Contends the time has come for counseling and development to claim its space as a first-class profession in its own right, distinct from but incorporating important aspects of the related professional disciplines of counseling psychology, clinical psychology, and social work. Attempts to define counseling and development. (ABL)

Suggests that strategy for mental health counselors and other American Association for Counseling and Development (AACD) professionals is to focus on service to the consumer, unity within, and the clear articulation of the meaning of a developmental approach to counseling, therapy, and human growth. Practice within AACD is seen as…

Claims the educational-developmental model allows a profession to work with the many contributions of the medical and psychological models but still to remain distinct. Recommends professional identity of counseling and development be defined more clearly to counselors and others. (ABL)

The author contends that the counselor should move into the school and the community to teach others the various skills of counseling and interpersonal communication. He believes that conducting systematic training programs in such skills as microcounseling should become an important role for counselors. (Author)

Describes the counselor's role in correctional counseling which centers around three concepts: the counselor as social change agent, resource developer, and therapist. (Author/HMV)

This introductory article advocates a new definition of the counselor role: that of psychological educator with a description of the characteristics of this role. The issue as a whole indicates a variety of specific action steps counselors may take if they wish to become psychological educators. (Author)

This special issue of P & G provides an overview of the psychological education movement and its implications for the practicing counselor. Psychological education is a relatively new discipline, but it is already providing important levers to help counselors refocus their efforts and increase their effectiveness. (Author)

The conference examined the role of the applied psychologist. The recommendations of this conference are new and powerful and are likely to reverberate throughout the helping professions. The authors discuss major conference recommendations and their implications for professional counseling practice. (Author)

Presents an analysis of the counseling interview derived from the study of television recordings. Suggests that the basic elements of the counseling process (attending, island, and hiatus behavior) are no different than basic elements of human interaction processes. (Author)

The author responds to an article by Dugald Arbuckle by stating that counseling must be only one of the counselor's skills. The counselor must also be teacher, curriculum developer and consultant. A response by Arbuckle to the author's point of view is included. (HMV)

The concept of counsellor-as-teacher has gained popularity as a developmental approach to helping people achieve interpersonal competence. This article describes a systematic training program designed to help counsellors transfer their skills to the classroom and thus become teachers of interpersonal effectiveness. (Author)

Responds to Lloyd by cautioning counselors regarding the centrality of multicultural awareness in counseling curricula. Maintains the primacy of culture cannot be denied as the first dimension in our thinking as professional helpers. Cultural intentionality is proposed as a metagoal of the helping process--the integration of cultural awareness…

Suggests that mental-health professionals broaden treatment plans to include more attention to wider sociocultural and sociopolitical issues. Argues for placing traditional treatment strategies within a broader contextual framework. Recommends that counselors begin thinking like public mental-health professionals who view the appropriate level of…

This article suggests that a major role for the practicing clinician is the teaching of his helping skills to those whom he would serve. Specifically, the paper describes microcounseling, a videobased system of teaching counseling or psychotherapeutic skills to counselors, clinical psychologists, and medical students. In addition, the method has…

This article presents a model of the individual who has "cultural expertise", and can relate with self, others, and society. The definition provides a framework wherein widely diverse approaches of the helping professions can be synthesized with cultural components and compared for their value in producing "culturally effective individuals."…