Cognitive and operational difficulties that may ensue from the modification of teacher role into teacher/advisor role can be alleviated by the adoption of four sequential processes. Teachers and administrators involved in role change must pass through the stages of: (1) modifying the old role to include the new; (2) identifying with the new role…

The author contends that in the past counselors have put an undue emphasis on describing students by their characteristics with a relative lack of emphasis on understanding them through their behavioral accomplishments. Career education challenges all counselors to correct this imbalance because it is action-centered and experience-oriented. The…

Effective rehabilitation requires the counselor to serve as his client's advocate. The goals of rehabilitation are clear and are product oriented. While skill as a counselor is required to achieve these goals for many clients, the clients represent problems which will require more than counseling skills before the problems can be resolved and the…

The new emerging role of the consultant to counselors is considered. The consultant will function in a helping relationship with a colleague in counseling and related pupil personnel services with emphasis upon counseling and guidance services. Indicated are several needs for this professional: (1) the need to support the counselor in achieving…

A six weeks training program was conducted for counselors, psychologists, and social workers to improve their understanding of the disadvantaged, their counseling skills, their information of college admissions, and their ability to identify and utilize positive forces in the environment. Two courses were held: advanced counseling theory and…

The views of the role of the elementary school counselor was studied in the state of Massachusetts. Three hundred and forty-three elementary school counselors, guidance directors, elementary school principals, superintendents and counselor educators were randomly selected to take part in the survey. Responses to a 3-part questionnaire were…

A description of the counselor's role and identity is presented prior to the identification and discussion of 18 issues which can be raised in relation to the effectiveness of the counseling profession. The issues are representative of what many counselors feel to be most important and include provision of quality counselor education and training;…

New roles are outlined for counselor action within the elementary school setting, the middle years, and junior and senior high school grades. The points enumerated are considered to be directions in which the counseling profession must go to provide the necessary leadership in career education and career guidance. It is noted that challenges…

A rudimentary contingency model for analyzing transactions between clients and consultants is presented. Independent variables are "healer roles" taken by consultants, influence orientation and cognitive style of clients, and type of change problem. (Author)

Multicultural counseling has the support of various groups, including accreditation bodies. Questions whether information about a specific subculture is helpful in counseling a client who is labeled as being from that subculture or if the differences within groups might possibly be as great as the difference between groups. Suggests that the use…

Responds to Lloyd by cautioning counselors regarding the centrality of multicultural awareness in counseling curricula. Maintains the primacy of culture cannot be denied as the first dimension in our thinking as professional helpers. Cultural intentionality is proposed as a metagoal of the helping process--the integration of cultural awareness…

Differs with Lloyd's point of view that multicultural information is detrimental to counseling relationships, while acknowledging the need to focus on the individual. Maintains that empathy for the individual is not enough in a multicultural society. Makes a case for quelling ignorance and false information and stereotypes, and promoting counselor…

First time applicants to the New York State Tuition Assistance Program completed the Student Survey on High School Guidance Counseling. Student-counselor contact was low, and mostly initiated by the counselor. Most students who used counselors used them as sources of information about college and financial aid but felt they played an indifferent…

Notes that as the public mandate for accountability increases, it becomes more necessary for counselors to evaluate their performance. Recommends using student evaluations of counseling needs and expectations to assess counseling programs' effectiveness. (Author/ABB)

This paper considers the topic--Counseling: Accountability, Reality, Credibility--in relation to possible present and future effects upon counselor behavior. Obviously, these three terms are not independent of each other. Collectively, they provide the basis for analyzing both the context and the content of which counselors must learn to respond.…