A well-known authority in the area of counseling and guidance examines the changing social climate and the accompanying changing counselor role over the past 30 years. She concludes that a thread common to counseling psychologists through the years has been their desire to help others help themselves. (CJ)

A program designed to prepare students for their role as counselors for black students is outlined. It has much potential for promoting the personal and professional growth of counselors - in - training. (Author/BY)

Counselors who are not aware of specialized knowledge, skills, and attitudes helpful for treating specific subgroups of women may tend to base their treatment on myths and misunderstandings. Articles presented here suggest counseling methods for traditional, divorced, physically handicapped, and minority women, among many others. (Author)

The author deals with the questions of who are counseling psychologists and in what ways does this identity facilitate work as practitioners. She sees counseling psychologists as focusing on issues of development, decisionmaking, and choice in relatively adequately functioning individuals across the life span. Implications for training are…

In looking at how the professional identity of the counseling psychologist affects training, the author first defines the roles and functions for the counseling psychologist. She then discusses the implications for training, strengths and weaknesses of the professional identity, and suggestions for future directions. (Author/JEL)

The author discusses her perceptions of the identity of a counseling psychologist, the restrictions in this identity, and the contradiction between ideal and actual practice. She then describes her personal professionalism. (Author/JEL)

The need for integral program evaluation is gradually being recognized. The author discusses why counseling psychologists are particularly well suited to becoming program evaluators. Implications for training are discussed. (Author/JEL)

The authors respond to professional identity issues raised in this special issue of The Counseling Psychologist. They discuss ambiguity of definition, counseling psychologist roles, training programs, public relations, and allegiance to professional groups. (Author/JEL)

Views counselor's role as aiding persons to change so they may become viable in system which is, itself, changing. (Author)

A crucial part of a program for the development of an existential counselor would, the author believes, be the provision of a series of experiences in which the sensitivities of the student would become more intimately felt and realized. (Author)

Reacts to four previous articles on counseling psychology and sport psychology. Voices concerns about coherence and boundaries of counseling psychology's scientific and practice bases, efficient use of training resources, how much can be accomplished within predoctoral curricula, and how to work in tandem with those in other psychological…

Reacts to four previous articles on sport psychology and counseling psychology. Commends articles but questions lack of any significant reference to minority athlete, considering that articles focused on college athletics, that football and basketball are instrumental to college sport, and that participation of African-American athletes is…

The author discusses how counseling psychologists differ from clinical psychologists and from personnel psychologists. He suggests that the way to solve the identity problem of counseling psychologists is to do well that which one is especially well qualified to do, whether that be clinical psychology, personnel psychology, or vocational…

The author examines four critical aspects of the eclectic model of organizational consultation: organizational issues, steps in the consultation process, strategies of intervention, and generic consulting tasks. Examples from one hypothetical consultation case are presented to illustrate each of the four aspects of consulting. Training…

In a survey of counselor educators, assessed training that counseling psychology students are likely to receive in preventive approaches. Results indicated current curricula and training practices do not reflect a strong commitment to or involvement in preventive types of approaches. (JAC)