Research points to significant numbers of students on college campuses experiencing mental health distress and an ever increasing number of college students who are choosing to make an off-campus educational experience a part of their college careers. When we consider both of these trends together, it is quite apparent that a significant number of…

This study elaborated on the development of school counselor's feelings of self-efficacy in working with students with special needs and how self-efficacy affects school counselor's roles with students with special needs. More specifically, this study addressed a number of topics in researching the impact of pre-service training, experience and…

The central role of counseling in the implementation of ecological intervention strategies with handicapped students is examined. Suggestions include increased counseling for the handicapped, behavioral approaches in counseling, counseling in an ecological framework, and counseling both parents and students. (DB)

Centers on how to encourage counselor activity in the placement process not only to secure jobs for clients with severe disabilities but also to learn firsthand about the local world of work. Placement training must receive proper emphasis in rehabilitation education programs. (CT)

Includes a description of the legal rights of the handicapped provided and protected by several pieces of federal legislation. Several important roles for counseling designed to help ensure the rights of handicapped youth and adults are also proposed, such as information, advocacy, parent counseling, and consulting. (Author)

There are some problems which naturally deter counselors from providing direct services to students enrolled in special classes for the mentally retarded. Some of the problems indicated by this survey are: (1) special classes are not held in same buildings where counselors are located so that counselors do not have ready access to students in the…

The author discusses four counseling areas in which the secondary school counselor will be highly involved with handicapped students: academic advising; counseling for postsecondary education; career or vocational guidance; and counseling for athletics, recreation, and clubs. Under each heading, both legal concerns about discrimination and…

This review of assessment strategies for handicapped populations is intended to provide counselors with assessment perspectives as well as specific suggestions. The review emphasizes the counselor's role as a member of a diagnostic team and the need to consider a variety of information in formation of meaningful intervention strategies. (Author)

THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY LISTS ALPHABETICALLY BY AUTHOR 146 BOOKS, JOURNAL ARTICLES, FINAL REPORTS, AND CONFERENCE REPORTS FROM 1961 TO 1965 CONCERNING WORKSHOPS FOR THE HANDICAPPED. ALSO INCLUDED IS AN ARTICLE, "THE PROFESSIONALLY TRAINED COUNSELOR IN THE REHABILITATION WORKSHOP," IN WHICH GEORGE W. DUNCAN, JR. DISCUSSES THE ROLE OF THE…

Reviews the current state of the art of vocational rehabilitation of persons with cancer. Discusses techniques, programs, services received, vocational outcomes, and costs. Suggests implications for rehabilitation counseling practice and research. (Author/RC)

Advocates a life-centered curriculum approach, which focuses on 22 skills essential for successful community living and working. Recommends that counselors assume specific responsibilities in this approach and outlines competencies necessary to carry out guidance and counseling activities for persons with handicaps at four phases of career…

Discusses some of the basic rights of clients in the rehabilitation process, which are divided into legal and professional rights. Topics discussed include the right to services, determining eligibility or ineligibility, the right to periodic review, all-pervasive rights (such as access to client-related material), and consumer involvement. (TA)

In spite of the fact that movement has occurred, vocational education and job placement services for individuals with disabilities have produced few significant results in the past 10 years. Since school represents an institution where children gather on a consistent and long-term basis, the facilities are available and usually comprehensive, and…

Gross deficiencies in educational and vocational counseling of handicapped students are examined. The authors' major thesis concerns the one-sided stress which has been placed on personal factors, to the ignoring of situational and environmental factors, as the focus of intervention efforts. Noting that, by and large, vocational information,…

Used data from High School and Beyond study to compare perceptions of counseling activities of handicapped high school seniors to perceptions of nonhandicapped seniors. Found that handicapped subjects perceived counselors as influencing their post-high school plans more than did nonhandicapped students. Handicapped group perceived differences in…