This study examines, expecially for the rural district, ways to increase the effectiveness of college counseling for the whole community. The counselor often wants to refer an individual to a more specialized agency. Such referral is hard to make even in an urban setting, where the existing agencies are usually overcrowded, and worse in a rural…

This paper is designed to help educators understand the conditions under which school counselors can make their greatest contributions to educational excellence. Ultimately, the sole justification for the presence of the school counselor is that his work contributes directly to both the specific and broad purposes of education. The author suggests…

The authors are concerned that counselors be sensitized to and assisted in responding to emerging societal needs. The materials presented focus on identifying for counselors what is known about women and the importance of this knowledge for new counselor strategies and behaviors. How guidance might facilitate the self-realization of women is a…

Goal-setting is taught in four steps: awareness and assessment, observation and analysis, evaluation, and demonstration. Illustrations of course projects and internship experiences are given, along with descriptions of specific behaviors being developed, and useful resource materials. (Author)

Author argues that the computer can help users engage in exploratory behavior that is richer, more extensive, and more economically feasible than most of what is now available to counselors. (BP)

The process of goal setting outlined emphasizes education and personal development, acknowledges departmental interdependency and consistency, brings purpose and direction to staff training programs and year-long activities, guarantees that measurement of success is possible, and acknowledges the student helper as an integral part of the residence…

This position paper describes how the teacher plays the primary role in working with children and the counselor aids the teacher in making education more meaningful to each child with the implementation of an appropriate guidance and counseling program. (Author)

Leisure counseling, an outgrowth of education, counseling, and psychotherapy, is a new and complicated discipline, for which quick programs, easy solutions, and "workable" techniques may be neither possible nor desirable. (MB)

Wants counseling to include more focus on the dialectical process of personal change. Dialectics, in Lenin's words "reveals the transitory character of everything and in everything...the uninterrupted process of becoming and passing away...." Contradiction, conflict, and ambivalence are affirmed, in this approach, as the essential,…

Describes a stepwise counseling approach for assisting persons with heightened anxiety about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and ways to handle fears about the sexual transmission of AIDS. Five steps discussed include getting accurate information, assessing fear prior to exposure, learning to protect oneself and others, gathering peer…

Uses stages of counseling as the framework for a discussion of three types of counseling termination: mutual agreement, client initiated, and counselor initiated. Argues that systematic attention must be given to termination of the counseling relationship for the process to be effective. (Author)

Outlines guidelines to follow in assigning therapeutic homework to students, focusing on student preparation, including behavior change, choosing and devising assignments, and checking on homework. With modification, counseling homework can be used with all students who are beyond second or third grade. (BL)

The increase in health problems that are related to emotional and behavioral factors accentuate the need for a counseling approach in health education practices. Counseling competency and goals are discussed. (MT)

Creating situations in which human beings can develop fully involves overcoming injustices, inequities, and oppression. The ability to create these liberating situations develops in three stages. A participatory style which facilitates stage development contrasts with the roles of outside expert, client-centered counselor, and traditional teacher.…

Presents a theory of self-knowledge, a method of measuring it, research identifying four stages in its development, and strategies for increasing self-knowledge through education and counseling. (Author)