One way to use counselors more effectively is to have them work with teacher-advisors. (IRT)

Counselors and administrators need to collaboratively build a guidance program. This article offers a model of a people-oriented guidance program that requires the principal's active participation in challenging old assumptions and exploring new roles to bring about change. A checklist for establishing an effective program is provided. (Author/WD)

Surveys the broad range of existing programs and notes the implications for administrators. (Author)

Counseling programs have suffered from a lack of preciseness in defining the role and function of counselors. This issue of the "Bulletin" presents programs that can help resolve this lack of precision. (Author/IRT)

Describes the process, and the hazards, involved in conducting a needs assessment for a counseling program. (IRT)

Suggests that individual students' learning styles should determine counseling techniques and strategies used and recommends use of the Learning Style Inventory for this purpose. Tables present learning style compatibility with selected counseling objectives, interventions, and programmed materials related to learning styles. (WD)

The well-informed principal should understand the parameters involved in developing and maintaining an effective school guidance program. Principals must learn about information sources, professional counseling organizations, and effective program characteristics; keep current on legislation, litigation, and regulation developments; work…

Offers guidelines for making counseling programs accountable and the reporting of counseling activities relatively easy. Counselors must show that their work does make a positive difference in the lives of students. (Author/WD)

Four specific areas of activity are necessary for school guidance leadership: program development, communications, organization and coordination, and supervision and evaluation. These areas are discussed and a sample job description for the guidance director is presented. (Author/WD)

To enhance each student's ability to choose career options and increase the amount of available career information, an Ohio high school instituted a computer-based management program called the Pathfinder. Starting in sophomore year, students develop a specific postgraduation plan by selecting one of three pathways (college, career, or undecided)…

Describes a program in which the roles of guidance counselor and academic dean/disciplinarian have been successfully combined. (Author/IRT)

Provides an overview of a team approach to pupil personnel services that allows the counselor to function as a generalist in guidance and counseling. (Author/IRT)

Describes the areas in which a counselor-consultant needs to be trained and a program for implementing such a training program. The counselor-consultant can provide coordinated consultant services for administrators, teachers, counselors, aides, volunteers, parents, and students. (Author/IRT)

Outlines a three-step process to justify the existence of the guidance program, including writing a job description, logging daily duties, and evaluating the program. (Author/WD)