The author admits that as counselors feel comfortable when their female clients choose to live their lives through others, their own values are reflected. (Author)

This article concerns the role of the counselor in the secondary school and the problems surrounding that position. (JC)

A counseling relationship involving an Asian-American client may be highly deceptive, because very real cultural conflicts are often camouflaged. Many counselors do not attend to important concerns because the apparent acculturation of the counselee makes it appear that any kind of cultural conflict either has already been resolved or never…

The author, a pastor, attempts to gain new insights into his role as a helping person, by pretending to be a poor, disturbed young man in search of spiritual help and employment. His encounters with several pastors leave him disturbed and concerned. (CJ)

Counselors in the 1968 and in the 1978 samples, in general terms, share the same value system. A more critical analysis indicates that counselors seem to hold values related to signs of the times. Counselor stability and conservativeness are valued differentaly by different people at different times. (Author/BEF)

Presents Carl Rogers' views on facilitating groups, as expressed in a telephone dialogue seminar with graduate students in counselor education at North Texas State University. Discusses extended group marathons, cocounseling, nonverbal group exercises and the future of group work. (JAC)

In this article, the author looks at the obstacles to a sharing relationship with clients which counselors set up by stereotyping people and seeking to enhance their own status. (Author)

A survey of the APGA membership was undertaken in the fall of 1977 to determine interest and content-process priorities of readers of the Personnel and Guidance Journal. The results suggest that the "Personnel and Guidance Journal" has generally served the diverse interests of the membership well. (Author)

This study explores the issue regarding which of the counselor's commitments--the client or the employing institution--is given priority when they conflict. Members from four APGA divisions were examined for differences in commitments, and relationships of certain demographics and experiential variables to commitment were determined. (Author)

This article points out some situations in which counselors are likely to encounter the topic of death as a client concern (in counseling young children and adolescents, in rehabilitation settings, drug crisis clinics, runaway houses, etc.). An initial framework for providing therapeutic services to such clients is outlined. (Author/EAK)

The author of this article presents recent reports on marihuana research and points to the need for counselors not only to keep abreast of current developments in the area but also to get it together'' themselves before attempting to deal with clients who use marihuana and other drugs. (Author)

Counselor educators communicate a set of informal, convert attitudes, the silent curriculum. Rapid change alters one source of this silent curriculum, the teaching learning relationship. This article suggests possible changes in the counselor education process to encourage individualized instruction, Experimentation, and student involvement in…

The author describes a graduate course for counselors to increase their competency in dealing with clients with sex-related concern. The article relates the objectives, methods, and outcome of the course. (Author/HMV)

The author reviews earlier publications on comparative guidance and presents examples of new insights into guidance practices that can be gained through international studies. (Author)