This article discusses the role of the counselor in the operation of the school rather than the face to face contact between counselor and students. (Author)

Prepared by a group of counselors in New York, this position paper states the duties and responsibilities of school counselors taking an activist role. (BY)

The counselor, being a part of the educational structure, is seen as being accountable and holds the responsibility of accomplishing certain tasks and functions within established guidance objectives. (BY)

Claiming that the current counselor role is not working, the author suggests that counselor educators train counselors to serve as consultants in order to provide direct help for parents, teachers, children, and administrators and to solidify their own positions in the schools. (RWP)

The author contends that counselor training and school realities are not insurmountable obstacles. School counselors are desperate for help and guidance in these times of upheaval and confusion and feel the resources to retrain, renew, and revitalize the profession rest with counselor educators and university personnel. Chris D. Kehas comments on…

An effective counselor is described as one who has and uses his ability to help others. Techniques and trappings are secondary and may vary greatly from one effective counselor to the other. (Author)

The polemic being advanced in this paradigm for professionalization is simply that the school counselor must take an active part in his own professionalization. It is what the school counselor does, ultimately, that will decide this issue. (Author)

This investigation reveals that the perceptions of the counselor's role by teachers, counselors, counseling students, and teacher education students are quite congruent. The counselor needs to identify areas of disagreement and then to reach some compromise in order to move toward a more acceptable role. (Author)

This dialogue expresses thoughts and feelings in process at the edge of new thought in counseling. It explores the current trends in the profession and examines ways to bring new perspectives to counseling and counselor education. (Author)

Discusses 11 issues that may have ethical implications for counselors, including confidentiality, data storage, software issues, counselor-assisted software programs, client screening procedures, use by affluent versus poor clients, sexism, computer literacy with poor socialization skills, external locus of control, left-brain thinking, and…

The authors are concerned with having the counselor as an integral part of the educational team, to have knowledge of children and an ability to work sensitively with them. The good counselor must also know the community and its resources. These characteristics lead to a greater credibility with parents and taxpayers. (Author/BY)