A description of an effective and innovative program designed to help alienated youth which is currently in use in the Newton Public Schools, Newton, Massachusetts. (JC)

The hypothesis that felt inadequacy inhibits help seeking was fully supported, while the corresponding hypothesis regarding lack of opportunity to reciprocate received only partial support. (Author)

This article describes and evaluates the results of an experimental program using a professional counselor in an industrial setting where the need of the client determined the role of the counselor. (JC)

This article reports the results of a pilot counseling project where the emphasis was on using graduate student personnel to provide counseling and supportive services within the university residence hall environment. (Author)

This article explains the rationale, development, and use of a simulation approach to training counselors in which videotaped vignettes of critical incidents that occur in the course of establishing and maintaining a helping relationship are presented to trainees as stimuli. (Author)

Since the goal of helping the client make wise decisions is at the core of counseling, it is suggested that existentialism as a state of mind may give the contemporary counselor an outlook most conducive to achieving that goal. The entire role of choice must be dealt with by the counselor in light of the reality of current events. (Author)

A goal-oriented approach which relates counseling objectives to client presenting problems serves several purposes. It increases the client's investment in the change process of counseling and permits the counselor to become accountable by taking into account the client's needs, the counselor's contribution, and the resulting client change.…

This comment on the Hackney article (The School Counselor, January, 1973) presents a criticism of premature goal-setting in the counseling process. The author offers an alternative viewpoint of the goal-oriented approach to counseling. (JC)

The purpose of this investigation was to determine if levels of accurate empathy, nonpossessive warmth and genuineness provided by counselors in the initial counseling interview had continuing or termininating effects for normal persons, compared to the effects found with severe chronic schizophrenics. (Author)

This study examines the relationship of race- ethnicity and social class to attitudes toward help seeking, race of therapist, self-disclosure, and self reported treatment outcomes. Findings indicate race alone was not related to attitudes toward psychotherapy, but social class was. (Author)

In this study, the relationship between the academic and emotional adjustment of freshman women and the health-engenderingness (the degree of conscious concern for others) of their resident assistants was investigated. (Author)

The results of this study, contrary to findings in earlier studies, do not support use of the Personal Orientation Inventory as an instrument for selecting effective resident assistants. Evidence was found that hall residents feel resident assistants are more effective in some roles than others. (Author)

Failure to distinguish between prescriptive and descriptive theory, to grasp the social group-work group and its context as a distinctive whole, and to take account of the worker's intentions have hampered the development of theories of social group work. This article discusses these concepts. (Author)