Identifies and describes "clinification syndrome," process where art therapists gradually cease making art as clinical skills become primary career focus. Sees priorities of training programs and policies of American Art Therapy Association as contributing to this trend. Offers suggestions to anchor art therapy students and beginning professionals…

If caring is to inform policy and practice, educators and researchers must examine unresolved questions concerning the nature of caring, the connection between youngsters' caring competence and empathic concern for others, the effects of being cared for on becoming a caring adult and parlaying risk-prone influences, and ways to demonstrate…

Three of the most significant types of counselor training programs to emerge in the 1960s are Microcounseling, Interpersonal Process Recall, and Human Relations Development. This paper reviews the research on these three programs and offers conclusions as to their effectiveness as well as suggestions for future directions in counselor training.…

Immigrants and refugees often experience difficulty adjusting to a strange new environment. This article considers Adler's (1993) article, "Refugee Dreams and Attachment Theory" but recommends a depth psychology approach, including both Freudian and Jungian perspectives, to incorporating dream analysis as a technique in cross-cultural…

The human resource development field is evolving as a profession but has yet to develop consensus on a common body of knowledge and ethical standards. Academics in the field are often isolated from practitioners, who themselves are often marginalized in organizations. (SK)

Presents an interview with videographer Carole Anne Klonarides that explores her manipulation of space, time, and visual texture, which often results in an altered sense of history. Notes how her goal to create believable sequences together with her desire to move beyond the stereotypical uses and formats of contemporary television show the…

Reviews several approaches that have proven to be useful heuristics in college teaching, introduces a model for describing faculty development in teaching that incorporates many of the tenets of invitational education, and shows connections between this model and the earlier approaches described. Central message is that the act of teaching itself…

Describes study that examined therapeutic alliance from the perspective of the involved client using phenomenological analysis. Three types of perceived alliance were identified: nurturant, insight-oriented, and collaborative. Findings suggest that some crucial features of the perceived working relationship are not accounted for in current…

Both Lois Coffey Mossman and Frederick Bonser had great influence on the development of industrial arts in the early 20th century. Problems facing technology education today were addressed then and are related to the gap between theory and practice. (SK)

Examined the construct validity of the Middle Childhood Temperament Questionnaire. Factor analysis revealed five factors. The factors of task persistence, negative reactivity, approach-withdrawal, and activity, but not the factor of responsiveness, were determined to have satisfactory levels of reliability. (MM)

Analyzes problems with the discourse of criticism (jargon, lack of practical connection) and of possibility (ineffective idealism) in curriculum studies. Substitutes the discourse of imagery, in which critical scholars address how as well as why language practitioners can understand. (SK)

Notes that, although spiritual wellness is an emerging area of interest in counseling, it still lacks clarity in definition and application. Attempts to define more clearly the concept of spiritual health and to describe ways to use techniques for the enhancement of spiritual wellness and the advancement of spiritual development. (Author/NB)

Discusses the usefulness of literary theory to instruction. Identifies, from a brief classroom transcript, a student's "misreadings," explains how theory helped understand their nature, and how it suggested an instructional strategy. (SR)

Offers an annotated list of 14 significant books in the field of critical theory and literature in the secondary classroom. (SR)

To enhance school improvement, decision making should be based on objective and quantifiable criteria. According to this review of nine curriculum domains (philosophy, evaluation, design, theory, policy, history, development, research, and curriculum as a field of study) and associated practices, most curriculum decisions are made in a variety of…