Addresses major challenges facing mental health counselors in decade ahead and twenty-first century, including effects of advanced technology on occupational structure, changing family structures, cultural diversity and pluralism, and enlarging populations at risk. Advocates challenges be considered within profession's planning of macrostrategies,…

Presents four roles appropriate to professional organizations in using technology in career development: clarifying the meaning of technology in career development; identifying the counselor's role in technology; encouraging appropriate preparation of counselors in the use of technology in career development; and stimulating attention to the…

Contends that emerging global economy has implications for both individual psychology and structure and choice of occupations. Examines growing need for personal flexibility as response to influence of advanced technology, new economic and political alliances, and sweeping social revolutions. Addresses central role of counselor in facilitating…

This paper presents a discussion on counseling and excellence between Garry R. Walz (director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Personnel Services and former president of the American Association for Counseling and Development--AACD), Edwin L. Herr (former president of AACD), and Jean A. Thompson (president of AACD). Topics covered in…

Addresses the questions of school counselors' obsolescence and relevance. Cites examples of national indicators of support for school counselors. Suggests the need for sharpening the counselor's role and reducing the unevenness in guidance services' availability. (ABB)

This paper, written to inform members of the American Association for Counseling and Development (formerly the American Personnel and Guidance Association) about high technology developments and what counselors are doing in this area, reviews the transition of the United States and other developed nations from industrial to post-industrial…