(Available from the Michigan Association of Middle School Educators, 406 Erickson Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824; $5.00 single copy)

Kaminsky and Nelson's method for estimating the times of future "success" from the times of earlier "successes" in the same sample is discussed in terms of its potential applications to long term psychological treatment, research, or training programs. (Author/JKS)

This systems approach provides a model for planning an elementary school guidance program based on the guidance needs of a particular school and its population, including organization, needs assessment, decision making, structure, and evaluation. (Author)

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)

Describes a guidance co-op program which uses group counseling and team teaching methods. Describes the benefits of this approach and of the contact with employers. Notes the draw back of time taken away from other counseling duties. (ABB)

Identifies evaluation methods for school guidance programs and some of the problems that prevent evaluation. Discusses the process of initiating an evaluation in a four-step model and suggests an experimental or quasi-experimental evaluation design as being the most credible. (JAC)

The author examines some of the problems encountered in counseling academically gifted students. (HMV)

When faculty members at Furman Middle School in Sumter, South Carolina, expressed concern about the lack of time in each day to provide the interventions, remediation, and enrichment the students needed to be prepared for state testing, their principal devised a creative flexible schedule to meet student needs. These include: (1) a morning…

The purpose of this research was to replicate and expand an innovative program for counselor- teacher collaboration with adolescents in the secondary school classroom. The aim of the program was therapeutic modification of the learning environment for potentially "alienated" adolescents. (Author)

Counselors, counselor educators, and guidance administrators are not demonstarting a great deal of interest or expertise in career guidance. A connection between this statement and a study conducted to determine what, if any, limitaiions on vocational guidance were the result of the guidance administrators' occupational interests is drawn. (AG)

Articles presented here concern a mental health program for grades four to six; a citizenship program which promotes a positive self image; and a look at how adult interaction can often reinforce a child's misconceptions. (JC)

This article describes a curricular approach to preventive mental health, the Human Development Program. This program focuses on a developmental model to promote social and emotional growth in children. (Author)

A brief description of a part-time job placement service organized in one school system for students is given in this article. (JC)