Describes the development and implementation of an associate degree program to train paraprofessional counseling personnel to provide service to multi-handicapped and developmentally disabled children and their families. Students receive clinical field training in special education schools and academic coursework at Los Angeles City College, and…

This paper outlines the goals, contents and some research projects associated with a program to train school counsellors in school community intervention. A rationale for training in the four following areas is included: consultation goals and methods drawn from community psychology, teacher educative consultation, change agency in the school…

At the Fayette Campus of Pennsylvania State University (which offers the first two years of baccalaureate education), volunteering faculty members are selected to serve as academic counselors during freshmen orientation on the basis of their student-orientation, motivation, realistic perspective on counseling objectives, and their willingness to…

Major elements of the British experience with career education from which implications for American education can be drawn are addressed in this report, which (1) reviews British research and theoretical literature pertinent to current counselor roles, changes in counselor roles since 1965, forces shaping counselor roles, relationship of counselor…