Smoother Sailing is an expanded guidance program to facilitate the development of life coping skills among students in kindergarten through fifth grade in the Des Moines Independent Community School District. Although the philosophy, goals, and objectives of the Smoother Sailing program are consistent with the Elementary Counseling and Guidance…

While there is general consensus on the importance of good academic advising to student success and support for the American College Testing Program's developmental concept of advising, there is less agreement on the most effective model for delivery. Research suggests that both faculty-oriented advising and professional counselor-oriented systems…

This study was conducted to determine what vocational counseling strategies are used with students who enroll in vocational education programs, their effectiveness, and their perceptions of helpfulness by graduates and employers. Different surveys were developed and sent to the following groups in Colorado: 60 high school counselors, 60…

This continuing ERIC/CAPS series, entitled Searchlight Plus, consists on two components: first, an in-depth review of cited materials, including prime issues and trends, and implications for helping professionals; and, second, citations from an ERIC computer search on the topic. Series topics are selected in response to user requests. The review…

The nature and functions of pupil personnel servcies staff, together with a model of a typical pupil personnal services organization found effective in the public schools of Wisconsin, are presented. Salient features of the recommended model include: (1) services for all children; (2) direct line responsibility to the district administrators; (3)…

THIS INTERIM REPORT DESCRIBES AND EVALUATES THE ACTIVITIES OF THE COLLEGE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (CAP), WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED TO COUNSEL DISADVANTAGED AND NEGRO STUDENTS ABOUT POST-HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO THEM. DATA WERE GATHERED FROM INTERVIEWS, CORRESPONDENCE, AND FILED REPORTS, AND FROM QUESTIONNAIRES SENT TO 1197 COLLEGE…

This study investigates the effectiveness of an instruction-simulation videotape in training counselor candidates to use counselor-tacting response leads (CTRL's). Such verbal responses are viewed as essential to behavior modification therapy since they operationally define specific behavioral events and the stimulus conditions associated with…

Excepting opening comments, four papers are presented: (1) crisis counseling, which stresses the increasingly crisis-oriented nature of society and the schools, and which suggests guidelines for the counselor who is confronted with the situation; (2) drug abuse, which deals generally with marihuana and its relationship to hard drugs, and states…

With assistance from Title I of the Higher Education Act, a two-day workshop for counselors in Iowa was sponsored by the Center for Continuing Education at Drake University. Proceedings of the workshop, reported in this publication, include four interlocking dimensions: (1) the counselor's role in vocational decision making, (2) the counselor's…

A study was conducted to evaluate the student counseling and development services at Niagara College for the year 1970-71. A client group was compared with two groups of non-clients by means of questionnaire administered on registration day. A total of 1,269 day students, 80 percent of the student population, participated. Group one consisted of…

A single theme for each of the three convention years forms the nucleus around which the presented papers revolve. The 1968 theme, The Christian's Quest for Maturity, focuses on normalcy and the ways and means whereby Christians can become more healthfully mature. In 1969, the convention examined the unique role of the Christian therapist who is…

This 6-day workshop on young persons entering the labor market directly after high school was designed to aid counselors in testing their assumptions and knowledge about the entry-level labor market against the experience of recent Kansas high school graduates. The workshop was divided into three stages: model building, data collection, and…

The present study investigated the relation between preferences and expectations about a university student counseling service in a population of 100 student nonclients. Results indicated that nonclients wanted the counselor to be significantly more active than they expected him to be. (Author)

Principals from small and rural elementary, middle, and high schools in Texas participated in a 3-year study of the role of the school counselor and the extent of collaborative efforts between counselors and principals. Principals reported a strong dependence on the assistance their counselors provided, often crediting them with assuming the…

Increased activity and production of materials and methods hold potential for constructive change in guidance and counseling. But there is need for reorganization of existing materials to alleviate the bandwagon effect if new methods of guidance and counseling are to improve in Alberta. (JAC)