One aim of student evaluation of instruction is the improvement of teaching quality, but there is little evidence that student assessment of instruction alone improves teaching. This study tried to improve the effects of evaluation by combining evaluation with individual counselling in an institutional development approach. Evaluation was…

This article emphasizes the need for concrete descriptions of supervision to promote diversity-competent group work and presents an application of the supervision of group work model (SGW) to this end. The SGW, a supervision model adapted from the discrimination model, is uniquely suited for promoting diversity competence in group work, since it…

Brief therapy is an effective, time-limited approach that invokes clients values, appreciates their strengths, and is based on mutual respect. Counseling nonvoluntary clients can be extremely difficult because of the intense degree of denial, minimization, or rationalization of problems such clients typically bring to therapy. Therapists must…

As new Federal legislation for vocational rehabilitation (VR) creates changes affecting future programs, there is a need to evaluate the impact of the VR program in client terms. Accountability requires rehabilitation to develop its own unique model including applicant evaluation, client status, objectives, program evaluation, and employment…

The growing number of international students and exchange scholars enrolled in American colleges and universities each year has called attention to the need to provide special mental health services to help international students adjust to the host culture and solve various mental health problems. According to Alderian therapy, people are…

Future student services in higher education which will include activities, counseling, and advising require a clear perception of contemporary students and those services that will assist in meeting their needs. The task is to further examine the diversity of students' needs and determine implications for programs and services. Student need areas…

Various perspectives on the current state and future of community college counseling are examined in this paper. First, four commonly practiced approaches to counseling are described: (1) the integrated perspective, which views counseling as a form of teaching which is an integral part of educational programs of the community college; (2) the…

Mid-life women in increasing numbers are seeking the assistance of mental health professionals to address critical development and contextual issues. The myriad of social and cultural changes of the past two decades have had a profound effect on the type, intensity, and prevalence of problems currently experienced by women between 30-50 years of…

Cultural factors may affect the elderly's use of and beliefs about counseling and psychotherapy. Elderly persons tend to make fewer telephone calls than do younger persons, perhaps believing the telephone should be used only with close friends. This may prevent the elderly from using telephone counseling services. Suicide has occurred in the…

This evaluative report describes the development of an evaluation plan for counseling services in the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) and analyzes implementation efforts. Part I provides an overview of plan development and summarizes the plan's strengths and weaknesses. Part II discusses the role of district leadership in developing…

This paper reviews and classifies adult career problems and interventions reported in the vocational literature from 1979 to 1984. Campbell and Cellini's (1981) taxonomy of adult career problems was used to classify reports of vocational problems. The categories presented by Holland, Magoon, and Spokane (1981) were employed to classify…

Urges the redirection of the counselor's role in the school to one of resource consultant and trainer. Sees the return of the teacher-counselor as a way of reaching more students with counseling services. Implies that the school counselor will function as a counselor educator in the future. (PC)

Colleges and universities are admitting increasingly larger numbers of commuter students, many of whom have only recently developed aspirations for higher education. This article defines and outlines recommendations designed to ease the entry of these students into college and to increase their rate of academic and personal success. (Author)

If the major findings of a study by Dowling and Frantz should prove generalizable, several important questions are raised. These questions, and the potential dangers they suggest, are discussed in terms of counselor education, the power of school administrators and counselors, and counselor ethics and treatment techniques. (Author)