The author is concerned with how counseling, and counselor education can be used to prevent problems, how we can employ our expertise in assisting educators to relate helpfully to students and make education relevant, and how we can employ non-professionals as helpers and thus reach the entire community. (Author)

The utilization of two types of paraprofessionals, a counselor technician and a counselor assistant, are proposed to overcome the current shortage of professional counselors in college counseling centers and to alleviate the increasing demand for their services by students, staff, and faculty. (Authors)

The state-trait model was applied to empathy training, which was seen as resulting in a change in trainees' state empathy level. Successful trainees were differentiated and predicted on the basis of young age, high level of trait empathy, and high perception of the empathic functioning of the trainer. (Author)

While many professional counselors are unsure about the full use of counselor aides, this study suggests that the performance of the aides can prove their value, at least in a carefully controlled situation. (Author)