Presents A-B-C-D-E worksheet prepared to promote beneficence when considering ethical issues. Notes that components of worksheet are derived from ethical principles and ethical decision-making models. Sees worksheet as making abstract concepts of decision-making models concrete and practical and as providing shorthand for remembering key elements…

Outlines a strategy for reporting child abuse or neglect, balancing ethical responsibilities and clinical limit setting. Presented in decision-tree form, strategy is a hierarchy of autonomy-respecting acts offering clients a variety of options for reporting abuse and neglect. (Author)

Vocational Exploration is a small group counseling approach for career development, used for helping young people and adults to make more effective career decisions by combining group dynamics and career development theory and procedures. The process consists of five phases, where five participants and a counselor progress through 18 sequenced…

Career Information Packets is an individually oriented career exploration program developed for high school students. The program goals are to: (1) assist students in becoming aware of their patterns, of values, interests and aptitudes in relation to the world of work; (2) to assist students in making tentative career choices; and (3) assist them…

In an age when decision making is becoming more and more significant for us human beings as we face dilemmas about whether or not to clone, to engineer behavior on mass scale, to expand or to decrease nuclear power, we educators must assist students to increase their decision-making skills. Many of our students will soon be decision makers for…

This staff development module is part of one of three groups of career guidance modules developed, field-tested, and revised by a six-state consortium coordinated by the American Institutes for Research. This module is designed specifically for school career guidance personnel. The goal of this module is to introduce participants to a model that…

The career development modules of the implementation guide, designed by counselor/teacher teams in Royal Oak, Michigan for junior high students, are intended to be used as a working copy for counselor/teacher teams. Career education concepts of self-awareness, assessment, and decision-making are correlated with the broad questions of: Who am I?…

The purpose of the special project, operated by the City Board of Education (Huntsville, Alabama), was to perfect a career decision-making model that could be used by Adult Basic Education (ABE) teachers to help the disadvantaged adult upgrade himself educationally and to make a realistic career decision based on his and his family's personal…

Designed to assist professionals who are confronted with clients in need of financial guidance, this financial counseling manual is presented in seven chapters. Chapter 1 focuses on the helping relationship and discusses counselor attitudes, client characteristics, making contacts, and interviewing. Chapter 2 explains the causes of over-extension…

The activities in this curriculum guide are designed to facilitate self-evaluation, goal setting, and educator-student planning of junior high learning experiences relating to career maturity. It is suggested that the career maturity measurement activity worksheets can be included in the student's school record and used as a reference base for…

Strategies counselors can use to involve "significant others" (persons who have an important influence on the career plans of students, e.g., parents, peers, and relatives) in high school career guidance programs are offered in this handbook. Content is presented in three main sections: (1) a brief, nontechnical section summarizing how significant…