A Canadian counselor rejects canned counseling concepts as she inspects the need for anticipation and adaptability in planning careers. (Author)

The involuntary client is a frequently encountered problem in employment counseling and other social agency counseling. Possible reasons for his recalcitrance are examined and their implications for the counseling relationship are discussed. (Author)

Discusses the counselor's responsibility in providing current and non-sexist career counseling. (HMV)

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of the employment counselor as a vocational counselor to dropout discussing such topics as: (1) functions, (2) problems of dropouts and their counseling implications, and (3) counseling the dropout. Included in the functions are: (1) representing the Employment Office in coordinating all programs…

Brain lateralization research has led to speculation about counseling and guidance implications of left-right brain differences. Serious limitations in these implications are highlighted. (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)

The counselor should stress that occupational choice should be made in order to fulfill one's individual potential, not merely to earn a livelihood or to be practical. Counselors must help to end the circular process in which women discover and assert their gender by their choices'' of field, and then these fields take on a feminine character…

The author outlines the role of counseling in English schools having spent a year in England as a researcher and observer. (Author/HMV)

President Odell of NECA appointed a committee to write a position paper on the role of the employment counselor. The committee has completed its work and the following position paper has been officially adopted by action of the NECA Board of Trustees. (Author)

This report is based on research conducted in Wyoming in 1967. In the study, a questionnaire was sent to all the high schools and junior high schools in the state, to determine the need for more comprehensive vocational guidance in secondary schools there. Replies were received from all but one of the schools queried, and a followup study,…

The author stresses the benefits of utilizing computer information in career planning at the community college level. He cites Tondow's rationale for computer use: (1) exponential increase in information; (2) exponential increase in dissemination capabilities; and (3) accelerated curve of change. Computers should never supplant the counselor;…

The author undertakes a re-examination of the vocational counselor's traditional roles and considers some dramatic changes. The increasing societal emphasis on early childhood provokes questions about the current absence of such a focus in guidance training institutions. The paper stresses intervention at this primary level. New counselor roles…

This book brings together articles, written during the 1960's, which focus on the theory, research, and practice of guidance in the elementary school. It is primarily intended for use in the preparation of elementary school counselors, teachers, and administrators. The book has 10 parts, each containing several papers from the current literature:…

Major elements of the British experience with career education from which implications for American education can be drawn are addressed in this report, which (1) reviews British research and theoretical literature pertinent to current counselor roles, changes in counselor roles since 1965, forces shaping counselor roles, relationship of counselor…

This document is one in a set of eight staff development training manuals developed to facilitate the efforts of educators in the planning and implementation of comprehensive career guidance programs on the secondary level (7-12). This series is based on the goals and developmental objectives identified by the Georgia Comprehensive Career Guidance…