This report organizes the discussion of six key messages from the European Union's Memorandum on Lifelong Learning that stressed the importance of lifelong learning for all citizens in the member states. Before considering the messages, Chapters 1-3 discuss the following three characteristic trends in the Netherlands in the area of lifelong…

This dissertation provides a qualitative analysis of support services for students with disabilities and offers recommendations formulated to improve counseling services to future populations. Disability support services (DSS), as practiced by counselors in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), is examined as a model of support services…

Provides an overview of the use of test within the Canadian Employment Services. Some of the topics covered include the place of tests in the counseling service (the general context), the level of testing services provided to clients, the training provided for employment counselors, and the involvement of the employment service in test…

College counseling center administrators and staff counselors face the increasing challenge to provide best practice counseling in all domains of their work. The present chapter explores the evidence base for alcohol counseling, seeking to determine whether recent empirical evidence suggests the use of particular counseling strategies when working…

School counselors often face large caseloads of students and cannot spend hours of time addressing each student's problems using traditional approaches. With this in mind, step-by-step instructions on how to use solution-focused brief counseling (SFBC) with elementary and secondary students is provided here. School counselors can utilize this…

An outdoor education counselor manual was developed as a sample guide to aid Oakland County (Michigan) student camp counselors in preparing for their camp experience, so they will understand their role in the total program. A welcome to student counselors briefly lists their responsibilities. A section on the purpose of the manual notes…

This document includes a discussion of the role of career information in career education, guidance, and counseling programs; the National Career Development Guidelines for the high school level, including competencies and indicators; and cross-reference tables to relate Oregon state standards, national guidelines, and state and national career…

This document articulates the goals and objectives of the middle school guidance program in Orange County, Florida Public Schools system. Professional roles and responsibilities are discussed, as well as program implementation. These goals to assist students are listed for the middle school guidance program: (1) understanding the school…

This document is a curriculum guide for a Peer Counseling course in the Orange County, Florida Public Schools system. The course, Peer Counseling, is an 18-week elective course for eighth graders which can be repeated as Peer Counseling II during the second semester of the year. The major emphasis of this course is to help students become more…

This module (part of a series of 24 modules) is on training teachers to make effective use of consultation. The genesis of these materials is in the 10 "clusters of capabilities," outlined in the paper, "A Common Body of Practice for Teachers: The Challenge of Public Law 94-142 to Teacher Education." These clusters form the…

As part of a schoolwide effort to increase accountability, the counseling staff at Rio Hondo College, with the aid of a consultant, established an evaluation system for the counseling program. The first step in the process was the ranking of job responsibilities by the counselors according to importance and need. After a number of meetings where…

Both internal and external barriers prevent women from utilizing equal opportunity. Counselors, teachers, administrators, and researchers must understand the guidance needs of women so that they can help them overcome these barriers. Career and cognitive development theories require individuals to pass through several stages, and according to…

In spite of the potential which experimental research methods affords counselors in the development of effective counseling services, such methods are seldom used. After briefly reviewing the arguments against experimental research and their underlying beliefs, the author sets out: (1) to explore the implications of using the laboratory to conduct…

This analysis of ERIC/CAPS documents focuses on counselors and personnel workers and the training, role and behavior of same. Documents input into "Research in Education," as well as articles announced in "Current Index to Journals in Education" and material appearing in "Dissertation Abstracts" from January, 1970 through June 1970 are analyzed in…

The author begins by overviewing some recent criticisms of the vocational guidance field: (1) too little collaboration with industrial personnel; (2) an emphasis on processing masses of people rather than on the individual; and (3) the need for a systems approach to counseling. His impressions, from the vantage point of industry (i.e. the…