This information analysis paper, based on a search of the ERIC data base, presents an in-depth analysis of current topics in group guidance. A variety of group guidance models are discussed, then issues and trends resulting from their implementation are analyzed. Implications are stated for further development of group approaches to guidance…

In 1974, the Texas Education Agency Division of Guidance Services established as one of its objectives the identification of a cross section of promising guidance practices. The idea for such a project came from the fact that agency guidance consultants often discovered exemplary practices by accident. Sometimes these were small, innovative…

This paper briefly elaborates on two major points of a school model for implementing guidance services for the developmentally disabled. (1) Methodology and Techniques--While it is not necessary to abandon the basic techniques which are effective with any other group of individuals, there is likely to be a different emphasis upon the basic…

To help schools use community volunteers as part of their guidance program a Community Resource Directory has been developed by South Dakota Career Education in cooperation with District I Youth Services System (Model Rural Development). The guide can be particularly useful when meeting some of the student needs cited in the South Dakota…

Objectives, project personnel, procedures, accomplishments, and problems of the Mobile County (Alabama) three-year career education project are described in the report. Successive reductions in funding severely handicappped implementation of the model program in the large county school system. Two major accomplishments during 1974-75 emphasized…

This manual describes a guidance management system which utilizes techniques necessary to identify, plan, implement, control, and assess guidance program activities and services in relation to the school district's changing needs and guidance policy formulation. To be responsive to existing contraints and potentialities within the public school…

In recent years many communities, under the sponsorship of the B'nai B'rith Career and Counseling Services, are offering an alternative to the college visit by individual students and their parents. This alternative is the college caravan. By definition, a college caravan is an organized, guided inspection of a selected number of college campuses…

As colleges and universities become increasingly aware of students' need for assistance in career planning, conventional "placement" programs have been pressed into service to provide such assistance. One of the main problems expressed by placement and counseling center directors in this regard is that students fail to seek help in career planning…

This report summarizes a course evaluation for an intermediate career education course. Objectives of the course were: (1) perceptualization: self- and environmental orientations; (2) conceptualization: directional choice and adaptive behavior; and (3) generalization: accommodation, satisfaction and mastery. The primary basis for the evaluation…

This second updated search of the ERIC system, "Dissertation Abstracts," and the journal literature yielded 76 documents which present guidance and counseling practices for particular use with minority and other disadvantaged elementary and secondary school students. (CJ)

This report discusses the family guidance program established in Denmark as a preventive measure for child care. In developing such a program, Denmark developed a number of innovations concerned with preventive care programs for children. The program has changed from its beginnings in 1888, and since 1964 has offered voluntary family guidance to…

This issue features the area of peer counseling in the two main articles and a bibliography. Two programs are described -- one at the college level, and one in a high school setting. In addition, regular features include: FOCUS on Community Colleges; Innovative Programs (this time devoted to post high school employment or training placement); a…

The Wilmington, Delaware, public school system plans to create a new educational facility designed to meet the special educational needs of urban students. To be called Brandywine Educational Park, this facility will consist of four interrelated centers, each one designed to correct a deficiency of the traditional academic public educational…

In response to intended future California legislation which would allot state aid to schools on the basis of how well each educational program met its stated objectives, the Comprehensive Career Guidance System (CCGS) was developed. It is a systematic approach to the development and evaluation of guidance oriented objectives and related…

It is the role of the school to assist the individual toward appropriate educational and occupational experiences. Twenty-five New Jersey high schools endeavored to improve their programs for career development by sponsoring innovative guidance projects. The projects explored and developed guidelines in five areas: (1) Special vocational guidance…