Describes a guidance center designed by the counselors where most counseling activities can take place; where guidance reference materials are available to all; and which allows an open, team approach to guidance services. (Author)

There is an opportunity for men to give and receive counsel with other men with the men's consciousness-raising (CR) movement. This article describes a men's CR program that encourages men to explore ideas, feelings, and values in a noncompetitive and trusting atmosphere. Self-disclosure, competition, and affection are identified. (Author)

Shelter care for adolescents has evolved into a specialized kind of child care. While in a shelter, the child experiences positive rewards as well as discipline in a controlled environment; evaluative measures are performed to develop a realistic long-term treatment plan for the child. (Author)

A brief historical perspective of research confirms the necessity of including children in discussions about death education. A taped counseling session with several preadolescent boys demonstrates the importance of accepting the deep feelings and fears that children must deal with in order to be free from unnatural anxiety about death. (Author)

Physiological, psychological, and spiritual outcomes of jogging are presented and documented along with the description of a treatment-training, experimental jogging course that was carried out in a counselor education program. Guidelines for starting a jogging program are presented. (Author)

There is an increasing focus on adult career shifts, and the author describes the need for giving attention to this population through community intervention and through innovative educational-vocational counseling programs designed for this group. She also cites counseling and placement agencies geared especially to women. (Author)

The authors pull together a wide variety of practical methods and media for implementing career guidance programs from kindergarten through maturity. They draw on their extensive work with ERIC-CAPS and summarize several developmental strategies that might be used by teachers, counselors, or program developers. (Author)

A group counseling program for aged women was conducted. Results of these efforts are presented for purposes of sharing the proposed program sequence, describing what took place during the group sessions, conveying comments and reactions offered by group participants, and summarizing what was learned about facilitation groups for aged women.…

At the University of Michigan, an innovative career counseling service is offered to graduate students. The Office of Non-Academic Career Counseling and Placement assists graduate students expand career options in response to a tight academic market. (Author)

The purpose of the described assertion-training workshop was to give participants some knowledge of the process and content of the job interview and assertive verbal and nonverbal interview behavior. (Author)

Summarizes an activity designed to remind counselors of language patterns that enable clients to re-create their conception of reality and claim their inherent personal power. The multiple choice activity presents examples of ways counselors can help clients choose language that expresses personal control. (JAC)

This article presents one approach to organizing a program in psychological education. The sequential model presented here translates the scientific method of inquiry into humanistic terms. This trumpet'' model provides a guide for counselors to examine their personal concerns and goals in psychological education. (Author)

An eight-session Relationship Skills Training program was developed for college students who have difficulty in meeting others and establishing close personal relationships. The major components of each session (i.e., introduction, cognitive restructuring, skills training, and homework) are described, and results of the initial offering of the…

It is suggested that career counseling curricula, developed and taught by counselors, may effectively meet the needs of women reentering college. Specific components for the development of curricula are discussed. (Author)

This article describes a model of group counseling with prison inmates. Members assume responsibility for what transpires, and structure is not imposed by the leader. The stages of a typical group are reviewed. Those counselor qualities that engender positive group outcomes are explored. (Author)