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Seventy-three small-to-large companies were studied to determine the number of their emotionally disturbed employees and the services provided them. Company size determined type of service offered and whether referral for counseling was in-house or out.

With the ranks of the retired increasing and more and more organizations offering preretirement training, awareness of the importance of peoples' emotional reactions is beginning to be recognized. Methods are now being developed that can alert those facing retirement to the emotional diffi culties they may face and help them plan ways of coping with problems. Three forces in particular make the transition to retirement difficult: (1) organizations and work careers have, however inadvertently, filled a wide variety of very basic human needs, so the retiree is often unprepared to know how to replace these needs in other ways; (2) social norms and subtle pressures enhance feelings of being "finished"; and (3) marital difficulties result from a new twenty four-hour-a-day relationship, from unresolved conflicts, patterns of interaction, poor communication, and inadequate sharing. The article gives recommendations for both long- range preparation and last-minute preretirement planning.