An assessment of Groton-Lowell Upward Bound (GLUB) Program focuses upon the role and effects of counseling within the six week summer program. The analysis is chronological beginning with the initial pilot program of the summer of 1966, and ending with a review of subsequent programs through the summer of 1977. Brief outlines are presented…

This document describes the development of a model career counselor-technician curriculum at the junior college level. The initial steps taken included the organization of an advisory committee, the selection of Delgado Junior College as a sponsoring institution, the selection of a project director, and the proposal of a project budget. After…

The Cooperative Community Counseling Project was designed to undertake an intensive joint individual and family counseling program to reduce maladaptive behaviors of students who were suspended from community high schools. Counselor training for this program included weekly seminars focusing on specific topics: (1) general problems associated with…

The Chicago Satellite, as a member of the EPDA Midwest Center Consortium, sought to create the EPDA's "New Professional" by retraining in-service teachers and school staff.The University of Illinois at Chicago Circle's College of Education and the Department of Educational Psychology at the Urbana campus are working in conjunction with…

Using the educably mentally retarded clients can aid students' learning in the facilitation of an effective helping process. The practicum students appear to be less threatened in their initial contacts with such clients and yet, as a group, the mentally retarded present needs similar to all clients, e.g., adjustment in interpersonal relationships…

This article, published in Learning Notes, a house organ of Cleveland State University, describes the Career Guidance Institute--a program designed to provide counselors with firsthand experiences of the business and industrial centers of Greater Cleveland. Program participants, counselors and career education specialists from the Cleveland Public…

The author describes a counselor education program based on the premise that self-understanding and self-awareness are as important as acquisition of skills, techniques, and knowledge for persons planning to enter the helping professions. In attempting to create a climate of high trust in which self exploration can occur, the faculty has…

The faculty of the Department of Counselor Education at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, invited members of various Departments of Counselor Education at neighboring universities to discuss the current status of Counselor Education. Topics of concern and interest included present and innovative teaching programs; student, client…

The rationale, origins, and practice of peer counseling, a system of training people to help each other through empathy and decision making, are detailed. Specific applications are described, with particular attention to involving adolescents as peer counselors. Peer counselor training as practiced by the Peer Counselling Project (University of…

Discusses the growing need for professionally trained college career planning and placement staff and describes the master's degree program in student personnel services offered by the University of South Carolina. Course objectives and content are described including functional aspects of career development. (JAC)

The shortage of qualified school counselors in the past few years has been a concern of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). Efforts to address this issue were largely contingent on encouraging students to enter counselor-training programs. Recent research pointed to the fact that a large number of counselors were…

Interactive training approaches are used in industry and business for on-demand and compulsory training. However, use by counselor educators has been slow in developing this potential area of growth. Given current technologies, uses for interactive, easily created materials can become an important addition to the training of professional…

Decentralization is the main feature of Danish governmental structures and the education and training system. The National Council on Educational and Vocational Guidance coordinates the career development field. Local and regional career development committees are organized under this judicial umbrella. Career education takes place as early as…

Efforts to increase collaboration between governments, community agencies, and schools have shaped the educational agenda of the 1990s. The challenge has been how to involve university educators with their public school colleagues. Developing teacher-training programs within schools has been one approach. An initiative within the University of…

Describes a cooperative venture between a counselor educator and a university counseling center in providing a program for reentry adults. Counseling graduate students participated in organizing and conducting workshops for reentry students and providing a noontime information series organized around psychological life adjustment themes.…