Data indicate that students who participated in group counseling evaluated the experience positively. Teacher evaluations of students in group counseling more often than not indicated improved work habits, greater self confidence, reduced tension, and more positive attitudes toward school. (Author)

Excerpted from the paper The Dawning Age of Leisure" and includes a definition of leisure; review of ethnic backgrounds; effect of technological changes, work, and family on leisure patterns. References. (RB)

The interrelationships of morality, sanity and responsibility are sensitively sketched in their bearings on undergraduate education. (Editor)

The purpose of this research was to determine the degree to which positive relationships between self-descriptions and/or interpersonal descriptions and ratings of competence generalized over different situations. Generality was found for the interpersonal descriptions but not for the self-descriptions. (Author)

The director of the Program on Humanistic Education at the State University of New York at Albany argues that the continuing attempt to discover 'divine and golden images' and to draw forth the 'good and honorable man' is the mission of Humanistic Education." (Author/AA)

Since the process of health education can be termed guidance," wherein a professional guides client behavior using an academically based framework, it is imperative that improved training for health counseling be accomplished by interdisciplinary cooperation of relevant professionals. (Author/CJ)

This dialogue on separation by three clinicians took place in a family relations class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It emphasizes the point that psychological separation, more than physical separation, is the essence of individuation, and that for students to understand the concept of individuation they must experience as well as study…

Reports observations of unemployed and discovers most have characteristics in common on the Career Management Assessment. The unemployed person has a high degree of naivete. In many work settings high principles are a handicap in getting ahead. Those with unplanned, inflexible, and safe views will fail to prosper. (Author/BEF)

The first of these two companion papers presents an account of Dewey's position on the nature of growth and its implications for curriculum development. The second paper provides a critique of Dewey's concept of growth and sketches what C. S. Peirce would have regarded as more viable alternatives. (Author/SJL)

Discusses a humanistic development program which emphasizes understanding of the self and of others, so that a student can more successfully choose a vocational field. (JOW)

Describes system of libertarian psychology which is an analysis of human conduct consistent with the principles of maximum personal freedom. The author identifies the concept of voluntary exchange by which individuals relate to each other as they choose as the basis for his psychology of self-determination. Journal availability: see SO 507 190.…

A training director talks about the soul-searching that resulted in his decision to resign from his job. The author tells how organizational differences in regard to human resource development practices frustrated his desire to continue his career planning programs for employees, as well as his own personal growth. (MF)

Training methods which affect the mind, body consciousness, values, and purpose of life, according to this article, include biofeedback, extrasensory perception, Yoga, transcendental meditation, and Zen. The article describes some elements common to these systems, lists a number of the systems with their costs, and gives some considerations in…

A faculty member at Amherst discusses the challenges that have shaken his "self-edifice." He says there was strain "in the scrambling, adjusting, re-doing, remodeling of the mind, and in the constant collisions with past fatuity and obliviousness." Mina Shaughnessy's "Errors and Expectations" is recommended. (MLW)