Experiences of hosptial staff working with abusive and neglecting parents are described. Emphasis is placed on establishing the relationship with the parents by reducing parental defenses, generalizing the difficulties of raising children, and promoting motivation for further cooperation. The necessity of examining staff attitudes toward parents…

Summarizes and compares findings from a series of studies of informal, interpersonal help given by four groups: hairdressers, divorce lawyers, industrial supervisors, and bartenders. Discusses the implications for mental health practitioners of the fact that most people do not take their psychological problems to the formal mental health…

The constructive and developmental framework, whose conceptual roots lie in the work of Piaget, outlines the holistic personality process of systems of making meaning, systems that organize human thought, feeling, and action. Applications of this model are presented. (Author)

Virtually all counseling is governed by implicit contracts that define both treatment goals and procedures and the client-counselor relationship. Discusses the implications of both types of contracts for counselors, presents a rationale for making these contracts deliberate and overt, and suggests guidelines. (Author)

To help teachers solve their problems, supervisors must first deal with problems inherent in the helping relationship. (Author)

A process by which teacher centers can reduce teacher isolation and burn-out is described. (JD)

Investigates how attributions of blame and control influenced evaluations by undergraduate students of comforting messages varying in level of person-centeredness. Finds messages low in person-centeredness were more appropriate with high-blame targets, whereas messages high in person-centeredness were more appropriate with low-blame targets;…

Explores emotional peer helping, whereby students attempt to provide support, comfort, be understanding, and/or listen to the problems of their peers, particularly peers with who they feel close. Results suggest that many students may find themselves helping a peer with problems, yet most students chose not to contact the campus counseling service…

Examples of service learning projects in higher education are given to demonstrate the impact of student participation, including increased concern for civic values, greater service orientation, and expansion of the cultural context. (SK)

Uses institutional ethnography to explore the role of power and justice in occupational therapy by constructing an analytical framework for reflection, explicating Canadian occupational therapists' conceptual framework for client-centered practice, and describing client/consumers' and therapists' perspectives on enabling occupation. (Contains 85…

Examines how collaboration with clergy was viewed by mental health and other health care professionals outside the religious community. Seven themes were identified through a content analysis of health care journals, including the benefits of collaboration to each profession, the need to increase the clergy's knowledge about mental health, and the…

This resource section lists Parent to Parent programs, which match "veteran" parents of disabled children with new parents of disabled children. The partial directory, organized alphabetically by state, gives names, addresses, and telephone numbers of programs in states from Kentucky through Oklahoma. (JDD)

Analysis of doctors' and patients' oral accounts and responses during medical interactions, from the perspective of an interactional strategy linking social structure to social interaction, demonstrates how the medical interview is characterized by a moment-to-moment battle that mirrors and largely sustains the institutional authority and status…

Examines Heidegger's two forms of caring as a framework for looking critically at the understanding of caring. Explores the meaning of caring from the perspective of students and a family studies teacher in the everyday life of the classroom. (Author/JOW)