Practical suggestions to assist peer counselors in making effective referrals are provided. Information needs of peer counselors as to the services they provide, their roles, and available community resources are discussed. Using effective communication skills and continuous supervision and training of peer counselors are considered. (RC)

The Georgia Department of Education initiated a statewide effort to establish standards and procedures for certification of educational personnel based on competency demonstration. A project was commissioned to develop a performance-based system for the certification of school counselors. This article presents the premises, procedures, and…

Identifies a set of basic group leadership skills to be used in a systematic skills training approach. The skills involve teaching and group management. Definitions and examples of the skills are provided, and the adaptation of a microcounseling format for training in group leadership skills is discussed. (Author)

Presents annotated bibliography of 17 books and 16 journal articles on cross-cultural counseling and the issues related to various ethnic and racial groups targeted to elementary and middle school counselors. (ABL)

A discussion of ethics in college academic advising looks at four ideals of ethics (utility, justice, respect for persons, and fidelity), proposes eight ethical principles for advising, and applies them in five hypothetical case studies. The principles are suggested for training purposes, not as a code of ethics. (MSE)

Though directed primarily to graduate psychology students, this revised and expanded edition is intended to assist everyone involved in patient care. The manual attempts to provide practical and easily understandable guidelines which can be used for each step in the provision of psychological services. Instead of documenting every possible…

This document presents lessons on educational change and counselor renewal. The first lesson helps learners understand the issues being presented in the area of school reform, and the implications of addressing those issues. The second lesson helps school counselors understand where counselors and comprehensive school counseling and guidance…

This training manual provides a sequence of organized training sessions and activities which prepare elementary school students for such helping roles as student assistant, tutor, special friend, and small group leader. The first chapter discusses growing up in a changing world, defines peer facilitation, and provides an overview of the book. The…

The predicted decline in usefulness and emphasis of projective techniques was analyzed from several different perspectives including the academic community, members of the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 12, internship centers, the applied clinical setting, and private practitioners. In addition, an extensive review of empirical,…

Adult and continuing education are based on the assumptions that individuals control their lives; lifelong education is an essential component of adults' lives; and the enhancement of adult education resides with adult educators who provide leadership, design policy, translate policy into action, develop learning opportunities for adults, and…

Supervision of the counselor trainee by a supervisor during an actual counseling session is the topic of this presentation. The first page, presented in outline form, lists six types of live supervision: bug-in-the-ear, monitoring, in vivo, phone-in, consultation, and walk-in. Also listed are differences between individual and family live…

This document, written for counselors and educators, describes a computer-assisted program for career counselors. The ten tasks of a counselor-client goal setting process formulated by Philip Patsula and incorporated into this program are presented. The areas of experiencing a positive atmosphere, elaborating on constraints, and evaluating…

This monograph on the status of guidance and counseling in the United States is taken from the author's 1982 testimony to the Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. International and national perspectives on guidance and counseling are addressed, and geographic differences in guidance and…

Role playing and modeling are important components of counselor training. To examine gender and ordinal position effects on the role play practice of counselor trainees, 51 beginning students (35 females, 16 males) participated in role play dyads. Following classroom videotape skill training in reflection of feeling responses, subjects were…

This paper describes a computer program based on the premise that successful counseling can be viewed as an interpersonal influence process composed of three basic features: sequentiality, flexibility, and constraint. An introduction to the INTERACT program explains how the program analyzes counselor/client and client/counselor transitions or…