Reviews history of elementary school counseling beginning in the 1920s. Describes history of counselor preparation standards. Defines role of school counselor. Claims there are excellent examples of effective elementary school counselor education programs around the country, although there are too few to accommodate the need. (ABL)

States that counselors need to become more involved in program evaluation. Presents rationale for including training in program evaluation in counselor education programs. Contends that only by conducting program evaluations will counselor educators and supervisors become major players in public policy, planning, and social reform. (Author/NB)

Comments on Weinrach's (1990) article "A Psychosocial Look at the Jewish Dilemma" and offers an alternative view of how a Jewish counselor educator responds to tension created by membership in multiple communities with multiple and often competing ritual systems. Concludes challenge of being Jewish is to willingly engage in dialogue. (Author/ABL)

Presents information regarding short-term or brief family counseling in the schools and retraining school counselors already in the work force to do family counseling. Concludes that, with appropriate training, administrative support, and flexible work hours, school counselors can provide effective and efficient service to children, families, and…

Four faculty members reflect individually and collectively on their lives and roles as educators. They recommend a deliberate process of self-reflection to other family-therapy educators and offer suggestions for improving the organizational dynamics of family-therapy training programs. (Author/MKA)

Describes a method for preparing novice counselors for professional environments by using classroom meetings of semester long courses to simulate college student affairs divisions, community agencies, school counseling offices, and other work settings. (Contains 23 references.) (GCP)

This book serves as a ready reference for advancing a common understanding of the rapidly evolving school counseling profession. Its purpose is to help school counselors, school counseling students, educators, administrators and other school counseling stakeholders best converge on the most highly agreed upon responses to common professional…

An informed survey of graduate students revealed that they have several suggestions for change in their chosen field--particularly in the area of counselor preparation. (HMV)

The majority of elementary counselors are former elementary teachers, probably with little specific preparation for the elementary counseling role. While some progress is being made to prepare competent counselors, much remains to be done. Competencies needed by elementary counselors include skills in the following areas: (1) counseling with…

Two primary sources of beginning counselor worries are identified: (1) concern for one's competence as a counselor and a person and (2) worry about the increasing intimacy involved in discussing the emotional life of a client. A catalog of possible humorous responses of beginning counselors is provided, and each response is illustrated with an…

Discusses the importance of both the music and the counselor to the success of music therapy. Describes three stages of practice involving music therapy, and skills need by the therapist. Presents two examples of successful music therapy in clinical practice. (JAC)

Analyzes the behavioral changes of trainee counselors and presents a five stage study of the similarities and differences of counselor development on both sides of the Atlantic. (RK)

It is argued that discrimination against working women does not stop short of the counseling profession. In counseling, women are the workhorses, confined to high strain, low prestige jobs. (Author)

These 23 brief articles respond to the Editor's previous request for brief glimpses of the future, regarding the training, practice, and role of the counselor. (CJ)