Asserts career counseling too often is associated with objective test scores and rational decision making. Reiterates the importance of considering the client's developing self-concept in career counseling. Provides sample client centered career counseling session. (Author/ABL)

Considers various ways that values enter into counseling or psychotherapy, with particular attention to goals of the process and methods or procedures by which counselor or therapist implements process. Suggests approach to counseling and psychotherapy that recognizes and incorporates values basic to democratic philosophy and the goal of…

Contends both Afghan refugee children and adults perceive school as the primary resource for their successful transition into American society. Claims the school counselor is in a position to guide clients by providing them with necessary educational and career information. Describes aspects of Afghan culture relevant to counselors. (Author/ABL)

Assessment is described from the perspective of counselor inferential judgment. The problem with the conceptualization of assessment as a list of questions or measure is the possibility of getting stuck in the content of assessment. Types of cognitive bias and ways to avoid inferential error are discussed. (LKS)

This paper presents the Sikh life-stress model as a culture-specific intervention. The paper looks at the Sikh world-view, from which it delineates the Sikh perspective on life-stress. It further outlines a framework for incorporating the Sikh life-stress model into the Western counselling context, and concludes with a case vignette to demonstrate…

The lack of support services following the release of adolescent youths from a residential treatment center back to their families is examined in this practicum. Consequently, the development of a family reintegration program for the treatment center is focused on the concept that effective aftercare begins at intake. Understandably, families…

The notion that student personnel work was more than the administration of student services, that total full-rounded education and development was a legitimate concern of higher education, is not new but is a theme that has surfaced in publications of 30 or 40 years ago. What was purportedly new about the student development movement of the late…

School counselors are being asked to assume a greater role in the lives of their students and the students' families. The challenges facing counselors and demands on their time will continue to grow during the next decade. School counselors must choose where they spend their time and energy carefully. It will be easy for counselors to engage in…

Student services must be directed toward the overall needs of education. They must decline to be an isolated segment of the institution rendering services ancillary to the "academic" mission of the college and move toward collegewide involvement and commitment to fostering the personal-psychological growth and development of all people. (Author)

Over-simplified classification of students destroys the people-to-people relationship built on response to real and individual needs which is the purported goal of student services. Policy dilemmas of the community college are tied to the problem of relating traditional higher education to the needs of all the students. (MJK)

The rehabilitation counselor needs to have an understanding of the basic nature of man and the theories of personality and human behavior (specifically with regard to stress and disability) in order to consider a personal and functional scheme or strategy for helping. (Author/EA)

Presents issues and problems of school counseling. Reveals criticism as well as strengths that will firmly establish counseling as an essential service. (DW)

This paper notes recent evidence suggesting that couples characterized by violent interactions respond best to therapy when seen first in individual therapy sessions. Clinicians are then presented with a Gestalt therapy approach to intervening in cases of intimate violence that goes beyond crisis intervention. The focus is on the female's roles in…