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History of Guidance in the United States

Description: Among the social sciences, guidance is relatively young, having evolved out of the American social experience with its concern for the welfare of the individual. As an independent discipline, guidance is about seventy years old. However, the foundations for guidance are imbedded in the nation's historical past. Beginning with seventeenth-century New Englanders, who stressed religious and economic reasoning, a systematic approach to occupational selection began. By the close of the colonial peri… more
Date: August 1980
Creator: Picchioni, Anthony Paul
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Characteristics of Undergraduate Guidance and Counseling Training Programs in the United States

Description: This study described undergraduate guidance and counseling training programs in the United States in terms of the number of programs available, their growth trends, and the degrees and courses offered. Selected characteristics of the participants' programs were compared. A model curriculum was developed for training guidance and counseling personnel at the undergraduate level.
Date: August 1980
Creator: Richardson, Floyd Don
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An Examination of Locus of Control, Personality Traits, and Selected Demographic Variables as Factors Relating to the Success of First-Year Students in an Associate Degree Nursing Program

Description: Two major purposes existed for this study. The first purpose was to compare how persisters and nonpersisters in the first year of a two-year nursing program differed in locus of control, selected personality traits, and seven demographic variables. The second major purpose was to develop a predictive model for the persisters and the nonpersisters. The particular personality variables examined were intelligence, superego strength, extraversion, anxiety, tough poise, and independence as measured … more
Date: August 1980
Creator: Bell, Bob J.
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Relationship of Family Counseling Commitment to Child Self-Concept and Parent Attitude

Description: The objective of this study was to investigate the conditions under which family counseling was terminated and the relationship of the type of termination to children's self-concepts and parents' attitudes. For the purposes of this study, family counseling was terminated by either mutual termination or by family termination. Mutual termination referred to the family and the counselor mutually agreeing that termination from counseling was appropriate. Family termination referred to the family de… more
Date: August 1980
Creator: Stockdale, J. Steven
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