The Widowed Service Line, a mutual help program in metropolitan Boston that provided service by telephone, effectively meeting the various problems and needs of differing stages of widowhood, is described. (Author)

The findings of this study suggest that teachers are in need of didactic and experiential training to increase the probability of success along the critical dimensions of affective education as it relates to the relationship process. At present, it appears that we are lacking accountable behavior in these critically important areas that affect the…

This article describes how the detention room in one school system was changed in favor of group counseling sessions. In the counseling sessions, the counselors could aid students in identifying the problems which disturb them in order to improve self-understanding and status in school. (JC)

The program described in this article was an attempt at utilizing high school students in a lay counseling role through a student-to-student service organization. (JC)

The model alluded to here is essentially an educational one, which makes the assumption that the lack of knowledge, information, or experience is the basis of maladaptive behavior. People, if provided new or pertinent information, are capable of applying the new information to their situation to bring about change. (Author)

The results of this study suggest that black and white youth hold virtually identical expectations of their school counselors; that both black and white youth expect counselors to be of prime help in educational-vocational problems more frequently than they expect other sources to be so. (Author)

This was a supportive comment on the study by Pallone and his associates, (The School Counselor, March, 1973), where the data collected suggest that black and white youth hold virtually identical expectations of their counselors. (JC)

Mental health workers are critically examining modes of service delivery. Crisis intervention offers a way to apply to mental health problems some concepts of primary prevention that have been successful in the public health field. (Author)

The authors believe that the future of psychology lies in a unification of enhancement and reinforcement, not in the wasted energy of continued conflict. (Author)

In this article, the author looks at the obstacles to a sharing relationship with clients which counselors set up by stereotyping people and seeking to enhance their own status. (Author)

The author, in agreeing with Kemp's existential counseling, sees counseling as a way for a person to discover what he ought to do in life, finding out who and what he is. (Author/BY)

This column presents the results of a time use survey which clearly suggests that counselors who are free to build their own approaches choose both counseling and consulting. (Author)