Describes organization and implementation of "Help Anonymous, a telephone counseling service for students in distress. Volunteers trained and supervised by professional personnel, act as staff. Three services have thus far evolved -- listening, information, and referral. (Author)

Employment prospects for counselors appears to have stabilized following the rapid growth period of the sixties, yet remains healthy in the seventies. Counselors and student development specialists will find it advantageous to be aware of and familiar with a variety of settings in which their competencies and skills can be used. (Author)

The student personnel staff at St. Petersburg Junior College, Clearwater Campus, participated in several in-service training seminars to up-date and improve procedures and techniques for dealing with individual students . A consultant from the University of Florida, and the St. Petersburg Junior College Dean of Student Personnel conducted the…

In this study, data gathered from the files of students contacting Louisiana State University's Counseling and Mental Health Service during a one year period clearly revealed significant differences between the frequent versus infrequent visitor: (1) student age; (2) previous exposure to psychotherapy; (3) local residence while in college; (4)…

This paper consists of two parts. Section I summarizes the author's experiences in Japan during 1971 when he served as a Visiting Consultant on Student Counseling Services to the U. S. Educational Commission, Japan. It was concluded that the need for the counseling service is high, student counseling roles must be firmly established, and the…

Students try to fashion for themselves a simplified and intelligible picture of the world and then to substitute that for the world of experience. Student personnel workers often resist this displacement and intervene in the development of each student. This obstructs development for some students. (Author)

Examines student and student personnel workers' perceptions of a university environment in order to ascertain areas of perceptual agreement and disparity so that the student personnel worker can help create an environment geared toward total human development. (Author)

Out of the 1971 NACAC came a resolution calling for an effort to determine secondary school guidance budgetary practices on a national basis. The study reported here is exploratory in nature, leaving the reader to develop the hypotheses relevant to his or her own local situation. (Author)

Whereas the late 1960s and the 1970s have been a period of new developments, experimentation, and increasing technological innovation in student services, the 1980s should be an exciting period of technological refinement and expanded application. New issues and problems will arise that can be prepared for in the present. (Author/LPG)

Investigates 31 colleges and 1 state system of 21 colleges that addressed privatizing counseling services. A small number of colleges were found to have adopted different models of outsourcing, and some had considered outsourcing but not pursued it. Discusses advantages, disadvantages, factors affecting decision making, and levels of success. (JPS)

In an effort to prepare student affairs professionals to effectively address gay, lesbian, and bisexual concerns on their campuses, the American College Personnel Association developed a workshop entitled the "Beyond Tolerance Roadshow." Participants in six workshops reported the awareness, knowledge, and skills they gained and ways in which they…

This study compared the attitudes toward help-seeking behavior and expectations about counseling of 135 college student-athletes and 132 non-athletes in an attempt to identify significant differences that might warrant the need for specific approaches with each population. Significant differences were found between student-athletes and…

This monograph considers some of the special conditions affecting international students and the particular needs they have within the American educational setting. Included are an introduction by David McIntire and eight chapters. "Academic Challenges and Opportunities" (Janet Constantinidis) focuses on various academic issues as they relate to…

The study concludes that the communication gap between counselors and other groups may be reduced by greater information dissemination efforts. (Author)

Sources of reading concerning ecosystem theory and applications are identified and abstracted. (Author)