A counselor's awareness of many incidents of adjustment problems among new students in a large and impersonal high school prompted an effort to make changes in the situation; the resulting program, designed to help new students is described in this article. (Author)

A case study is presented through which a counselor in the role of teacher consultant, shares guidelines, methods and procedures that facilitated change in the classroom behavior of an elementary school teacher. The methods were based on the contingency management principles of positive consequences and the sequential steps of behavioral control…

Drawing on the insights of Ruth Benedict and Abraham Maslow in their search for an ethical gauge by which to rate personal-social health, this article proposes synergistic man'' as the desired outcome model for counselors. (Author)

This article explores three primary steps involved in helping clients to control their own behavior change: self-observation, self-monitoring, and self-regulation atrategies. Self-regulation provides an affirmative answer to the question: Is the client a counselor?'' by promoting client responsibility and independence in the counseling process.…

The author contends that elementary schools reinforce sexist socialization and thus provide limiting, rather than enlarging, experiences. (Author)

The group counselor can help the Asian-American client to be more expressive in communicating his feelings and thoughts to the group without negating his cultural values. Counseling can be more than therapeutic; it can also be rewardingly educational. (Author)

Practicing counselors may interpret ethical obligations differently according to their work settings. This article focuses on one of the problems related to the nature of the client population and the counseling setting: What rights of confidentiality do minors have against disclosure to their parents? (Author)

A review of manpower trends and political developments reveals that governmental decisions threaten to reduce job and training opportunities. In this article the author describes several alternatives for helping clients in this situation. (Author)

An adjunct to the articles contained in the same issue on ethnic groups, this bibliography is designed to assist readers, particularly counselors, in expanding their knowledge of such groups through readings by Chicanos, Indians and Puerto Ricans. (CJ)

The black college student's encounter with special programs creates special counseling needs. The counselor's task is to assist the student to cope with institutional demands and overcome the alienating effect of the impersonal, white, middle class institution by establishing a unique relationship with the student at a critical moment. (Author)

The fact that counselor training has not prepared counselors to develop the skills and understandings needed for new undertakings provides a problem. The authors see this problem as an opportunity for a renaissance in counselor education. (Author/BY)

The author suggests areas where counselors, teachers and administrators have failed to be aware of the needs of all groups of students. The role and function of the activist counselor is discussed. (BY)

Common counselor aids like aptitude test scores, aptitude job matching, and corporate recruiting tests work only if the individual perceives herself in the same way that the tester does. The writer suggests that the counselor get closer to the alienated in order to help the cause of alternative counseling. (Author/BY)

If counselors are to listen to the forces for social change with open minds, they must first evaluate their own life styles. Changing oneself necessarily involves engaging in risk taking behaviors, searching for new stimuli, seeking the unfamiliar. (Author)