Emphasizes the need for unity among Black Americans, and for concerted and constructive action by them in the years ahead. (RJ)

Knowing children's preferences and reasons for them can help teachers and counselors to provide appropriate exploratory experiences, and to encourage individuals to assume some responsibility for self assessment and wise occupational decision making. (Author/CJ)

Results of a study suggested possibility of a process whereby (1) service-oriented individuals are attracted to and recruited by the Forest Service, (2) service-oriented members are likely to identify strongly with the Service, and (3) this identification results in intrinsic need satisfactions. (Author/KJ)

Research involving adolescent identification with and development of sex roles is reviewed in the areas of cognitive skills and personality traits, theories of sex role development, and minority group adolescent sex role development. Emerging issues and educational implications in these areas are discussed. (CJ)

Examines, in 339 ninth- and tenth-grade adolescents, the effect of the sibling relationship "having an older brother" on the younger sibling's stage of drug use, exploring sex differences in sibling effects. Sibling effects were examined in the context of the younger sibling's peer group. (Author/RH)

Describes and evaluates four approaches to helping Catholic adolescents in their moral growth: using case studies to build knowledge of values and morality; providing moral models with whom young people can identify; presenting a positive ideology; and helping students recognize and respond to God's presence in their lives. (AYC)

Log linear analysis of data from the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey indicates a rising number of Whites who have mixed ethnic ancestry but identify with a single ethnic group. This is particularly true among those who have attended college, live in large areas, and belong to younger age groups. (Author/MJL)

Examined the relationship of male counselor trainees' (N=20) empathic ability to measures of countertransference behavior and countertransference feelings. Indicated empathy was negatively related to countertransference behavior and was positively related to counselor reports of openness to countertransference feelings. (Author)

University women who rejected stereotyped traditional expectations for females had poor childhood relationships with their fathers, while women who endorsed the expectations had good paternal relationships. This was especially true among those of lower socioeconomic status. No similar effect was found when childhood relationships with mothers were…

The author reports on his experiences as a Black American travelling in Nigeria and Ghana. He reviews the many similarities and the few differences between the Black American and the African experience from the broad perspectives of philosophy, psychology, sociology, and art. (Author/MC)