, founder of Neustros Pequenos Hermanos [NPH], a network of orphanages in Mexico and Latin America. Since its beginning in 1953 the entire fabric of NPH is woven around the ethic of service. (Author)

Argues that unless issues of machine help and human help are given explicit attention by the library profession, the disappearance of human help in patron assistance without input is likely. Discusses convergent commercial- and academic-sector trends, implications for the profession, and three policy alternatives. Presents a patron self-help…

Discusses emerging trends within helping professions that cause some academic units within higher education to decline or disappear while others thrive. Investigates patterns in causes and correlates of resource declines, program terminations, and organizational realignments. The paper notes universities' social responsibility to support helping…

This article discusses how outside contributions and interests can place self-advocates in danger, how personal issues of advisors may place self-advocates in danger, a way for advisors to resolve their personal issues, and strategies that advisors can employ to assist and support self-advocates if they are in dangerous situations. (CR)

Five adult students of various ethnic backgrounds, each deaf or hard-of hearing and blind or visually impaired, participated in testing a newly designed assistance card for soliciting help crossing the street. Results indicated that with the new card 101 pedestrians out of 183 offered assistance. (Contains references.) (CR)

Despite their invaluable services, school counselors are among the first positions cut from tight budgets. The California high-school counselor profiled has a typical caseload: 450 students. She must respond to student's individual cases while making time to develop programs to improve student behavior and achievement. (MLH)

Therapists involved with religious communities as leaders, employees, or community members face challenges in evaluating benefits and risks of dual relationships. Authors propose a three-level model of factors to use to evaluate risk: (a) professional ethics codes and legal guidelines, (b) theory of therapy, and (c) contextual variables and…

Examines the reliability and validity of the Youth Support Inventory, a tool designed for community coalitions to assess the availability of local resources and supports that previous research indicates are important for preventing adolescent alcohol and other drug use. (BF)

Using a social exchange perspective and data from a national sample of 978 spouse and child caregivers of older family members, this study assessed the association between caregiver relationship and gender and the costs and rewards of caregiving. We also evaluated whether relationship and gender moderate the effects of helpfulness on caregiver…

Adolescence is a time of major transitions, in which the potential for conflict and stress are numerous. In spite of the many changes and transitions that occur during adolescence, very few adolescents seek help in coping with their personal problems. In this article, we describe the help-seeking behaviours of adolescents and identify specific…

The author articulates key stressors in the lives of families who are homeless. These stresses often combine with barriers such as lack of job opportunities and/or insensitive professionals. Strategies for helping homeless families overcome these barriers and related issues are presented.

Although it is well established that adult daughters spend more time giving assistance to their parents than do sons, the sources of this gender gap are not well understood. This paper asks: To what extent can this gap be explained by structural variation, especially the different rates of employment and kinds of jobs that women and men tend to…

In their self-concept approach to counseling, Purkey and Schmidt (1996) introduced the tenets and assumptions of "invitational education" (Purkey & Novak, 1996) and applied them to professional helping relationships. Although their model is a general approach to helping and not specific to counseling culturally diverse clients, many of its…