A dedicated counselor has a job of grave importance; and if, after soul searching, he comes to realize that he no longer has a close relationship with his students, then there is a need for change. He must realize that policy, paperwork, and personal needs are secondary to his work with students. He must get back to doing the job he was hired to…

This study measures the effects of one rehabilitation counselor training program on attitude toward disabled persons, level of communication of the facilitative dimensions, level of client self exploration and level of discrimination as they relate to counseling outcome. (Author/EK)

Focuses on the issue of teenage pregnancy, emphasizing its health, social, and economic consequences for teenaged mothers and their children. Outlines steps counselors can take to help pregnant teenagers. (FL)

Examining selected literature on counseling the adult learner, this article discusses the need for counseling adult learners, meeting the adult learner's needs, the life span developmental perspective, new forms of counseling services, and new approaches and techniques for counseling adults. (Author/LRA)

Clients transferring from one counselor to another were compared with nontransferring clients over the same length of treatment. In 3 12-week blocks, clients with the same counselor, and clients who would be transferred, made greatest progress in the first block. Some progress was lost on transfer. No significant differences were found. (JBJ)

Summarizes this journal issue's content, which explores the unique needs and opportunities of the community college counselor. The articles provide information from educational and career counseling to specifics on clinical depression inventories in order to assist the counselor in improving his or her knowledge and counseling skills. (VWC)

Reviews literature on therapists' reactions to clients' traumatic material. Findings support anecdotal accounts by trauma therapists. Argues that empathetic engagement with trauma survivors is necessary for effective psychotherapeutic intervention. However, this intervention makes therapists vulnerable to the detrimental effects of vicarious…

Provides school counselors with a procedure to record data, organize information according to published professional standards, and provide accountability for school counseling. (Contains 19 references.) (GCP)

This study explored supervision experiences in 69 U.S. racial/ethnic minority supervisees working with White supervisors. The results demonstrated that perceived prejudice was associated with role ambiguity and role conflict in supervision, suggesting that supervision may not occur in isolation from trainees' lived experience. Implications for…

This qualitative study used data from semi-structured interviews with eight school counsellors working with adolescents in secondary education and asked them how they perceived counselling interventions as helping to raise achievement. The present context in secondary education is perceived as results led. This adheres to government policy as…

Article contains recommendations for counselors so that they might become more familiar with the problems and functions of admissions committees. (Author)

Negative evaluation of the self by clients is seen as being the outcome of various kinds of irrational, unreasonable, or illogical thinking. Counseling practice and logical considerations suggest principles that might be taught to students for purpose of correcting or avoiding such thinking. (Author)

Effective career counselors will do more to help job-seekers, will move further into group work, and will work on their own development before trying to assist clients. (Author/CJ)

Discusses the efficacy of the consulting strategy for working with minority students and gives specific suggestions as to how it may be effectively employed. (Author)