Discusses the changing expectations of guidance and counseling in an era of educational reform. Outlines the roots of comprehensive guidance programs in schools, the transition from services-based to results-based programs, and the development of federal legislation supporting comprehensive guidance programs. (Contains 26 references.) (GCP)

In addition to surveying the approaches to and elements comprising vocational guidance, this book represents an attempt to develop a position state about the potential significance of vocational guidance within the educational context. As a result of this approach, vocational development is viewed as a subsystem within the larger system of…

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…