Counselor Values And The Pregnant Adolescent Client

A PREGNANCY FOR AN unmarried teenager is a dynamic and often traumatic situation. It is generally unplanned and frequently the cause of real heartache. Most counselors will respond with empathy to the problem and certainly to the adolescent.     

Increasing Human Potential: Relaxation and Imagery Training (RIT) with Athletic and Performing Art Teams

This article describes a program to aid in performance improvement. Two case studies illustrate the usefulness of relaxation and imagery training (RIT) with performers.     

The Delivery of Manpower and Supportive Services to Rural Areas

This study identifies problems encountered by state employment service agencies and other organizations in the delivery of equitable manpower and supportive services to rural and migrant workers and recommends solutions to these problems.     

Guidance in 1995: the possible dream

The contemplation of utopias seems a fruitful intellectual exercise, especially in the field of counseling, which is expanding and changing so rapidly. Who should counsel? In what setting? With what kind of training? Although it is written in a light style, this article, which proposes institutionalized friendship as the all-encompassing idea in the practice of guidance, is deadly serious. The ultimate goal of most people in this country may very well be friendship with one another, and the article describes a method for achieving such a goal that could be in effect within another generation.     

Dual Career Marriages: Elements for Potential Success

Dual career marriages are a new phenomenon in the alternative family life-style scene in America. Working couples in general do not fit into the definition applied to this life-style. This is caused by the deep commitment that each partner feels for his or her work relationship. However, the 1980s will see significant increases in this group. There are joys and sorrows associated with dual career marriages. This article will examine the uniqueness of family and work relationships and will attempt to describe various ingredients that appear to lead to success in the two career partnership.     

ASSESSING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF PERSONNEL PROGRAMS ON WORKFORCE PRODUCTIVITY

This article describes and illustrates the adaptation of the linear-regression-based decision-theoretic equations used to estimate the dollar impact of valid selection procedures on workforce productivity to the evaluation of intervention programs designed to improve job performance. The appropriate equations are derived and explained, methods for estimating equation parameters are discussed, and the use of these equations is illustrated by means of a hypothetical example. It is concluded that in the future these methods and equations will allow psychologists to make more accurate assessments of the impact of intervention programs on workforce productivity than has heretofore been the case.     

Testing the Bipolar Assumption in Jung's Typology

Academic psychologists are right in wanting things shown to them statistically; and it is we Jungians who have the onus of showing them that our ideas stand their tests. Only in this way can the unconscious be re-introduced into a scientific discussion. And we could have the chairs of the psychology departments of the universities held by Jungians and they could have their real institutes, their assistants, their student population, their funds, their statisticians, their computers and high dynamic discussion and a living thing over against the scientific stagnation we have reached in Jungianism during the last years (M eier 9).