Helping professionals frequently assist clients to explore a variety of means for problem solving. When every other avenue has been unsuccessful, helping the client make use of spiritual resources may be a viable approach, provided that assistance is chosen by the client and offered in an objective, noninfluencing way. (Author/CL)

Parents of gifted children need to understand the child's special emotional needs and recognize the importance of letting the children have time to be children without unreasonable expectations and demands. (CL)

Instruction in orientation and mobility (O M) for aged visually impaired persons should begin as soon as possible based on the individual's needs and preferences. Positive attitudes and good instructor-client relationships are critical to the success of O M. (CL)

Presents suggestions for helping children cope with the events of September 11, 2001, including: do more listening than talking; offer opportunities for expressing their feelings through stories, artwork, and play; be calm and optimistic about everyone's safety; and respect some children's self-protective position of being unaware of or…

A. Maslow's theory of motivation is described, five levels of needs are identified (physiological, safety, love, esteem, and self-actualization), and implications of each level for parents and teachers of gifted students are noted. (CL)

The article asserts that culturally diverse gifted students need counseling to help them integrate their ethnic identity with their identity as gifted learners. (CL)

Universal considerations should be included in every program for the gifted, using the special needs of the students as the basics for the program. The author isolates responsibility, expectation, acceptance, and love of learning as necessary components. (Author)

Guidance and counseling needs of gifted students are described, and 10 policy recommendations for gifted programs are made, including that programs should help students develop adequate social relationships; stress achievement without regard to race, sex, or ethnic group; and develop an accurate sense of self. (CL)

Identifies 10 predictable stages that most students go through when facing the experience of a freshman year at college. Stages include midsummer anxiety, late summer panic, honeymoon upon arrival at college, end of the honeymoon a few weeks into the semester, belief that transferring will solve all/most problems, primitive coping behavior,…

Teachers are being reassigned outside their primary specialities because of budget cuts, declining enrollments, school closures, and teacher layoffs. This article offers guidelines for developing a program, based on one implemented in Garden City (Michigan), that serves the retraining and emotional needs of reassigned teachers. (WD)

The paper considers the nature of support and counseling needed by parents of emotionally disturbed/behavior disordered adolescents. Seven potential areas of conflict for the adolescent are identified and explained with the intention of providing parents with greater understanding of their children's lives. Crises are explained to include conflict…

If what individuals hope for in employment differs greatly from what successful individuals in that occupation consider the principal psychological needs satisfied by their jobs, chances for job satisfaction are dim. One way to predict job satisfaction is by relating self-selected psychological needs of an individual to the normatively-established…

Three different methods used to combat the psychological and emotional burnout of teachers are outlined. (JMF)

The article discusses six needs fundamental to research and intervention with families: (1) defensible rationale for family involvement, (2) caution in defining desired family outcomes, (3) developmental perspective, (4) ecological contexts, (5) allowance in variability in family composition or structure, and (6) adequate systems for assessing…

Points out the positive dimensions of protests by hospitalized children and adolescents with chronic health problems and indicates how group discussion can increase reciprocal understanding of the needs and concerns of patients and doctors. (Author/RH)