Recognizing the fact that today's students leave school each day and go home to minimal adult supervision and lack a consistently available resource to help with homework assignments, this paper discusses how to organize well-planned homework clinics for these students. The paper first advances several reasons why such clinics are important, and…

The author discusses the crisis in health care and some efforts to develop humanistic alternatives. Included are two case studies in humanistic medicine. (Author)

The more than 150 entries in this bibliography represent a vast array of teaching strategies as well as the psychological and pedagogical underpinnings of humanistic education. (Author/NHM)

A comprehensive therapeutic approach of confrontation and challenge is presented in four clinical cases. The therapist's involvement and mature caring makes up for the lack of relatedness in these families. (Author)

This article describes a model for designing workshops and laboratories for training people in helping skills. (Author)

This document is designed to help Girl Scout leaders understand the maturation of girls and how to assist the girls in their development. The information and activities described in this booklet are designed to help girls see themselves in a positive way, understand some of the forces that influence them as they develop, and cope with the stresses…

Many researchers have linked peer counseling skills to skills necessary in acquiring friends. In order to examine the relationship between peer counseling training and friendship, peer counselor trainees' (N=167) expectations of friendship before and after peer counseling training were compared. Peer counselors' expectations of friendship were…

As research on social support and informal helping has increased, there have been more calls for consultation efforts that might strengthen informal helping networks. Many support-oriented consultation interventions attempt to bolster informal helping systems by modifying informal caregivers' attitudes toward their helping role, building their…

A group of 240 men and women of various ages were given the opportunity to express altruistic behavior in an interpersonal situation by granting a favor of permitting the experimenters, one white woman and two white men in their mid-twenties to enter a store check-out line ahead of them during the Christmas rush. The researchers hypothesized that…

Intended for mentor teachers who assist beginning teachers, this handbook includes a description of the mentoring process, including its definition, purpose, and application to professional development in education. Characteristics of good mentors, their relationships with their proteges, and typical activities associated with mentoring are…

Results revealed that empathic understanding and respect are significantly related to two similar personality variables: tolerance of ambiguity and need for order. Ratings from Carkhuff's Index of Communication were significantly related to empathic understanding. Suggestions are made for further research and the improvement of existing selection…

Examines the factor structure of ratings made with Carkhuff's revised scales of facilitative conditions. The general assumption has been that these counselor characteristics were discrete counselor variables; however, this study suggests that at least two of the variables are closely related aspects of the same underlying quality. (Author/PC)

This paper describes one pathway toward establishing an empirical research base in primary prevention with a population of adolescents. (Author)

This article investigates the reasons why young single girls are keeping their babies far more often than they did a few years ago, and the role of the helping professions in dealing with these young mothers. (BW)

Encourages professionals in helping relationships to explore and experience biofeedback training for voluntary self-regulation. A sample biofeedback training program is described. Observations of participants in biofeedback programs are presented. (Author/BW)