This article describes a storefront counseling center where part-time volunteers involve young people in positive ways. (JC)

The Gestalt techniques of staying in the present, focusing on self-awareness, using fantasy, and experimenting with opposites can facilitate working with critical rehabilitation problems. Adapting the Gestalt approach would provide trained counselors with the opportunity to add to their helping repertoire. (Author)

Training people in warmth, empathy, and genuineness might fulfill a specific helping role and increase their general social comfort for others. By using conceptual and response-oriented approaches, authors show that training individuals to be effective counselors also helped them be more interpersonally effective. (Author/BEF)

This article shares the authors' adaptation of the microcounseling paradigm so that it is useful with different groups. The authors also illustrate how a new role for the professional counselor--that of a teacher of helping skills--is rapidly evolving. (Author/EJT)

The authors describe and illustrate a procedure through which the effectiveness and efficiency of intervention can be measured objectively by the practitioner. (Author)

Discusses a student help program with a developmental preventive emphasis which employs teachers as the primary helping agents. The organization and operation of this Student Help Center is reviewed, and the three-phase training sequence for the teacher-helper is outlined. (PC)

The author discusses the utility and drawbacks of social work counseling in the homes of clients based on his own experiences. Such an approach allows the social worker to assess the home and intrafamilial communications patterns plus the adolescents involved often feel more comfortable in the home setting. (EJT)

Several theoretical orientations to family counselling are proposed and some ideas advanced underlying public and professional acceptance of school counsellor work with the family. A brief analysis of three family programs is undertaken as a means of promoting growth, enrichment and change in the family. (Author)

This article discusses the development of audiotaped client statements for use in the selection and training of counselors. If an audiotape of client statements is to be used as a measure of counselor effectiveness, it must receive the same scrutiny that other instruments receive regarding validity, reliability, and item analysis. (Author)