Women continue to take on financial responsibility for their families while remaining the primary caretaker of the children. The tension between the dual roles of mother and professional leads some women to trade their career for more time with their children. This qualitative study investigated the lived experience of 10 highly educated stay-at-home mothers using individual in-depth interviews. The dominant themes encompassed the decision to stay home, the benefits and challenges of staying home, and the need for self-care. Findings indicate that women who have achieved a high degree of education and professional success and stay home full-time face a complex range of emotions and experiences significant to counselors working with this population.

Dream sharing between partners, coupled with self-disclosure training, was empirically investigated as a means for generating intimacy and satisfaction among 216 participants who were randomly assigned to one of three groups: dream sharing, event sharing, and waiting list controls. Both dream sharing and event sharing participants attended a four hour self-disclosure training workshop and received an intimacy building workbook. Dream sharing in the context of this study supported the contentions of contemporary therapists that sharing dreams may enhance relationships while providing a forum for selfawareness and self-disclosure.

This article provides a framework from which to address the transition, decisio‐making, personal, and career counseling strategies useful with athletes. Counseling strategies, both personal and career, accompany each stage in the integrated model for working with this special population.

This study examines the relationships between depression and marital adjustment in Hispanic couples as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory-II and the Dyadic Adjustment Scale. The participants were 98 married Hispanic couples from Las Vegas and San Antonio area churches and community centers who volunteered to participate in this study. Correlations for husbands and wives and the total group between depression and overall marital adjustment and the subscales of marital adjustment were significant. In addition, the husbands' and wives' depression scores were significantly correlated to one another. Furthermore, the relationship between husbands' marital adjustment scores and wives' depression scores was significantly stronger than the inverse relationship of wives' marital adjustment with husbands' depression. The results of this study support an interactional theory of depression and thus highlight the need to take both members of a couple and the cultural dynamics into consideration when developing interventions to treat depression.

This qualitative study of television reception examined the ways in which a sample of lesbian fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Xena: Warrior Princess incorporated their experiences as viewers, fans, and Internet users with relation to their sexual identity as lesbians. Specifically, this study examined the ways in which participants used these television programs to inform their sexual identity development. Results indicated that participants used television and the Internet to normalize and affirm lesbian experience, to decrease negative feelings regarding their lesbian identities, and to decrease social isolation.