By shifting the focus of their work toward taking risks and sharing ideas, counselors may gain the kind of satisfaction that will result in renewed professional dedication. (Author)

As the theory of values clarification began to receive wide acceptance, energies were turned toward devising numerous strategies techniques, and exercises for helping people of all ages to clarify experiences based on values clarification theory. The strategies are taken from Simon, Howe, and Kirschenbaum (1972). (Author)

Catalytic counseling is a method of dealing with and thinking about multiple options. Presenting a guidance information system to students is not enough. The counselor must help students to think about change and about alternatives. What is needed most in guidance today is constant innovation in order to be catalytic for all students. (Author)

With the emergence of the computer into the educational-vocational guidance field, a redefining of the counselor's function was seen as necessary. Interpretations of the traditional counselor's role are included and the author redefines counseling as "the process of facilitating client self-understanding and self-management through an assessment…

The author deals with the questions of who are counseling psychologists and in what ways does this identity facilitate work as practitioners. She sees counseling psychologists as focusing on issues of development, decisionmaking, and choice in relatively adequately functioning individuals across the life span. Implications for training are…

A knowledge of ethical theories, practical principles flowing from them and the method of decision-making which they indicate will enable counselors to assist clients with moral problems. (Author)

This article seeks to present a viable resolution of one of the perennial ideological issues in counseling: determinism versus human freedom. The dilemma has bearing on the related professional issue of client and counselor responsibility. (Author)

Counseling prisoners involves multiple ethical and therapeutic choices and risks. Prison environments emphasize external control and security. Thus, work in such settings challenges the role of the counselor as a facilitator of client responsibility for independent decision making. (Author)

Guidance counselors must enlist the aid of politicians in securing support for guidance services. (Author)

This paper concerns the use of the computer in schools. Several specific operational computer applications useful to counselors are discussed. These are: (1) the Ventura, which is the most comprehensive system; (2) the services available from NEEDS; (3) course selection; (4) updating information; and (5) making decisions, particularly occupational…

The document consists of all the material contained in the Student Guide as well as special material to guide the counselor at each step of the program, supplementary material on evaluation, and the introductory correspondence forms. Suggestions are made on how to select students for the career planning program. The background notes indicate the…

The authors have tried to show how our schools can perform a great service to young people in helping them achieve self actualization by allowing them to learn and practice the steps in decision making as they plan their lives after graduation. (Author)

To help counselors assess the morality of counseling decisions, a matrix of influencing is presented that generates morally significant questions for counseling. Alternative answers are considered for each question, and examples are used to clarify moral implications of counseling decisions. (Author/TE)

This issues of Communique, a newsletter providing resource information for practicing counselors, features a decisional "balance sheet", to aid students who are thinking about college in making sound, stable decisions that involve careful scanning of all the relevant considerations; reports of three studies in curriculum decision making…

Identifies a five-level framework of psychological adjustment specifically for use by school psychologists. The levels range from one of excellent adjustment to severe psychopathology. Guides the school psychologist toward interaction with clients based on a differential scale of adjustment. (Author/KS)