A Canadian counselor rejects canned counseling concepts as she inspects the need for anticipation and adaptability in planning careers. (Author)

Suggests advocacy and career education are legitimate counselor activities in helping minorities with career planning. Urges career counselors to expand clients' motivation and interest, identify resources, and monitor environmental changes. (KMF)

Adult females are moving into the academic community and will undoubtedly present new challenges to career counselors. Goals and guidelines of career planning and placement need not change, but moving a new type of client through the process may call for innovative thinking and understanding from professional staff. (Author)

Describes a college career proactive development counseling program utilizing peer counselors. Describes the selection and training of peer counselors. Evaluated the program in four residence halls. Formal and informal results indicated students were sensitized to the career development process. (RC)

Counselors have often indicated an apathetic attitude towards involvement in career education activities. Suggested ways in which career guidance can become a useful tool for providing students with the information, skills, and assistance to make career plans are presented for the elementary, middle, and high school levels. At the elementary…

Featured are the following: (1) an article on the counselor in the classroom, a program in which counselors offer human relations seminars and also work with students on communication skills in the regular classroom; and (2) an outline of a seminar in behavior modification designed to teach parents how to establish an environment that supports the…

Project PEOPLE (Personal Enhancement of Occupational Preparation through Life Centered Education), developed to design a world of work curriculum and appropriate units for each level, is described in this booklet. (Project PEOPLE involves 269 staff members of the Bowling Green Independent School System, who attended a 4-week summer workshop for…

A constructivist framework for the practice of counseling, especially career counseling, is presented, including an Ethic of Authenticity. New orientations in career counseling (career counseling as a general methodology for life planning) and a new model of the self on which to base the work of counseling is discussed. (LKS)

A broader view of the career problem and the counselor's role through teaching clients behavioral self-control techniques is offered in this paper. Preliminary discussion includes a review of existing vocational theories and research, in particular, Holland's typology and Super's self-concept theory. It is concluded from these reviews that the…

Intended to improve career guidance services on the secondary level, this operations manual was developed primarily by school counselors to assist other counselors in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of career guidance, counseling, and placement objectives in Maryland's school system. Contents are divided into the following three…