This study illustrates the value of sharing responsibility with students for action to be taken in school as a result of counseling. When students know what counselors are recommending to teachers about them, they will often take initiative to help get follow through action started. (Author)

This report discusses one of the consistent problems in school counseling and guidance-that of furnishing concrete evidence concerning the effects of counseling and guidance activities on the development of children. The following causal factors are discussed: (1) the difficulty of pinning down abstractly stated goals in an operational manner at…

A brief contact procedure was found to be effective for counselors to use in encouraging students to assume responsibility and initiate action on the recommendations generated in counseling. Females reported initiating more actions than did males. Implications for future guidance procedures and further research are indicated. (Author)