Identifies six areas in two different studies (The Goodlad Study and the study by the National Commission on Excellence in Education) relating directly to school counselors' roles and functions. Presents contrasts between the two studies. Suggests implications for counselors from Goodlad's findings. (BH)

Discusses the school counselor's role in relation to special education programs, emphasizing historical and training perspectives. Emerging roles and future directions are described. (BL)

Discusses the process of counselor referral of clients to psychologists, including right and wrong reasons for referral, and how to refer. Suggests that clients' best interests may be served by mutual referral processes. Clients need to be active participants in these decisions. (JAC)

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)

This article describes the organization and procedures involved in setting up a Counselor Week'' which can do much to clarify the role of the counselor and can help the public realize the potential of good guidance services. (JC)

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)

Outlines a five-stage model, based upon Adlerian psychology, designed to facilitate students' social-emotional development. Offers general suggestions for activities and affective education materials useful in implementing this model. Categorizes several popular affective education programs in relation to the five stages. (CRR)

Notes that, in Texas, counselors were excluded from mandated educational reforms and that state and local counselor organizations are attempting to clarify whether counselors should be placed on career ladder and should be appraised by statewide system. Sees counselor's role in reform movement as vital because it can stabilize and balance local…