Discusses teacher-adviser programs tailored to personal learning needs of secondary school students and designed to complement professional counseling services. Outlines the elements of successful advisement programs, highlighting the beneficial effects of teacher-counselor collaboration on school climate, job satisfaction and academic…

The strategies used to establish the Cornell Committee on Education and the Community are described. The ingredients needed for starting a successful partnership are discussed. (Author/MT)

Examines social isolation and the use of informal helping networks of families (N=130) at risk for child abuse or neglect. Preventive service workers' (N=13) responses to a natural helper survey revealed that friends, relatives, and neighbors are potential helpers for such families and are effective in resolving problems they address. (NRB)

Problem-solving can be an exercise in mystification for some students. Six suggestions are given for presenting word problems in mathematics in ways that make them more accessible and comprehensible for young students. (PP)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between therapists' scores on the Community Mental Health Ideology Scale and the Democratic Values Scale and their ratings of patient case histories on a number of attitudinal dimensions. Results are presented. (Author)

The effects of two levels of counselor similarity and expertness and two types of clients' problems on perceptions of the counselor's competence were tested in this analogue study. Results indicated that suggestions of expertness led to higher evaluations of counselors for both problems. (Author)

A review of recent literature on counseling needs of women points out role conflicts, cultural hostility, and institutional bias that keep some women out of the labor market and cause job-seeking and job adjustment problems for others. Awareness of these factors on the part of employment counselors is imperative. (Author)

The issue of accountability calls for the increased use of the client's perspective in gauging agency effectiveness. The author emphasizes the importance of these viewpoints but discusses the problems in obtaining them. (Author)

Personal account of a nursing student's experiences during a nine-month required "family-study" project, and how these experiences effected her development as a nurse. (Author/RW)

This article describes several current developments in the licensing of helping professionals and identifies problems in the definition and preparation of qualified behavioral science practitioners. (Author)

Subjects (N=26) from a drug-abuse treatment program were randomly assigned to a workshop that stressed behavioral interview skills, or to a control group that received no treatment. A six-month follow-up of subjects showed no attitudinal differences between the two groups. Alternative explanations of results were discussed and future research…

Deaf clients need specific job information, their social and communication skills may need improvement, and they may need basic skills in applying for a job. If the counselor, client, and the employer work closely together, the occupational picture of deaf workers can be greatly upgraded. (Author)

This article presents an overview of a comprehensive peer counseling program developed at a university counseling center. Its two most significant features are its location within regular university courses for credit and its dependency on students for leadership in training and administrative roles. (Author)

Investigates whether self-disclosure elicits anxiety and subsequent coping attempts in subjects who interact with a direct, open and disclosing communicator. Subjects were 40 male and 40 female college students. Results indicate direct and open communication does elicit some degree of anxiety in the listener. (Author)

Examines the question of leisure counseling, preparing clients for their leisure time as well as their vocational aspirations. Recommends that school counseling should also include leisure counseling. (HMV)