Journal of Consulting Psychology

Voss, H. A.; Dunlap, J. W.

doi: 10.1037/h0055684pmid: N/A

This article presents nomographs and directions for their use in determining the ratio of a function of mental age to a function of chronological age which is known as the Heinis personal constant.

Kinder, E. F.

doi: 10.1037/h0056127pmid: N/A

Fryer, Douglas

doi: 10.1037/h0051496pmid: N/A

This article proposes various therapy resources for the consultant. Specifically, the following items are discussed: materials for self expression (such as play and art materials); radio resources; and measures of social status and environment.

Watson, Goodwin

doi: 10.1037/h0052256pmid: N/A

This column presents an overview of recent titles that may be of interest to the Journal of Consulting Psychology readership. Books and articles commented on cover a variety of topics.

Fryer, Douglas

doi: 10.1037/h0052782pmid: N/A

Reviews the book Aptitudes and aptitude testing, by Walter V. Bingham . Thanks to Dr. Bingham and the National Occupational Conference, which sponsored this volume, it will now be possible to refer inquirers to a relatively complete discussion of the problems and dangers involved in tests, as well as to specific data about the values of the best instruments now available for guidance purposes. Every professional worker in the field will be grateful for this book to which he can refer those who need and want authoritative information on the tools and techniques of individual diagnosis and guidance. Most of us will want at least two copies of this book--one to lend to really serious inquirers after the truth, and the other to use constantly in our own work. The detailed data, carefully determined standards, and sane interpretative information, contained in the Appendix of this volume make it an absolutely necessary part of the clinical diagnostician's tool kit. In no other volume can one find such a complete summary of the latest information about test results and their interpretation.

Fryer, Douglas

doi: 10.1037/h0051351pmid: N/A

Reviews the book Motivation of behavior: The fundamental determinants of human and animal activity, by P. T. Young . This book has a promising title but it is disappointing to find that it was very definitely written as a text for college classes, apparently with the intention of making it popular with college students. On the other hand, the author has summarized a large amount of experimental literature and there are excellent reference lists at the end of each chapter. Additionally, questions and exercises have been gathered together as an appendix of the text. The author's point of view is that motivation is fundamentally physical and represents a disequilibrium of the organism through such factors as tissue destruction, homeostasis, internal and external pressures, glandular activities, and sensory reception. However, the material in the book is not well integrated. Experiments are taken up serially and there is often no attempt to relate them to any unified theory. Overall, Young's book will be found helpful to those who wish an easy approach to a large body of recent psychological experimentation.

Fryer, Douglas

doi: 10.1037/h0051852pmid: N/A

Reviews the book Personality adjustment of the elementary school child, by the National Education Association (1936). The outstanding contribution of this yearbook is its successful organization of the many aspects of mental and social adjustments as they apply to elementary education. The specialist will find little of technical assistance and no new research material has been presented. However, the contributions of a large variety of specialists have been coordinated to give a very complete picture of the problems involved in personality adjustment. The Yearbook should be of value primarily to the elementary principal and the classroom teacher, as it was intended to be, but the reviewer believes it should be read also by specialists because it may give a broader, more comprehensive outlook to their work. The reviewer has practically no adverse criticism to offer. Only one thing occurs to him. It would seem that the sociologist who is interested in studying social groups should be able to make a contribution, but there is no discussion of the principles of group organization.

Fryer, Douglas

doi: 10.1037/h0051686pmid: N/A

Reviews the book Substitute parents: A story of foster families, by Mary Buell Sayles . This book deals with the various problems present in a foster home situation: the attitudes of own parents to each other and to the child, of foster parents to each other, toward the child and his own parents, and the role played by the worker from the placement agency in helping make the adjustments required. The book will be of particular interest to the social and psychiatric worker in the placement field. It is written primarily for their guidance with emphasis on the fact that there are no hard and fast rules as to what constitutes a perfect substitute parent. The psychologist interested in problems of child-parent relationships, especially in ways in which emotional conflicts created by rejection and neglect are handled, will find an abundance of material here.