When sex is a problem in marriage, the wife often feels that she is only a sex object to the husband, while the latter feels that she hates sex. A procedure is described and data presented to respond to these concerns. Reasons for failure are given and suggestions are made. (Author)

This article describes a funded project designed to utilize the potential of the Women's Opportunities Center, University of California, Extension, Irvine to develop a supportive, self-help, mental health program for middle age women. The program, which utilized peer-group counseling was funded only for one year but seems to have been successful.…

Author describes difficulties facing counselors in dealing with low income Mexican Americans. Counselors should be bilingual and have comprehensive knowledge of Mexican-American culture to provide effective help to counselees. Counselors should encourage counselee to participate in group therapy sessions in which behavioral and problem solving…

The Appalachia Educational Laboratory, Inc. (AEL) of Charleston, West Virginia, has established an employer-based career education program in which unions have recently joined employers and educators in helping local youth explore careers and learn academic skills at worksites throughout the community. (Author)

Those responsible for educating community college students face many unresolved issues in relation to student services. The changing relationships between college and community, faculty and administration, and students and faculty have created many new challenges which must be met in new and imaginative ways. (Editor)

This report focuses on children and the community. In the community. In the opening address, Dr. Willem H. Welling, Executive Director of the van Leer Foundation, describes the history of the foundation and the content of previous seminars. He concludes the address with a discussion of community empowerment. Father Gerard Pantin, the keynote…

A description is given of the Mentor Teacher-Internship Program, which is funded by New York State and operates under state guidance. The focus of the program is on building a mutually rewarding relationship between the mentor and novice teacher. Steps through which mentor-intern dyads can progress on their way toward an effective, optimal…

A reward system was implemented for 1 month in a second grade classroom in an attempt to increase prosocial interactions among students. Participants were 37 children approximately 7.5 years of age who attended two classes at a rural elementary school. Children in treatment and control classrooms were given a brief lecture on good citizenship;…

The purpose of this study was to explore the preferences of primary-aged, non-handicapped children for particular handicapping conditions, including visual, hearing, and orthopedic impairments. Of particular interest were the following questions: (1) Do young children understand the nature of a given handicap? (2) Are young children capable of…

This book was written to help educators to deal more effectively with pregnant and parenting students by working with both the students and their kinship networks to assure the well-being of teenage parents and their infants and by developing ideas, policies, and procedures to reduce the incidence of unwanted student pregnancies. The six chapters…

This study focused on what tenured faculty at a school of education presently do and what they could do to enhance the instructional effectiveness of nontenured faculty. Nontenured instructors and assistant professors (N=142) were asked to respond to open-ended statements on the subject. Responses from 47 nontenured faculty members (33%) indicated…

This digest discusses empowerment for older adults, examining the aging of the population and the adverse effects of societal attitudes toward aging on the self-esteem, locus of control, and emotional health of older adults. The Social Reconstruction Syndrome (SRS) is discussed as a model for interventions to offset the adverse effects of social…

Mentoring is defined as the process of developing people in organizations. Successful mentoring occurs when top-level executives teach selected junior persons the rules of the game; provide opportunities for them to demonstrate their skill; challenge them; give them critical performance feedback; and sponsor them into higher level positions. This…

Social support is a significant component of mental health; yet, it has not been examined extensively among black Americans. This paper is a critical review of the research literature on informal social support. The review identifies how social support is conceptualized and defined, the importance of social support for mental health, and the…

If it can be shown that social workers work differently with the elderly than with younger clients, then students who wish to work with the elderly should be taught some special principles regarding treatment of the elderly. To explore this issue, seven clinicians who had extensive experience in treating the elderly were interviewed regarding how…