Describes and evaluates the staffing, scheduling, thematic underpinning, activities, and student recruitment efforts of New York City's 1983 summer PREP program for introducing new students to the city's high schools. Also covers site selection, student and teacher attitudes, differences from previous years' programs, and recommendations for the…

To help with problems of credit evaluation, articulation, course placement, evaluation of work experience, and academic advising for community college transfer students, Saint Louis University has established a program coordinated with the local colleges. College fairs, campus visits, and publication of a transfer guide series are part of the…

Describes an in-service training program for the development of student advocate roles among pupil personnel professionals. Sessions focused on issues related to minority and disadvantaged youths and activities for developing advocacy skills including advising, manipulation, negotiation, consultation, and confrontation. (JAC)

Evaluated a career development intervention for gifted fifth-grade girls, designed to discourage the myth that women must choose between family and career. Results indicated program effectively changed students' attitudes toward personal role options, home, and family responsibilities. Suggests group counseling was an effective format. (JAC)

Program is based on Family Systems Theory. Families are seen from three to seven sessions for evaluation and counseling. Gears interventions toward mobilizing family resources to having parents take responsibility to negotiate an agreement putting their child's interests first. Makes recommendations to the court. Preliminary results are positive.…

Describes a cross-cultural awareness curriculum which can be used to modify children's racial and ethnic attitudes. Outlines curriculum grid activities including poems, films, television, photo interpretation, and experiential exercises. Suggests program can benefit counselors and other school personnel as well as students. (JAC)

Contains 15 articles related to discrimination against people of color. Defines minority groups and outlines demographic trends. Addresses issues related to American Indian jurisdiction, minority children in service systems, Blacks, Mexican Americans, Vietnamese refugees, Hispanics, Puerto Ricans, and cultural support systems. Discusses strategies…

Describes the emergence of a counseling role that is action-oriented, emotionally intense, and innovative. Discusses how this approach can meet the needs of opportunity program students and can also be used as an intervention system for increasingly diverse college students. (Author)

Describes in six articles the status of the present family, and examines various aspects of family counseling including: dynamics of various family problems; ecological and strategic psychotherapy; impact of organizational systems on families; parental role in moral education; development of surrogate family systems; and counselor values. (RC)

Presents suggestions on the development of a support system between school counselors and their co-workers. It is suggested that counselors work to identify staff needs and develop positive public relations as well as performing efficiently to meet annual goals. (JAC)

College counselors can expand their role from remedial to primary prevention methods of dealing with students. Intervention can be directed at groups determined to be at risk to reduce onset of emotional distress. (JAC)

Discusses the role of school counseling as related to classroom behavior, stepfamily and family therapy, marriage and premarital counseling, substance abuse, and emotional abuse. Focuses on family counseling in a school setting and the increasing role of school counselors in changing family and educational systems. (JAC)

Longitudinal studies from Hawaii, the continental United States, and Great Britain have identified several personality, familial, and environmental variables that promote resiliency in youths at risk. This article discusses these variables and provides counselors with an assessment technique and strategies to promote a salutogenesis perspective.…

Highlights the historical development of school counseling and guidance in Israel and the preparation and training of school counselors. Also examines the current status of school counseling and the major issues that Israeli school counselors are dealing with today. Discusses future challenges and anticipated trends of these services. (RJM)

A chronological narrative is presented of the author's experience in creating a comprehensive, developmental guidance program within a small, one-counselor elementary school. Concludes most important factor in implementing curriculum component was personal resistances. (TE)