Graduate students rated their self-perception of three personal traits and evaluated the concepts of drug addict and alcoholics. The results were correlated to the semantics of drug addicts and alcoholics, and show a positive relationship between self-perception and the semantics of drug addicts and alcoholic concepts. (Author)

Examines doctoral education in marital and family therapy, giving attention to major trends and developments in this area. They have not fulfilled expectations formerly held regarding their potential development. All practitioners should engage in significant amounts of continuing education to stay abreast of developments in a rapidly changing…

Describes experiences of a group of social work students who spent several months working in the public welfare agency of one of Georgia's poorest counties. The results of their efforts support the contention that concrete assistance often enables clients to become active agents for change in their own behalf. (Author)

Determined if racial labels contributed to counselors' assessments of clients. Stepwise multiple regression using the no-label condition as a reference point indicated that Black-labeled cases contributed more to prediction of counselors' ratings than counseling experience, physical social distance to minorities, or prior contact. Counselors…

Examines the graduate school experience in terms of three developmental stages: initiation, maintenance, and termination. Discusses social roles, developmental tasks, and coping behaviors of graduate students at each stage. Proposes an anxiety-support model that addresses relationships between student anxiety and faculty support. (Author)

No relation was found between assertion and marital adjustment for 187 married graduate students. In a second study, 15 students who completed one of two five-week assertiveness workshops significantly increased levels of assertive behavior relative to a control group, but no significant difference occurred for marital adjustment between groups.…

To better prepare for the job market, graduate students of English should be selective in their choice of schools, broaden their teaching experience, offer service to the English department, and concentrate on professional development through publications and presented papers. (HOD)

Describes the Emerging Curriculum at the John Hopkins Summer School session. Use of student contracts, content organized in instructional hierarchies, student interaction sheets and individual evaluation made student involvement more meaningful. Illustrates that university graduate courses can be organized as paradigms of humanistic and efficient…

Michigan State University and the Lansing (Michigan) school district are cooperating in a program that supplies the university with graduate teaching assistant positions and the school district with substitute teachers. (IRT)

The impact of answer changing on the test scores of students studying educational statistics is investigated. The results show that students who make changes in their original responses significantly improve their overall test performance, and high-scoring students make a greater number of changes than low-scoring students. (Author/GSK)

Explores barriers to Hispanic women's (1) attainment of higher education, and (2) professional advancement as college and university faculty members. Focuses on the need to actively recruit Hispanics at the graduate level. (GC)

The effects of physical fitness programs on graduate students suggest that these programs can improve physiological functioning. Intense, systematic physical fitness programs, when delivered in a helping relationship, help improve self-concept, reduce depression, anxiety, somatic complaints, tension, and fatigue, reduce the effect of fear, and…

This paper describes the social factors that are present in many graduate programs and contrasts this situation with a different graduate program where the social factors more often produce in students a feeling of "status enhancement," or affirmation about adult status. (CJ)

Graduate students rated counseling interviews using the Broverman Sex-Role Stereotype Questionnaire. Client sex was one factor and counselor sex was the other. Of the 37 items, 16 were significantly different on sex of the client. Counselors rated opposite-sexed clients as more deviant from traditional sex role stereotypes. (Author/BEF)

Counselor trainees completed the Bem Sex Role Inventory for stimulus occupations. Analyses indicated that males do not differ from females in degree of occupational stereotypes. Occupations differ in degree of stereotypes elicited. Males do not differ from females in direction of occupational stereotypes. Occupations differ in direction of…