Provides a comprehensive view of the predoctoral internship for counseling psychologists. Delineates relevant issues in intern training. Attempts to stimulate the field of counseling psychology to examine critically the effectiveness of internship training programs. (Author/ABB)

Recognizing the need for more active learning experiences and appropriate after-school activities for 11- to 14-year-olds, the Early Adolescent Helper Program has designed and tested a model program. Seminars and internships prepare students for placement, which is frequently in child-care or senior centers. (JMM)

Discusses the influence of the artist role model on art education, examining the extent to which other models are given credence. Suggests that art educators examine the limiting factors within art education so that a more inclusive approach, which would be more responsive to student needs, could be developed. (GEA)

Describes how to balance existing traditional male-oriented literature selections with readings that present the female experience, the female protagonist, and the female perspective of female writers. Includes a list of 45 books. (EL)

A course in community pharmacy management that involves community pharmacy managers in the instruction of the course found a high degree of pharmacist interest in course projects and in participation in the program. (MSE)

Sought to describe and categorize specific processes by which friends serve to influence emerging life structures of early adulthood. Five categories were developed from open-ended interviews of 34 young adults between 20 and 28 years of age. These categories describe friends in the roles of models, active agents for change, reactors, interactors,…

Some of the barriers to athletic participation by disabled people, particularly girls and women, are examined in this article. Ways the situation may be improved by physical educators, program directors, and participants are suggested. (MT)

This study utilized a social learning framework to test the hypothesis that adolescents who have tried smoking in the past differ from those who have never smoked on several factors that theoretically place them at higher risk for beginning to smoke again. Implications of the findings for the design of school-based smoking prevention programs are…

Schools should not teach values directly, but education can never be value-free. Schools can best promote moral responsibility by treating all students fairly, providing good role models, using discipline to help students, balancing competition with cooperation, and providing opportunities to students for responsible and altruistic behavior. (TE)

Concerns ways in which consultants can learn about their clients' politics and address this content explicitly. Describes two modeling techniques that consultants might use in consultant-client interactions to facilitate the explicit examination and analysis of internal politics. Illustrates these techniques with case examples. (Author/ABB)

Examined perceptions of men and women doctoral students (N=481) about issues doctoral students face. Women students perceived less support from faculty than did men. Women also reported conflict in attempting to integrate their personal and professional life roles. Discusses women's needs for role models and a supportive school environment. (BH)

Classroom interactions are important in teaching social work practice. Teaching techniques include working within a time- and goal-specific framework, consciously using oneself as a role model, and teaching specific practice skills by focusing on group practices to teach social work principles, values, and skills. (MSE)

Presents results of a survey indicating that although nearly 70 percent of undergraduate public relations majors are women, these students have few female role models teaching them. Indicates that those women currently teaching public relations carry heavy teaching and student contact responsibilities, primarily because of their beginning faculty…

To replicate a study of conflict resolution in the family by Steinmetz (1977), the Conflict Tactics Scale was administered to college students. The results agree with the Steinmetz study with one exception. The patterns of conflict resolution are similar for race with one exception. However, several sex dissimilarities were found. (Author/BL)

Faculty-student contact outside the classroom can be beneficial to students and faculty. Students can benefit from the experienced adult role models and support provided by the faculty members. Faculty members can benefit from exposure to students' life-styles, problems, and interests. A program describing a successful faculty house (residence…