This article gives three graduate students an opportunity for unstructured expression on: (1) What are counselors? (2) What do they do and what must they do? (3) Who educates them and who, in turn, must they educate? (4) What do they need from within and without to help them accomplish their goals? (Author/PC)

This paper focuses on the causes, consequences and prevention of the alarming number of pregnancies among black teenagers. Teenage pregnancy is a symptom of the failure to have one's basic spiritual, intellectual/emotional, and physical needs met. Unmet infantile needs cause adolescents to search for romantic relationships in which they can…

A dark side of modernization parallels the numerous and obvious positive social impacts. Current social, political, economic, and ecological plights have been viewed as manifestations of a broader cultural crisis caused by adherence to a "reductionist" approach to reality. Reality, indeed, can only be understood in terms of process and…

The Stern indexes, used to assess the relationship between press and need as related to academic success among minority students, served as the criterion to test the hypothesis that a significant relationship exists between psychological needs and environmental presses. Results of the study suggest a confirmation of this hypothesis. (Author)

One school district has taken a step toward greater humanization. At Lewiston-Porter Central School District in Youngstown, New York, Step Ahead Letters provide formal positive reinforcement for effort and improved achievement by any and all students, irrespective of academic ability. (WM)

Twenty-five families with at least one parent who was a survivor of Nazi persecution (SNP) or of a similar traumatic experience (long-term hiding or difficult ghetto life) and 20 controls were investigated to ascertain whether SNP children and adolescents manifested distorted behavior. (MC)

This theoretical paper is based on the premise that nearly all people who enter therapy do so, to varying degrees, with the wish (conscious or unconscious demand) to have dependent longing and affectional needs gratified in the therapy itself. The conditions under, and the extent to which, the therapist provides direct gratification are crucial…

This study examines the perceived need satisfaction, need importance, and overall life satisfaction of managerial and nonmanagerial individuals as a function of four periods of proximity to retirement. Results suggest that the period of four to seven years before retirement may be a critical time to institute retirement planning programs. (Author)

Delivered at XI Interamerican Congress of Psychology; Sociedad Interamericana Psicologia and Texas Psychological Association, Mexico, D.F., December, 1967.

The role of counselors in working with chronically health impaired students is examined, and illustrations of the Chronic Health Impaired/Sickle Cell Anemia Program in Baltimore (MD) are presented. The importance of setting goals with the student is underlined, as is the necessity for counselors to have proper flexibility and time to devote to…

THE FINDINGS OF 84 STUDIES OF TEACHER BEHAVIOR, ATTITUDES, AND PERSONALITY WERE CORRELATED WITH THEORETICAL MODELS DERIVED FROM THE EDWARDS PERSONAL PREFERENCE SCHEDULE AND THE ALLPORT-VERNON-LINDZEY STUDY OF VALUES. IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT (1) AN OCCUPATIONAL PRESS SEEMS MOST EVIDENT ON THE EPPS SCALES RELATING TO HETEROSEXUALITY, AUTONOMY,…

The Older Person's Counseling Needs (OPCN) Survey is used as an instrument to assess counseling needs of older persons in relation to their major life concerns. Four key areas of concern have been identified. These include personal, interpersonal, activity, and environmental concerns. These four areas have been subdivided to achieve 27 basic…