Preserving the personhood of one's partner emerged as a guiding directive for spouses caring for a partner with dementia. On the basis of data from open-ended interviews with 38 husband and wife caregivers, 4 strategies that facilitate this directive were identified: maintaining continuity, sustaining existing competencies, protecting the partner…

Focuses on the collaborative processes used by fifth-grade English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners in content classrooms. Analysis of learners' helping strategies during cooperation indicated that training had been successful, and comparison of scores on vocabulary tests based on the text revealed significant gains.(Author/VWL)

A survey of 105 mothers of children with disabilities assessed grandparent support, helpfulness, and involvement. Respondents' mothers were the most likely of the four grandparents to have provided every type of support and were regarded as the most involved and helpful. Affectionate solidarity between the adult generations predicted support.…

Offers a conceptual framework, based on E. H. Erikson's (1980) notion of identity formation, for understanding, assessing, and discussing spirituality and religion. Religion can play a significant role in the structure of identity. Religious identity status can provide direction and guidance for counselors who wish to integrate spirituality and…

Sometimes professionals learn the most from lay persons who overcome difficult experiences. The author ties together what he learned from a Holocaust survivor and from a former foster child who later became a police officer. In each case, it was a childhood experience that shaped the individual's choice of his or her life's work. (BF)

Family therapists presenting a regional marriage and family therapy conference were interviewed about ethnicity issues in therapy. Questions focused on ethnicity in the therapy process; ethnicity issues for the therapist and the client; strategies when ethnicity is an issue; and recommendations for ethnicity training. Qualitative analysis revealed…

Reflecting on his early days in youth work, Dr. Henry Maier discusses his days on the front lines at Pioneer House as a young colleague of Fritz Redl and David Wineman. Pioneer House, in Detroit Michigan, was a home for boys that provided a treatment approach to behavior problems. (BF)

Many social workers who understand practice theory and intervention techniques feel less competent when ending their work with clients, especially in the case of clients with schizophrenia. This article emphasizes the importance of closure with this client population and provides guidelines for incorporating constructive ending processes into the…

Depression is a psychiatric disorder characterized by a persistently sad or sometimes irritable mood. Recognizing and helping potentially depressed students are essential for meeting their academic and social needs and for maintaining the overall learning environment. Alerting the guidance counselor or school psychologist is a good idea. (MLH)

A number of studies have shown that students are often more willing to participate in educational conversations online than in the classroom. However, other studies have shown that online environments have poor student participation Why is this the case? What causes participation to vary from one environment to another? To explore these phenomena,…

People cannot protect their children--hard of hearing, deaf, or hearing--from exposure to evil. The prevalence of evil, perhaps especially ordinary evil, is particularly high for those with disabilities, including hard of hearing and deaf people. Everybody bears witness to ordinary evil, or will do so in the not-too-distant future, despite good…

Today, academic assistance efforts are frequently geared to all students, not just the underprepared, with study skills offered in various formats. In this article, the authors describe a learning community model with the theme, "Strategic Thinking and Learning" (STL). Results of data analysis indicate that participants of the STL…

It is impossible to teach students all characteristics of the myriad cultures present in the United States. Providing students with a framework to assess the cultural traits of any client and to understand how those traits may influence the helping relationship gives them a tool to use in any clinical setting. This article presents a systematic…

This is the second of two self-studies of my efforts to prepare preservice teachers for the practical realities of the classroom while being respectful of their personal practical knowledge. I coined the term "relational teacher education" to convey my approach, which is informed by Rogers' "helping relationships" and Hollingsworth, Dybdahl, and…

Our purpose for conducting this investigation was to extend the research on the help that siblings of children with mental retardation give to their brothers and sisters to include not only custodial care, but also other forms of helping behavior, such as emotional support, tangible aid, and information giving. We compared 100 siblings (50 with…