Discusses Burtnett's paper on the role and responsibility of the school counselor in relation to career education programs (CE 510 317). Praises the article as a landmark contribution to both career guidance and career education. (JOW)

Outlines major challenges for vocational educators and counselors: (1) need for a comprehensive, cohesive approach to career theory, research, and practice; (2) view of career development as a complex interplay among attributes, behavior, and environment; (3) interdisciplinary collaboration on theory, practice, and a career development research…

Responds to "Job Search Activity Patterns of Successful and Unsuccessful Job Seekers," article by Diane Kjos in March 1988 issue of this journal. Presents firsthand impressions while working as an employment counselor for dislocated workers. Concedes that research is necessary but asserts that even most comprehensive study cannot compare with…

Counselors have assumed the role of information processor and change agent in introducing computer-assisted career guidance systems into traditional counseling programs. Institutions must recognize the special needs of adult learners who are making career decisions, identifying goals, and preparing to achieve them. (JOW)

Addresses the discrepancy of actual versus ideal consultant function for school counselors with a single-session behavioral method of planned consultation with teachers, and provides methods for school counselors to increase the consultative function with relatively little investment of time. (JPS)

Reviews benefits to school counselors of conducting a time analysis. Describes time analysis system that authors have used, including case illustration of how authors used data to effect counseling program changes. System described followed process outlined by Fairchild: identifying services, devising coding system, keeping records, synthesizing…

Describes writing process of student-authored books, I Am the Author Books (ITAB), designed to move children through therapeutic process by assigning them to be experts in their own problem areas. Describes process of creating ITAB by narrating actual book guided by one of the authors working with fourth grade girl whose preschool-age sibling had…

Notes that role of psychologist on palliative care unit is to be there for terminally ill, their friends, and their families, both during the dying and the bereavement and for the caregiver team. Focuses on work of decoding ordinary words which for many patients hide painful past. Stresses necessity to remain open to unexpected. (Author/NB)

Asserts that, in addition to reporting and responding to child abuse, counselors must initiate education programs about abuse. Lists 12 ideas for counselors and school personnel to implement. The American School Counselor Association position paper on the school counselor and child abuse/neglect prevention, child abuse or neglect form, and list of…

Describes the construction of a mental health profile of the student body through confidential end-of-the-year case history reviews as one method of evaluating student mental health needs. Explains how to construct such a profile and how counselors can use the information contained in the profile to more accurately assess the depth of student…

Provides counselors with an introduction to the role of psychosocial processes in the experience of pain and offers assessment and intervention recommendations based on a cognitive-behavioral therapy approach to pain management. (JPS)

Replies to Dryden (1990) and De Jager (1992), exploring the role of organized counseling psychology in challenging, maintaining, or promoting apartheid. The role of counselors should be informed by an acknowledgment of the central involvement of race and politics within counseling psychology so that appropriate organizational interventions can be…

Case examples of the experiences of a counselor-in-training illustrate the benefits of a holistic career counseling model that incorporates personal/emotional issues. The model is especially appropriate for older students or adults experiencing career transitions. (SK)

In this document the author provides a brief overview of A. Bandura's self-efficacy theory. The author also provides a discussion of the value of this theory to career counselors, which includes particularly useful features of the concept of self-efficacy and suggestions for its application in career assessment and counseling, with a special focus…

This paper addresses the potential for the practice of psychology (i.e. therapy) to be politically subversive: to challenge and attempt to change the status quo. More specifically, it raises questions for feminist psychologists and therapists about the possibility, the value, and the morality of implementing a style of therapy designed to impel…