Jill C. Jurgens

Confirmation among College Women: The Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified Diagnostic Profile.

Previously, the researchers proposed and tested a diagnostic framework for women with eating-related concerns who seek college health and mental health treatment. The framework emphasized moderate problems characterized by frequent binging, occasional purging, and frequent exercise; rumination; body image and self-esteem concerns; ambivalence about help seeking; and developmental themes. Several questions remained about the frameworks generalizability beyond women in treatment. Objective: In the current study, the authors provide new support for the frameworks generalizability to college women with clinically significant eating concerns who do not seek treatment. Participants and Methods: Female students (N = 112) completed a screening instrument providing descriptive and comparative data about primary symptoms, associated features, and help seeking. Results: Results suggested that the framework is specific to women with eating problems and does not suffer the pitfalls of applying over-generally to all college women or all female patients and clients. Conclusions: Implications for practice, research limitations, and remaining questions are discussed.

A Work Sample Approach to Hiring Student Personnel Administrators for Distance Education Programs

Student personnel professionals are beginning to have key roles and increased involvement in distance learning programs, by administering distance education systems and supporting distance student adjustment, learning, and development. This article presents a work sample exercise for use when interviewing and hiring college student personnel administrators for professional positions in distance learning programs.