This presentation discusses student-to-student academic adjustment counseling, presently employed and initiated at Southwest Texas State University. Since available research results indicate the conventional pre-college orientation program is not meeting the academic adjustment needs of beginning freshmen, Southwest Texas designed a program…

Documents the steps taken to successfully rebuild a counseling center following a major change in philosphy and direction of its services. Presents administrative issues and steps taken, ways of starting up new services, and results of the changes. (BH)

Describes author's experiences after his own diagnoses of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Related Complex (ARC) and AIDS itself. Discusses six ways for social workers to provide empowerment to persons with AIDS, which focus on the positive, the healing power of caring, reconnections, direction, victim mindset, and advocacy. (ABL)

This article presents a model for examining and analyzing the information necessary for the counselor to develop an accurate and complete understanding of the client's problem. (Author)

Examines Competency-Based Education (CBE) at the Wascana Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences in Regina from the perspective of counseling. Program characteristics, program development, student involvement, and counselor role in the program are described. (Author/BL)

Discusses the counselor's role in helping unemployed adults to alleviate the emotional impact of unemployment and to develop coping strategies. Emphasizes the difference between vocational counseling which focuses on overcoming individual deficits and supportive counseling and advocacy. (BL)

Although psychological androgyny is a useful and attractive concept for many counselors, a review of the literature suggests that androgyny cannot now serve as a concrete goal for sex-role counseling. It may also pose its own problems for individuals. (Author)

Presents goals, types of groups, and unique issues and considerations related to group counseling with nursing home residents. (Author)

Obtained estimates of duration expectancies for counseling sessions needed to resolve the presenting problem(s) from clients (N=594) and counselors at a university counseling center. Results of a comparison of estimates showed that clients consistently gave significantly lower mean estimates than counselors. (LLL)

The present study focused on therapist reports of their treatment goal priorities in working with children with sexual behavior problems. The study examined whether treatment goal priorities varied with therapist training and experience, and whether they reflected differences in the nature and seriousness of the youths' clinical problems. Results…

The author presents a scale for counselor use designed to aid in establishing a basis for defining counseling objectives and to provide means for examining discrepancies between the counselor's perception of his role and that held by his constituents. (RP)

The current emphasis on performance criteria in training programs and in professional services poses a threat to the humanistically oriented helper. This article suggests a behavioral humanism as the desired solution to the dilemma and proposes some guidelines for formulating and implementing such a synthetic system. (Author)

Consulting provides counselors with a process for affecting their public image while becoming highly accountable to the full range of their clientele. (Author)

The poor child has not been able to meet his basic human needs, to gain broad experiences akin to success in school, or to develop a feeling of positiveness about his ethnic and socioeconomic identity. These are the priorities of concern for counselors and teachers if this child is to learn necessary skills for success. (Author)

Results suggest that counseling psychology is a lively, growing specialty, albeit one with increasing divergence in training skills and goals. The authors express optimism toward the observed changes and posit a tripartite model to explain the direction of the changes. (Author)