This training guide is prepared primarily for the professional practitioner; however, academicians may find the guide to have considerable value in both graduate and undergraduate courses in the helping services. The material presents techniques and methods for communicating test results of a psychometric nature, suggested standards for…

Adlerians believe that change of any lasting value has a fundamental dependency on the client's awareness of how he incorrectly processes data in his life; he must develop the insight necessary to correct the errors in his life style. Also, the therapist must know the goals of the client's behavior in order to make relevant comments in therapy.…

Descriptions are offered of numerous approaches used in five Southern states to enable local universities to provide selected backup services to state government. The report is based on informal case studies in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennessee. The descriptions of the programs reveal that a variety of organizational…

New voluntary agencies have grown out of the social changes of the 1960s. These grass-roots organizations, such as coffee houses, legal aid societies, and community counseling centers, differ in program style and attitude from traditional social agencies and may be more effective with alienated and cynical young people. (SJL)

The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of occurrence of counseling errors as perceived by 60 former counseling service clients, and to see whether those errors are associated with counselor levels of training and experience. Results indicate they are related to level of training. (Author)

By its very nature, writing encourages the active participation of the client in the problem-solving process. For individuals who have been unable to take full advantage of the more traditional "let's talk about it" type of counseling, it can prove to be a significant step in the right direction. (Author)

The author discusses four major "tools" that will be of use to working people as they enter the labor force: (1) affirmative action programs; (2) greater industrial democracy; (3) the International Labor Organization; and (4) full knowledge of the role of trade unionism. (Author)

The study is based on responses of 8,553 public school students in New York State, in the seventh through twelfth grades. Family affinity was found to be positively related to students' interest in school and who they would go to for help with a drug problem. (Author)

Male and female graduate students interviewed an actor and an actress whom they believed to be real clients. To half of the counselors, the players posed as well-to-do individuals, and to half as working class individuals. Counselors may unconsciously emply a different decision-making process for high- and low-status clients. (Author)

This research focuses on student perceptual choice regarding counselor ethnicity before counselor contact. Results indicate students are more likely to initiate a counseling relationship if counselors from their own ethnic group are available. (Author)

This research examines client-expressed hostility and the differential effect of hostility as it relates to racial composition of the counseling dyad. Results indicate that a white counselor, when counseling a hostile Black client, is significantly more anxious than when counseling hostile white clients. (Author)

Stating that home economists are directly related to concerns of the aged, the author notes some major specializations in home economics and how they can offer help to old people: housing and equipment, family and interpersonal relations, food and nutrition, clothing, consumer economics, and home management. (MF)

Offers a comprehensive look at the needs of Asian-Americans in a counseling relationship. The conflict between the traditional values of Asian culture and Western counseling procedures is presented. The use of grass-roots Asian counselors as facilitators in formal counselor-training programs is suggested. (Author)

Methodological issues and research results pertaining to the assessment of rehabilitation counselor performance are discussed. The lack of knowledge regarding the structure of the rehabilitation process and relationships between counseling behaviors and client outcome leads to the conclusion that counselor-assessment data should only be used for…

The inevitability of role transformations in adulthood--transformations that often involve crisis, conflict, and confusion--frame the case for adult guidance. To facilitate these changes and help clients regain a sense of control over their lives, counselors need to understand the decision-making process and the salient issues of adulthood.…