Discusses how teachers can help students clarify their goals, values, and beliefs so that they can develop positive self-concepts for positive self-directed action. (Author)

The disadvantaged child is one who cannot be happy or courageous, regardless of race, intelligence, or income. The most important factor in the child's personality development is love. (DM)

Course focuses on assisting teenagers to understand themselves and their environment and to become aware of educational and vocational opportunities. Brief course outline is included. (CJ)

Presents a process combining a drawing experience with exercises learned in psychosynthesis training to help people discover what transpersonal qualities are attempting to manifest themselves through their personalities. (Author/BEF)

Focuses on how to become the kind of leader you would want to work for. Concentrates on knowing yourself, including better understanding human behavior; knowing your people, including training opportunities and staff rewards; knowing your skills, including time management; knowing how to communicate; and knowing how to move forward, including…

Outdoor pursuits can facilitate major psychological and philosophical change in participants, and can act as a catalyst for self-actualization. Participants are temporarily relieved from all but the basic needs in life, allowing efforts to be concentrated on intense, meaningful, personal experience. (KS)

A radio journalist uses examples from her "Late Bloomers" program as illustrations of creativity, self-esteem, and self-fulfillment in later life. (SK)

The student experience involves displacement of the self into an epistemological framework, beginning a trajectory that can either rise with increased confidence, or fall with diminished interest. The learner becomes a new, authentic self through the process of becoming a student. (SK)

Argues that an "as-if" mode of making sense of the world is an important characteristic of human development across all age groups. Illustrates the role of as-if functioning in adults following loss of a loved one, maintaining that self-reorganization centers on the grave as a physical and symbolic entity and the deceased as an…

Maintains that Josephs (1998) identifies a new and significant research question: how individuals relate to loved one's death through an imaginary dialog created in an "as-if" manner. Discusses the issues of how adults' as-if activities are related to children's pretend play and how such dialogs might transform the self over time.…

In apparently no time at all, the distance between the once doggedly segregated religion and self-help shelves has shortened, and the two genres are fraternizing openly. Librarians have noticed an influx of books that cannot be definitively classified as religion or self-help. It is a phenomenal time for the breed of books dubbed "spiritual…

The theme for this issue is "gaining the freedom to be our true selves." The issue includes a "Who-Am-I" exercise, an overview by Betsie Carter-Haar on identification and integration of the self, and practical exercises for self-development. (HMV)

Career education is a plan to adapt our educational system so that every child develops fully into a capacitating, participating, contributing, and fulfilled human being. Schools, in order to achieve these ends, must develop eight characteristics which are discussed in the article. (Author/BP)