Religious Orientation and Multidimensional Perfectionism: Relationships and Implications

To investigate relationships between religiosity and multidimensional perfectionism, the researchers administered measures of religious orientation and multidimensional perfectionism to 242 undergraduate students. The researchers found that more religious students had higher scores on an adaptive dimension of perfectionism (personal standards) but not on any of the measures of maladaptive perfectionism, suggesting that religious persons may be perfectionistic in adaptive, but not in maladaptive, ways.     

Exploring the Different Levels of Multicultural Counseling Training in Counselor Education

The authors discuss the various approaches to multicultural counseling training currently being used in counselor education programs. In doing so, they outline a developmental framework that describes the types of training thought to be available to counseling students at this time. Los autores discuten los diferentes tipos de entrenamiento multicultrual que se usan hoy en día en los programas educativos de consejería. Al hacerlo, proporcionan un esquema del estado actual de desarrollo que describe los tipos de entrenamiento que se cree que están disponibles actualmente para los estudiantes de consejería.     

GENETIC SCREENING FOR EMPLOYMENT PURPOSES1,2

A growing body of genetic research suggests that individuals with various genetic conditions are hypersusceptible to toxins in the work environment, thereby increasing their likelihood of contracting occupational diseases. Genetic screening in the employment context involves identification of such hypersusceptible individuals to enable selective placement of new hires or incumbents on the basis of the genetic information. In this paper, the status of genetic screening devices is evaluated against standard testing and legal criteria. Unique features of genetic tests are identified and their policy implications are discussed.