Discusses the new roles for school counselors in helping middle school students achieve academic and personal success. Roles include nurturing the school mission, guiding program development, facilitating instruction and group involvement, and belonging to a leadership team. (BL)

Rebutt's Dell's paper (1986) which laments the lack of conversation among pioneers in family therapy. The author, a pioneer himself, feels this generation of family therapists is bored and do not appreciate the process of development in the field. History of family therapy is reviewed in this context. (Author/ABL)

Explores a rationale for counselors' responses to the threat of nuclear annihilation and suggests some action possibilities. Includes a response by Milton Schwebel emphasizing professional roles, and by Albert Ellis emphasizing the dangers of religous zealotism. (Author/JAC)

Examines the role of the counseling psychologist in physical health concerns and raises questions about the effectiveness of psychological treatments for health problems. Discusses implications for practice, theory, research, and training in counseling psychology and argues that this movement can be effective only if it affects morbidity and…

Claims the enthusiasm for the social influence model may be due to its counselor-as-expert factor. A response by Harmon suggests that these claims are not substantiated and argues that the most interesting questions regarding the relationship between professional identity and the social influence model were not raised. (JAC)

Suggests that school counselors must help students see themselves as whole human beings, rather than being confined by race and ethnicity. Presents examples of several successful minority Americans. (JAC)

Spouses frequently depict changes in important aspects of marital relationships as threats to the permanence of those relationships. However, the effects on permanence are better explained in terms of the partners' viewpoints or ways of interpreting the changes. Six common polarities of viewpoint illustrate this point. (Author)

The school letter has a unique focus and tone. It differs from recommendation letters written by teachers, coaches, or employers because it represents the consensus of the school community, not of the writer alone. It is written by the counselor, but it is not the counselor's letter. (Author)

In order to alleviate or avoid future shock for themselves and their clients, counselors face three tasks: to become knowledgeable about future trends and needs; to assess their limitations and strengths; and to learn new coping strategies as indicated by their self-assessment process and projected client needs. (Author)

Describes how guidance (counseling) was integrated into school life and involves all school personnel at a middle school. Discusses structures such as "home base" and interdisciplinary teams, as well as the middle school counselor's role. (SR)

This article argues that educating tomorrow's adults isn't simply about teaching students the quadratic equation or the date Columbus sailed to the new world. Social and emotional development is also an important component in student's development. (GCP)

Presents interview of C. H. Patterson who discusses career counseling as it can be accomplished within the client-centered approach. Notes the importance of core conditions, the relationship of career counseling to therapy, the difficulty of counselor or therapist role change, the use of interpretation of tests, and the role of the client in the…

Recommends identifying major social, political, educational, and economic influences that may have direct impact on students and the counselor's role in year 2000. Discusses violence, alcohol and other substance abuse, intolerance, gangs, physical and sexual abuse, sex education, computer technology, changing values, health practices, poverty,…

Clarifies role of insight in strategic therapy and distinguishes between therapist-ascribed meaning and interpretation, as well as client-ascribed meaning and insight. Argues that insight-oriented and strategic therapists share much in common and that insight has a role in the practice of strategic therapy. (Author/NB)

Suggests that, for every abused student athlete on the college level, there is a high school coach and a counselor somewhere in the background who did not do his or her job. Argues that the power of high school coaches and counselors, if purposively joined, could make NCAA sanctions seem like a slap on the hand. (RS)