Identified the essential goals and appropriate roles of counselors engaged in assisting older persons. A national panel of gerontological counseling experts specified, confirmed, and assigned priority to the seven goals and 21 roles most valuable as guidelines for professional counselors serving the elderly. Experts favored a preventive approach.…

The goals of developmental group counseling are closely aligned to life-coping skills. They include helping members to do the following: (1) know themselves; (2) develop self-acceptance; (3) master developmental tasks; (4) develop self-direction, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities; and (5) develop sensitivity to the needs of others.…

Describes use of a self-charting method of therapy with 39 adolescent inpatients. (SS)

Structure is a significant, but often neglected, component of the therapeutic relationship. Structure is establishment of a joint understanding and agreement between the counselor and client regarding the characteristics, conditions, procedures, and parameters of counselors. It should be used to help accomplish counseling goals. (Author)

A model for the personal responsibility group is presented. Each person in the group chooses goals based on personal perspectives and is not subordinate to an authority or to the group. Personal responsibility for actions and decisions is taken by each group member. (RC)

The authors present seven specific criteria for judging effective goal setting in counseling. These are described as goals which have been mutually agreed upon, promote achievement, eliminate self-defeating behaviors, and are success-oriented, quantifiable, behavioral, and understandable by the client. (Author/HLM)

Discusses the use of group counseling strategies for people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Aims to provide counselors with information about pertinent factors related to MS that require careful consideration when employing general group techniques. Looks at group effectiveness, forming the group, and various types of groups, and offers a case…

Addresses the case of Jessie, rehabilitation counseling client described in a previous article. Sets counseling goals and offers suggestions for counseling techniques. Discusses interventions which focus on information gathering, supportive counseling, ongoing supportive group counseling, assertiveness training, family services, and work…

Describes challenges to existing models of employment counseling in emerging global economy. Asserts career behavior and employment counseling will be affected by psychological dynamics, shifts in occupations, changing education and training requirements, and cultural transitions. Suggests need for employment counseling to be interactive with…

Group counseling is discussed as a form of treatment with distinct advantages for assisting adolescents with learning disabilities, to enrich their social and emotional well-being along with their academic skills. The importance of goal setting by LD adolescents is emphasized. (JDD)

Culturally responsive counseling for adult students depends on counselor self-awareness, knowledge and understanding of cultural groups, and appropriate skills to deal effectively with the needs of students with different backgrounds, experiences, world views, values, and learning styles. (SK)

Presents an analysis of alleged shortcomings of present forms of counseling and therapy. Counseling, it is claimed, would benefit from redefinition. It should be conceptualized as a cultural practice rather than as a scientific undertaking. Drawing on new intellectual resources would help realign counseling epistemologically and practically to…

This paper describes a framework for counselors that will help them classify personal and social problems of clients for base-line and end-line comparisons. Counseling's goal, as presented here, is to help individuals for a lifetime; therapy is not seen as the giving of advice or solutions, but as a teaching process through which clients become…

The six national goals proposed at the Education Summit of 1989 and the ideas for reaching them delineated in "America 2000" are discussed in this document as they relate to school counseling in Ohio. Both "America 2000" and "Creating Opportunities for Success," Ohio's first annual report citing the state's progress…

Finding a qualified marriage and family therapist that the couple or family will be comfortable with requires some effort on the part of the consumer. There are many people out there who advertise themselves as marriage counselors or family therapists but do not have the credentials. The client must shop around, interview prospective therapists,…