The need to educate a competitive workforce is a global problem. In the US, for example, despite billions of dollars spent to improve the educational system, approximately 35% of students never finish high school. The drop rate among some demographic groups is as high as 50-60%. At the college level in the US only 30% of students graduate from…

Suggests that social workers have lacked models for understanding the process of a client's self-identification as a lesbian. Describes several developmental phases a woman may go through to form a healthy self-concept as a lesbian and discusses practice implications for this process. (Author/JAC)