The job of school administrators is overviewed: nature of the work; working conditions and earnings; experience, training, and other qualifications; and employment and job outlook. (CT)

This article considers the following questions: Who is likely to get romantically involved at work? Why do such relationships develop? What happens in these relationships? What impact do such relationships have on one's peers at work? How do managers respond to staff members who are romantically involved at work? (CT)

Explores role of school counselor as an influencing factor and potential leader in the movement to enhance the school climate. Lists 10 broad goals of the school counselors' traditional curriculum which recognize the interface between the affective and cognitive dimensions of student learning. Suggests eight roles that counselors can focus on to…

The author discusses the problem of adult illiteracy. Funding sources for adult basic education are reviewed. Suggestions regarding how vocational educators can help solve the literacy problem are included. Initiatives suggested include (1) diversification, (2) collaboration, (3) partnerships, and (4) renewal. (CH)

Examines the role of the occupational socialization process of adults, beginning with the start of the individual's working life and ending with development and advancement of the individual's career. Conflicting views of management and labor concerning employee development are considered and the need for cooperation is stated. (CH)

Examines therapeutic compliments as highly effective means of motivating clients that also increase therapeutic leverage. Proposes that compliments should be purposefully given, and that the type of compliment should vary with the intended response of the client to the compliment. (Author/ABL)

Proposes a model for understanding child and adolescent achievement problems. Suggests four dimensions of a family's learning environment: (1) family communication deviances; (2) family structure; (3) family attributions; and (4) family achievement values. Offers metaphor of family as "primary classroom." (Author/ABL)

Presents an update of an earlier framework for controlling stress. Introduces contemporary interactional conceptualization of stress and outlines some inadequacies of earlier perspectives. Describes model for stress control that includes controlling stress by acquiring better skills for dealing with environmental demands. (Author)

Uses case study approach to report on one community's efforts to facilitate Vietnamese refugee family's adaptation to life in the United States, identify issues that may have contributed to adjustment difficulties that continued for two young adults from the family, and suggests alternative ways to have approached these issues. (NB)

Presents reprint of original work published in 1957 in "Journal of Consulting Psychology" in which Carl Rogers takes one small segment of theory of psychotherapy, of personality, and of interpersonal relationships; spells it out more completely; and explores its meaning and usefulness. Rogers examines psychological conditions necessary and…

Notes that, despite best efforts at facing diversity issues on college campuses, achieving multiculturalism remains elusive. Adapts Evans' (1987) model for fostering moral development into a model for informing and evaluating strategies and programs designed to advance multiculturalism on campuses. Includes description of case study application of…

Discusses the educational and social principles that guide Metcalf Laboratory School, Illinois State University. Reports that the lab school and the school for the disabled were separate but are now unified. Concludes that inclusion is the right thing and it is hard, but by solving one problem at a time, the needs of all children can be met. (PA)

The goal of this commentary is to focus attention on the various protective factors examined by the four studies of this special issue, in order to predict resilient functioning. These factors include internal factors (cognitive information processing, affective information processing-the attachment-proximity conceptualization) as well as external…

This brief report summarizes a longer document with the same title. It explains that institutions of higher education have a moral responsibility as disseminators of knowledge to foster proper values and ethical thinking in its students for the well-being of society. The collegiate ethos, the practices and customs of the institution, are important…

This report begins with what is hypothesized to be the relationship between stress and learning in a managerial context, followed by a brief review of what stress research has contributed to understanding of this relationship. Next, a study of managerial stress and coping conducted in a corporate setting is reported. A model of coping and…