Through additive empathy, a helper challenges a client to examine a deep and broad perspective for assessing problems and then to take action. Practical guidelines for using the skill in counseling and in systematic skill training are offered. (Author)

Self-help books may be a useful resource to counselors in their work with counselees. They may contribute, however, to the development of psychological problems or prevent people from seeking help when needed. The utopia promised by self-help books may be a pathology in its own right. (Author)

Sexual abuse can have many disturbing consequences for the child and the family. A counseling approach should be to help an abused child and the offender feel that they are still worthwhile individuals. Underlying issues in the family should also be explored. (Author)

This article focuses on the use of "extinction" as a classroom behavior modification technique: whether or not the counselor should suggest its use in a given situation and how to insure its maximal effectiveness once it is chosen as an appropriate procedure. (Author)

This article centers around the relationship of counselors to the social order and political system of this country. The author questions the basic premise that social alienation is a natural outcome of the American system. A response by Harold J. Adams follows. (Author)

Author indulges in a flight of whimsey over a tongue-in-cheek pipe dream he has had on counseling. (Author)

As the theory of values clarification began to receive wide acceptance, energies were turned toward devising numerous strategies techniques, and exercises for helping people of all ages to clarify experiences based on values clarification theory. The strategies are taken from Simon, Howe, and Kirschenbaum (1972). (Author)

This article describes and evaluates the results of an experimental program using a professional counselor in an industrial setting where the need of the client determined the role of the counselor. (JC)

According to the author cutting across age and economic lines, as well as work settings, is the need for counselors to use counseling, guidance, and social activism to enable women to expand their horizons and implement their dreams. (Author)

The author of this article feels that there is a great need for more directors who are oriented toward counselor education, and he focuses on three areas in which this type of director can have a great impact on school counseling. (Author)

By common law, attorneys possess the right of privileged communication. Whether or not the counselor client relationship should also be entitled to the privilege is a matter that generates argument. This article examines the significance of the privilege, and some of the reasons both for and against its extension. (Author)

The contract system has been successfully employed as a method of conducting individual academic study. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how an adaptation of this system may be used to provide an innovative approach not only to counseling but also to other segments of school guidance programs. (Author)

In this article, the author looks at the obstacles to a sharing relationship with clients which counselors set up by stereotyping people and seeking to enhance their own status. (Author)

Proposes that counseling will and should be replaced by another discipline called applied behavioral science. The applied behavioral scientist will apply theory and research derived through the various behavioral sciences to help individuals and institutions achieve their purposes. He will work with students,patients, or employees, and their…