The authors describe a leisure counseling model. Key components of the model are skill, expertise, and warmth of the counselor. Three instruments for assessing interests and finding appropriate leisure activities have been developed and are used as part of the model. (SE)

This article attempts to show that feminist counseling is part of the larger feminist perspective. The author maintains that to be a non-sexist counselor is not enough. Counselors need to encourage a feminist viewpoint in clients. The article describes how this might be done. (EJT)

This article shares the authors' adaptation of the microcounseling paradigm so that it is useful with different groups. The authors also illustrate how a new role for the professional counselor--that of a teacher of helping skills--is rapidly evolving. (Author/EJT)

Author discusses some aspects of counseling process. Makes suggestions of how to sift through maze of distractions and generalizations counselees present as problems and how to change latter into concrete statements that reflect their true nature and indicate how to resolve them. Finally, author describes strategies that help solve problems. (SE)

The social learning approach to marital and family therapy is a didactic approach calling for an active and directive therapist and a collaborative client. To examine the variability of therapist and client behaviors within sessions and across the course of treatment, 24 families, in marital and family therapy, participated in the study. Families…

the author describes the cultural heritage of the Amish and the resulting difficulties that Amish children have in public schools. Implications for counselors are discussed. (RWP)

This study presents a set of opinions on how to obtain rapport with and give preliminary counseling to individuals who have adopted distinct and different aging mannerisms. The nine mannerisms treated were abstracted from the studies of Neugarten and Reichard. The research sample was selected from the members of the Gerontological Society. Six…

This study investigates rehabilitation counseling to determine critical job requirements, training needs, and differences in counselor perception of critical incidents as a function of academic preparation. A questionnaire requesting one effective and one ineffective counseling incident was distributed to 404 counselors and supervisors from…

This study explored students' use of high school counselors, and more specifically, the effect of a black counselor on the helper preference of students. A questionnaire composed of 21 items concerning personal, educational and vocational problems was presented to sophomore and junior students from the following types of high schools: (1) white…

This paper examines the potential of video tape and closed-circuit television as an addition to a counseling and guidance program. A review of literature in this area is given. The technical competence for operating the equipment is limited. Suggestions for the use of extra equipment (wide angle zoom lens) in special situations are given.…

The report first examines relevances in the state, the federal government, business and industry, parents, the community, the school and students. The author selects the necessity of major social change as most relevant, because he considers the American society outstanding in physical technology but backward in social, humanistic and aesthetic…

This updated search of the ERIC system, "Dissertation Abstracts", and the journal literature yielded 36 documents which cover different and creative approaches in counseling that go beyond traditional methods and take the counselor outside the confines of his or her office. (SD)