Delineates specific steps necessary to successfully recruit and retain American Indians in counselor training programs, proposes a curriculum for training counselors to effectively provide services to American Indians with disabilities, and discusses the responsibility of counselor educators to concern themselves with the "job placement" of their…

Notes that, in working with prekindergarten children, elementary counselors may integrate such therapeutic approaches as play techniques, affective education, behavior modification, bibliotherapy, relaxation training, and family counseling. Focuses on benefits of developmental play counseling and affective education with young children. (NB)

Comments on previous four articles concerning multiculturalism in career counseling. Discusses recognition of ethnocentric attitudes; recognition of differences in social class and lifestyle; realization that greater cultural distance between original norming group and group under counseling, lower will be validity of methods used to assess…

Comments on previous four articles concerning multiculturalism in career counseling. Notes that articles are beginning to fill gap in vocational psychology. Highlights important points in each article and identifies two commonalities among all four articles: need to recognize family and community orientation and preference for cooperation among…

Black adults (n=53) using services at Afro-American Community Center read bogus resumes and letters of application and completed the Cultural Mistrust Inventory, the Counselor Effectiveness Rating Scale, and the Self-Disclosure Scale with regard to a White counselor. Found a direct relationship between mistrust of Whites in general and perceptions…

Asian-American college students (n=104) listened to taped counseling session in which counselor was described as Asian-American or Caucasian-American and portrayed as either culture-sensitive or culture-blind. Counselor was rated as more credible and culturally competent under culture-sensitive condition than under culture-blind condition and when…

Investigates the service needs of severely emotionally disturbed children. Primary case workers of 3,398 children and adolescents under state care were surveyed regarding the children's treatment history and social and clinical conditions. Nontraditional home- and school-based services were the needs most frequently reported. (CJS)

Examined effects of client self-esteem as measured by Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and client-counselor similarity as determined by Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) on number of sessions and type of termination (unilateral or mutual) for 55 clients and 9 counselors at university counseling center. Self-esteem interacted significantly with…

Among 68 urban American Indians attending a substance abuse treatment program in Denver, most (1) were not active in Indian religion or culture; (2) had low educational attainment and very low income; (3) underestimated the severity of their problems; and (4) did not finish the program. Contains 11 references. (SV)

Examined 3 aspects of construct validity of Expectations about Counseling-Brief form (EAC-B): whether it measures expectations about counseling rather than other constructs, whether test items are clearly understood, whether test maintains respondents' attention. Analyzed cognitions of 30 undergraduates to determine which thought processes were…

Describes online information systems that have been developed for community access. Systems available in cities around the country are explained and include electronic bulletin boards, local government information, human services information, library online catalogs, commercial databases, and electronic mail. Possible levels of library involvement…

Notes that, although students with severe emotional disturbances present challenge to school psychologists, many school psychologists have only limited hands-on experience with this population. Describes project to train school psychology students at preservice level in intervention techniques especially applicable to children and youth with…

The Planning Alliance for Community Empowerment, a public-private organization, was formed to address the need for coordinated, efficiently managed social services programs in rapidly growing Henderson County, North Carolina. For small rural towns and counties, planning organizations lead to greater availability of services and efficient…

Proves review of potential roles that counseling psychologists can assume in meeting needs of children. Conceptualized within method of intervention dimensions, roles are examined relative to different childhood stressors whose impact is influenced by child's developmental stage. Provides examples to illustrate function of various roles in…

Recent literature suggests gender-based problems in the supervision of counselor trainees that may have applications for human services. Gender, relationships, sexuality, and power issues should be a part of the training of male and female supervisors. Safeguards are needed to ensure ethical supervisory relationships with students as programs…