The group dynamics techniques and concepts described in this article can easily be used in a wide variety of subject matter areas and with a variety of age levels. The techniques are defined, and several are illustrated in a sample lesson plan. (Author)

Traditionally counselors have functioned as agents and apologists for the established system. If counselors are to become more responsive to their clients' needs, they must acknowledge the negative effects that society and its institutions can have on individuals and begin to effect changes at the institutional level. (Author)

This article describes an innovative, child-oriented, self-development project that gives the child major responsibility for assessing his own developmental neeeds. (Author)

In this article, the author describes the major problems facing our society and sets the stage for the alternative styles of counseling by presenting them in this issue. Atkin asks us to rethink the entire counseling profession and to reexamine the relationship between counselor and client. (Author)

The author concludes: The black militant counselor is probably more effective counseling whites than he is counseling others, and counselor educators should help blacks in training to accept both their humanity and their blackness simultaneously. (Author)

By shifting the focus of their work toward taking risks and sharing ideas, counselors may gain the kind of satisfaction that will result in renewed professional dedication. (Author)

The purpose of consultation is to help other workers to become more efficient and effective. The consulting process is described in nine stages. Positive outcomes are likely if counselee and consultant agree on consulting modality. Consulting models can help support consultation in the work environment. (Author/MFD)

This article concerns the role of the counselor in the secondary school and the problems surrounding that position. (JC)

The purpose of this article is to provide an introduction to the literature and methodology of creativity. As psychological education comes to be an important part of the counselor's role, it may be anticipated that creativity training will be an important aspect of the total psychological education program. (Author)

The sexism consciousness raising exercises provided in this article can help both men and women understand how cultural attitudes toward the sexes are embedded in our individual psychological makeup. (Author)

The right to intervene in the life of another and the power helpers have when they do intervene are value-laden issues. Excerpts from nonprofessional literature are used to stimulate a reexamination of these issues as they pertain to counseling. (Author)

This special issue of P & G provides an overview of the psychological education movement and its implications for the practicing counselor. Psychological education is a relatively new discipline, but it is already providing important levers to help counselors refocus their efforts and increase their effectiveness. (Author)

It is argued that discrimination against working women does not stop short of the counseling profession. In counseling, women are the workhorses, confined to high strain, low prestige jobs. (Author)

In this interview Dorothy Haener shares some of her impressions of the hard realities of work and her perceptions of the role that counselors must play to bring about the very necessary upheaval in American thought. (Author)