Admissions professionals need to be aware of the legal framework in which they are expected to function. Recent litigation has focused on acts of omission on the part of college administrators. (Author)

Details rationale for broad-based school reform including examination of old guidance. General curriculum of schools must include psychological growth as direct object of classroom instruction. Effective guidance role can alter classroom teaching strategies and curriculum content. Guidance theory and practice should lead in seeking school reforms.…

Explores how conscious effort often precipitates grace, insight and peak experiences which encourage growth and development. Suggests counselors encourage the expression of attitudes and feelings but refrain from making judgements too quickly and imposing their own moral system on the client. (JAC)

The school counselor functions as a therapeutic model in many diverse roles. Modeling strategies include semantic modeling, self-disclosure, power in modeling, role reversal, and field modeling. Counselors must present an image of confidence and competence to their clients. (JAC)

Criticizes Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.) for its emphasis on one-sided techniques in the parent-child relationship and its tendency to reduce complex problems to simplistic formulas. P.E.T.'s central metaphor of parent-as-therapist is identified and found wanting. Issues have applicability to the parent education movement in general.…

Physicians, nurses, social workers, and counselors often fail to relate effectively to the dying and the bereaved. They must first come to terms with their own feelings about death in order to respond to others. (Author/JAC)

Significant experiences with death and dying can be viewed as maturational crises through which people learn to cope with themselves during adversity and change. The death counselor needs to be knowledgeable about human development across the lifespan and sensitive to the problems of communication. (Author)

Discusses basic sources of legal authority to control student behavior and court cases relating to improper discipline. Suggestions are made for counselor and teacher action to achieve desired classroom goals while still protecting student and parental rights to freedom from unlawful interference with the person or invasion of family privacy.…

The principles of futurism have already affected the counseling profession. Their use in the student services sector indicates not only a new orientation, but a distinct new-model for the twenty-first century. It reveals that the counseling profession is becoming devoted to human potential, not human development. (Author)

Many children are dealing with adult fears, such as death, crime, and war at early ages. School counselors can help children cope with these fears using stories from children's literature. The role that children's literature can play in teaching these coping skills is discussed along with strategies for choosing books. (Contains 33 references.)…

Examines spirituality's importance in the treatment of alcohol dependence. Considers how spirituality, as representative of how one views the world and his or her role in creation, may relieve professional counselors' apprehension about inserting a "theology" into treatment. Provides a brief history of alcoholism treatment and a…

Describes the role and primary functions of school-based health centers, describes several important issues in developing and implementing the centers, and reviews the effectiveness of services provided through school-based health centers. Notes that participation on school-based health services delivery enables school psychologists to expand…

Reviews literature to examine factors affecting individual and family reactions to geographical relocation. Gives specific attention to experiences of military families because of the number of studies available on that population. Discusses positive and negative aspects of relocation and factors that assist in relocation. Implications of this…

The epidemic of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) confronts the rehabilitation professional with a number of concerns. This paper reviews literature on the diagnosis, epidemiological factors, psychosocial elements, medical intervention of AIDS, and rehabilitation issues involved in serving AIDS patients. (JDD)

Examined child development research and relocation research to help school counselors understand a child's age-related concept of and typical reaction to relocation. Suggests action steps for counselors that can maximize a child's positive adjustment to a new environment. (NB)