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Peer reviewedGibbons, Melinda M.; Shoffner, Marie F. – Professional School Counseling, 2004
First-generation students, or students whose parents did not attend college, represent 27% of all graduating high school students. They have unique needs that separate them from other students and that must be addressed in counseling. This article examines how school and career counselors can help these students through the use of Social Cognitive…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Self Efficacy, First Generation College Students, Career Counseling
Download full textRimm, Sylvia B. – 1987
The paper considers pressures on bright children and the relationship of such pressures to underachievement. It gives specific suggestions on the prevention of underachievement to both parents and teachers. Pressures often felt by gifted children include pressures to be brilliant, to be creative, to do something spectacular, to find oneself, to be…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Educational Therapy, Elementary Secondary Education
