Concordia Teachers College opened a counseling center to serve 1300 students with a structured counseling program. However, the center was not able to serve the number of students who called for appointments. The next step was to investigate the effectiveness of group counseling procedures. Three groups were formed: (1) A-group counseling (N=22),…

With student-counselor ratios generally high and with funds generally limited, it is imperative that counselors concentrate on the priority needs of the students, and that they plan deliberately and carefully to meet those needs. This document is a collection of forms and outlines developed and utilized by the Kentucky State Department of…

The objectives for this study were to: (1) explore competing treatments for assisting students to identify plans, gather relevant and reliable information, and consider tentative choices which will enable them to make use of these decision-making skills outside the counseling treatment setting; (2) develop and assess the relative efficacy of a…

Developed by 33 secondary counselors and project staff members of the Pima County Developmental Career Guidance Project, the handbook outlines the counselor-consultant role and details activities for implementing this role. This counselor based model places the focus on personnel trained in guidance and counseling. Junior and senior high school…

This document was developed as an aid to counselors who, as a result of their graduate education, should develop good understandings of vocational theories. Yet, many experience difficulty when applying these theories to their students' problems. In an attempt to fill this gap, counselors at Schoolcraft Community College (Michigan) pooled their…

In order to provide counseling services to ethnic minorities in a large university, a program was initiated to train minority students to function as counselors. The training program consisted of a one-quarter course in counseling. Approximately 70 students enrolled in the course, instructed by two psychiatrists, a counseling psychologist, and two…

The purpose of this investigation was to assess the effectiveness of three different short-term treatment interventions with college males characterized by little or no dating behavior and fears about dating. The treatments were designed to produce evidence concerning the effectiveness of: (1) lay versus professional action interventions, (2)…

This paper was presented as part of a workshop titled "Preparation of Counselors for the 1970's" at the 1972 Convention of the American Personnel and Guidance Association in Chicago. Rather than a scholarly or technical analysis, the author used the opportunity to speak to several issues believed to be critical in the development of meaningful…

A counseling service follow-up questionnaire was constructed to include both process and outcome measures. The questionnaire was mailed to students who had been counseled at a university counseling centre. The follow-up results from 207 students provided global evidence of students' satisfaction with treatment. In order to refine and shorten this…

Presents a model which describes what constitutes health and what the psychologically and behaviorally adjusted person is like in seven contexts: communication skills, purpose, beliefs, values, achievement skills, self-control skills, and integration. An overview of training modules (related to the model) which include behavorial anchors, common…

Predicted that the specific and generalized expectancies of college student counseling clients would clarify their counseling goals and would be related to length of time spent in counseling as well as to rated positveness of counseling experience. Data confirmed these predictions. (Author/MFD)

This article expresses the views of a placement director about the future of professions in career planning, placement and recruiting. He lists many favorable signs, as well as some past outstanding failures of the counseling profession. (Author/BP)

Concludes that what is needed is a tri-partite collective outlook on the problem which is at present perceived as a matter of alienating encounters between individual faculty persons and individual students. (Author/AM)

The article delineates components of a comprehensive guidance/counseling plan for gifted and talented students. Tables provide guidance/counseling objectives for gifted children; functions of the teacher, parent, administrator, and counselor; and intervention strategies in the personal/social, academic, and career/vocational areas. (DB)

Factors influencing the effectiveness of advising programs--including the appropriate purpose, goals, time, and tasks--are discussed. The relationship between advising and curriculum reform and students' freedom of choice, exercise of school ownership, and control of school experience is analyzed as the theoretical base of advising. (MJL)