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Henggeler, Scott W.; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1990
In this study of parental emotional and marital adjustment, parents of 74 hearing-impaired youths reported less symptomatology than did 57 parents of hearing youths. There were no differences in the marital satisfaction of parents in intact families. Parental adjustment was not associated with the duration of time since diagnosis. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Rearing, Emotional Adjustment, Hearing Impairments
Thiel, William B.; Thiel, William S. – Executive Educator, 1989
Supervisors' best approach to school executives whose careers have stalled is to talk with them about their dissatisfactions and then seek ways to help them. Mutually agreed-on goals, new challenges, and discussion of the executives' qualifications and chances of promotion can pay off in peak performance . (MLF)
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrators, Career Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
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Sekaran, Uma – Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 1989
A model for counseling dual career families depicts the interaction of four factors: the central life interests of the couple, their gender role orientation, the stresses experienced in balancing work and family roles, and the coping mechanisms used. Counselors can help devise strategies to achieve career advancement as well as career, family, and…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Dual Career Family, Marital Satisfaction
Cunningham, James J.; Emukah, Reginald – 1990
A study was done of individual job involvement as it affects support services in some areas of higher education. The basic research question was: Given selected personal characteristics of support services staff members and certain situational characteristics, which set of variables would most effectively account for the variations in the degree…
Descriptors: College Administration, Higher Education, Individual Characteristics, Job Performance
Wright, Dianne H. – 1988
This paper focuses on the role of feedback in effective communication and ways in which feedback can assist library managers at all levels in performing their role as leaders. The various kinds and sources of feedback are discussed, and the relationship between feedback and goal setting are considered, as well as the effects of goal setting and…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Feedback, Job Satisfaction, Leadership Qualities
Donohue, Edith M. – 1985
American workers change jobs more frequently than workers in older industrial countries. The movement from a manufacturing economy to a service economy involves many job changes for workers. Consequently, workers need flexibility. Counselors are challenged to help clients view life holistically, recognizing the dimension of quality of life.…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Careers
Callison, Daniel; Haycock, Gloria – 1985
This document, the second of two volumes, completes the report of a Lilly Endowment, Inc. funded project whose major objective was to establish a process for both teachers and students to be involved in the field testing or evaluation of microcomputer software. Workshops were held in nine Indiana school corporations where more than 2,300 students…
Descriptors: Computers, Courseware, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education
Balinky, Jean L. – 1985
The most difficult part of being a school psychologist is working in a school. Demands for accountability and staff productivity from federal, state, and local funding sources can lead to a lack of flexibility in educational strategy, increased pressure to place students in special education programs, and restrictions on the role of the school…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support, Job Satisfaction
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Krumboltz, John D. – Journal of Career Development, 1985
The author proposes seven presuppositions that seem to underlie the use of computers in career counseling. He urges counselors to make sure that the data in the programs are accurate, that the instructions for processing that data are reasonable, and that clients know that what is true on the average may not necessarily be true for them. (CT)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers
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Lawry, Martha – Research Strategies, 1986
Examines the reasons why "more" subject access in online catalogs is not necessarily "better" and recommends that librarians prepare a statement informing users of what they need to know before using the catalog and how best to make use of its listing. (EM)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Indexing, Instructional Materials
Kerr, Barbara A. – New Directions for Continuing Education, 1986
Career development of creatively gifted adults consists of three tasks: (1) dealing with career decision problems, (2) finding training and support, and (3) maintaining productivity. Counselors can help clients face these tasks by emphasizing values in decision making, keeping abreast of innovations, and identifying and treating productivity…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adult Counseling, Adults, Career Counseling
Ashley, William L. – New Directions for Continuing Education, 1986
A forced change in employment status means the impact on the worker and immediate family can be devastating. Assisting workers during this transition period is an important adult career counseling task. They must see the journey back to satisfying work as a series of planned adjustments. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Career Change, Career Counseling, Dislocated Workers
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Gunn, James A.; Holdaway, Edward A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1986
A 1983-84 Alberta study examined the job satisfaction of senior high school principals and its relationship to these principals' perceptions of their influence, their effectiveness, and their school's effectiveness. The selected indicators and best predictors of these variables, and associations with demographic variables, also were identified.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, High Schools, Job Satisfaction, Leadership Styles
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Bunge, Charles A. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1984
Reports reflections of library school reference teacher who practiced for year as day-to-day reference librarian. Highlights include ideal reference librarianship; concepts helpful in explaining low morale; changes in basic reference service elements (information resources, clients, librarians); current coping strategies; and ways in which to cope…
Descriptors: Burnout, Coping, Information Sources, Job Satisfaction
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Welch, Robert J. – NASSP Bulletin, 1985
Outlines an innovative district-wide staff development program that improved morale, lessened the teacher burnout rate, and saved the district money. (MD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education, Job Satisfaction, Morale
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