Helping professionals can have an impact upon their clients and their client's world through a well-developed and thought-through approach. But values must be the first priority in both thought and action. (Author)

The goal of the present research endeavor was to assess the selection and training process for the use of para-professionals as a part of the counseling and crisis intervention services offered to students at a four year liberal arts college. (Author)

Without the election of personal choice (decision making) an individual's behavior would lack direction and would be mere random activity. Decision Counseling, therefore, is necessarily involved in all extended helping relationships, and only the timing of its inception or implementation must be determined. (Author)

Traditionally counselors have functioned as agents and apologists for the established system. If counselors are to become more responsive to their clients' needs, they must acknowledge the negative effects that society and its institutions can have on individuals and begin to effect changes at the institutional level. (Author)

The approach presented here represents a purposeful eclecticism designed to systematically guide the counselor or effectively meet unique individual needs in changing situations. The counselor's work with a particular child or group is considered done only when he has done all that he can do to achieve successful outcome with whatever techniques…

This article argues that mental health clients are typically processed through a fairly standardized, complex professional system which, in its pursuit of salutary helping'' goals may also be occasioning serious negative second-order effects for its clients. The intent of the present article is to direct attention to the professional implications…

The central question researched was whether transients--hippies--communicate in a way that is negative and harmful, or whether, consistent with their rhetoric, they project warmth, love, and understanding in their interpersonal relationships. (Author)

In this article, the author describes the major problems facing our society and sets the stage for the alternative styles of counseling by presenting them in this issue. Atkin asks us to rethink the entire counseling profession and to reexamine the relationship between counselor and client. (Author)

In describing the volunteer of the future, this paper portrays the volunteer of the past and depicts a wide array of unpaid helping persons including students, retired persons, the poor, addicts and professional men. (Author/CG)

The effectiveness of volunteer therapists to reduce hospital recidivism was investigated using female schizophrenic outpatients. At the end of one year recidivism rates in the volunteer therapist group were significantly lower than in the control group. The majority of recidivists in both groups had returned by the fourth month. (Author)

The author integrates three sets of ideas related to consulting with teachers: behavior modification, the helping relationship, and the processes and skills of problem solving. (Author)

The author discusses the psychology of religion and the theology of counseling and their relationship to one another. (BY)