Client expectancy of powerlessness can lead to actual powerlessness. Once counselors recognize that personal power is healthy and beneficial, they have to begin to structure institutions and agencies to encourage the development of personal power. (Author)

This article describes three separate counseling programs that have been successfully implemented. The first concerns an innovative faculty advisor program at the high school level; the second concerns how one school surveyed counselors' use of time; and the third provides a plan for increasing guidance services at no extra cost. (HMV)

Describes an expanded role for counselors in urban school settings that can improve linkages among families, schools, and communities. Discusses school-based family counseling's (SBFC) role, its specific components, the development of SBFC positions, and practical applications. Provides a case study of SBFC intervention and outlines implications…

Unless school counselors are perceived to be a vital part of the educational process, external support for guidance services will be withdrawn and funding will be dramatically reduced. School restructuring and School Site Management are discussed as opportunities for counselors to redefine and clarify their roles; marketing strategies are…

Used both process and outcome measures to investigate the counseling process with an undecided college student and an indecisive one. Results supported previous speculation about the differential utility of interventions for undecided and indecisive clients and suggest that the counselor-client relationship may be important to clients in career…

Examines a program in which two teen counselors model relatedness and authenticity with their sixth-grade counselees. Investigates the background of the program and identifies being "real" and being "realistic" as expressions of an ethic of caring, which gives power to the program's vision of drug-abuse prevention. (EMK)

The authors suggest various procedures a counselor might use to rearrange the environment in which counseling occurs in order to promote a clearer perception of the counseling role by school personnel. The main strategies suggested are 1) observing self behavior and increasing desirable acts and decreasing undesirable ones and 2) posting counselor…

A study investigated the persons and factors that influence the career decisions of high school vocational students. A closed-form questionnaire was administered to all senior students in 43 Louisiana high schools (n=3,858). Findings indicated that parents influenced the students' career choices more than any other persons, with the mother being…

An increasing percentage of weddings today are remarriages. The urgent need for counseling in preparation for, and in the context of, remarriage deserves recognition. Yet remarriage counseling is a neglected topic at professional conventions, in research studies and among marriage and family counselors. This kind of marital relationship exhibits a…

Despite the growing number of older students (age 50 or over) attending two-year institutions, counseling services relevant to their needs are often overlooked. These needs are especially acute because they often stem from the disengagement of long established social roles, such as the loss of a job through retirement, the loss of loved ones…

The purposes of this paper are: to identify specifically the criticisms of school counseling; to analyze what accounts for these criticisms; to indicate how school counseling should and is responding to its critics; and to look at where school counseling is headed. Through a review and analysis of the conceptual and empirical literature dealing…

The increasing demand for accountability in education provides the framework for studying service delivery by school counselors. A brief theoretical discussion concluded that significant others' perceptions of self are effective stimuli to self-change. The project reported in this paper has two primary objectives: (1) to provide student feedback…

The evaluation of the first year of the ESEA Title III Reorganized Junior High Program at Jordan and Marshall University Junior High Schools is reported. The product objectives of the program were: (1) increased counselor effectiveness, (2) positive student attitude towards teachers, counselors, and school, and (3) increased parent and student…

The inner city child is described, and the differences between his school and that of his middle-class counterpart are contrasted. The author lists what he has frequently found to be affective constraints of recalcitrant inner city students: (1) poor school attitudes; (2) anti-societal (middle class) values; and (3) negative school perceptions.…

The current status of career counseling theory is explored. The emphasis is on counselee self-knowledge rather than counselor knowledge about and duration of the counselee. Noting that occupational information is abundant and that some methods of accumulating information about counselees' attitudes, values and interests are available, the authors…