The need for guidance and counselling services in all learning institutions cannot be overstated. In response to this demand, guidance and counselling programme has been implemented since 1971 and more emphasis on its services in 2001 through Legal Notice, No. 95 of the Kenya Gazette that recommended guidance and counseling departments be…

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

Describes a program in which, once a student is identified as a chronic truant, the skill deficiencies that cause his problems are diagnosed and corrective lessons are begun. (IRT)

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

Surveyed 35 state guidance directors to examine the status of secondary school guidance programs. Respondents indicated strong concern for counselor role abuse, program design and administration, the lack of state guidelines, and vulnerability of school guidance to economic cutbacks. (JAC)

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)

This article explores the practical difficulties encountered in using self-administering, self-scoring, and self-interpreting career guidance instruments with students who have white-collar aspirations and blue-collar histories. After dramatizing and summarizing the problems, the author describes a model for successful use of one such…

The job placement service guide outlines the steps which were followed in organizing and coordinating a job placement service for secondary students of Cobb County Public Schools, Georgia. A three-stage sequential procedure is outlined for (1) developing, (2) implementing, and (3) evaluating the placement services of the school system. Copies of…

Described is a guidance oriented curriculum concept for the aurally handicapped for use in planning and development at the secondary level. (BD)

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