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Elliott, Earl S.; Elliott, Virginia S. – NACADA Journal, 1985
The extent to which students in preprofessional programs used academic resources to assist them in making decisions about a change of major or college was studied. Undergraduates who changed majors were expected to rely primarily on the University Bulletin for program information. (MLW)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Exploration, Change, College Students
Harmon, Lenore W., Ed.; And Others – 1983
This compilation of three papers investigates theoretical and practical facets of career development, focusing on cognitive theory and decision-making theory and their roles in the formation of computerized career development systems. In the first paper ("Cognitive-Behavioral Theory and Its Application to Career Development"), Gerald…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Development
Alberta Learning, Edmonton. – 2002
This resource supports a comprehensive school health approach to preventing fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, addressing various aspects of the health and life skills and the career and life management programs of study through an approach that focuses on the development of a healthy self-concept and healthy relationships as fundamental to…
Descriptors: Comprehensive School Health Education, Decision Making, Drinking, Elementary Secondary Education
US Agency for International Development, 2009
The Doorways training program was designed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Safe Schools Program (Safe Schools) to enable teachers, community members and students to prevent and respond to school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV). Doorways II was designed for community counselors to prevent and respond to…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Personality Traits, Self Efficacy, Definitions
Kottler, Jeffrey A., Ed. – 1997
This book is a collection of essays published in a column in "Counseling Today", the newspaper of the American Counseling Association. These essays are written by various counselors who relate their successes, challenges, doubts, and failures; they describe some of the personal issues involved in counseling practice that are rarely discussed.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Burnout, Coping, Counseling
Shoemaker, Sally B. – 1986
This paper addresses the problem of secondary school students who have difficulties in making early educational decisions which influence their college plans. The need to teach the vocabulary of college admissions to both parents and students, beginning in the elementary school, is emphasized. It is noted that the technical vocabulary of…
Descriptors: Admissions Counseling, College Admission, College Bound Students, College Preparation
Hartman, Rhona C.; Baker, Bonnie – 1989
This fact sheet suggests several strategies for counseling students with disabilities who are considering postsecondary education opportunities. It was designed to assist those who advise or counsel students with disabilities in high school, community and junior colleges, career training schools, vocational technical schools, 4-year colleges,…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Caseworker Approach, College Bound Students, College Preparation
Basch, Rebecca A., Ed.; And Others – 1989
A guide is presented as a companion to the "College Admissions Data Handbook," which helps counselors, parents, college-bound high school students, and continuing education students choose a school that best serves the student's resources and needs. This guide allows the user to identify colleges that offer academic programs and intercollegiate…
Descriptors: Admissions Counseling, College Admission, College Athletics, College Choice
Price, William T., Jr. – 1986
A career development conference was targeted to disadvantaged young adults who needed assistance in their transition from school to work. Conference participants were 27 economically disadvantaged clients of an agency in southwestern Virginia partially funded by resources from the Job Training Partnership Act. The conference was designed to meet…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education
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Maree, Jacobus G.; Molepo, Jacob M. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2004
With little or no effort to test underlying assumptions in the South African context, South African career counsellors have traditionally depended on "proven" assessment methods. Career counselling needs to move away from the almost sole use of psychometric tests to an approach that recognises an individual's social and historical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Career Counseling, Context Effect
Davis, Alan – 1988
This manual on peer counseling in higher education describes the theory and techniques used for this practice. The first chapter, on academic peer counseling, uses V. Tinto's synthesis of the literature to illustrate the theory and stages of peer counseling based on academic and social integration models. The second chapter discusses the qualities…
Descriptors: Codes of Ethics, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Client Relationship, Decision Making Skills
Tyson, Dan – 1987
This manual presents an admissions scattergram as a tool to help school counselors who are working with high school students making college decisions. The approach described in the manual encourages student initiative in exploring, discovering, and deciding by following a rational process of understanding how to make an appropriate decision. An…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Admissions Counseling, College Admission, College Bound Students
Fitzgerald, Louise; And Others – 1985
This document consists of the third section of a book of readings on issues related to adult career development. The six chapters in this third section focus on target populations. "Career Counseling Women: Principles, Procedures, and Problems" (Louise Fitzgerald) reviews major approaches to career development and demonstrates ways in which they…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Development, Adults, Career Change
Hargis, Nancy; And Others – 1989
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…
Descriptors: Career Centers, Career Education, Career Guidance, Career Information Systems
Branson, John P. – 1987
This guide to college selection for learning disabled (LD) students was based on questionnaire responses received from 255 colleges, junior colleges, and universities in Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. An initial chapter discusses decision making…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Admission Criteria, Adolescents, College Admission
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