Student veterans often encounter unique challenges related to career development. The significant number of student veterans entering postsecondary environments requires career-development professionals addressing the needs of this population to decide upon appropriate career intervention topics. This study utilized a career-needs assessment…

A professional learning plan is the navigation system for the comprehensive professional learning system. Professional learning plans establish short- and long-term guidance for professional learning and its implementation. This workbook offers information and tools to walk educators through seven planning steps--from data analysis, to setting…

The purpose of this research was to test the effectiveness of a high school psychology course in promoting positive personal and vocational development. The findings suggest that the students in the psychology course showed more positive mental health and more vocational maturity than students in the control group. (Author)

The author maintains that guidance services must be the channel through which school graduates will move into their world of activity, and guidance counselors must involve parents in their efforts to assess and co-ordinate, guide and advise. (Author)

This article, written by two high school students, describes the role of the guidance counselor in terms of student needs. (HMV)

A program of counseling is described whereby contact between problems and problem solvers is made at the moment the need for help is felt. (Author/BY)

Supporting structural tools in counseling include identification of specific outcomes, selection of criteria measures for their assessment, ranking of objectives, sequencing of subtasks, and keeping of performance records. (Author)

Identification of student needs and general groupings or clusters of them led to specification of 12 components comprising guidance system. Discusses recent work relative to three developmentally oriented components: (1) orientation in; (2) personal choice opportunities; and (3) personal problem solving behaviors. (Author)

Student panel gives confused picture of counseling and guidance in Washington, D.C. schools. (Editor)

The Differential Guidance for Gifted Model (DGG) is a proactive mental health approach which takes into account the variables of giftedness category, socioeconomic status, value orientation of the family, and grade/developmental level of the child. (SB)

The integration of testing and learning are discussed as urgent tasks for test developers, examiners, and guidance specialists. The implications of Edmonds' concept of educational equity (see TM 506 980) and Krumboltz's view of the role of testing in guidance (see TM 506 981) are analyzed. (CM)

Suggests that middle schools have not yet achieved guidance as a viable and essential part of the middle level curriculum. Considers the importance of identifying student characteristics and needs, the organization of support services, basic components of support services, and advocacy programs. (JPB)

Current economic, industrial, occupational, and social changes in the U.S. are having substantial impact on the academic and career and technical education programs in our public schools. As a result, students and their parents, need assistance in navigating the school system and accessing information so they can make informed decisions about…