The article addresses the role of rehabilitation counselors in special education transition programs for students with disabilities. It contends that the special training of rehabilitation counselors prepares them to coordinate existing school and community resources into effective transition programs. (DB)

Claims mental health counseling can benefit from the depth perspective generated by double description: the politics of Weikel and Palmo and the semantics of Ivey. Compares and contrasts views regarding identity, roles and functions, and positioning of mental health counseling as a profession. (Author)

Addresses three concerns from family therapy perspective: current strengths and weaknesses of U.S. family life; challenges to family life in next decade; and family therapist's role in strengthening family life. Examines challenges and opportunities for family therapists in the future, viewing enhancement of functioning as vital mode of future…

Suggests that field of school counseling has had to fight long and hard for its survival because of a lack of knowledge caused by lack of information disseminated by school counselors. Asserts that school counseling programs must be sold or marketed to the public to ensure greater enhancement and appreciation of school counseling. (NB)

Social defenses that have been used to keep anxiety at constructive levels (institutions, nations, families) are changing. Instead of career development, people need career transformation--the ability to deal with the continual process of change. (SK)

Describes scenarios of what work and personal life may be like in postmodern-postindustrial society and how societal changes may impact on lives of people. Based on futuristic observations, offers suggestions about how counseling can be revised to prepare counselors to more adequately meet needs of clients in postindustrial societies. (Author/NB)

Offers view of three significant challenges facing counselors as employment rules and career development foundations shift in a changing world. Contends that next 25 years demand that counselors integrate new rules, consider new foundations, and constantly assess gaps between what is needed and what is available to better serve their client's…

Notes increase in popularity of work-based learning and youth apprenticeship. Contends that counselors in educational settings are being downplayed and job mentors are being played up by leaders in youth apprenticeship movement. Encourages counselors to become actively involved in counseling persons regarding variety of forms of postsecondary…

Clinical child psychologist responds to four articles by Wagner, Stern and Newland, Kaczmarek and Wagner, and Powell and Vacha-Haase (this issue) on counseling with children. Notes that counseling psychologists are experts on what kinds of environments help children grow and reach their potential. Sees this knowledge as being directly relevant to…

Analyzes four articles by Wagner, Stern and Newland, Kaczmarek and Wagner, and Powell and Vacha-Haase (this issue) on counseling with children. Contends that, although authors indicate that counseling psychologists' work with children would include educational or developmental interventions along with preventive and remedial interventions,…

School counselors spend much of their time involved in administrative tasks, resulting in an inadequate use of counselors' skills and preventing counselors from meeting the primary needs of students. Changes must be initiated in the educational system to allow counselors to counsel students. The four counselors at Mt. Pleasant Township (Indiana)…

A systems perspective recognizes the necessity of drawing on numerous resources for strengthening the family. The dream interpretation group method, in some ways an elitist approach, focuses on the transitional individual as the nodal point for building family strengths. The individual experiencing changes in identity development is equipped with…

Professionalism and professionalization are two issues important to the field of counseling. A basic definition of a profession is necessary in order to understand the role of counseling as a profession. One theory on the development of professions in the western world begins with the priest as the prototypical professional. Professions then…

Describes the role and function of the rehabilitation counselor as the fulcrum of both the service delivery system and the subsidized counselor-training effort. Calls on counselor educators to promote specific changes in middle class values. Concludes by predicting rehabilitation counselors' needs over the next decade. (BP)

Describes the contribution of school psychology to the educational enterprise by analyzing activities as school psychologists and program trainers. Highlights sources of stress and strain in the field and recommends mechanisms for handling such issues. (KS)