The author concludes that school social work has a place in continuing education as it does in any other school setting. It is best supplied on a coordinated level, but wherever possible, it should provide direct service to the client by the school social worker. (Author)

Discusses advantages and disadvantages (to the counselor) of stating objectives in terms of observable behavior; also problem of demonstrating that guidance objectives are part of general educational objectives. (Author)

The article describes an instructional program designed to provide a broad professional foundation in group work, and, under supervision, provide opportunities to develop and perfect skills in the group counseling process. (Author/BY)

Analyzes the reasons why the privately supported community child guidance clinic, orginated in 1921 to prevent delinquency and serving a lower class clientele, came to focus on in-clinic, psychoanalytic treatment with a middle class clientele. (JM)

Active intervention by pupil personnel specialists can be helpful in improving classroom learning environments where conflicts build up between teacher and pupils. The author describes a program whereby the counselor or psychologist becomes the facilitator in a problem solving process; the teacher and students confront their difficulties and work…

Part II of an article begun in the November issue deals with occupational orientation, occupational studies, and career guidance techniques, and includes a comprehensive collection of guidance information sources. (GR)

The cumulative record represents a potential case study in miniature. If education is to continue verbalizing its concern for the individual student, it can prove this concern by providing a systematic procedure for insuring that the individual does not become an obscure generalization based on averages computed from groups. (Author)

AVA Program of Work for 1971 urges all vocational educators, working together through their local, state and national professional associations, to join in answering this question. (Editor)

A plan to improve individualized instruction at the elementary and secondary level is presented. (CK)

Analyzes some of the ways in which schools try to help pupils prepare for the individual choices and transitions they will have to make upon leaving school. (CT)

Recommendations for school guidance services are presented by the Canadian School Trustees' Association. Ways in which students can acquire knowledge about self, the world, and life management skills are outlined. A response recommends futuristically-oriented programs, while another response proposes practical competencies of change and…

Students' self-control skills did not increase significantly. No one treatment clearly emerged as a more effective method for self-control training. Additional research is needed to isolate variables and to offer a better understanding of the student's personality in the classroom unit. (Author)

The advent of leisure counseling almost a quarter of a century ago has offered the recreation profession an essential challenge: to organize and constantly monitor a humanistic approach to facilitate leisure development for every individual. (CJ)

Reviews the history of student selection in vocational education programs and briefly describes the new Office of Civil Rights Guidelines which specifically address the student identification and selection aspects of the vocational counselor's duties. (LRA)