Considers a neo-Piagetian address to the processes of personality and its implications for counseling or psychotherapy. Although the neo-Piagetian framework is different, its metaphors and premises may make it the better equipped to deal with the issues central to those psychologies most influential to the counseling enterprise. (Author)

Reviews literature regarding alienated youth of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s and maintains that the emphasis in higher education today on humanism and on self-direction may account for the apparent lack of alienation among present-day youth. (Author/DB)

Women always have been managers, personnel directors, long-range planners, and arbitrators in the domestic realm, but, as they assume positions of responsibility outside the home, these skills no longer can be taken for granted. The author offers suggestions to women for performing well in numerous roles. (Author/KC)

Introspective and self-reported benefits of recreation as gleaned from essays written by college students are discussed. (JD)

Describes how the discipline and sacrifice involved in playing competitive basketball can promote a continuing, self-rewarding challenge and test for the players and others involved. (JD)

Myths about women's sexuality are described and deflated. (JD)

As an outgrowth of the theory of flow, looks at some fine distinctions regarding the adolescent's optimal conditions for growth. Points to the importance of the adolescent's ability to reinterpret conflicts which crop up in raw experience, to overcome psychic entropy with long-term challenges or "life themes," and to find new meaning and…

Effective outdoor management development programs have certain features: emotional intensity, psychological safety, consequences, enhancement of self-confidence, use of metaphors, unpredictability, peak performance experiences, multiple skill/knowledge types, development of the whole person, and focus on transfer. They succeed because they sustain…

A new discourse on social policy, emphasizing social integration and participation, has given rise to a new political spectrum. On one end is collectivism and on the other individualism. Each perspective has traditional or reflective variants and there are adult education programs representing each variant. (SK)

Makes the case that inner growth or learning takes place in solitude. Argues that educators have failed to teach solitude and provides examples of accomplishing this by teaching the humanities as arts. (Contains 23 references.) (SK)

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing. Both roles are crucial, but differ profoundly. Four competencies of leadership are management of attention, of meaning, of trust, and of self. (JOW)

Describes personal development as a process of individuals acting and reflecting on the world and themselves. Discusses practical issues faced by facilitators in setting up and running self-development groups; focuses on the structure of the process; and presents guidelines. (JOW)

This paper traces librarianship's notions of intellectual freedom to a widely analyzed concept in law and political science known as the marketplace of ideas. A stewardship orientation in librarianship is described, changes in the profession are examined, emotional factors and democratic values are discussed, and self-actualization is considered.…

Includes "Teaching as the Art of Living" (Bauer, Vannici); "My Metaphoric Journey" (Berman); "Sailing: Educating and Celebrating Self" (Hunkins); "The Primacy of Voice: Reflections of a Teacher" (Roderick); and "Roaming through a Life-Space" (Miel). (SK)

Links adult literacy-learning to a philosophy of self-actualization, scaffolding pedagogy, and inclusion. Bases the discussion on John Dewey's concept of growth and Myron C. Tuman's developmental social theory. (SK)