Word: counselors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...counselor's first goal is to coax newly awakened patients out of the cocoon of their former life. "They are like children at first," says Burnett. "Everything frightens them." Once their trust is gained, they must learn the most fundamental, practical facts about how to organize their life. In a group session, for instance, participants are asked to make a pie chart of a typical day. How big a slice does sleep get? Work? Television? Many schizophrenics are accustomed to sleeping 16 hours a day. To enforce normal habits, Burnett often uses peer pressure. When new arrivals realize that other...
...greatest challenge for Yeltsin has been winning over a skeptical world, unwilling to believe that the Soviet Union and the Gorbachev era have really become part of history. "At first the West underestimated the radical nature of our reforms," says Konstantin Kagalovsky, a government counselor on international financial institutions. After Gaidar's team drafted a memorandum for the International Monetary Fund, initial doubts gave way to strong support for the Yeltsin government's tough fiscal policies. The latest compromise raises questions, once again, about what the West can do to bail out Russia. But it is Russians, feeling the bite...
BRITAIN: Calling a Royal Marriage Counselor...
...Clark, to show him how to use a posthole digger for putting up the mailbox. But the girl next door, a minister's daughter who became his close friend in school, never knew about the furies raging inside the Clinton home. No one knew -- not Clinton's high school counselor, not his pastor, not his closest friends...
Jewett does acknowledge a common criticism levelled against the tutor system, that the burden of fulfilling "official duties," such as pre-med advisor or race-relations counselor, results in deficient advising...