Many factors, including changes in the family, drug abuse, high technology, crime, population shifts, and television are changing schools. These forces have already had an impact on the counselor's job or will have an impact in the future. Counselors should be prepared for these social changes and manage them better than their predecessors in the…

The law has mandated the inclusion of handicapped children in all appropriate programs of public education, including school counseling programs. A lack of preparation in the area of special education on the part of the school counselor could decrease the effectiveness of school counseling for handicapped students. A study was conducted to survey…

This paper describes a model training program designed to prepare high school guidance counselors to meet the challenge of expanding women's career options. In particular, it addresses the role which counselors may play in encouraging young women to acquire adequate mathematical preparation during their high school years. The first half of the…

This paper provides a review of the articles and documents on the topic of marriage counseling, as identified by a computer search of the ERIC data base from November 1966 through December 1979. The materials address the following topics: (1) the history of marriage counseling; (2) counseling techniques including conjoint family therapy, cotherapy…

Counselor education emerged from the period 1965-1968 with a more professional status. As with any developing professions, however, some areas have advanced faster than others. For example, areas such as the evaluation of counselor education programs, problems of professional ethics, and the counseling of children with special problems received…

This address by the Director, Office of Career Education (OE) discusses the relationships between career guidance and career education. In particular, it examines the questions concerning: (1) differences in meaning between the terms "career guidance" and "career education," (2) whether counselors should seek to become "career education…

This study is a pioneer effort to bring together the theory of counselor education, implementation of counselor role in the schools once a person is employed and the evaluation of his/her effectiveness with others. It is an extensive research project studying both the elementary and secondary school counselor the study sought to examine the value…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the actual and ideal roles of counselors as perceived by Wisconsin secondary school counselors and teacher counselors and to compare them with a counselor role model based on a consensus of Wisconsin counselor educators. An extensive review of the literature on counselor role determination and…

Factors limiting the effectiveness of school counseling functions include discrepancies between school counselor training and practice, lack of understanding of school counseling roles and functions, school counselor professional isolation, and the poor professional attitude of some school counselors. (MM)

This paper presents seven recommendations to counselor educators and supervisors as a beginning step toward improving preservice and in-service training in career development, career guidance, and career education. The background and rationale for these recommendations is provided, along with further delineation of counselor competencies needed.…

Describes an intern's experience in a diversified field training program for school psychologists and how the role and function of the school psychologist in each setting changes. Discusses benefits of the "extended diversified" model training program as seen by 15 second-year students in such a program. (Author)

Addresses the problem of improving transfer of training from the seminar setting to participants' work setting and proposes use of a post-seminar lay-consultant program offering encouragement and technical counselling to participants. The training of 16 lay people as consultants and implementation of a consultant program for seminar participants…

The Tech Prep Perspectives for School Counselors Workshop was offered by distance learning at 2 sites to 30 participants. Its goal was "Participants will learn information to help students acquire accurate knowledge of Tech Prep programs to use when making class choices and career plans." Cooperative learning activities developed a…

Examines the shortcomings of traditional counselor selection and training procedures, and presents suggestions for improving them vis-a-vis human rights counseling. Discusses recruitment and admission issues in counselor selection and the goals of human rights counseling. (Author/RC)