Describes a counseling center, located in a public school, which serves the school and community and is staffed by the university. Also discussed are the center's origins and rationale, physical structure, operations, advantages and problems. (Author)

The program described in this article was an attempt at utilizing high school students in a lay counseling role through a student-to-student service organization. (JC)

The article concludes that the circumstances under which the family counselor finds himself functioning are such that he must be free to move about the district and community unencumbered by the traditional forms of administrative pressures and red tape. (Author)

A major emphasis of counseling psychology programs should be on training counselors to bring about changes in the system since most of the problems brought to counselors are ones that the ill-fated system has perpetuated. The article calls for young counselors to become innovators, not protectors of the system. (Author)

The issues outlined are minimal renovations required in counselor education, but they are essential if black student counselors are going to find their professional education meaningful. Black counselors are needed to offset the victimization of blacks by unconcerned and improperly trained counselors. (Author)

This paper explores the attitudes and conceptions held by trainee and practising counsellors towards people with disabilities. Awareness of counsellors' own views of disability and impairment can complicate the counsellor-client relationship when the latter is seen primarily from a deficiency model perspective or self-defined model of disability,…

As school counselors and counselors educators, it is imperative to remain knowledgeable of trends and changes in school counseling. While school counselors experience the daily events and relationships in a school setting, school counselor educators stay informed about trends or changes in school counseling by reading relevant scholarly…

Health psychology has emerged as a potentially distinct specialty within counseling psychology. To determine the nature and extent of health psychology training in counseling psychology programs, 55 training directors of counseling psychology programs that are either members of the Council of Counseling Psychology Training Programs (CCPTP) or are…

This is a catalogue of videotapes for counselor training produced by the Guidance Laboratory of The City University of New York system. Although some tapes deal with counseling situations, the issues raised are relevant to all levels of education and interpersonal relationships. The tapes are designed to invite and provoke individual and group…

Counselors must be sensitized to the perspectives of minority youth and parents and have an understanding of their aspirations, needs and fears. These perspectives should include: (1) a broader background in social psychology, (2) an understanding of one's own attitudes and sensitivity training. (3) a greater understanding of the cultural…

This study was conducted to gain information from and about public school counselors concerning the relationship between their role and function and the nature of their counselor preparation training. It was also intended to determine the changes in training and counselor function necessary to provide for more adequate vocational counseling for…

Parts of the Education Amendments of 1976, Public Law 94-482, which apply to counselor preparation are outlined and discussed, with implications for training of counselors and delivery of counseling services. In addition, several bills containing areas of concern for counseling and guidance personnel are briefly noted. (MF)

Describes the areas in which a counselor-consultant needs to be trained and a program for implementing such a training program. The counselor-consultant can provide coordinated consultant services for administrators, teachers, counselors, aides, volunteers, parents, and students. (Author/IRT)

The authors describe evaluative research on the role and effectiveness of student advisors in postsecondary education. They describe one student advising model that may be applicable to home economics units nationwide. (CH)