This article is the first in a three-part series reporting on the historical and legislative background of employment service counseling. Also includes a review of the educational upgrading of employment service counselors. (Author)

Health counseling focuses on the development of skills and resources for optimal psychophysiological functioning. This emerging specialization, however, lacks the formal recognition required to advance within the developing interdisciplinary field of behavioral medicine. The authors address the problem and promise of professional recognition for…

Presents interviews with four well-known and respected leaders in Great Britain's careers guidance movement. Discusses vocational guidance programs, social services, the impact of American journals, career education, and occupational opportunities. (RC)

Increased activity and production of materials and methods hold potential for constructive change in guidance and counseling. But there is need for reorganization of existing materials to alleviate the bandwagon effect if new methods of guidance and counseling are to improve in Alberta. (JAC)

Reviews the basic concepts of structural and strategic family approaches and introduces a model for integrating them in a concurrent and contrapuntal fashion. Presents case studies. Gives special attention to the strategic disengagement technique. Provides rules for deciding upon the appropriate approach. (Author/JAC)

Discusses the power of counselors to influence clients. Explores and clarifies the influence process in counseling by drawing from professional literature, particularly that of social psychology, and examines the relationship between direct and indirect use of counselor influence and the counselor's theoretical approach. (Author/JAC)

This paper presents a review of the available data on the extent of truancy and the factors associated with and contributory to truancy. It suggests that pupil personnel workers begin to adopt more strategies of the change agent and a more active examination of the total life space and relationships of students. (Author)

School counselors must plan for and develop appropriate change strategies. To do this, they must be aware of the characteristics of the school organization and their own role in it. (JAC)

External pressures create role demands that may leave counselors feeling "burned out." Professional perspective can be maintained by working with counseling clients, associating with concerned colleagues, and being committed to a counseling theory. Counselors must evaluate themselves and their role, and remain optimistic. (JAC)

Futuristic thinking by counseling psychologists reveals uncertainty as to what direction the profession will take. Counselors must be aware of society's changing needs and problems and actively seek ways to address them. Advanced technology will provide new counseling tools but will require training changes. (JAC)

Severe complications of diabetes are more likely to occur with the juvenile diabetic and problems of psychosocial adjustment are recurring and difficult. Implications for the rehabilitation counselor are discussed in terms of employment considerations, the effects of complications, genetic counseling, and cooperation with other professionals.…

Interventions designed to facilitate acceptance of ethnicity as part of total identity are necessary for adequate career counseling of Black youth. Counselors must help counselees to make good decisions and promote their personal growth by closing the gaps between perceived and real opportunity structures. (Author)

Black counselors must be prepared for future changes which affect those they counsel. They must help people stay in touch with their humanness while developing qualities to cope with a technological-cognitive world. How they succeed determines the quality of life today and in the future. (Author/JAC)

Claims that school psychologists will increasingly be called upon to help select electronic augmentative and alternative communication devices in developing individual education plans for special needs children. Reviews assessment factors which must be considered and provides a self-checklist to help school psychologists develop and conduct…

Explores issues faced by international students in the transition to living and learning in Canada and addresses the counselor's role in supporting these students. Reviews the literature on issues relevant for understanding the experience of international students, and includes suggestions for ways in which counselors can address adjustment…