In an effort to humanize education and counseling, the author relates experiences with a nine-week course entitled "Search for Self" which was team-taught by another teacher and herself. Both the literature and the group activities centered around trust-building, communication skills, strength-building, values clarification, and self-study.…

This paper describes some of the factors which affect research on sex discrimination in counseling, and also presents some of the findings of a recent study on this topic. One suggestion made is that while the counselor's role has traditionally been a passive exploration of student options, it would be better for counselors actively to encourage…

This report discusses one of the consistent problems in school counseling and guidance-that of furnishing concrete evidence concerning the effects of counseling and guidance activities on the development of children. The following causal factors are discussed: (1) the difficulty of pinning down abstractly stated goals in an operational manner at…

The author discusses the professional identity crisis of student personnel workers and maintains that rather than focus on unrealistic models in an effort to eliminate conflict, student development professionals need to clarify traditional roles and aggressively pursue new and expanded relationships within institutions. (Author)

A detailed case study of the Curricular-Career Information Service (CCIS) at Florida State University is presented. The information collected is expected to promote improvements in services offered by CCIS; provide guidelines for other professionals contemplating the development of similar career centers; and provide basic "hard" data…

Thirty exemplary vocational guidance and counseling projects funded in Virginia through Title II (Vocational Education) are described. Ten of the projects were designed to increase sex equiity in vocational guidance, counseling and education programs. Eleven were designed to encourage business/guidance exchange of personnel and information. The…

An extensive self-study has provided considerable information about the guidance and counseling services in the State College Area School District. Appropriate personnel have stated 21 objectives for these services as well as recommendations to implement these objectives. The latter deal with: (1) providing adequate and continuous guidance and…

This paper discusses organized programs of guidance and counseling for religious settings, and new approaches to current crises. Specific topics discussed are: (1) a new awareness of the Christian dimensions of guidance; (2) a more favorable climate for guidance services; (3) utilization of new learnings and new techniques; (4) some religious…

In efforts to present a stronger public image to possible funding sources, the student personnel staffs of community colleges in Maryland established an ad hoc committee to assess the services being offered students by the various college counseling centers (12). It was hoped that evaluation of current guidance programs would enable the different…

Interpersonal dynamics play a very important role when two people get together to discuss one's problems. The relationship which is established is influenced just as much by the intrapsychic workings of the counselor as by those of the student. The latter comes for help; the former tries to provide it. This is a laudable ambition, but also one…

The Two-Year College Student Development Center situated at the State University of New York at Albany held a series of five regional workshops to deal with the ever changing role of the two-year college. The reactions of about 250 two-year college people to the realities of change were recorded. The monograph contains five sections: (1) ideas…

Gross deficiencies in educational and vocational counseling of handicapped students are examined. The authors' major thesis concerns the one-sided stress which has been placed on personal factors, to the ignoring of situational and environmental factors, as the focus of intervention efforts. Noting that, by and large, vocational information,…

This issue of Impact examines a variety of viewpoints, programs, issues, and concerns about accountability of guidance. Three articles are adaptations from speeches presented at the conference on Accountability and Pupil Personnel Work held at Michigan State University in the summer of 1971; they explore the importance of preserving "caring"…

Three Internal-External (I-E) locus of control counseling techniques were used in regular counseling sessions to determine whether these techniques would result in a control expectancy shift from external to internal. Twenty-seven Ss were counseled in 4 groups for five weeks, twice each week in groups, and once each week individually by 4…