A survey of Indian students asked for their evaluation of characteristics desirable in a helping person (counselor). Items rated most important were (1) can be trusted, (2) is capable of helping one decide what to do about his concerns, and (3) is willing to leave the office in order to help. (DS)

The Counseling Helping Questionnaire, Forms A and B, was answered by 150 Indian and 50 non-Indian 11th and 12th grade students in Oklahoma to obtain information about the concerns seen as most important by Indian high school students, the concerns which they were most likely to talk about with a counselor or a significant other, who the…