This book is designed to help teachers, counselors, and administrators understand the significance of gay and lesbian issues in education and to facilitate the integration of gay and lesbian families into the school community. It offers models for equity, inclusion, and school reform. The chapters are: (1) "Overview of the Problem"; (2)…

Presents the role of the black psychologist in the area of theorizing on black behavior in terms of the task of criticizing what has heretofore been written about black behavior, and also in terms of what the black psychologist should bring to this area of knowledge to replace past writing with ulterior motivation. (Author/JM)

Author considered black Americans and their efforts to adopt a strongly self-determinist position in their attempt to shape their world. (Author/RK)

A sample of nuclear families is drawn to test hypothesis that role-taking is a function of the interactive effects of value similarity and affect. Support is found for the position that, in certain conditions, value similarity, regardless of the level of affect, is strongly related to role-taking accuracy. (RP)

Presents reasons for accepting alternative modes of education that might help students to escape perceptual traps and limitations to human potential and growth. (JR)

A research report on the effects of career models depicted in the media of instruction and counseling on the career aspirations of young girls. (Author)

Article explores the idea that exposure to fictional characters on the motion picture screen or on television causes the viewer, expecially young people, to identify with one or more of the characters involved. Suggestions for improvements in research into mass communications are offered. (Author/RK)

Some useful precautionary notes, for helping children profit from what is probably the most subtle and complicated learning process...learning by imitation through identification.'' (Editor)

This article examines the allegiance of a sample of black youths to four types of protest--integrationist, nihilist, pluralist, and separatist. Preference for a type of protest was related to the individual's orientation to either an individual advancement or collective advancement ideology and to how powerless he felt to achieve social mobility.…

This paper discusses psychoanalytic contributions concerning both the development and the facilitation of qualities such as empathy, love for neighbor social-mindedness, identification, sympathy, and altruism; and neurotic manifestations of altruism and of other positive qualities. (Author/JM)

The hypothesis that self-esteem is positively correlated with parental identification was supported for female college students by two out of three self-esteem measures. For male subjects one social self-esteem measure correlated negatively with maternal identification and a self-concept measure correlated positively. No relationship between…

With therapists influenced either by color blindness or ethnocentricity, patients tend to lose their individual richness and complexity. (DM)

Attempts both to reconcile the divergent critical views which have grown about the novel and to determine whether this critical examination can have any meaning for those readers who find the novel useless--or worse--in terms of their own experience. (JM)